AftHurrahWinch

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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
> I imagine he determined that free speech has limits in other parts of the world How unfortunate that we're left to imagine this, rather than having the new ownership articulate a content moderation policy that reflects their curat
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Is this the 12th time this article has been posted? @dang is there any chance HN will resume de-duplicating submissions in the future? Do you need a hand with anything? Don't tell my boss but I've got a few spare cycles this sprin
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
> Russia is now using nuclear-capable missiles with non-explosive warheads to exhaust Ukraine's air defences, the Ukrainian military has said. > Ukrainian military experts say Russia may have significantly depleted its vast missi
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Ukraine war: Kyiv displays dud nuclear-capable missile fired by Russia(bbc.com)
13 points by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago|4 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
This was news to me! I did not know that Musk had written a column for the official magazine of the Cyberspace Administration of China. https://archive.ph/bC3ZW > The Cyberspace Administration of China runs the governmen
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
No paywall: https://archive.ph/4uA1d
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A look at free speech absolutist Elon Musk’s ties to Chinese censorship(fastcompany.com)
20 points by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago|2 comments
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
> Wait, are we supposed to take the side of the poorly treated advertisers? It's interesting that you think we're supposed to take a side at all.
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https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/eccj/ind_tourism/east_nagasaki_se... The East Nagasaki Sewage Treatment Plant "The environmental equipment "METHASAURUS" was installed at the East Nagasaki Sewage Tre
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
No paywall: https://archive.ph/KhMHW "Vietnam, that 100mn-strong beneficiary of friend-shoring, is “not free”, in US watchdog Freedom House’s reckoning. Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation on Earth, is just “pa
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
No paywall: https://archive.ph/ssHof
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I'm curious about scale of this too! Florida might have 58000 Teslas ( https://michiganstopsmartmeters.com/how-many-teslas-are-in-f... ). If 1% were submerged in a given year, and 100% later caught fire, that's 580
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
That's a terrible analogy. Language evolves and so the ways to hurt people with language evolves, so there is no singular limit to set. If you don't agree that people can be hurt with language, than you don't agree with conte
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
(Nathan Fielder invents Yelp) Nathan Fielder: Business school friend Jeff had a very interesting idea involving reincarnation. He wanted to create an app that allowed users to leave a review for any dead person. The app would then compile a
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
Q: Should I buy an Android phone or an iPhone? Nathan Fielder: In my personal experience, iPhones are vastly superior. It's not that they perform better or have more sophisticated technology, it's that iPhone users have more con
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
> They have not controlled for the most obvious variable: class. What's the distinction you're making between household income and class? > The hypothesis that the positive association between higher intelligence and economi
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
I think there are probably several billionaires who independently have the resources the pursue significant stratospheric aerosol injection. I wonder how such an individual would imagine their liability for stochastic effects on agriculture
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
I think it's a political problem, not a technical problem. If we can imagine that our best climate models could drive decision making to enable geoengineering... why don't our best climate models drive earlier interventions?
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
Interesting result. I assumed that more people pretended to espouse left-wing beliefs, but secretly harbored conservative beliefs. It's interesting to see evidence that it's the reverse.
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> You absolutely can ignore unlawful rights violating court orders. Hmm, I'm not sure this is the best advice.
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
Abortion clinics is just a small part of it, it's not a great title. The FTC's complaint is: "Kochava employs no technical controls to prohibit its customers from identifying consumers or tracking them to sensitive locations.
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
Sorry about that, I'm a poor writer. Thank you for taking the time to respond. I expect they'd react the way they did in the past.
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I think about the way the West reacted to the decades of post-Soviet Russian threats and warnings such as after Malaysia Air Flight 17, Gazprom's conduct around the Yamal pipelne, and the way they use Moldovan nationality to interfere
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
My perspective from the southern hemisphere is that the West is making an example out of Russia by "fighting to the last Ukrainian" to attempt to push China's time-table on Taiwan. I don't think it has anything to do wit
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
You make good, pragmatic points, but I think international military procurement is often drive more by geopolitics than pragmatism. There will be nations who buy Russian garbage at unreasonable price and unreasonable delivery schedule.
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
Very interesting! https://allfed.info/
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No, it shouldn't overwhelm it, but it should inform it. There is no proliferation risk associated with wind, solar, geothermal, etc. Where I live is at risk of declining political stability in the near future. I don't worry about
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
I live in a developing nation in the southern hemisphere. My government sends me a pre-filled tax return that doesn't account for some deductions that I could take advantage of. If I want to, I can manually file a more detailed return.
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by AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
No paywall: https://archive.ph/wj6IR This has a sort of Malcolm Gladwell vibe. It sounds nice, but is it a useful, actionable framework? I can't think of an example of a decision I would make differently from a longte
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Bottom line up front: Some U.S. municipalities buy hospitals and then re-sell them for next to nothing in order to keep them operating. > To prevent this hospital's closure in 2013, Houston County bought it for $2.4 million and rais

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