ErikVandeWater

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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
My guess is amongst the people who set up and used Amazon Smile, the vast majority maintained the belief that Amazon is closer to evil than it is to good. Smarter for Amazon to pick and choose which charities to spend on so it can virtue si
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> I'd rather waste wind than waste money. How is paying wind farms hundreds of millions of pounds to turn off wind generation not wasting money?
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> Investigators felt that quality control experts, had they been present, might have been more skeptical, but none were on site, because Air Transat’s quality control personnel only worked Monday to Friday.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Highly motivated/skilled people will probably do valuable things with their time off that is not measured well by GDP.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Even if you leave DNA everywhere you go, but if law enforcement doesn't have your DNA on file, there's nothing to match it to.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Counterpoint: NIMBYs in SF preventing development of new housing by even a small entrepreneur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4 Something tells me JP Morgan would have an even tougher time getting past the NIMBYs
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
The time they spend on the metro isn't necessarily productive time. Many people would be enjoying leisure with that time.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
If you told New Yorkers they had the option to live 15 minutes longer, but that is added time on the NYC subway, I think most would turn it down.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Couldn't find anything about the use of (sic) or [sic]. Maybe they want leeway on that so as not to be offensive?
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
There is no safer time to invest in nuclear power than after a nuclear disaster.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
That seems like a severe lack of imagination/empathy on your part. Others won't be "drowning in the sea of nostalgia" because they didn't find the past enjoyable.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
People always leave out recommending medication. It is most effective to have medication and therapy.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Income minus basic living expenses would be one way.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
There are nuances. It's obviously less okay to effectively ban public (edit: and even public health expert) criticism of public health policy than it is to ban sharing the live location of other people.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> 2. No one knows who’s in “Elons jet”. There's very good ways to guess who's in Elon's Jet.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Wasn't the Summon feature downgraded when they moved to a vision-only approach? One YT video I saw compared a version 1 and a more recent version and the vision-only wasn't able to do as much. Contradicts the idea additional sen
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
How is being arrested sufficient to say she is held to account? She needs to be sentenced to a fair punishment first. And then she needs to serve the complete sentence and return all ill-gotten gains.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> To recap: a law was put in place 5 years ago that said if you get consent you can basically use data in any way, with some very vague and general language about how consent can be gathered and what it means. The article makes it seem p
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Counting ad-blocking as a barrier to entry on HN is probably unfair.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Obviously the best solution is that every urinal be equipped with an extremely powerful fan that sucks in the pee, so no matter what direction you aim, the pee always ends up in the urinal.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
>> The far-right politician is not known for his economic erudition, as he gained notoriety by being the standard-bearer for impeached President Park Geun-hye and claiming that the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which South Korea’s dictato
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> A reasonable tradeoff to me seems to be that people do not have to take precautions like vaccination and masking but if so they can be restricted from public society If you have this low a bar to holding people accountable for negative
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> In this specific example, where the claim is that Amazon and Apple colluded to raise prices by only allowing authorized Apple resellers on amazon.com, I guess I'm kind of sympathetic to Apple. This is false: “Ultimately Apple prop
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Ask HN: Could you help me identify which fallacy this is?
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> DOC has employed more guards than the average daily population, with the department employing 1.7 guards per incarcerated person in FY 2021. That stood out to me.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Best guess is that the business model in music has moved to live performance. It's important for stars to get their music heard by the most people so that they can have the greatest demand for concert tickets. There's no parallel
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Hoping the CEO gets sacked and they get a promotion?
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Is concern about free speech really the right concern? The right concern to me is the lack of critical thinking skills that lead to being swayed by rhetoric. Policing free speech is not the answer, because it will certainly lead to suppre
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
"Very permissive" seems an odd way to put it. It's a human right. The way this is stated is just as if giving women the right to do everything men can do was "very permissive."
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> What could possibly go wrong. Simply stating a council will have diverse views is enough for people to ring the fire alarm these days.

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