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by _iyig 7y ago
I wonder whether people would care more about infrastructure if all buildings required this kind of annual, public, participatory maintenance? Could a less durable structural design on paper produce a higher quality of upkeep in practice? R
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>Gun advocates often cite Switzerland as a country with very responsible gun owners. Still, if you compare the rates of gun suicides, accidents and murder to their smaller population, it's still quite shocking. Switzerland’s murder
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It blew my mind a little when he said the name “Diablo” came from Mt. Diablo, which sits practically on top of Silicon Valley.
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Having canceled Project Maven and dropped out of competition for the DoD cloud contract on principle, Google continues to operate an AI center in Beijing. They host conferences with Chinese companies and research institutions who they tutor
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You’re right. We could also make the choice to smash cars, because they take jobs away from the horse and buggy industry. We won’t, because the problem is not humanity’s total productive output growing larger, but how this output is managed
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>Americans are, on the whole, unwilling to pay the prices required to provide people with a living wage and proper labor protections. I would frame it as, "Americans are, on the whole, unwilling to pay higher prices for ethically-so
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>IBM's relationship with the Third Reich was not based on the mere supply of typewriters; such a suggestion reduces your credibility on this topic to zero. "Punchcards can be turned to evil." The specific type of dual-use
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Mexico is deporting illegal migrants at the highest rate since 2006, and has deployed the military on their southern border: https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/internacionales/mexico-au... The E.U. tightened their
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Palantir doesn't build holding cells. They've worked with the government for many years, long prior to this recent and ongoing debacle. I'm ashamed of DHS for providing unhealthy facilities, and I'll agitate for their ra
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They are essential to the economy because American employers can pay below-market wages for back-breaking labor. I'd prefer to make such practices illegal, rather than continually subjecting undocumented immigrants to awful working con
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I'm sorry to hear about your personal experience; I've been in a similar situation myself, related to voice assistant technology. However, I don't think either of our experiences necessarily imply that Palantir is evil. For e
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I'm an American citizen who is happy to see the law enforced. I don't live in Atherton or Palo Alto. There were two Central American gang-related shootings near my family's home last week; there were two MS-13 murders in the
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Are you alleging that Palantir enables or encourages "horrific racist incidents"? Could you be more specific? EDIT: I see what you mean. I had mistaken the meaning of OP. Please ignore this comment.
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What leads well-off Americans, whose safety and comfort is guaranteed by the constant efforts of law enforcement, to conclude that legal efforts to make law enforcement more efficient would make the world a worse place?
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She was credibly accused of a crime. The Koch executive wasn’t formally accused of anything, according to the article, not that such formalities matter in a system such as China’s.
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As far as I know, there isn't a problem here. > [...] of dubious legality because it's a biometric search and should be done in a criminal case [...] That is not the law. You have been misled, perhaps as the article's auth
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Sorry, I think I failed to clarify my point. I don't think ubiquitous vehicle position tracking is legal, or a good idea. I do think that if you're a driver on public roads, your face will be photographed at some point (such as fo
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Fairness of the U.S. immigration system aside, what is wrong in principle with law enforcement using driver’s license photos to uphold and enforce the law? When you drive on public roads, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Tinte
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I have trouble squaring this logic with the common wisdom that millions of jobs are at risk due to automation.
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Oof, yeah. That ridiculous anecdote throws the rest of the article under shadow.
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This is one failure mode of an open-ended immigration system. If you admit large numbers of migrants in a short amount of time, they cannot possibly assimilate quick enough to avoid forming cliques and bringing with them certain problems fr
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There are about as many Mormons as there are Southern Baptists, which most consider "a pretty big denomination" of Protestantism. To my knowledge, BYU has not re-banned caffeinated soda. Regarding the Curse of Ham: "In 1931,
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"In the following year, Smith taught that the curse of Ham came from God, and that blacks were cursed with servitude.[83] He warned those who tried to interfere with slavery that God could do his own work.[84] Without reversing his opi
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Despite all its problems, this is one thing I like about 4chan. Minimal banner ads, large images are auto-collapsed (so they don't overwhelm the text), and menus/settings that do exist are almost entirely auto-hidden. Also no mid-
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) is a pretty big denomination. On the bright side, they are gradually adopting more progressive views - black people are no longer cursed by God (as of 2013), and drinking soda is no
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German-Americans had been aggressively discriminated against before and during WW1 [0]. By the time WW2 rolled around, many German-American families had worked very hard to assimilate and had acquired economic and political influence which
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“So far, there is no evidence that the United States has actually turned off the power in any of the efforts to establish what American officials call a “persistent presence” inside Russian networks, just as the Russians have not turned of
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And pesticides which are banned in the U.S. are often used illegally, such as carbofuran: https://www.hcn.org/articles/californias-backcountry-drug-wa...
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Yes. The U.S. can reopen the Mountain Pass mine, as was previously discussed on HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20055069 (Submission
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A co-worker of mine once said then he heard a greater variety of spoken Indian languages in the Bay Area than he’d ever heard back in India, where he was born and educated. Never thought of a polite way to ask, but I’ve always been curious

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