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by _iyig 6y ago
The Stirling engine's time has finally come! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahfGfDdgNY Not really, but it's a neat alternative for turning solar energy into mechanical power. Achievable (at grossly inefficien
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by _iyig 6y ago
>Our right to own guns to fight our government is anachronistic and laughable. All other uses for firearms do not demand high capacity magazines. It's not always about resisting the government (though sometimes it is), and rarely if
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by _iyig 6y ago
Another effective film in the same genre is "The Day After." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_polic... >President Ronald Reagan watched the film more than a month before its screening
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by _iyig 6y ago
Reminds me of the German government’s decision, made in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, to phase out all German nuclear power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out An immediate effect of this decis
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by _iyig 6y ago
This is exactly what I'm struggling with. Intuitively, the idea of another person trying to injure me sounds scarier than a harness failing or tree falling. People can be a lot more unpredictable than gravity or metal fatigue. But then
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by _iyig 6y ago
Interesting. Do you have a link? Those numbers are hard to Google, all the results I'm getting are for deaths caused by the police vs. of police themselves.
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by _iyig 6y ago
Would you say there's a difference in kind between the risk of death due to equipment failure or negligence, versus the risk of another human being actively trying to kill you? They seem different to me, but I'm not sure how to re
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by _iyig 6y ago
Brings to mind this classic from the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you d
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by _iyig 6y ago
>The NSA's top-secret black budget, obtained from Snowden by The Washington Post, exposed the successes and failures of the 16 spy agencies comprising the U.S. intelligence community, and revealed that the NSA was paying U.S. privat
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by _iyig 6y ago
>Wondering if The Intercept belongs in the nether world of "news" organizations (read: thinly veiled propaganda outlets) along with InfoWars, RT, etc. It's worth noting that the submission is a link to The Gray Zone, which
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by _iyig 6y ago
Given the historical, cultural, legal, and linguistic differences between Beijing and Hong Kong, perhaps the UK and Ireland are a better analogy here. "London signals plan to take full control of Dublin" would not go over well. Or
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by _iyig 6y ago
Given recent headlines, I wondered for a moment whether Masayoshi Son had served in the U.S. Special Forces.
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by _iyig 6y ago
Vermont has a troubled recent history with expensive, state-wide public initiatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform#Gre... The elimination of rent-seeking behavior from healthcare and Internet
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by _iyig 6y ago
Moderators, why was this post removed from the front page (and the Ask HN front page)? It is newer and has more upvotes than many other submissions. Are questions like the OP's still allowed on HN?
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A majority of H-1B employers use the program to pay workers below-market wages(epi.org)
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by _iyig 6y ago
This is super tangential (to the article, not your comment) but The Last Jedi is a poor film and this opinion is not controversial. See RT audience score of 43%: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_last_jedi
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by _iyig 6y ago
The controversy is explicitly described in the article: >The work in question was a type of gain-of-function research that involved taking wild viruses and passing them through live animals until they mutate into a form that could pose a
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by _iyig 6y ago
>Venezuela is the watched pot: it should have boiled by now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis
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by _iyig 6y ago
>Venezuela's government is taking better care of its citizens than our government is taking of us, in this current health emergency. I've seen nothing to corroborate this. >Don't believe the war media; I recommend The G
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by _iyig 6y ago
>A better alternative is the less sexy but more productive political action obviously with buy in from the power brokers. This has been tried for many years with little result. People in my social circles have grown fed-up and tired with
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by _iyig 6y ago
>I have a hunch that once the severity of the pandemic eases, we may see an increase in car journeys for holidays, particularly for continental Europe. >But people can only tolerate a certain amount of time in the car and so this may
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by _iyig 6y ago
Glad it's not just me. I'm halfway through reading the linked post, and it seems like he hasn't yet gotten to the point.
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by _iyig 6y ago
Wish I lived in a world where $10 billion in graft got someone arrested. Jailed, if I’m recklessly ambitious.
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by _iyig 6y ago
Here is what the parent post refers to: http://shanghaiist.com/2020/04/13/even-mcdonalds-is-now-turn... If we're to shift the conversation towards hate crimes targeted at minority groups, I think it&#x27
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by _iyig 7y ago
Yes, I agree that the feds should step in at this point (and should have done so long ago). What I'm curious about is the responsibility each state has to, for example, maintain their own stockpile of PPE. What are the resources that h
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by _iyig 7y ago
Is it? I'm honestly asking. As an American, I understand there's a division of responsibility between the federal state governments for disaster preparedness, but I don't know exactly what that agreement entails (or even if i
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by _iyig 7y ago
You linked to a login-walled article where the section above the fold does not clearly make your point. The subtitle "hidden from authorities" would imply it wasn't authorities doing the hiding. You could have clarified this
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by _iyig 7y ago
I don't think I did. Please re-read the HN guidelines on comment etiquette, and then explain what you think I missed. To expand on my own comment: when a private business (a ski resort, for example) decides to cover up the outbreak of
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by _iyig 7y ago
An Austrian ski resort is not the state, and does not have unlimited powers of censorship and arrest like China's one-party government.
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by _iyig 7y ago
>The essential problem is that static credentials are transmitted and can be copied. If they used a randomly generated code to unlock the cars (needs to be generated offline) then that would solve this issue. Not necessarily. Relay attac

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