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by acid__ 6y ago
Hm, I can’t claim to be an expert, but my first thought is that the logistics of transporting thousands of iPhones is very, very different from transporting thousands of cars.
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by acid__ 6y ago
Would it be uncharitable to suggest that perhaps that was the goal?
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by acid__ 6y ago
> Installing anything that can be executed is potentially dangerous, but I imagine PIP install only installs from a trusted source. Nope, unfortunately not, anyone can publish anything to pypi as long as the name isn’t taken. Plenty of r
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by acid__ 7y ago
Things were quite bad but they've improved rapidly over the past weeks and months. Hospitals have actually, counter-intuitively, seen a reduction in usage. The number of hospitalizations has been far lower than expected (~20% of IHME&#
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by acid__ 7y ago
Well, consider the population difference too — NY State has 20M residents to Washington’s 7.5M, which is less than the population of NYC alone. Be wary of comparing raw counts when the underlying population sizes are so different!
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by acid__ 7y ago
This seems like a minor thing to get caught up on. "The 1%" has become a popular term in the past few years, so consider that including the 1% would cost only 1% of the total cost of UBI. The 99% would receive 99% of the money. Th
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by acid__ 7y ago
Yes, better from a personal standpoint, but jeez, from a humanitarian perspective, can you really blame any restaurant owner from wanting to make payroll at any cost so that their employees can continue to feed themselves, pay rent, and tak
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by acid__ 7y ago
Agreed. It makes sense in preparation for some scenarios that could actually cause major infrastructure damage (e.g. an earthquake). But in the case of mass quarantines, turning on the faucets should continue to work (as it still does throu
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by acid__ 7y ago
Try Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V for a “plain paste”
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by acid__ 7y ago
To be fair, none of those viruses received nearly the same level of news coverage nor had fear and awareness of them penetrated into popular culture in the way that 2019-nCoV has. And, many people today were only children during the 2003 ou
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by acid__ 7y ago
My uncle likes to call it “fictional nonfiction,” saying that the human brain is better at following stories than piles of facts.
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by acid__ 7y ago
I'm also 24, and I can tell you I will absolutely be spending $1000 for the Valve VR headset (I've not previously owned VR) and any other PC upgrades to be able to play this game.
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by acid__ 7y ago
I agree that we need 2FA and that we shouldn't rely on SMS. That said, saying encryption is worthless because other threat vectors exist is a bit hyperbolic. Security is all about defense in layers. There's several orders of magni
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by acid__ 7y ago
Hey mate, meta comment, sorry to not be responding directly to the content of your comment. I noticed that your post history is almost entirely pro-China posts on the more political submissions here. It could be seen like you’re participati
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by acid__ 7y ago
I see where you're coming from, and I think there's an interesting question here -- is the immediate regret a conscious, rational determination? Or is it a primal self-preservation instinct? While video games and paper money can r
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by acid__ 7y ago
I got in on this! I got a Sony A7R II and a 24-70 2.8 II I'd always wanted but could never justify the purchase of. ($~3k value for $200) A few observations: - Despite the extraordinary deal we got, my friends (who also made a purchase
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by acid__ 7y ago
Perhaps the smaller trees would be more likely to bend/snap, absorbing more energy
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by acid__ 7y ago
If I had to guess, probably that: 1. remote_phone cares deeply about his children 2. in life there are many unjust and immoral systems, and that it's okay to subvert them
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Binance Security Breach(binance.zendesk.com)
4 points by acid__ 7y ago|0 comments
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by acid__ 8y ago
One thing that I've been thinking about, and I'm curious on your thoughts on, is Facebook's "Internet.org" project. If you're not familiar, Facebook is offering low-cost (or free) internet access in less develo
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by acid__ 8y ago
Hey man, I appreciate the intellectual curiosity and desire to challenge commonly held beliefs. This is clearly a topic with extreme potential for heated, off-topic debate. I don’t think Hacker News is the right forum for this discussion. I
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by acid__ 8y ago
Many people (myself included) find the sexualization of 13-year olds immoral and worthy of being stigmatized. Hopefully that’s not too surprising of a statement (regardless of your personal views).
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by acid__ 8y ago
Maybe he recognizes that different humans have different probabilities of being suddenly unable to work for extended periods of time, and is able to weigh various factors (rationally or not, fairly or not) instead of being a 100% all-or-not
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by acid__ 9y ago
Wow, nice observation, it's bizarre that they are all from the same author. I wonder if that's due to domain familiarity, small sample size, or some more nefarious reason (she does have a book published on the subject?). I wonder
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by acid__ 9y ago
Your external drive may fail or be destroyed in a number of ways -- protection against this is a portion of what you're paying for.
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by acid__ 9y ago
I want to second this, as a former Airbnb employee -- it really did make a visible difference in enthusiasm, sense of community, and just overall work satisfaction.
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by acid__ 9y ago
Of course, but the premise (of both my scenario and Justin's apology) is that his eyes are now open.
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by acid__ 9y ago
I'm curious: if you were somehow in his position -- and were now actually genuinely apologetic, were actually blind to your own actions, were actually sorry for the harm you've done -- How would you word your apology such that it
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by acid__ 9y ago
Isn't Facebook's Internet.org project a direct affront on net neutrality?
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by acid__ 9y ago
Well, it wouldn't be entirely unprecedented. See: "Indigenous Australian storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7,000 years ago" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/16&#

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