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by amscanne 6y ago
I accept that the detection is probably possible because of the reflection, but I’m doubting the effectiveness. (The blasts would be incredibly short, and it seems like it would be hard to distinguish between severely attenuated reflections
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by amscanne 6y ago
IIUC, the microwave bursts are extremely directional, so you can’t really monitor for this effectively. Similarly, it’s bit unrealistic to cover the entire embassy in thick steel (and have no windows).
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by amscanne 6y ago
Some of my favorite restaurants have a "tipping not allowed" policy, and servers draw a hard line. I like this policy a lot, and don't mind paying extra. Unfortunately, the way many restaurants choose to manifest this is via
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by amscanne 6y ago
> They are kept in camps, monitored constantly, have no privacy, are searched constantly and on top of that, they are forced to work or go to detention This also seems to describe prison labor that occurs in the US, which, putting proble
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by amscanne 6y ago
Non-fast food restaurants spend a lot on locations (for nice views, people watching, etc.) interior build-out (fancy design, murals, furniture, music systems, etc.), and staff (attractive young hosts, servers, etc.). They also market themse
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by amscanne 6y ago
Taxes select for income brackets, not people. Consider your example: 1mm is an average . You need about 300k/yr to be in the top 1%. So you make it a marginal tax on income above 300k? To actually collect 10% more taxes from that grou
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by amscanne 6y ago
Fish are amazing, but do you really think they are SMART? In my experience, fish are incredibly stupid and wholly reliant on instinct. I suppose instincts can seem like intelligence sometimes, but if put into the wrong situation, fish will
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by amscanne 6y ago
Rdio went bankrupt, and sold assets to Pandora as part of that process. It wasn’t bought and killed.
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by amscanne 6y ago
I think both you and the parent have missed the point. The word “loser” is not the colloquial use of the term, and there is no “winner” (despite the confusing quotations above). Here it simply means loser in the economic sense — they produc
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by amscanne 6y ago
Force? Silicon Valley engineers are not serfs.
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by amscanne 6y ago
No billionaire is just sitting on their money. It’s certainly tied up in assets or being actively managed. I don’t see in what universe a wealth tax could be effective, given that people can simply move. Wouldn’t it just cause large-scale c
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by amscanne 6y ago
Exactly. The US has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. It hasn’t magically solved the wealth gap. Many people just want to punish the ultra wealthy, but it also won’t help. If it’s actually about raising revenue, you will
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by amscanne 6y ago
The original headline is misleading, and the Hacker News headline uses different words but is misleading in exactly the same way. It seems it should be: YouTube removes single Scott Adams video. Yawn.
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by amscanne 6y ago
This is a confusing sentiment to me. GCP APIs also come first. I don’t even think the UI is possible without them. Can you name a product where this is not the case?
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by amscanne 6y ago
Not sure about the US, but Canada had such a mixed cellular & push-to-talk network in the 90s called MIKE, and it was quite popular in some industries (e.g. trades). I don’t think it was actually a walk-in-talkie, but the user experienc
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by amscanne 6y ago
> Just because someone doesn't have much life left makes it no less of a tragedy when they die early. At the risk of being cold hearted, isn’t this exactly what it does?
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by amscanne 6y ago
It’s not clear that’s how they found out. The post just says that they were stunned by “what happened”. If someone offers their resignation to their skip manager or some other manager in their chain, it’s not surprising that they might acce
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by amscanne 6y ago
> It really is beyond belief that an organization with so many employees can fail to adhere to a uniform vision and standard and focus on correcting details. If you’re not spent time in a huge company, this might seem to be the case. But
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by amscanne 6y ago
Based on the blog posts & diagrams linked here, the main innovation seems to be the use of virtio as a transport mechanism for the high-level "accelerated" functions. The portable API is a good idea, but could just as easily c
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by amscanne 6y ago
I work at Google, but have no inside knowledge of these events. I doubt that Google spontaneously published the reason for the firing. AFAICT, the former employees went to the press following their firing, and the "violation of securit
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by amscanne 6y ago
I'm not dismissing it, and your quote is not something that I ever said -- who are you quoting?
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by amscanne 6y ago
And? The parent point was that lockdowns might cause other kinds of death (suicide, deferred medical treatment). All-cause mortality obviously encodes those non-COVID deaths, there is no way to tell them apart. Since the cited study lacks
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by amscanne 6y ago
Just to be a bit pedantic, these aren’t apples and oranges comparisons. It’s common to measure lives lost in quality-of-life adjusted years, since losing an 85-year old to COVID is a lot different than losing a 20-year old to suicide or due
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by amscanne 6y ago
I think you’re being ungenerous with the interpretation of the quote. I believe that he’s just speaking about how he’s driven, and there’s at least a recognition that this is a double-edged sword (“Even in gambling”). The article sure seems
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by amscanne 6y ago
Did you read the article or stop 2/3s of the way through? It’s obvious that he abused his family and friends during the many years of his fall from grace, but there’s hope of redemption towards the end. That’s the point. In terms of sp
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by amscanne 6y ago
Huh? The point of offsets is to reduce carbon. I don’t care about the effect on you personally. If their existence causes more carbon through a combination of: a) ineffective programs and b) secondary physiological effects, then no one
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by amscanne 6y ago
You missed the obvious larger problem with offsets: green washing. By giving people the ability to absolve themselves of guilt, they may change their behavior in response. Taking that extra flight, buying that new vehicle, owning the larger
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by amscanne 6y ago
There’s significant evidence of a “rebound effect” when people are given the chance to signal their virtue or pay off their guilt somehow. That is, they feel justified in behaving worse than they otherwise would have (in this case, burning
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by amscanne 6y ago
Your estimate (> 90) for the number of people working on the core language is way off: https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors Re: SML types, I think you may be confounding simplicity and tersenes
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by amscanne 6y ago
We’ll have to agree to disagree. I think a metaphor that has nothing to do with reality causes people to think too much about it. You end up replacing one abstract thing with another abstract thing (and the reason to go metaphoric in the fi

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