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This is not the dataset you’d need to prove or disprove that. That said, the various covid vaccines currently have research and record-keeping attention directed at them that few other things in the history of humanity can claim. If there w
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There are lots of payment processors who will deal with explicit content. They tend to be fairly expensive though - partially justified since apparently chargebacks are outlandishly common. For example, CCBill will process essentially anyth
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It’s important to recognize *why* the body positivity movement has proponents - it’s a natural reaction to a lot of the moral judgements and prejudices that get passed on people for how their body appears. This can lead to a lot of depressi
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So, so little of most people’s work is deep abstract thought like that. I used to have this research assistant - she was from an entirely unrelated arts major, and was a bit… well, let’s say not terribly book-smart (which she was very upfro
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I entirely agree. Strong carbon taxes or other similar systems are the way forward. By correcting for the true cost of pollution we can allow renewables to really shine. I was only trying to push back against the idea that we’re only using
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It’s profitable because it’s physically efficient - fossil fuels are readily available and highly energy dense and relatively safe. Nothing else offers that. This isn’t some sneaky capitalist plot - the soviets burned lots of fuel as well.
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I mean, we have small wind turbines already but the industry keeps moving to larger ones. That says to me that the economics favour the fewer-but-large approach. I can see why this would be - it has to be nontrivial to anchor an object of a
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https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021020... There is a grim history of poor medical ethics surrounding the treatment of African Americans that has resulted in feelings of distrust from som
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One thing to add here is that huge nonstop marathon drives are generally unsafe - most all people can’t maintain alertness for that long. I have done the 7-hour hell drive in the past, but I probably would have been better off had I been fo
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Not speaking for or against flagging this, but… this is the reality of the HN flag system. The only way anything remotely controversial stays on the front page is if one of the admins vouches for it. Most articles around sexism, racism, etc
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The fact that this keeps citing very specific statistics from small geographic areas makes it feel like some of these numbers are a bit cherry-picked…
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The line of nine different citations following that line is a bit funny.
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Boston dynamics has found machine learning to be minimally useful here, and has had better results hand-coding most things. That’s not to say that is necessarily correct for all scenarios, but BD has lots of extremely smart and motivated pe
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Oh dang, for some reason I thought the PinePhone was a) an Android-based device and b) far more expensive than it actually is. Thank you very much for pointing it out and making me take a second look!
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License files (and copyright) aren’t omnipotent. I understand why you might feel the ethics lie in a different direction, but the established legal precedent is that parsing and building search indexes or neural nets is generally fair gam
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Real talk, a Raspberry Pi phone could be amazing. A $150 (or similarly low cost) hackable phone with a near-guaranteed solid community around it - I’d buy that. One of my big disappointments is that canonical decided to go super-premium wit
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I don’t think number of diagnoses is a great metric for or against the progress of psychology. We could outlaw psychology and have zero diagnoses, but that wouldn’t be progress. If we’re criticizing psychology for not “curing” people I thin
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You do see a decent number of GitHub bots that will trash issues if they don’t comply to some sort of “expected/observed/steps/specs” format, which I think more or less accomplishes the same thing. The only issue is you’re po
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It’s this strange phenomenon where they claim they desperately want a relationship, but also have ludicrously specific requirements as to what the person in that relationship should be like. Those requirements are often thinly veiled hatred
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Dumb question, but could you find an open source contributor who knows the codebase and commission them to implement it?
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The word fa***t predates it’s use as a slur for homosexuals, but I don’t think anybody reasonable would argue that it’s not commonly perceived as an offensive term. These are obviously different degrees of subjective “offensiveness”, but my
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I don’t think they jumped the gun. I think they knew they had nothing, but that big outraged headlines and promises of future goods would drive a lot of clicks and make them a lot of money.
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I do believe supply has mostly caught up. I was able to buy a proper high-quality P100 respirator (99.9X filtration, as opposed to 95% on an N95 - and with oil resistance) from 3M a few months ago for not-far-above pre-covid prices. It’s a
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Thank you! I appreciate the clarification.
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Can you clarify “ Contrary to "store of value" claims, literally all money invested into bitcoin either gets burned up, or goes to pay someone who entered bitcoin previously.”? I think I get what you’re saying, but I’m not confide
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I don’t know of any non-hobby farms that keep seeds. Saving seeds on mass scale is difficult, and requires specialist equipment. Many commercial seeds are pre-treating with fungicides and/or starter fertilizer as well, which is often w
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In addition to what the sibling comment says about the patents expiring, that’s also not really lock in. You can switch to another vendor anytime - just because you used RR product once doesn’t mean you have to use it forever.
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How is it vendor lock in?
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Do mandatory reporter laws work like that? I was under the impression that you had to report something if you saw it , but you had no obligation to be actively scanning or to compromise encryption to do so. For example, I don’t think S3 do
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That would not work. Ignoring the mass revolt that would occur in most western nations, it would also be wildly insufficient, destroy the economy, and take a very long time to make an impact. There are much better uses for such a massive am

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