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by aristophenes 5y ago
It disturbs me that the authors answer became the top answer. It didn’t have a loop but was less efficient than the already accepted answer, and worse, much more complicated for a human to read and understand. It seems we are always drawn t
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by aristophenes 5y ago
My understanding was the thesis is that paying too much attention to the news is unhelpful because newswriters (“storytellers”) don’t particularly care if what they are reporting is factually correct or not, they have different motives.
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by aristophenes 5y ago
The guy who advocated getting the vaccine has chimed in with his side of the story elsewhere in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400221 It makes sense because in some states its been basically any adul
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by aristophenes 5y ago
America is made of so many subcultures. People find theirs and that's their world. The author is in a set that drinks a lot. Most Americans do not. I think overall America is much more "prudish" than other countries, despite
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by aristophenes 5y ago
How do you think any other system would work. At least we get to vote with our wallets about which companies should live or die, it’s been working pretty well. At least greedy people will treat us well to get our money. Other systems select
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by aristophenes 5y ago
The main thing to watch out for is monopolies. If customers always have enough choice then the customer and workforce satisfaction will get sorted out eventually, as those organizations will be selected for and companies won’t be able to ex
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by aristophenes 5y ago
It really is location dependent, since most of the problems are caused by the shipper. Amazon will use multiple shippers, and in some areas will use what ends up being people driving around in their personal cars to deliver packages. If you
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by aristophenes 5y ago
This is a good cautionary lesson. Problems like collusion rings in computer science are more serious than they appear. If left unchecked for a decade or two, the cheaters will rise to the top and take the positions of power in the field, an
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by aristophenes 5y ago
You think Fireeye had massive security lapses because they reported they were hacked. Everyone else was also hacked and FireEye was the only one that figured it out and blew the whole thing wide open. Now if the best incident responders in
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by aristophenes 5y ago
My understanding is that the way they intend to operate it, the coin will start out rather highly valued, won't have too much capacity to grow in value, and the number of coins that can be "farmed" is already known, and will
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by aristophenes 6y ago
And therefore, the "rash of exploits" has already happened and is still ongoing. I think it's just so inconvenient/scary to most people to understand how much is hacked/hackable that they refuse to believe it. In my
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by aristophenes 6y ago
Anyone familiar with EU politics care to comment on how likely it is that this funding actually goes through, and a probable timeline?
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by aristophenes 6y ago
This article implies that forgiveness and mercy are immoral. People have the capability to create evil. Seeing as there is some good around, we must be able to create good as well. As moral creatures who can create good and evil, are we not
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by aristophenes 6y ago
This is a touchy subject, but I feel the need to state the obvious, that 12 year old children think and do a lot of foolish things because they are figuring out themselves and the world. We need to trust parents to help them and protect the
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by aristophenes 6y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was Fireeye figuring out how they got hacked, then them or federal investigators checking around to see if it was done anywhere else.
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by aristophenes 6y ago
This could probably be explained by the fact that most other animals have predators, and humans don’t (at least not successful ones). It is true of apex predators (that are not themselves killed by humans).
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Scurvy became a deadly disease again, centuries after cure discovered (2010)(idlewords.com)
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by aristophenes 6y ago
> reasonable people trust scientists across the globe who spend their entire careers studying this who all say the same thing in the same way. This appeal to authority is another example of what I am talking about. It's meaningless
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by aristophenes 6y ago
Indeed, that data is much better. Was that in the article? It seems that there is more to the article behind a paywall, I didn't realize that before.
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by aristophenes 6y ago
This way of showing climate change is not robust. I could balance this single example with the fact that temperatures below 0 F were common in the northern United States earlier this week, which is extremely uncommon in October. It would se
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by aristophenes 6y ago
You’re allowed to say whatever you want and I’m allowed to sue you if you tell lies about me. Twitter and other social media platforms are made exempt from this because they are hosting other people’s content and they’d be sued into oblivio
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by aristophenes 6y ago
I never thought about it like that before, makes sense. Thanks.
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by aristophenes 6y ago
The problem with this is the diesel powered boat delivers, on average, 1,142 cars per day. The wind powered ship, being slower and with a slightly lower capacity, delivers 583 cars per day. Therefore, to deliver the same number of cars, you
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by aristophenes 6y ago
Haha, yes the difference in the bathroom stalls is real. I've had a few hilarious conversations about these issues over beers in a pub. Personally, I think the stalls in the US are as they are to discourage problematic behavior inside
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by aristophenes 6y ago
This is purely anecdotal, but for me every toilet I use in the UK feels like the result of the local plumber trying to invent the toilet for the first time. So many varieties, so many weird ways of getting it to work, most of them failing t
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by aristophenes 6y ago
Not that anyone will read this now, but I am disappointed how all these replies ignored the equation. If you want freedom to choose what goes in your body, you need to absolve society from a responsibility to take care of you if you screw
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by aristophenes 6y ago
The US has social safety nets.
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by aristophenes 6y ago
I can partially understand that point of view for marijuana (though I think it’s important for a functional society to obey laws, and get them changed if they aren’t working instead of just breaking them based on personal preference). But t
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by aristophenes 6y ago
One of the answers was edited to “portion”, which is the same idea, I think either portion or proportion is elegant and simple. If anyone has been using proportion then I’d stick with that, though portion is nice and succinct.
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by aristophenes 6y ago
You don’t need to pay more than the black market would, but the more you pay the more time people can spend on it. If the bounties are high enough, you can attract more, and better, white hats to test your system for you. The black hats are

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