DenisM

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by DenisM 6y ago
>> Can we change the laws around it? Or why is that even still in place? > Because it’s illegal in many places. So... it's illegal because it's illegal?
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The shop owner made a lot of sales on the wave of the free PR created by the Artificial Stupidity. So. Imagine that - next time you start a business you engage an AS expert who will help you select imagery of your product, manipulate it to
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by DenisM 6y ago
source?
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by DenisM 6y ago
You're arguing with something I didn't say.
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Median U.S. household income rises 6.8% to $68,700 in 2019, poverty rate falls for fifth year https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/09/15/u-s-median-h...
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I vaguely recall that the "indentured" h1b workers (as oppose to the "proper" h1b like I had) owe money back to home, and that debt becomes instantly due if they bail out. If they were super-stars they would be able to c
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Sounds like a brilliant move by Tesla’s PR department - our cars are so good we don’t need PR! Jokes aside, this is a good thing for our industry - if I wanted to argue to right-size a PR department I now have a clear example to point to.
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Do tell?
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Actually I like all the rules you proposed, except that smaller players should be exempt. Not what you in mind probably, but here we are.
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A man in charge of small acquisitions at a large company told me once that’s the first thing he looks at - would that be cheaper to steal few key engineers, and will anything stand in the way? A small number of patents would usually dissuad
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by DenisM 6y ago
Adversity is the mother of progress. You can see it everywhere - biological evolution, societal evolution, technology, economics. Perhaps a more merciful way to lose would be helpful.
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If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduO1fNzV4w
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Right, I spaced out for a moment and forgot the topic. Doh.
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You can do all of that on a recent iPhone.
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> I suspect your comment isn't really being offered in good faith Assume good faith https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> Freedom is fragile. I won't give one inch here because they will shatter it I suggest self-restraint and holding yourself to a higher standard before passing around harmful judgements. The farther you cast your accusations, the hi
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by DenisM 6y ago
I think we both agree that physical violence is off the table. "Due process" is important not because of physical violence per se, but because the impact of the violence is significant. And so is cancelling someone out - depending
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> Are we as individuals hopelessly trapped in a social fabric Yes and no. The trap you speak of is merely a frame designed to bind you. The simplest (yet effective) one is a false dichotomy: you're given a choice between similarly b
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You seem to be advocating mob justice - letting the larger and more aggressive mob win. Would you still support this model of justice if your mob was the smaller one and you got "cancelled" for expressing your "progressive&qu
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1. 15 miles one way . 30miles x 1.6km x 1.12kg/km x 250 days = 1440 kg 2. Few people will move form US to Germany. It's more likely someone will move e.g. from Portland to San Diego. 275kg roundtrip, 550kg adjusted for radiative
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Transatlantic flight generates under 1000kg of CO2 per passenger. Cars generate 0.12kg per km. A short commute is 30 km per day, so about a 1000 kg per year - a wash. A longer commute will generate more, being stuck in traffic will generate
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by DenisM 6y ago
> All of this is based off Trumps own words and prior behavior. Which behavior is that? >he refuses to concede This is not supported by the NYT quote re Pentagon officials you have provided. Do you have a quote where Pentagon official
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> Trump gets re-elected, by hook or by crook, and spends the next four years continuing to dismantle political infrastructure? He already had four years. What exactly did he dismantle? The courts, the congress, the senate, the elections,
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> every hypothetical the military prepares for is a made up scenario Trump is within his authority to send the troops into the streets to quell an insurrection against constitutional order. This being an unusual situation naturally the g
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Re civil forfeiture, I dunno if you saw this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbs_v._Indiana
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> If the US continues its slide into authoritarianism, you can bet it will happen with the pretense of legality And how is this going to happen? The Constitution puts firm limits on the President's power, the Supreme court will not
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> Isn't that a text book definition of a coup? Yes, also completely made up. Trump talks a lot, often times incoherently and faster than he thinks. This is not the greatest quality in a president, but also not the worst.
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> the US democracy right now is on the edge of collapse How so? The elections are happening, legislature legislates, judicial system is adjudicating, the military is following the constitution. What are the signs of the collapse? The sol
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Is it bad that Obama criticized Trump? https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/web-video/former-pre...

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