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by GhostVII 6y ago
Important caveat: The voice and music recordings they used in their demonstrations were also louder than the average human conversation, with speakers turned to their maximum volume I can clearly see vibrations in glass near loud speakers
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by GhostVII 6y ago
With things like running, rowing, and weightlifting you aren't at a significant risk of brain injury though. I would much rather have damaged joints than a damaged brain. And for these sledding athletes, it sounds like this damage is c
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
If the government introduces a national emissions cap ("cap and trade"), then CCS can be used to offset emissions when it is too expensive to reduce them directly. If we had an economy for emissions, then companies could do CCS to
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Isn't that the whole point of unions? To defend their members wherever possible? It shouldn't be the job of the union to criticize their members that's not their role.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Another question I never see answered is if people are better off on UBI instead of welfare/food stamps/etc. Most of the time I hear people talking about finding UBI, they say it will replace existing social programs, but no UBI e
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted given that this is probably correct? Sounds like the attack was through an admin portal. Given that Trump was one of the few high profile accounts not targeted, it seems like the attackers were not able
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by GhostVII 6y ago
They opened up schools, as well as pretty much everything else. So it is not really clear whether the schools were the biggest contributor to the spread.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
The key point you are missing is that Ford created cars specifically tailored towards law enforcement. If the police were just buying Ford Fusions from the dealer like everyone else, I wouldn't consider them at all responsible. But the
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I agree that police are fundamental in the US so it is ok to make cars for them, I made the exact same argument you did. What I disagree with is the argument that you are not responsible for how the tools you produce are used. If you are cr
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I disagree. They create cars designed to help police do their jobs, police aren't just buying the same cars available to the general public. So if the cars they create for the police are used to oppress people, I think they do have som
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by GhostVII 6y ago
It sounds like these ICE regulations are not new, they are just removing some temporary exemptions they put in to place due to COVID. So the suit is against the removal of this exemption, there are no new restrictions in place that did not
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by GhostVII 6y ago
There have been many games giving you far more content for the same amount of money. And the amount of work to create the same amount of content had increased, the level of detail is far higher. Some examples I have played include GTA V, Do
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by GhostVII 6y ago
According to the BfR institute, it can live for 24 hours on cardboard, I would imagine that it is the same for paper [0]. Outside of a lab it is probably significantly shorter than that. Given that there have been no known cases of transmis
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by GhostVII 6y ago
All the libraries in my city are open for pickup. I think the benefits of people without e-readers being able to take out books from the library far outweigh any tiny chance of transmission via books.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Electricity has a transmission problem though - there are some parts of the world with lots of clean energy, which we can't fully take advantage of because we can't transport electricity that far. Hydrogen allows us to use that cl
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I wrote a tool for myself that will just open up your default editor and create a new markdown file for every note you want to take, saving them in a git repo that you can sync to some remote. Has the simplicity of a directory full of markd
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Seems crazy to me that they don't encrypt the videos on the device given how much personal information about other people can be on there. There is a full video of the inside of someone's house in that feed. Couldn't they jus
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think it makes a lot of sense in cases where you have multiple lightweight webpages (ex. Wikipedia). The extra bloat is minimal and you still get the benefit of smoother and faster transitions between articles. Presumably the preloaded co
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by GhostVII 6y ago
In poorer countries like the ones you listed, the benefits of a higher paying job are more likely to outweigh the social costs than they would be in a more wealthy country. So the social aspect becomes less important.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
It is possible to think that a particular platform should be moderated heavily without thinking all platforms should be. It would be chaos if no forums had any heavy moderation, because some discussions can be easily derailed, and entire fo
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Could this be due to an increase in testing or better testing strategy rather than an increase in cases? Daily COVID cases have been rising significantly over the last couple months in California, while deaths have been flat or slightly dec
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think it is very probable that there is some amount of racial bias when it comes to police shootings, but police-on-police shootings is not very good evidence in favor of that. Not enough data (26 cases in 30 years), the data is from 40 y
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Black people are certainly killed by police at a disproportionate rate relative to their population, that is an objective fact. This does not necessarily imply that there is racial bias by the police, however. For example if black people en
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by GhostVII 6y ago
J1 visas are what all the tech companies use for interns from Canada. Technically you aren't allowed to work under a J1 visa, but everyone seems to be doing that anyways - tech companies will always say that you are going to be treated
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think most Canadians working in the US for tech companies would be on a TN visa, which is not being suspended according to the Globe and Mail [0]. Internships would be significantly affected though, since they go on a J1 visa so it could
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I do this, but also have a small prefix I add to the start of each password which I don't write down. The biggest threat is probably someone I know finding the passwords and trying to use them, so the odds of that kind of person actual
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I don't like how the liability for finding hate speech is being shifted from law enforcement to private companies. If you want to make laws restricting what people can say, social media companies shouldn't be the ones enforcing it
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Crime statistics are definitely skewed, and discrimination is a huge part of that. But the question is not whether black people are being killed at a higher rate due to discrimination, the question is whether black people are being killed a
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I don't think it is OK to kill anyone during a minor non-violent crime, I just think that if there were a significant number of police killing black people due to their race you would see it in the numbers. People shot to death by poli

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