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by ardy42 6y ago
>> In some real way, Gell-Mann amnesia sustains the entire news industry. We have to believe there is a central, reliable source of news somewhere out there, despite so much evidence to the contrary. > My ultimate problem is that o
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by ardy42 6y ago
"Wrong" can mean both factually untrue and immoral. I was using it with both senses.
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>> He appears to agree with Murray that some class differences reduce to heredity. > So? When did that became illegal? Or news? What does illegality have to do with anything in this context? I mean holding an idea can be both leg
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by ardy42 6y ago
> As previously stated, the MP3 codec was refined using listening tests designed by european audio engineers and featuring the music they chose. In a sense, each of these songs acts as a resonant filter for every file encoded in the MP3
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This says nothing about the amount of days. Neither do the sources. Is the amount of days really the most important aspect of this? > Can be said about the US as well, companies can be forced to share their data with the government.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I am sorry, but how do we know that youtube video is real? The channel it is uploaded to doesn't seem trustworthy at all. The copy I linked is clearly a re-upload of a re-upload, it was just the first copy I found. How do we know
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I generally agree, but here in Kansas we have long sight lines. On our farm we use fixed wireless to the grain elevator three miles away. The alternative would be running 1.5 miles of wire for three potential customers. Yeah, I totally
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Is "no data caps" sustainable for Starlink? Maybe not. This was the first hit for "starlink downlink bandwidth" https://www.lightreading.com/4g3gwifi/starlinks-network-face... : > Starlink,
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> It's highly unlikely. It is required by CCP law to record user activities up to 90 (or 30? vague memories) days. > Actually sounds pretty good. In Australia it is 730 days. No, it doesn't. China requires the content
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But leaders pay a political price for instituting draconian enforcement measures, while their country pays an economic price, which makes them less likely. It's one thing to send armed agents to storm the homes of executives of a
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It is not clear to me why being selfish is either antisocial or being greedy is antisocial. Because greed leads people to harm and neglect others for gain? This is an extremely basic idea, and if it's still not clear to you, ma
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> They also seem useful to contrast the American / protestant view of work as the path to salvation with the European / catholic view of work as something pitiful > That... doesn't make a lot of sense, at least on f
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> helping their wealthy be greedier. > I fail to understand what is wrong with this. What is wrong in people keeping more of their wealth to themselves ? It's selfish and antisocial. These are pretty basic concepts, and I&#x
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by ardy42 6y ago
Back in the day, those types of cards were available, though a little uncommon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card https://www.appl
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by ardy42 6y ago
The latter is famously authoritarian capitalist, and the former just gutted its civil liberties? Also, IIRC, they both benefited from being trade gateways into the PRC economy, especially when it was more closed than it is now.
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Dutch people don't want to hear this but the Netherlands are a tax haven just like Ireland. Luxembourg and Switzerland aren't actually that attractive for tax avoidance anymore. > Why they don't want to hear this
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It seems surprisingly un-Apple-y to allow someone in that position to publish articles detailing the flaws in Apple maps, speculate about where they get their data and how the quality problems might affect unannounced future products.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This one has a ton information of information, but still fail to satisfy because it has a low point/information ratio. It just rambles on with data points and examples. On his front page, this article appear in this section: >
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I love this type of article, and the effort put into it - but the main thing I can't help but do is wonder what kind of person is driven to exhaustively research Apple Maps over a 5+ year period. I'm under the vague impressio
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Strong currencies are not the solution to poor governance. Good governance and democracy makes a country and its currency strong. Not vice versa. That's a good point. Too many people propose individualist solutions to social prob
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by ardy42 6y ago
> For a monetary asset, being “managed” is a liability. I'm not so sure of that. For instance: Bitcoin isn't money, but something that people hoard and speculate on. If it was more actively managed, its parameters could perha
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I disagree - I trust much more strongly that Bitcoin will not be mismanaged than the USD, because bitcoin is governed by very simple and utile rules that are practically impossible to change, whereas the USD can be and has been inflate
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Simply look around any tech center company and look around. It’s mostly younger crowd. The graybeards are few and far between and in mostly few senior roles. > Even transferring to middle management doesn’t help much. The same type
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But did you ever wonder where the stability of USD comes from? It all comes down to how big the transaction volume of your currency is. I don't think it's that simple. Transaction volume doesn't just appear from nowhere
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> Citation? Ther actual written standards of N95 vs KN95 are very similar, and if anything KN95 is probably slightly better. To meet KN95, the mask must be shown not to let air pass around the edges even while doing vigorous exercise, wh
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I bought N95 NIOSH masks. Like most US consumers I searched Amazon occasionally to see if the market was again offering them to consumers but it took a post here on HN, for me to Google and find a US-based supplier. I'm happy to h
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I actually didn't know they were even available, after being told by officials to use cloth masks for 10+ months I stopped looking. I was surprised how easy and available they were. Your link doesn't work anymore, but K N95-
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> This would be a reasonable stance if Bitcoin were just another activity, but it’s unique in its energy profile. What other technology is designed so that energy efficiency improvements are absorbed and nullified (through the diffic
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by ardy42 6y ago
Also the environmental impact of Bitcoin is more novel and thus more interesting than the well-known environmental impact of gas/oil.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think it's unrelated. You could say dolphins and whales are "tolerant of hypoxia", yet from their behavior and the layout of their brains it is evident that evolution has not limited "information efficiency"

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