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by b_b 8y ago
The article says that the police had pledged to notify people of its use in the areas using leaflets and such, but failed to do so even when deploying the technology, so this is why it is labeled as secrecy.
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by b_b 8y ago
The point of antitrust regulations is to stop the anti-innovation practices in the first place, so while they may appear to be a 'benevolent dictator,' they will quickly turn for the worse.
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by b_b 8y ago
I think it's due to its enterprise users and customer bases, and never underestimate the power of legacy code base inertia that often keep these types of things going.
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by b_b 8y ago
Ask nearly any Latin student nowadays and they'll mention that they have used or frequently still use Whitaker's Words [1] which is made in Ada [2]. I and my friends in Latin class use it so frequently (through the University of
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by b_b 8y ago
I know HN is not one for jokes, but colonizing 'Europa' seems like a hilarious irony in name.
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by b_b 8y ago
I definitely get where you are coming from, given the unfortunately common practice of misconstruing scientific studies to make exclamatory headlines. I should add then, that the author definitely backs up the studies (which are multiple an
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by b_b 8y ago
I saw someone mention it in a HN comment before, but I'd like to restate it here since it is definitely one of those perspective-altering books: "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. The author is a professor and prolific researc
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by b_b 8y ago
Unfortunately these solutions might just be what we need given that people don't seem to be sufficiently slowing down any of their heavy CO2 production processes, and globally we are definitely not taking this as seriously as we should
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by b_b 8y ago
Bit of a meta-comment, I wonder why there are so few comments on a submission with so many points, compared to others in the same point range. (100 pts and 5 comments at the time of me typing this comment.)
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by b_b 8y ago
This is especially poignant in NYC, given the density and diversity of life here. Sometimes I think the NYC subway only seems fast because life changes so rapidly from city block to block that it seems like you've arrived in an entirel
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by b_b 8y ago
What does this really contribute to the conversation, besides some holier-than-thou attitude about not participating in sports for whatever pseudo-intellectual reason there may be?
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by b_b 8y ago
> that something is "neurotoxic" says little about its practical safety. It may take much less alcohol to be neurotoxic, so that does say something. Near anything can be harmful given too much.
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by b_b 8y ago
> a widening chasm between the rich and everyone else also presents political problems This is definitely something we're already seeing, with contempt between people of different educational levels, and the rising distrust between
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by b_b 8y ago
Seems a bit harsh to wish the suffering that this will cause on literally billions of people to prove a point, when we can intervene now instead.
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by b_b 8y ago
Might just be me, but it feels a little weird that brutalist design needs a framework. But perhaps I'm misconstruing the design/look of it to how it is actually built, in which case I would rather just do a brutalist design but do
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by b_b 8y ago
> Does the general public not know this? The general public, assumes that because launching rockets and space shuttles into outer space, they must be much more computationally intensive than something like say, a farm tractor. It's
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by b_b 8y ago
> These days the smartphone is boring. I'd like to respectfully disagree, as I think that there are many people out there, a notable example being the XDA forums[1] for many people intensely modifying and changing their android devi
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by b_b 8y ago
That should depend on the open-ness of the work, and whether it is accessible by others. Academic research is published in journals for people to read[1], whereas taking the example of Apple, they have a reputation for barely publishing any
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by b_b 8y ago
I personally barely ever read the meat of the research papers. Usually I am only interested in the actual results, some of their related data or figures, and the abstract of the paper. I suspect that I am not alone in this, but I wonder if