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by Amezarak 3y ago
There will never be a long-term colony on Mars. Mars is not a habitable planet. Compared to Earth, Mars has no atmosphere. (100k pascals vs 600 pascals.) Mars has no magnetic field. Mars has 1/3rd the gravity of Earth. We know low grav
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> in EU it seems that education is less commercialized and you can get a degree for free if you are above average. "Above-average" students (as measured by, for example, the SAT, ACT and/or GPA) are offered free university
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The US has both of these things for older people.
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This is the reason that we tell ourselves, but it isn't the reason why we stop having kids. If it were, the human race would have died out millenia ago.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Very few houses are a total loss in the average hurricane. Indeed during most hurricanes there’s just lots of minor damage that you might see during a particularly bad thunderstorm, and people even continue to go to work. Major hurricanes a
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Unfortunately, discussing this too much more runs the risk of becoming too politicized for HN. I'll point out only that as deadly riots go, January 6 ranks at the near the bottom of American riots (lots tied with one fatality.) As prot
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> Apparently there is plenty of room for debate on this subject, and Brandenburg v Ohio — involving a KKK leader whose conviction under a state law for making threatening and racist remarks was overturned by a divided court — is still be
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The grandparent post is centered around the idea that it wasn't free speech, which is what I was responding to, not the idea that there can't be social consequences. > And a judge won't be very amenable to a possible conse
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The US has a long history of "stochastic terrorism", which seems to be at a relative low compared to the violence of the early 1900s, the 1960s, and several other periods etc. I have faith in its institutional ability to handle an
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Lawyers and judges have already been consulted and concluded that no crime was committed. https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans... This would not change ex post facto because of someone else
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by Amezarak 3y ago
https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans... > Half a dozen lawyers and judges told Mission Local that, however ill-advised, Tan’s comments do not rise to the legal definition of a death thre
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> What would be different from spending that time making a few PRs to an open source project or just building something from scratch to demonstrate your sk The fact my employer specifically forbids me from doing so.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> Why do you need to change existing VM in any way? Having an idle VM for function A should not prevent the host from instantiating new VMs for function B. I still do not see where is the cost of an idle VM. Because the host can only run
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's mentioned in the article that several lawyers were contacted and they all agreed it plainly did not constitute a threat. > But tying this potential legislation to the message Tan communicated to his 408,000 Twitter followers wo
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The Census response rate is about 60%. It's interesting that this law is on the books but it is not enforced. The census also has a constitutional mandate, where the NSA does not.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Their existence isn't hidden, a lot of people who don't think like me want the ability to overdraft and use it frequently. In fact, for a few years now, overdraft is legally required to be opt-in: https://www.fdic.gov
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by Amezarak 3y ago
There is a large population of people in America that depend on being able to overdraft. It doesn't make sense to me, it doesn't make sense to you, but if they were given the option between "overdraft" and "no overd
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Does the Census Bureau collect information beyond what I voluntarily report?
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Well, again: which do you think is easier? 1. Two software companies making a software change. 2. Convincing (or forcing) hundreds of millions of people to stop driving, reorganizing cities, eliminating rural and suburban living to the grea
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don't have to imagine that scenario, that's how it worked for most of my life and how it still works on some of my travel. Also, there'd be nothing to stop you from saying "Hey Siri, call so and so." Only the scre
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by Amezarak 3y ago
They're suffering a very minor inconvenience . They could read a book, pull out a tablet or a laptop, read the newspaper, do nothing, talk to their fellow commuters, etc. So yes, thousands of lives in exchange for millions of people
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I hope it all came out well. I can understand the frustration. But many, many more people are killed by distracted drivers on their phones. At least there’s things you can do to control or ameliorate situations like that. You can learn wher
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by Amezarak 3y ago
What you purpose reduces the problem by some relatively low percent. We already know lots of people do not change behavior when faced when this exact deterrent. It’s also very expensive. What I propose reduces the problem by 100%.l and is v
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Rather than draconian punishments that ruin people’s lives for something that millions of people evidently have little executive control over, we could just have a technological solution: have Android and iOS disable the screen on any phone
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don't think it's controversial to say that the Allies did ethnically cleanse parts of Eastern Europe to remove as many Germans as possible into German borders or internment camps, and they weren't too fussed if they died as
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's true that the natives were initially afraid of horses, but I think that overstates it. You can find some accounts of earlier battles that went like this: > The Indians, who had never seen any horses before, could not think othe
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by Amezarak 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_... It's fairly clear that the numbers on both sides are very rough, but it's not what I would describe as very skewed at all. Also, note the Spanis
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Aztec weaponry was not limited to obsidian blades. They had extremely effective slingers and other ranged weapon types that were devastating even to the armored Spanish. Excepting the cannons and horses, the Aztecs were not really significa
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The same book has written instructions telling her she can't be a priest (Paul says this multiple times.) I'm not defending that, but if she can rationalize one instruction away, surely she can any other.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It does, Google just heavily penalizes non-top-website pages for some inexplicable reason, sometimes outright de-indexing them. I guess you could argue this is a consequence of stopping spam - better to just ignore all small sites rather th

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