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by abtinf 7y ago
Humans require food and water to live. You might evade that fact as a mere belief, but you cannot escape the consequences of such an approach.
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Can Popper be falsified?
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Here are the death probabilities for males in their 80s based on the 2016 social security life table: 80 5.8% 81 6.4% 82 7.1% 83 7.8% 84 8.7% 85 9.7% 86 10.7% 87 11.9% 88 13.3% 89 14.8% https://www.
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Who will provide the safety net when the entire economy is shut down? Production precedes consumption, always.
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We don’t have capitalism, we have a mixed economy. It is often illegal to raise prices, which would limit hoarding behavior.
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I ran into similar problems with my custom built FreeNAS too. It's still a great setup, but more work than I would like. When my server eventually dies, I'll probably replace it with one of the official FreeNAS Minis. https:&#x2F
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Why do you "think it’s the best home nas software"?
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You linked to an old version (from 2008!) of that wiki page that contains vandalism (a column labeled "Murders your wife"). Why? Given your comment "no other file system has all the features of ReiserFS or Reiser4", I am
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I wouldn’t normally take apart an HN comment on grammar, but you are commenting on clarity of writing. If this is something you care about, than the following proofing may be useful. Format is (delete text)[insert text or comment]. ———————
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This is the same argument used to oppose free trade and immigration. On an economic level, it ignores all of the benefits of open source materials, claims that more expensive goods result in greater wealth, and doesn’t account for comparat
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Irony: saying reddit is a monopoly on a different widely read forum.
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Are Apple's new machines with T2 secure enclave less vulnerable in this regard? They claim all storage encryption goes through the chip, making it more like an integrated phone design.
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While not an NSL, we do know USG leans on companies to implement weaker/breakable cryptography. There is at least one public example (attempts to compel Apple), and presumably there are many more successful undocumented attempts.
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Part of the reason for this is that the Trump administration has made it very hard for Canadians working for tech companies to visit the US on business. I have friends who used to frequently and freely travel between the two countries for
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> Google, Bing, and (at lower quality) Yandex are the only And DuckDuckGo.
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Along these lines... I once saw a movie in which, during a small town election, a character commented “You know who decides elections? The ballot counter.”
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For posterity, here is the original title I submitted: "Ted Nelson: For 30 years, MIT Media Lab has used hype and hokum to raise money" This title is taken from the first sentence of the video description, edited to fit the charac
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I am not an expert and haven’t looked at those links. I’ve learned to be skeptical of US vs EU stats ever since I learned about the difference in definitions and data methods that lead to difference in infant mortality statistics. For one t
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The ocean isn’t acidifying, it is becoming slightly less basic. But that won’t do for scaremongering headlines.
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Ted versus The Media Lab [video](youtube.com)
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Thank you for quickly acknowledging and fixing it--a simple error anyone could make. It also appears you are right that my claim of >.4 is too high. Browsing the listings, it looks like .3 is probably closer.
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There are at least 26 Royal Caribbean vessels on that list--they are the ones ending in "of the Seas". Harmony of the Seas can handle almost 5500 passengers and 2400 crew.
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Cruise ships often have more than .4 crew per guest. So 6600 guests would mean more than 2600 crew. https://www.cruisewatch.com/top-10/ships-passenger-crew-rati...
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> I'll pick up my involvement again as kids get a bit older. I thought this would be true for me, but it turned out the other way. The chores of toddler care are slowly replaced as the kids become more verbal. Playing a game or havi
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A business prof once asked a simple question to prove the value of a brand: Would you rather own all the plant and equipment of Coca-Cola, or would you rather own the brand? The answer is obvious and this sort of thing is taught in every bu
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> Wine is an emulation layer Wine literally stands for “Wine is Not an Emulator”.
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Madoff has stated he is happier in jail than he was before he got caught. He was never king of anything. Living a life in which you lie to everyone you meet-your family, children, friends, and clients-is not conducive to happiness. He const
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Mission creep on the part of the EFF.
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Cloudflare itself has a feature to issue certs to protect CF<->your server.
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This is not a credible source. Has there been any reporting from a major paper?

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