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by Steko 8y ago
And ... now they've linked your HN profile and are analyzing your comment history to serve you up even more personalized content.
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The selling point of Sony TV's is not just the panel but the processing, similarly to how Apple does not make it's own camera sensors, but it does do a lot of it's own procession to optimize your photos.
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OTOH a big risk to colonization is more advanced civilizations see other space colonizing species as a threat and decide to annihilate them.
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Law, political science and history all fall in the sizable overlap between the humanities and social sciences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities
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> law school Technically still part of the humanities :) I majored in math and history and my history adviser made it very clear to us how brutal the job market for history phd's was, although he did that in the context of how great
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> Where is this technological leap Umm Moore's Law? Curiosity was a big leap from Opportunity and Mars 2020, while built on the same platform, has a laundry list of upgrades. Meanwhile, a manned mission is likely to be a trillio
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> A human can collect more specimens in a day than ALL of the rovers have to date. So could a better rover and rovers are getting better quickly. And you could send hundreds of rovers for the cost of a manned mission.
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> there's an established 'story' and if someone tries to go against that established 'story' ... they will find themselves unemployable Absolute baloney, if you were a little older you might realize that "th
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> I'm not really talking about how large of a selection either platform has, either. I don't think they should even directly compete. I don't think you can avoid the quantity argument, especially if you're going to ho
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> comparable to HBO’s tentpole programming? I think this misses the forest for the tentpoles. Right now HBO's original programming is one episode per week of: Sharp Objects, Succession, Last Week Tonight, Vice and a Bill Maher speci
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Relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/1268/
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> Some cultures/ideologies really are better than others. If you need me, I'll be right here in my Western Civilization, happily not vivisecting anyone. Good old western civilization, no blood on our hands.
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Moderate inflation is easily factored into repayment terms. What inflation penalizes is keeping your money under your mattress. This creates demand to use money now which creates economic activity. > a lot of the interest in Bitcoin is a
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He's not defining it, he's using a term readers might be familiar with: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3562536/Joh... https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2
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It sounds like he made the call immediately after the Apple engineer admitted Carmack’s solution was “ideal”. That may have been the culmination of Carmack making the more convincing points (not recounted in TFA) but the fact that Jobs poun
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How does this work if someone in the house answers their cell on speaker and Alexa records that interaction? Maybe there's an exemption for inadvertent recording? Or maybe their "recording" includes enough abstraction so it&#
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Your logic is bonkers. Not every principle or virtue is a hill that every inch is worth dying over. The US and EU (and pretty much every other country) also have many laws and regulations that are not privacy friendly. You claim this means
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A little more detail on current policy: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/31920/in-what-c...
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Showboating is part of how politics works in a democracy but it can still produce real results.
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Another example from archaeology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Paleolithic_hoax
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No need to create the paper trail, the "hard hitting"-looking questions any tv news outlet is going to ask are incredibly predictable.
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The words he's been rehearsing in hours of mock interviews with the same PR hacks, for the last couple days.
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Trump nominates torturer to lead CIA, HN erupts with anti-Obama comments...
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by Steko 9y ago
Oh look, the Muskonauts have flagged this story, which should be in the top 3 based on pts/time to the bottom of the 2nd page. Yes there are other factors that can drop a post's rank, but not by that much. I thought HN had a vouch
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That Reason interview SLPC links makes her look effing bonkers. ‘Extreme anti-Muslim’ is exactly how I’d characterize her views.
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> it does not indicate in any way that reducing salt intake will result in a reduction of morbidity It doesn't? I thought it said pretty clearly it will lower the incidence of cardiovascular disease and predicted a reduction in st
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The difference is comparable to the difference in licensing requirements for driving cars and piloting airplanes.
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Correction: the 500 million is for six month period. More recent data can be seen here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carrier-bag-charg... WRAP previously reported information on carrier bag use base
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Apple could send out takedown/cease and desist to any and all sellers if they wanted, based on the reviews of counterfeit. They could also connect reviews of "cheap" "counterfeit" goods to the one seller massively u
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No evidence? H2F's complaint included customer complaints regarding the authenticity of H2F's products, which could support Apple's trademark infringement and counterfeiting concerns, and therefore Apple's notice to Ama

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