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by awb 5y ago
> Would each city be targeted with one warhead, or blanketed with several over a large area? It depends on your objective if you want to incinerate a target, maximize damage or produce maximum fallout. Basically if you want to incinerate
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by awb 5y ago
> What's going to be the rate of 'acceptable loss'? You might think anything less than the current incident rate. But that’s looking at it from a group perspective. From an individual perspective, I’ve never been in an acc
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by awb 5y ago
Maybe a “stop gracefully” mode? If you hit the big red button going 65mph on the center lane of a crowded highway, it could be bad. Especially if the tech starts to feel safe enough that cars can travel close enough to use the draft from ca
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by awb 5y ago
Greenwald and Taibbi are great examples of writers I see producing ideological opinion pieces that I don’t find useful, but are promoted and prevalent on Substack. I’m trying to get away from folks that make broad, sweeping judgements witho
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by awb 5y ago
No, it just makes me think I don’t understand their policy. I don’t suddenly start thinking thoughts of rage only between 9am and 9pm.
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by awb 5y ago
Yeah societies have to continually make decisions for the benefit of the group that affect the individual. Taxes, military, traffic laws, etc.
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by awb 5y ago
> If you're not planning for this scenario, are you really planning for the worst case? No, I was being a little loose with my language there. I didn’t mean the literal worst case of being patient 0. I agree that I don’t plan for
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by awb 5y ago
Increasing mortality rates through additional threats certainly does change your life expectancy.
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by awb 5y ago
Over the last ~2 years some people caught COVID 2 or 3 times. That lines up with research saying natural antibodies might only last ~6 months. It’s at the upper end of what I might guess but it’s plausible for some portion of the population
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by awb 5y ago
> If it was SEO spam then the fix for that would benefit all of search. SEO spammers co-opt legit techniques, so there’s no 1 size fits all solution. Google has to ban and penalize sites all the time.
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by awb 5y ago
Really? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt&ia=web Works fine for me in the US. RT.com is the first result. What countries are you referring to? And is this DDG’s decision or are they being forced to comply with the country’s
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by awb 5y ago
> So were you going through life wearing a mask to mitigate the risk of a deadly flu in 2018 and before? I think probably not, but if your priority is risk mitigation, shouldn't you have been? No because those flu viruses were not n
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by awb 5y ago
> ps Pretty sure the comment you responded to was sarcasm I think it was more mockery than sarcasm. It’s a pretty common insult to make fun of people that wear masks, quarantine, etc. as being afraid or weak. It’s not a constructive or i
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by awb 5y ago
That’s true. It’s a cost/benefit, risk/reward calculation that everyone needs to make.
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by awb 5y ago
Preparing for the worst and mitigating risk != being terrified
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by awb 5y ago
FYI in the US free speech has some exemptions in addition to commercial speech: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex... > Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the Fi
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by awb 5y ago
Are they? Or are they telling you what you can/can’t share on their platform?
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by awb 5y ago
> We shouldn't have private tech enforcing state wishes. You think the US government is asking Facebook to make this decision?
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by awb 5y ago
There’s no clear line on free speech so we could do endless hypotheticals, but the line has never been at 0% or 100% of all possible speech. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex... > Categori
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by awb 5y ago
Maybe that’s your definition of a search engine. Mine is that it returns high quality results that achieve my goals. If I’m asking a question, I want the answer to the question. If I’m researching a topic, I want a mix of simple and robust
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by awb 5y ago
My personal experience with consuming content on Substack is that it’s been mostly fringe opinion content with a biased agenda. For someone like me that feels wary every time I see a Substack URL, are there some quality independent journali
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by awb 5y ago
The concept sounds interesting. My kids use DuoLingo and Khan Academy for learning and their methods seem effective. Would you consider yourself a “DuoLingo for exams”, or is your learning philosophy different enough that that’s not accurat
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by awb 5y ago
Assets are a hedge against inflation. Stocks, real estate, art, etc. The more utility and stability, the safer the investment. The more speculative or novel, the riskier the investment. Real estate and property are typically pretty safe and
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by awb 5y ago
OK, I could see using Yandex to search for Russian content.
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Maybe call it “controversial” similar to Reddit.
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by awb 5y ago
Ask HN: What queries are you using on DDG about Russia/Ukraine that are not returning the results you’re wanting? And is Google providing better results?
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by awb 5y ago
Results on Google and DDG for that query are pretty similar and mostly Western sources written in English, responding to Russian official statements. I’d be curious if there were other search terms that had a clearer difference in rankings
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by awb 5y ago
I’m sure there’s a term for it, but it’s saying something that could be true without providing data or any accountability kind of like a horoscope. “People seem much more X than they did Y years ago.” The power of suggestion makes you star
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by awb 5y ago
What? Do you do this in other elements of your life? “I’m not going to drink this veggie smoothie because they started adding honey and I don’t think sugar is healthy. I’m going to drink soda where at least they don’t try to hide that you’r
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by awb 5y ago
What is a query you would use to search exclusively for Russian propaganda?

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