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by alehul 7y ago
While studies like this are valuable, it's important to always consider context around data; highly recommend this article that explains why we should be skeptical [1]. In this case, the data is given to Eurostat by EU member states, w
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Across major payment processors and subscription management systems like Stripe and through most of the stack, integers are used to represent how much to charge in the smallest currency unit. [1] With that said, it's better not to rein
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Bostonian born & raised, never heard spa. Feels like an obscure thing WGBH wrote about, and looking at the article, appears it's mostly historical now. We do call our liquor stores "packies," though, which comes from pack
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On the idea of leisurely pursuits: "I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architectur
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I’m trying to understand and make this analogous to what you were replying to: The reasons for the act (racist or not) does not affect it being racism?
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In the top-level comment, the issue was presumably Iranian citizenship (not descent), or, in other words, nationality.
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> Export restriction rules “essentially deputize FedEx to police the contents of the millions of packages it ships daily even though doing so is a virtually impossible task, logistically, economically, and in many cases, legally,” it sai
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Some further reading: A recent and great interview with Nelson - https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson A long-form read by Wired from 1995 - https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu&
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Across very cooperative borders in wealthy Europe, sure. Do you think it's as easy for those in India, China, or Kenya, for instance?
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LIDAR provides an additional layer of safety that seems well worth the marginal cost for those producing self-driving cars, where human lives are at stake, even if not applicable to delivery drones. Do you believe that the future is LIDAR-l
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While I understand your point of view (though I believe patents that last for a couple decades wouldn’t have ruined mathematics), the strongest point, at least to me, of the argument you’re responding to, was drugs. Drugs, according to the
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I believe the above poster meant “public service” as mentioned by the top-level comment, or “government-owned.” Edit: to be more clear, as in contrary to “private, corporate” mentioned above. Hence why one refers to work in the private sect
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> Further, the second a smart one starts getting devastating results, there will be political push-back to do something about it. People might cast votes to make rules about them that limit their power or rate of development. My fear of
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^ this. Just because humans can operate a car with vision-only capabilities doesn't mean that we shouldn't use LIDAR. Every redundancy will be highly valued when human lives are at stake, and we've seen many times with Tesla
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As someone who also has it: have you tried medicine like Adderall? I’m so torn on it. On one hand, it makes me so productive, but on the other, it makes me so unemotional and cold and abrasive. It also makes me sweat, increases my heart rat
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From the article: > These days, the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre is mostly cited as an example of the “Cobra Effect,” an economic theory about how incentives, in a complex system, can lead to perverse, unintended consequences. Sometimes, it’
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That’s amazing, and awesome to hear! Both our anecdotes can be true. :) I was in Massachusetts, which you’d expect to be pretty good about this stuff at the time.
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I think the "push for coding in early education" is a very recent development, particularly in America, for those in poorer areas or minority groups. Anecdotal but I'm currently in my early 20s, from one of those areas, and I
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That is much more apt, thank you!
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To be fair to the poster you're replying to, I can assume a much more charitable interpretation is that the quote draws an equivalency between being against Trump and being against the KKK, and that's the over-zealous and tribal a
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And on that note, are choices like these autocratic top-down decisions, with each attack approved by those leading the NSA, or is it run-of-the-mill, and done without explicit authorization per target by each team? Or are teams separated by
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Tried parsing through the first few paragraphs; can someone offer a tl;dr of how Audible is assaulting leisure time? Is it because Audible can be listened to while performing other tasks or going about your day, and it removes the previousl
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Assuming you're genuine: China, since 1997! It was really the last remnant of the British Empire according to historians. Some of the Hong Kong population (younger especially) wants to be an independent state, but China wants to integr
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When someone says "the scale and magnitude is completely different," they aren't referring to "explicit." I know plenty of people from China who have talked about the crazy levels of corruption there. Some are relat
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You mean the autonomous territory of Hong Kong? We'll see if Hong Kong stays at 14th as it loses said autonomy to authoritarian China. :)
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Although I believe you're likely right, this is snarky and doesn't actually present an argument. Are you expecting to educate anyone with this comment? As an American who isn't too familiar with GDPR, I'd like to know: W
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Another famous anecdote would be Elon Musk, who tried to get a job at Netscape in the '90s and failed [1], and claims that he created his first company because he couldn't get a job at any existing internet companies. [1] https:&
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Well, it certainly shouldn't be, but the corporate machine has more power than I do in what my SSN is used for, sadly.
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In my experience this year, TurboTax prompted me that I could save money by upgrading to a paid plan via taking advantage of some extra deduction. I thought, "if it's going to save me more than I pay for it, why not?" I click
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For anyone reading: HN encourages us to comment if we disagree, not silently downvote, unless the comment lacks any relevant content, and doesn’t add to the conversation. This clearly is relevant, and it adds something to the conversation,

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