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I cannot stress enough how spot-on your point about open source is. I distinctly recall having conversations with management about whether we were going to pay for the things we used from the community, since we had licensing obligations, a
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FAST, the Future Attribute Screening Technology, was a federal precrime research effort from the Department of Homeland Security which sought to pick criminals out at public locations based on biometrics. [0] FAST was tested in secret on th
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I can't speak for others, but I'm between jobs due to the pandemic and can't afford health care without employer-provided insurance. Most people are fine most of the time, which is why it doesn't seem like a problem. But
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I used to work in "geo", as the author puts it. Oil is definitely important. It's the only good that behaves macroeconomically as if it were essential to everybody, and you're right that organic chemistry, plastics, et
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Part of the problem is that cops are usually not living inside their precincts, and they are trained to think of themselves as bringing law and order to a lawless metropolis. This is, of course, silly nonsense, but they believe and practice
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What could they possibly do, other than make things worse for him? If the problem goes up to directors, then doesn't that imply that Apple won't change?
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My assertion in more detail. First, there aren't big population-level differences amongst random partitions of the single human race. There are population-level differences amongst geographic partitions, and humans are known to not t
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Okay, please, go ahead and investigate these issues. What have you found? I am summarizing a well-understood consensus position, not exploring some novel theory. You can research the issue as much as you like, and find as many spurious &quo
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There aren't big population-level differences, aside from basic cosmetic differences due to genetic drift [0]. Humans act as one single species, with one single pedigree [2], lacking any selfish genes which speciate us further. Genes
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I wonder whether this interacts cleanly with Cello, GTK+, or other "object-oriented" C libraries. It certainly is a nice presentation, if a little baroque.
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Guinness Reinstates Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong, Pac-Man Records(arstechnica.com)
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Gentle Giant – The Power and the Glory (1974)(youtube.com)
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One of my parents is a pensioner and their attitude towards money is that "I earned it, and so it's my money," regardless of whether that money is in their accounts or in their monthly check. They really do view all of that m
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"If". I would suggest, for freedom, that Abraham Lincoln did more to increase freedom by directly emancipating millions of slaves; for prosperity, I'd choose Albert Sabin, one of the vaccinators against polio. What, exactly,
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Maybe we shouldn't award karma for submissions, if it leads to the problem of multiple people vying to submit something first and leading to duplicate submissions?
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I think that looking at Nigeria is instructive precisely because it is so ordinary among developing nations, while still being massive. Nigeria's biggest asset is probably its population, and since Nigeria is one of the most-populated
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From stories I heard growing up, a debt like $700k USD would get somebody killed by their bookies. But Robinhood isn't a bookie, I think, so what would have happened to this unfortunate soul instead? Bankruptcy and garnishing?
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I think that, while he is right that the upper-right corner of his chart is tending towards infinity, it is only a tendency or trend and not the current position. Maybe, eventually, we will actually hit the bottom and make most of that cont
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I know that many languages have some sort of support for units. It would be nice to have libraries which explicitly say that (0,1) and (-1,1) are different, and support transforming between them. I think that this transformation comes up al
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I haven't been to Capitol Hill in a long time, but I remember that it was a series of plateaus atop a hill, filled with mom-and-pop stores with apartments on top. I bet that it helps these folks to be able to use their local terrain ag
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I wanted to know too. Here's the suit [0]. The principal manufacturer targeted is Teva. You'll have to click through for the full list, because it is massive, and has its own entries in the multi-page table of contents. I also wan
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I have to quote some words that I would not personally use, in order to examine this further. Sorry in advance. Rowling's definition of TERF: > If you didn’t already know – and why should you? – ‘TERF’ is an acronym coined by trans
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I'm not sure I understand; there are a lot of words in the way. Is she doubting that TERFs exist, or is she trying to minimize the TERF mindset? It seems like she's doubling down.
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This knowledge that you are discussing is quite interesting, but not tacit: You had no problem explaining it to me in words alone. Moreover, it can all be operationalized; physics in particular is well-operationalized and usually evaluated
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Replaced with what, though? Nobody talking about "slave" seems to notice that "servant" and "robot" have similar baggage despite different linguistic roots.
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Tacit knowledge is the lowest rung of understanding. It's the understanding that cats and dogs form, unable to talk but able to listen and consider. The main difficulty is that, because one cannot express tacit knowledge, one cannot re
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I like your point (and wish I had more than one upvote), but I want to recast it in terms of color theory. Specifically, let's look at each color in terms of not being able to do what its two opposite colors can do. And, of course, the
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Both you and the other reply are focused on blue. I wonder if HN has an affinity for thinking with blue? Yes, you're all quite right. The word often associated with blue's style of play is "control", and in tabletop card
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It is fun to see how much of this overlaps with the official guidelines for colors [0]. I think that the five colors are better explained in terms of deck strategies and win conditions. Crucially, by design, no color is best, nor is any com
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That is a very honest spectogram. On the positive side, this is yet another resounding victory for psychoacoustics and the human model of hearing, since it seems that the average Tidal user didn't notice this problem merely with their

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