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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
And they’d be right: Someone over 70 is 270x as likely to die of COVID as someone under 50. For anyone under 50 without co-morbidity, then this is just a yearly flu — and destroying your economic future over the flu doesn’t make sense. Havi
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
....no? We have a sampling of data from 99.997% of the timeline — but the sample itself is extremely sparse.
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Latest Windows 10 and Google Chrome have a periodic freeze watching Hulu, which requires a hard reset. None of that is uncommon tech. I suspect some kind of DRM or video codec is freezing the whole machine when it crashes. Windows 7 was gre
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
I had Windows hard crash using Google Chrome on Hulu. I had Windows reset itself in the middle of a long-running calculation overnight, because obviously 100% CPU usage and programs that refuse to quit is a signal it’s safe to power cycle t
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
To be fair, interferometry was really insightful independent of the static aether theory being wrong. So much so that LIGO is basically the same thing, used to measure flexible aether theories (eg, relativity). We can’t detect our drift, bu
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Most people aren’t free trade absolutists — they want a mixture of free trade and national security. One example is US ITAR restrictions, which prevent certain technologies being exported. Another is looking to protect local food supplies a
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
My understanding is like this: Imagine that you get one pixel for each hole in a chain link fence — the average color of light coming through that hole. If you take a second fence, that’s out of alignment with the first — you get better res
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Not allow @dang and HN to shadowban “flame war” topics in the name of decorum. This normalizes decorum over inconvenient truths. @dang shadowbanned me for accurately discussing the propaganda warfare happening in US vs China relations, and
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
It sounds like what you want is to publish an anthology of submitted content, all about Ninja 400s. The behavior you describe is simply automating an existing business practice: acting as an editor when deciding what’s included in an anthol
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Why wouldn’t containerization be the right solution? A “container” is an archive (eg, tarballs) of the contents, a hash chain of the construction, and some config data about cgroups and namespaces to run it with. Turn off the parts you don’
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
GDP growth is a questionable metric even for wealth. For example, if two housewives join the workforce by cleaning each other’s now unattended houses, GDP shows a large increase even though the situation is (arugably) a net loss for everyon
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Production ML systems already do this: servers used for peak capacity are repurposed during lulls to retrain the model and do tasks like compact data. That retrained model is then shared across the system. So I’d argue that ML systems alrea
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
There’s ~21,000,000 years of human life lived a day. At 40 years per day uploaded, that’s 0.000002 of the human experience for that day. It’s interesting to think that YouTube content is only a “two in a million” reflection of human life. A
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
As someone who gets censored for wrongthink routinely, I’ve taken up having GitHub repos of links so it’s easy to support my point. Case in point: I’m “banned” on HN because @dang thinks my genuine view, calmly stated is inherently a flame
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
This is verging on an ad hominem attack: we need more federal powers because those people are awful baby killers! The reality is everyone cares, they just disagree sharply on how to solve issues or which issues are priorities — to which t
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
I cited the founder referring to herself as a “trained Marxist” and discussing how Marxism was the ideological underpinning of BLM. (Watch the video.) BLM staged riots nation wide two weeks ago. Nationwide, chapters of the John Brown Gun Cl
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
I edited to include a source after you posted: the founder of BLM refers to herself as a trained Marxist. The reason people are speaking about it more now is such Marxist groups seized part of one city (Seattle) and staged riots nationally.
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
The point is that it’s like mathematics in set theory. Type theory is an alternative foundation.
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
There’s various funds that do. Eg, https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/overview/...
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
What would be a less gimmicky setup?
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Can you elaborate on which of those clips you find that the police initiated or acted inappropriately? The first one is what we should want to happen — a misplaced knee was moved by a colleague. There’s no context to decide if police inappr
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Per arrest to one year of driving: you would have to be arrested ten times in a year for your risk from the police to match your risk driving a car that year. Per arrest for violent crime (where most of the deaths occur), blacks are safer t
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Police are safer than cars, by an order of magnitude. The only violence I’ve seen from police that doesn’t seem like an anomaly is violence that protestors incited by starting a conflict with the police. So, empirically, it seems like the v
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Quotas are illegal. The problem is that they’re using biased metrics to pretend they’re not violating civil rights laws.
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
Looking at murder, the statistics tell a different story — blacks are 13% of the population but over 50% of the murder arrests, while whites are 75% of the population but under 50% of murder arrests. If times the police use force are correl
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
The extra voting comes from giving them enough legislative say that they can negotiate for their own benefits in the Senate. The Senate is a counter-balancing force to the population distributed House of Representatives. The Senate is meant
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To counterbalance the impact of factions, ensure that national level politicians continue to pay attention, and generally counteract the soft power that comes from having a higher population. If you think it’s such a benefit, then move ther
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It was designed that way from the start, that’s the whole point of the Senate. It protects the smaller states from bullying by large population centers — which was the original intent and still functioning.
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by AnHonestComment 6y ago
HBO Max has the entire WB + others back catalog, and represents some of the most productive studios out there. Rumor has it, they’re also going to be making exclusives. Even knowing what they have across brands is nontrivial.
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It’s worth pointing out why it needs to be “revived”: because the first iteration of the tax would have destroyed grocery stores and was protested by construction unions due to its disastrous policy. This iteration is targeting the 800 larg

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