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by avar 2y ago
Would you by extension argue that e.g. modern relational database aren't deterministic in their query execution? Their query plans tend to be chosen based on statistics about the tables they're executed against, and not just the q
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by avar 2y ago
It sounds like the exact opposite of that story. They manually blacklisted gorillas from being identified because they kept conflating black people with gorillas.
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by avar 2y ago
Ford commissioned a cover of a 1958 song[1] using a singer that would clearly be mistaken for Bette Midler's existing cover of that song, as part of an advertisement campaign where they first tried to get the rights to the original son
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by avar 2y ago
"S3 is that simple, here's an example using an otherwise generic HTTP library specifically altered to deal with AWS's tiresome boilerplate complexity". I don't like putting words in other people's mouths, but t
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by avar 2y ago
Reiser's seeking eventual parole. He may be expressing magnanimity, but a smart psychopath in his situation would act similarly, given the incentives involved.
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by avar 2y ago
Every time this is brought up people come out of the woodworks with post-hoc rationale for this rule that has no basis in historical fact. This comment is good example. Why would the FAA and other aviation regulatory agencies care about you
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by avar 2y ago
I hate those "features" because they blur the line of user control. You sent me a message, you shouldn't be able to decide to reach into my device and delete it. It's okey if there's a feature where I can automatica
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by avar 2y ago
> The Swiss machine in the > video did 400m in 4 months. No, a lot of the time the machine was stationary because the needed to manually reinforce what they were about to drill through, so the machine wouldn't get t
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by avar 2y ago
It's open on both sides, it's more like working under a tarp. They seem to be using proper PPE when appropriate, and not be covered in accumulated dust like mine workers.
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by avar 2y ago
> Also, nice to see good old > "dude with shovel" in there, > a tool that would have looked > the same back in the 19th > century. The guy using a flat broom at around 1:12 in the video ha
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by avar 2y ago
It makes no sense to look at number of flights for a comparison. You need to look at passenger miles.
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by avar 2y ago
For reasons that are too hairy to go into here C doesn't "really" have a string type (yeah, yeah pendants, I know about fixed strings etc.). It just has arrays of char, which you pinky promise will end in a \0 for things that
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by avar 2y ago
Doesn't this boil down to a claim that blind people are incapable of running on a constant upwards slope due to motion sickness? Because even if your claim is correct, and the conflicting visual input is disorienting, the Moon-dweller
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by avar 2y ago
She booked an adult seat, but was (according to their broken system) 1 years old while doing so. That's different than booking an extra seat for an accompanied infant.
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by avar 2y ago
What you're saying here isn't relevant. The 1929 Geneva convention is talking about the segregation of POW's who before capture would have been part of the same organized armed forces. The only reason to specify that POW camp
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by avar 2y ago
Everyone responding to you here is wrong. It's not "seen as an attack by Russia on NATO" because per the NATO treaty Russia nuking Washington DC won't be "seen as an attack" either, that is, until the country b
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by avar 2y ago
The article doesn't state it explicitly, but I think there's an implied correlation. Before the age of 2 you don't get a seat, and it's implied that your guardians are 100% responsible for your mobility. Whereas a child
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by avar 2y ago
Because it was written and enacted primarily by recently warring western nation states, not a group of detached philosophical monks living on a mountaintop. The elites in those societies had a clear interest in carving out special privilege
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by avar 2y ago
American Airlines's policy, like most airlines, is that children above the age of 2 require their own seat. So there's a very narrow age range where she'll need to suffer this particular problem, if she makes it to 102 she&#x
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by avar 2y ago
> Not half-measures like > they've done in BC & > Portugal. Are you actually aware of what Portuguese drug policy is like, or are you just going by the popular North American misconception that they just
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by avar 2y ago
> I made changes that impacted > tens of millions of users in... > no significant way whatsoever. > Certainly not anything they'd > remember on their deathbed [...] Going into defense to directl
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by avar 2y ago
Yes, surely the only reason you'd dislike something at 14-18 years old and like it at 27-31 is the font size. I take it your tastes have otherwise been immutable in that time period, and that you listen to the same music, follow the sa
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by avar 2y ago
Are you under the impression that those YouTube tutorials aren't copyrighted?
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by avar 2y ago
I wonder if doing this will result in subtle bugs simply because the effective length of the copper traces is being altered, which changes the transmission time.
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by avar 2y ago
It's actually good advice. If you're the sort of person who's seeking out those narcissistic writing excersise subs for relationship advice you probably should get divorced.
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by avar 2y ago
> Afghanistan offers an example > of the market-based approach > to kidney donation and its > downsides. And upsides, e.g. the person who avoided selling their child by selling their own kidney. Is that an
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by avar 2y ago
How is that a strawman? You're arguing against any market mechanism on the basis of a human interest story discussing Afghanis who sold their kidneys for what you'd expect to pay for a new laptop. I'm assuming you aren't
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by avar 2y ago
"Our citizens"? I didn't know the Taliban could be found on HN. You should do an AMA. What I'm pointing out is that you seemingly only care because the proposed scheme might cause you or other affluent people to interact
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by avar 2y ago
“If I don’t sell my kidney, I will be forced to sell my one-year-old daughter.” It's an odd sort of cognitive bias to conclude from this article that the selling of kidneys is the problem. You don't think they sh
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by avar 2y ago
Well, your relatives are probably right depending on how a "family" is defined. Are we talking about children per household, do multi-generational families count? Then they're definitely more right than not. Or are you all fu

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