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by aksss 3y ago
There’s a lot more of this coming with lunar and Martian exploration/exploitation. People that willingly do risky stuff with odds against them.
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Upward spiral is a bigram that shows up around turn of 20th century[0] but is undeniably rare compared to downward spiral[1]. Spiraling and spinning out of control don’t really seem to show up until the 20th century either, I’m guessing bec
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Nhtsa Instructs Automakers to Ignore Data Access Law(motortrend.com)
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If the goal was to prevent war amongst the European nations, as is their wont, I’d say it’s successful - or as Maverick said, “Ask me again tomorrow, but it’s lookin’ good so far.” Granted, seventy years isn’t too long in the scheme of thin
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by aksss 3y ago
It’s a shit take for edge cases, but actually on point for the vast, vast majority of us. We have an awful and absurd habit of denying simple truths in homage to very exceptional cases. It’s a convenient reason for most to do less.
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Some forums just got better, IMHO, just from maybe having richer contributions and distilled but still healthy communities with good moderation. Fewer drive-bys, less low quality content. I mean, I consider HN to be more forum than social m
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by aksss 3y ago
> War as always here Brings to mind Thucydides: “Of the Gods we believe, and of man we know, that by a law of their nature, wherever they can rule they shall. This law was not made by us, and we are not the first to have acted on it. We
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by aksss 3y ago
The 2nd Amendment receives a lot of coverage, yes. Broadly speaking, for a 2A advocate, every 2A conversation is also a conversation about 4A, 1A, 9A, etc. For example, the track record of the government on the Bill of Rights is seen as a r
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by aksss 3y ago
It's a tangled mess. If the companies are voluntarily cooperating, it's not as simple as calling them contractors. Look at all the covid/Biden subject matter censorship that was going on for an example. These companies invite
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Don't forget the people including you in photos that go up on Facebook, Insta, etc. You may not have accounts there but rest uneasy that unless your family and friends respect your privacy and right to informed consent, photos of you a
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by aksss 3y ago
Yeah, Gates is leaving couch money to his kids, but realistically those kids are set for life unless they have catastrophic lifestyle failure. For all intents and purposes, his kids are and will remain extraordinarily wealthy.
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> I am a person who still rides taxis [out of principle]… I wouldn’t dare risk life and limb in an Airbnb across town You seem very risk adverse and pro-establishment. Your perspective is a bit of an edge case, as demonstrated by the eno
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by aksss 3y ago
> I don’t get the money for the wear and tear Arguably you do, but there’s evidently a disagreement on the value.
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by aksss 3y ago
Unless said government collaborated with social media companies to censor critical perspectives. Just kidding - like that’d ever happen!
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> The main advantage of the direct brain-computer interface seems to be speed. But extreme speed is important in only a limited class of circumstances, many of them competitions and zero-sum endeavors, such as sports and games. This stat
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Asthma is, of course, an immune system response but is not an autoimmune disease[1]. That said, mental and physical stress are a significant factor in autoimmune disease flare-ups and chronic hypertension is linked (one of many things) to
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IME, most times when you mention "autoimmune disease", people think AIDS. Explaining that your autoimmune disease is kind of the opposite of AIDS, that it's not contagious, are annoyingly common experiences. And it still amaz
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by aksss 3y ago
The following video conference with Robert Lahita is one of the more substantive discussions on the understanding of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that I've seen in a while. https://youtu.be/FYYfHWR7WwY In his pre
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by aksss 3y ago
Parse Don’t Validate? https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
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Very good observation but I do wonder whether it’s the worst of both worlds or the best of both worlds - more the “eat the meat and spit out the bones” approach?
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by aksss 3y ago
All I want for Christmas is some glasses that give me the equivalent of two or three responsive, stable 32” QHD external monitors and a decent field of view (like >=110 deg.). I feel like this would be easier for manufacturers to achieve
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by aksss 3y ago
I’m still waiting on my invitation for the vs2022 copilot chat preview. :( Looking forward to it though.
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Man-dolf the Grey
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The constant prompts to apply security updates after user has been dismissing them for 15 days running. Yeah, always a conundrum how enforce update policies, especially if you want to make attestations about devices connecting to or hosting
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by aksss 3y ago
> decades of dissolving institutions Yet, mysteriously, after these many decades of dissolution the quantity of federal employees and spending in general has gotten higher and higher.
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I have to laugh at all of you expecting to buy a house right out of school. Where you got that sense of entitlement I shall never know.
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You are very misinformed if you believe this is true for planet-scale energy demand. Dial back the hope and faith and engage the critical thinking.
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Isn’t that precisely the course correction we find ourselves having to make now? Decades of anti-nuclear sentiment calcified into regulatory opposition that needs to be unwound. Yeah, real funny. If there’s a lesson here we should all take
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> Seizing farms is not happening here, only a few farms have been sold by the owning farmers to the government. That’s some rather disingenuous spin. Look, I’m not at all interested in the merits of the buyouts (maybe they’re entirely ju
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I don’t seem to recall Smil saying things are impossible, just that there’s a predictable rate of improvement, and it would take a miracle to improve that rate by the needed orders of magnitude to achieve the goals in the timeframes set out

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