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by alwa 2y ago
The article doesn’t say that there was no damage, the article quotes the vandals as claiming that their vandalism would “wash off in the rain.” Personally I don’t understand the political value they see in this type of disruption. The acts
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by alwa 2y ago
It does seem like there's a qualitative difference between that framing and its parent comment: there are always problems facing society, but once activists have organized around a specific category of problem, they seem to react to su
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by alwa 2y ago
Is the argument that the office of the sheriff—who is popular enough locally that in the few election years people run against him, he wins by high double-digit margins—would be more prepared to handle tech challenges professionally withou
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by alwa 2y ago
Then again that sentence did say “to buy as many as nine additional apartments”.
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by alwa 2y ago
Linguists apparently have characterized this phenomenon and call it the “Royal Order of Adjectives” [0]: 1. Quantity or number (e.g., “two”) 2. Quality or opinion (e.g., “lovely”) 3. Size (e.g., “big”) 4. Age (e.g., “old”) 5. Shape (e.g., “
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by alwa 2y ago
Lawyers argued that Title 24 required that residential buildings be interconnected with the grid [0] [1], but 2022 updates to the code seem to have clarified that standalone solar PV systems with storage are OK (though they should still be
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by alwa 2y ago
How do they distinguish those lower-income households without referring to tax documents?
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by alwa 2y ago
I kind of like thinking about those two words set against each other, though! Sounds like “adagio” is a contraction of “ad agio” as in “at leisure” in Italian, while the usual references suggest that “adage” might have a couple possible der
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by alwa 2y ago
That article describes the architectural features of the “Matrix ONE” building in the Netherlands. Matrix ONE appears to be part of an “innovation hub” where firms research things like sustainable energy: “Matrix ONE is the largest of seven
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by alwa 2y ago
Shuttling water around, though, depends on having a bucket big enough and high enough to put enough water into to matter. A big ol’ bucket of rust might be easier to site if you don’t have a dam or a hillside reservoir handy.
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by alwa 2y ago
Maybe something along the lines of “When Alabama prisoners die, autopsies conducted without consulting families.” Or “When inmates die, Alabama donates their organs for research. Some families object.” The idea being to preserve the substa
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by alwa 2y ago
(2015)
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by alwa 2y ago
And also to be clear, “vanish” from people who died in state custody, post-autopsy—not from people who are currently prisoners. And “vanish” to the same medical training uses as non-prisoners’ donated organs. The (very reasonable) question
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by alwa 2y ago
At some level, isn’t “connecting you effortlessly with the product you explicitly told me you were here to find” the best kind of ad? To the extent that Lowe’s hires armies of friendly floor staff specifically to answer that kind of questio
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by alwa 2y ago
At the same time, I feel like most everybody feels that they themself are a good, kind, caring person. I could imagine even the schizophrenic mother the author mentions describing her motivations in terms of good, kind, and caring intention
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by alwa 2y ago
I can’t access the full paper, but from the abstract, is it accurate that they’re using ML techniques to synthesize higher-quality and higher-resolution imagery, and that’s the basis for their claim that it’s comparable to the output of a
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by alwa 2y ago
To an extent, sure. But then part of the problem is that these are planet-scale events: you’d need to disconnect them all at once (coordinating that between independent operators, and as I understand it isolating these giant grid-scale tran
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by alwa 3y ago
And if we’ve come that far, we may as well mention Tom Lehrer’s classic song “Wernher Von Braun,” which, along with the rest of his work, Lehrer so generously released into the public domain: https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernh
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by alwa 3y ago
I’m surprised they were able to run the study so quickly, what with this study protocol only being published in December of last year. Although I may well be confused about the long timelines between things getting done and things making it
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by alwa 3y ago
Here’s the link to the study in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj6728 I found their editor’s summary informative: > Basic chemistry tells us that dissimilar compounds such as oil and wate
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by alwa 3y ago
You might be interested in Renovation Angel [0] and the Habitat ReStore’s [1] efforts in this space. It certainly takes a nonprofit equipped to handle this kind of donation, but they’re around in some places. [0] https://renovati
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by alwa 3y ago
Isn’t this specifically a case of Hertz having estimated the economical proposition as proven and positive, and now having to fix that miscalculation as the actual economic results have rolled in?
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by alwa 3y ago
I’m surprised at the suggestion to override the user’s choice to place the phone in silent mode. It sounds like they suggest exploiting features designed for apps providing media playback (or alarms?). When would it ever be appropriate to f
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by alwa 3y ago
Doesn’t a doctor tend to have deliverables in a timeline of minutes or hours, on the order of dozens such deliverables a day, often with health- or life-critical stakes attached? It seems like only yesterday that this counterpoint made the
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by alwa 3y ago
In fact, HN is the only place I’ve heard anything about Kagi. I’ve done my best to evangelize to non-HN friends though :) If anything, I’m interested in what the evolution will look like as their customer base expands beyond HN types…
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by alwa 3y ago
That would be 15-year-old Alexandre Robert, in 2007 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_Alexandre_Robert A number of particularly nasty elements to the response—including that the authorities knew that one of the r
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by alwa 3y ago
The article cites the Alliance for American Manufacturing, for one, as warning that if these Chinese-state-subsidized vehicles are permitted for import without trade adjustments correcting for the distortionary effect of the subsidies, the
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by alwa 3y ago
This appears to be a 2022 documentary film featuring interviews with the scientists operating the Voyager program these days. Reviewers seem as impressed by the ordinariness of their office environment as they are by the quality of the miss
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by alwa 3y ago
It may also be that establishing which people you need to sample to substantiate somebody’s claims of lineage, gathering the consent and the samples (potentially across jurisdictions), testing to judicial standards, and procuring expert int
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by alwa 3y ago
Is the implication here that the feds didn’t already know who leased that post office box from them? And that they don’t have access to state DMV records? What do you intend for me to infer from your assertion that one individual’s inferred

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