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   by alach11 4y ago

   These states are: California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Edit: I should add that in some of those states, it would still be permitted to record others
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   by alach11 4y ago

   You're going to see a lot of cynicism in this thread so I want to be a dissenting voice. This is a great thing. I'm glad the ideas behind the Giving Pledge are catching on.
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   Can you imagine being part of a nationwide theft ring in another decade of your life?
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   Ship wreck databases are very useful for recreational fishing, as fish tend to congregate and feed near underground structures.
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   The hashes are fine. But to train image recognition models they’re going to need to retain the original images.
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   by alach11 4y ago

   HN tends to have an interest in anti-authoritarian and anti-corruption stories.
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   by alach11 4y ago

   > The issue now is the growing number of single men... The number of single women is growing more slowly How is this possible, outside of gender imbalance or imbalanced matching (i.e. one man in a relationship with multiple women)?
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   by alach11 4y ago

   People will adopt a product even if they think it might not last, as long as it's a good deal for them. When MoviePass was offering their too-good-to-be-true plan of $10/month for unlimited movies, the subreddit was full of people
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   > Modern theory says that lightning is the amplified voice of a distant pulsar It does?
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    by alach11 4y ago

    How long until this gets implemented in Twitch? Real-time subtitles for any stream in the language of your choice?! That would be huge.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    > Intelligence isn't translated universally onto all subject matters It is though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
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    by alach11 4y ago

    We would be missing the cheap energy from hydrocarbons.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    I think technically you still make the outside warmer, once you account for heat leaking from the house and waste heat from the heat pump.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    One example risk is someone using computer-generated content to extort money, demand ransom, etc. The cheaper and easier this becomes, the more likely it is to be weaponized at scale.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    Maybe to break the treadmill we need to subject ourselves to torture once per month to reset our baseline?
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    by alach11 4y ago

    > Meanwhile fridges from the 1960s are still humming along fine. Fridges that you see from the 1960s are still humming along fine. All the ones that broke decades ago get none of your attention. This is survivorship bias. Reliability of
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    by alach11 4y ago

    Isn't Meta kind of doing this with VR/AR? Spending billions every year on research with speculative future value..
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    by alach11 4y ago

    The solution for this (in most MS Office products) is CTRL+V then CTRL then T. Annoying, I know.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    > this is only possible because tickets can be made artificially scarce Surely you agree there's a supply and demand curve for concert tickets, where if the price is sufficiently low, all tickets will be bought, and if the price is
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    by alach11 4y ago

    How do you feel about ticket scalpers who use bots to buy up concert tickets, then relist them for higher prices? This is only possible because the the tickets are being sold originally for under market value.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    Joe Barnard has successfully landed a thrust vectored model rocket. Is this the greatest home-rocketry achievement of all time? Will HN commenters now question why SpaceX has 12,000 employees?
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    by alach11 4y ago

    Who wants to split a bag with me?
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    What building do you live in?
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    by alach11 4y ago

    > but if you're curious, the Spanish pronounciation is "li"- as in "list" or "ligament" This is... not correct. Spanish pronunciation would be LEE-bray. The "li" is similar to "bLEEd&quot
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    by alach11 4y ago

    It's a form of just-world fallacy. It's comforting to think "bad things happen only to stupid people, and I'm not stupid." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
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    by alach11 4y ago

    Sadly at Rockstar it's likely that employees are curious, but are under so much pressure for deadlines, and working such long hours, that they don't have time to follow their curiosity.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    They’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    It sounds like you're worried that creating high-paying fundamental science jobs would pull smart people away from engineering. But it would be more likely to pull smart people from zero-sum (or at least low-sum) fields like advertisin
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    by alach11 4y ago

    > Which expert would sign on the dotted line to the statement that 'the equipment has not been accessed by someone who wasn't authorized to do so'? You have a lot more trust in the ethics of expert witnesses than I do.
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    by alach11 4y ago

    Indeed. This is straight out of Permutation City by Greg Egan.