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by ardy42 6y ago
> So should we ban all driving? Because that is the analogous reaction to prohibiting any gatherings. That's a straw man: no one is proposing banning all gatherings forever. Drunk people are banned from driving when they're d
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by ardy42 6y ago
> #2, I think you are wrong about their invincibility in this case. 330 people under 25 died of covid as of August 20 [0] (most with comorbidities), out of a population of 104 million in the U.S. [1], that is 1 out of 346,000 (edit). Thi
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'd argue that younger people are less likely to vote because they're less likely to find politicians who they want to vote for, so just telling them to vote largely misses the point. So vote and get active in a political
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Putting the strictest measures on the segment of the population that is least likely to get ill seems questionable It's less questionable when you look at it a different way: this is one of the segments of the population most like
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Yeah, standups are for triage. If someone raises an issue then you work out who they need to talk to about that and arrange for that to happen. The details get hashed out in the separate smaller meetings (or 1:1 conversations). Honestl
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Have you forgotten to have retrospectives? Yes, the first 2 weeks, the stand-ups is badly place, then the team talks about it and chose a different time. (Remember the team decides the time, not management or Product owner), management
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I just got out of my team's standup. MY team has 8 people. The standup lasted 6 minutes. I think the people who complain about this, are the ones who have a reason to complain. You don't hear the success stories. I'm not
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It’s not wasted time, and even if you don’t care what I’m working on I still care that you know so that we don’t spend two weeks building something only for you to go “Oh, that won’t work after the changes I made to the core.... why di
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Yes. This seems very transparently a way for google to hijack customers trying to get to your site for shipping status. > If you want to say that eliminating steps and allowing people to get what they want without having to go t
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Ask HN: Why has YouTube degraded so quickly so suddenly?
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Having a legislative affairs office is one thing, but publishing draft legislation? That seems WAY out of line for an executive department. Why are my tax dollars being used for the executive to write laws? How common is that already?
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by ardy42 6y ago
> humans are more flexible. They can look around and see interesting things and change plans to look at that instead. That's true, but that doesn't matter so much floating in the Venusian clouds. Making a manned blimp has zero
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I agree with your general point (why send humans when robots will do?) That's not my general point, actually. I'm generally supportive of sending humans on exploration missions, but blimps on Venus seems off. It's like
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There was a great paper in JBIS in April: Conceptual Design of a Crewed Platform in the Venusian Atmosphere (abstract only). It summarises two comprehensive studies of how to float crewed scientific missions in the clouds of Venus. The
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> How the fuck is a person's caste relevant? This is normal for you? > I agree. It shouldn't be. But then it shouldn't be relevant during admissions too yeh? I interpreted the situation the GP described as a policy
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by ardy42 6y ago
> As I said, just try to think in Java (rather than Java-esque pseudocode.) Try to write a Java program in advance, in your head, that only needs typing-in (in a plain text editor!), such that it's valid the first time you type it i
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It comes from a lot of places. Voter records is actually a big source, but also I believe some of the various breaches have made it in. And all of those sites continuously crawl each other and trade databases as well. I wouldn't b
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You can opt out, but it's a grueling, site-by-site process and they don't make it easy - often you have to do it several times. See https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html for some strategies. It's tortuo
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It’s not fascism to do things the way the rules/law specifies. That's not a workable definition. At many points in history fascists were literally the ones writing the rules and laws. Also, it's not like the law is soft
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Except that it should frame its policies based on game theory if it ever plans to survive against China. Which is exactly what it's doing. The time to take the high road against bad actors is over. I don't think the time &quo
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Yeah, let's follow CCP practices in the US, that'll show 'em! To a certain extent, yes. A lot of foreign relations is about reciprocation and self-interest. For many, many years the US tolerated CCP polices that hurt i
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Also this kind of action may intersect with constitutional foreign policy powers, which I think are far less familiar to regular people than other constitutional concepts from the Bill of Rights, etc.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> As I'm working with CAD for a long time, I would recommend to install next three FLOSS apps (keep them all side-by-side on your PC): Do any of these easily let you build a map from only the distances between two landmarks? I&#x27
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by ardy42 6y ago
Clearly, Firefighters are suffering from a critical lack of Cisco WebEx.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> What makes you think HN users “rely on institutional knowledge” more than anyone else? My experience is exactly the opposite. I'm guessing it's a generalization from a relatively common great respect for academic science as
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by ardy42 6y ago
> So your strategy is to dismiss "mainstream corporate-backed news" and instead watch comedians on Youtube? Hard to take that seriously. Another symptom of the illness that ails us. It's the job of comedians to make us la
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by ardy42 6y ago
> For anything non-tech related, tech people are just like everyone else. Our supposed higher IQ's don't mean much when forming opinions. Honestly, I think "our supposed higher IQ's" (or more precisely: a self-im
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> The CIA cannot lie to US legislators without committing a federal crime. They can choose not to disclose information to the public and “neither confirm nor deny” but they can’t knowingly tell a lie. > They can and they have. Let
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by ardy42 6y ago
> For those making quips about Russia: Assange has already claimed the source was _not_ Russia. Assuming Assange is telling the truth, how would he even know who the ultimate source was? I mean, Russia might be sophisticated enough to
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I’m sure they could develop a classifier that would catch most (~90%) of political content, and make it opt-in - if people want to see it they can, but it could be hidden by default. This would be my preferred approach, so that I can u

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