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by 99052882514569 7y ago
The problem with that logic is opportunity cost. What improvements to public transit could have been done with that thick wad of cash? Often (usually?) ones that would open up options and mobility to far more people.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Where did someone assume that the programmer was to blame? How do you find out if the High On Totem Pole Man is to blame if you can't depose the Low On Totem Pole Man? You can't. You are forced to take the High On Totem Pole Man&#
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>Geoff Hinton on Neural Networks. Brilliant as a researcher, not so brilliant as a teacher.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
This is infuriatingly stupid. Not only does that waste your time (which we can be uncharitable and say they don't care about), but it wastes their time! i.e. costs lots and lots of money.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
In addition to paid SaaS(S), to which your comment applies, there are also 'free' SaaS(S), where you're not taking the role of customer at all. Instead, you're taking the role of product, or your data is. You are the pro
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Are you trying to say all states use coercion, or actually trying to draw parallels between Chinese and US government's methodology for suppressing dissent? Because if it's the latter, they are not comparable. You wouldn't ev
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Sorry, not sure what it is we're comparing? 1950s segregation to the oppression of Uygurs, in which case no, in the 1950s the US was not running an all-encompassing dystopian surveillance state, mass reeducation camps and oppressive fo
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Not to mention that, once in a while, even people who don't dare speak against the authority get caught up and obliterated by the system. It's the nature of oppressive authoritarian systems where the rule of law is absent. You don
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
The scale, intensity and length are just not comparable. It's like comparing the Gulag to modern American prison labour.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
This point is often overstated, so as to almost make it seem like shameless propaganda outlets like RT are equivalent to an actual journalism outfit with standards. Though I'm sure that's not how you meant it.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
There are lots of obvious smudges on my screen, and the ones I made first thing after picking up my phone never stand out.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
As a standalone word, yes. The expression is, nevertheless, "bury the lede", and always* has been. * since the 1970s when it first surfaced.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Biking isn't completely safe. Do helmets really help all that much? Very questionable[0]. Wearing a helmet, for example, promotes less safe behaviour by both cyclists and by drivers around them. The sense of safety a helmet gives you w
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
If you insist on using journalism jargon, why not use it in its intended, original form? I for one am not a language purist, you can change expressions any way you see fit but... I mean... The expression is still bury the lede .
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
"The present review - of results published by my group from 2006 until 2016" Self-evaluation of quality is not quite a systemic review of literature. Neither is research on drosophila melanogaster quite in the same ballpark
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
This is the sad reality. An international world order in which borders are somehow sacrosanct was a nice feel-good fiction, but ultimately if it cannot be enforced, it's not real. Not to mention that, like you said, long before Crimea
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
I disagree. Keeping your opponent in the 'fog of war' is a legitimate, reasonable military aim. In the olden days, radio/TV transmissions and newspaper publication was severely restricted during military operations. Today, th
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
I'm not commenting on the war, the sides taking part in it, etc. I'm merely saying that muting social media in the vicinity of troop movement is a logical move by any government engaged in a war.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
I mean, it's next to a war zone, with tons of military hardware moving about, preparing to enter fighting. It sounds like pretty reasonable counter-intelligence (not to mention counter-propaganda) move.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Being in an EU country is a definite advantage over Panama.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
People change these logins like gloves despite what the "spirit" of HN is supposed to be. In fact, an anonymous community that is strictly moderated for quality is better for being anonymous (or at least pseudonymous). If the aver
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
> It's the same reason Rotten Tomatoes differentiates between a score and a top critics score. You can have a consumer reports score, and an amazon verified buyer score. With sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, I almost alway
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
"Why am I supposed to believe that?" Because if someone gets in, they're going to refund you.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
I agree. Until someone's ass is on the line, and I mean in terms of prison time and not merely their job, the rational thing to do for a shitty company that never cared for its customers is to continue with that approach.
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New Clues Show How Russia’s Power Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction(wired.com)
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>Bill Binney[1] consistently drives his message home that the NSA's surveillance apparatus is very inefficient at foiling plots, and I agree with him. Oh, were you also with the NSA? For how long, and what did you do there? Or is th
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Their business is structured in such a way that the leases they signed on their locations aren't really enforceable against WeWork itself, but rather against "special purpose vehicles", I'm guessing one per lease?[1] It
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Why widely spoken languages have simpler grammar(economist.com)
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Okay, make it 4 TB. My point is, ISPs imposing a cap is reasonable and a way to get the outliers to pay for more of the hardware/personnel required to service their extreme bandwidth requirements.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Not sure what you mean by "It’s equivalent to 3 mbps". Are you, like, streaming a video of an eagle nest 24/7? You are paying for residential Internet service. The number of people who would legitimately need to transfer more

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