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by abtinf 8y ago
And over a thousand people died due to the evacuation. Every one of those deaths is the moral fault of generations of anti-nuclear fear mongers who created the atmosphere of paranoia.
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by abtinf 8y ago
Your post makes it sound like Fukushima failed in a catastrophically unsafe manner. I think it’s important to be explicit about the casualties that resulted from the disaster. The death toll currently stands at... maybe 1. A plant worker di
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by abtinf 8y ago
Note that, generally, batteries must be in carry-on baggage, not checked.
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by abtinf 8y ago
That’s just it—the way they describe it, they can use it for nefarious schemes, except marketing.
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by abtinf 8y ago
Their privacy assertions are very ambiguous. Apple can’t see your data, but Goldman Sachs can. Apple says GS won’t use it for marketing, but there are many non-marketing commercial uses for the data.
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by abtinf 8y ago
I wish I could use Siri as you describe. Alas, it rarely recognizes the wake word unless I’m holding it very close, and queries take far too long anyway. For weather, it is much faster to simply pick up the phone, which automatically turns
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by abtinf 8y ago
> 60 years Yet they only provide a 5 year warranty. I would expect a $600 desk lamp to have at a lifetime warranty. And they couldn’t even be bothered to get the warranty details right: at the top of the page, it says parts and labor, bu
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by abtinf 8y ago
This is crazy expensive for a desk lamp, but I can imagine applications that would justify expensive lighting. I’d happily pay 10-20x premium for guaranteed ultra-long life bulbs to use in built-in home fixtures—especially difficult-to-reac
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by abtinf 8y ago
Dave Rubin recently had an interesting interview with Onkar Ghate, an objectivist philosopher, about free will. You might enjoy it and it might rekindle your interest in philosophy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rvush0oW-cw I
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by abtinf 8y ago
Doesn’t Ghostery have serious privacy issues?
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by abtinf 8y ago
So you think the New York Times doesn’t have free speech rights?
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by abtinf 8y ago
Even if I were to accept all of your assertions, the fact that such programs exist at all while admissions themselves are largely subjective is problematic. The issue isn’t that it tarnishes the university—the victims are the very students
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by abtinf 8y ago
Of course, this is the exact same issue created by affirmative action/diversity/inclusivity campaigns.
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by abtinf 8y ago
The defense of gmail in the other comments is bizarre. Gmail suffers from a number of similar, very serious usability issues. From the perspective of the user, failing to show the correct password reset email is a bug in gmail that affects
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by abtinf 8y ago
> [Elastic] started developing new features under a proprietary license > Elastic is the rare company that truly is committed to open source On their face, those two statements seem mutually exclusive. What context am I missing that w
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by abtinf 8y ago
The two major public safety unions in CA, the California Peace Officers Association and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, collect a combined total of about $100M per year in dues. They are incredibly active and influen
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by abtinf 8y ago
Imagine how exciting it would be if you built a model, with every factor you could think of, and then it turned out to be even just a little bit wrong.
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by abtinf 8y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful answer and the names - it is very hard to google this topic or to find credible experts. I will be sure to look them up.
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by abtinf 8y ago
In all seriousness: as a non-expert who has read a few popular books that make contradictory claims, “nutrition” seems to be a field of non-knowledge, with about the same scientific credibility as social studies. So what does it mean to hav
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by abtinf 8y ago
If you click on the asterisk between the domain name and the on/off button, it switches to global rule mode. Any allows/denies you save will be used across all sites.
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by abtinf 8y ago
When prepared correctly, foie gras is the single best-tasting food I've ever had.
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by abtinf 8y ago
What word would you use to denote the concept "to know what you need and advocate for your needs, to take care of yourself"? What is the difference between "need" and "want" and why is that difference important
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by abtinf 8y ago
Here are a bunch of left-leaning opinion-checks from Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gimmegrants-train-photo/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ford-tariff-layoffs/ https:&#x2
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by abtinf 8y ago
RealClearPolitics has an interesting guide to the different fact-check providers. In particular, it calls out the difference between fact-checks and opinion-checks. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/fact_check_review/
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by abtinf 8y ago
I’m not an expert, but unsaid blackmail seems like a contradiction.
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by abtinf 8y ago
The requirement to issue 1099s kicks in at $600/year. The panelists were well below that and weren’t paid in cash. The not-paid-in-cash thing doesn’t matter for reporting requirements, but I would guess it probably gives an extra layer
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by abtinf 8y ago
Merely leaking it would be of no consequence. They could even do it directly as a blog post from their security team. Attempting blackmail would be the trouble.
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by abtinf 8y ago
Such an action would result extraordinary liability for a company. Public discovery would likely lead to consumer lawsuits, shareholders suits, replacement of the CEO, and shuffling of the board of directors. Not to mention possible crimina
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by abtinf 8y ago
Everyone on HN seems to be opposed to government mandated backdoors, but want Apple to install one anyway for the sake of some hand-wavey notion that Apple has undue “power”. This control is a feature and one of the reasons I use iOS. I val
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by abtinf 8y ago
Pedantic nitpick: “drop the building” isn’t a euphemism. It literally reflects the intended action that will lead to the desired result (if the insurgent dies great, if not the threat is eliminated anyway).

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