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by V__ 4y ago
Saying they crossed a line or even declaring something extreme doesn't mean I can't see or understand their side. Let's bring it back to my example: I understand and see why Russians think they are fighting a just war. If pos
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by V__ 4y ago
If we look back at my example. Would you say the same thing to the Ukrainian making that point? If not, we agree that there is a line at which politics end and extremism begins, that is not an extreme political position. This also doesn&#x2
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by V__ 4y ago
If we look back at my example. Would you say the same thing to the Ukrainian making that point? If not, we agree that there is a line at which politics end and extremism begins, which has nothing to do with attitude. Personally, I find it o
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by V__ 4y ago
I agree with you that partisanship and polarization are making it worse. However, you imply that "both sides" are just as extreme, but that isn't often the case. Let's exaggerate it to: "Russians buy sneakers too&qu
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by V__ 4y ago
Has there been any write-up or comment on why these happen so often? At this point Github outages are getting ridiculous.
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by V__ 4y ago
> And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video! Yes
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by V__ 4y ago
> It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used. > The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter
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by V__ 4y ago
That's why data protection and privacy laws are needed first.
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by V__ 4y ago
Well yes, because there are no laws and punishments which would disincentivize it.
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by V__ 4y ago
> Say for example you have leukemia later in life. A researcher wants to study what it is about your leukemia that makes it different from the rest of your blood. That could still be done if the data/samples were anonymized and the
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by V__ 4y ago
Deleting (destroying) everything after all tests have been done would be the simple solution.
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by V__ 4y ago
> The New Jersey lawsuit alleges that police obtained the blood sample of a newborn child (who is now elementary-school aged) Why are these DNS sample stored for so long? The U.S. really needs some data protection and privacy laws.
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> From a technical point of view, the app deletes the attachment by inserting a new email (the one without the attachment) into your Gmail, and then deleting the original email (the one with the attachments). I hope there is a big warnin
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by V__ 4y ago
I agree. As long as Microsoft provides an easy way to download ISOs, it's their prerogative to deny third-party tools access.
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by V__ 4y ago
These comments always remind me, that 'Don't look up' really did capture human ignorance pretty accurately.
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by V__ 4y ago
This is the first time I came across a "pop-up" newsletter which automatically unsubscribes you after the project is done. What a neat idea. Love it.
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by V__ 4y ago
I don't think the 'a la carte' comparison really applies to streaming. Cable had sport-, documentary, kid-channels etc. Streaming has studios with a variety of content where selecting 'a la carte' is not really poss
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by V__ 4y ago
> an 800-page paper by Klainerman and Szeftel from 2021, plus three background papers that established various mathematical tools — totals roughly 2,100 pages in all. It basically comes in three volumes. What an astonishing amount of wor
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by V__ 4y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for them and all others trying to make such solutions happen. I just hate these handwavy breakthrough-like press releases which get published 100 times a day.
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by V__ 4y ago
> This will happen quickly once we solve the immediate engineering problems of transmitting a clean beam and having it operate at a high energy density without breakdown > [...] In five or six years, I think we’ll have a plant running
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by V__ 4y ago
I'm talking about CEO's, CTO's, CFO's and the like. People whose decisions have an overwhelming impact on the company. Not Rob from accounting.
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by V__ 4y ago
If you crash a company against the wall resulting in such a disaster and having to cut so much staff, resigning isn't enough. CEO's should have to pay back big parts of their compensation.
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by V__ 4y ago
Let's be cynical here: They never care about the long term if it affects their next election.
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by V__ 4y ago
Democratic donations are rising and Republicans are declining sharply [1]. I see no benefit for Dems to support this bill and giving Republicans an opportunity to better access their base (or widen it). [1] https://twitter.com&#x
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by V__ 4y ago
There seems to be a lot of innovative ideas and a lot of them seem to be quite doable, which is interesting for investors. One I really like is FirstLightFusion [1]. They are using a ballistic system to shoot at a small fuel cube, which cre
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by V__ 4y ago
I think this argument is very short-term thinking. Letting Russia take Ukraine would have enormous security implications long term. I mean the lack of sanctions, hasn't stopped Russia after taking Crimea, so it's only fair to assu
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by V__ 4y ago
> That's not my opinion. That is your opinion. There is no factual basis on which to claim that Fox (which is part of the MSM btw.) is somehow more factual or better news than the rest. This of course doesn't mean that the rest
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by V__ 4y ago
I would agree with carbadtraingood and your characterization and therefore agree that MSNBC is liberal leaning, which in the US might as well be left-leaning. I think it was a misunderstanding of definitions. Thank you both for your replies
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by V__ 4y ago
This is not my view at all. News can be biased/sensationalized, even when it's neither left nor right. CNN and MSNBC are (as far as I can tell) the tv equivalent of clickbait. They are just (compared to the extremes of FOX) centri
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by V__ 4y ago
From an outside perspective, I always have to chuckle when someone calls CNN, MSNBC left-leaning and FOX right-leaning. One is a full-blown conspiracy-theory right-wing "news" network, and the other two are just regular sensationa

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