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by basetop 7y ago
I forgot where I learned this, but I remember someone saying that in law there are really just two entities - person and property. A person is any entity that has rights. Only "persons" can have rights in law. A property is anythi
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by basetop 7y ago
Supply side is the "if you build it, they will come" idea. It's the idea that supply has a way of generating demand just like demand has a way of generating supply. Take smartphones. By making smartphones, an entire market wa
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by basetop 7y ago
Exactly. There are white people with Black and Green as surnames. It isn't because their skin color is black or green obviously. It isn't a secret that most african american's last names are derived from slave owners. It&#x27
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by basetop 7y ago
We've always had a "make-it-difficult" approach. And as you pointed out, it's worked out really well for us. If you are using america's success as an example, then you are really arguing for highly limited immigrati
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by basetop 7y ago
I put electric or duct tape the laptop webcams and have done so ever since my first laptop with a webcam. Only way to be sure you aren't being recorded other than opening up the laptop and physically removing the webcam.
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by basetop 7y ago
It's interesting how 3 of the top articles are essentially stories I read on social media before. This and "Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?" and "Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth
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by basetop 7y ago
Personal experience isn't science. What about those people who brush their teeth, floss, etc and still have teeth problems? Do their personal experiences matter? Also, in addition to brushing and flossing, did you change your lifestyle
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by basetop 7y ago
If you don't have to worry about scale and you are sure your user base is going to remain small and stable, then you are fine. If you expect it to grow, then you should look into dumping your files on a file server. This way you can sc
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by basetop 7y ago
Seems to be a lot of china-related articles lately from heavy hitters like wsj, nytimes and bloomberg. And in a negative tone tinged with war metaphors as you noted. I'm guessing it has to do with the "trade war" ( another wa
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The app they created is for government officials only : "Only official French government employees can sign-up for an account". But they open sourced the code, so you run your own version of the app. But not sure how useful it wil
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by basetop 7y ago
I'm not trying to be or not to be accepting or supporting. I was just trying to have a philosophical debate on what I felt was an interesting topic. So people's feelings weren't really a consideration of mine. Your diabetes&#
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by basetop 7y ago
That brings up an interesting philosophical question. If drugs are what causes "happiness", are you really happy? If you are sad and depressed and have to take medication to be "happy", can we really say you are happy? I
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by basetop 7y ago
It states in the article that guy is "an arborist and research assistant with the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership." Angiosperm is a word most of non-arborists and research assistants have come across, even if we do
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by basetop 7y ago
Right. Of course. "The children". It's amazing how "liberal" democracies use "the children" as an excuse to spy on everyone and to take everyone's rights away. At least the chinese or russians are hon
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by basetop 7y ago
Using that logic, a homeless person with a casio watch is better off than Charlemagne. We should be comparing now with now. And most importantly, we should be comparing wealth inequality because wealth translates directly to power and wealt
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by basetop 7y ago
I think you are confusing "General AI" ( or conscious AI ) with AI. AI is most certainly real and is used everywhere from trading software to text expansion to mortgage qualifications to chess to self driving cars and beyond. AI i
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by basetop 7y ago
Atrocities like this were committed by all sides. The australians weren't any better. The US nor the brits weren't any better. The soviets and the germans weren't any better. Neither were the chinese. WW2 is all atrocity. The
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by basetop 7y ago
We already have football without tackling - flag football or touch football. Most of us play flag or touch football in school. Only a tiny fraction of people who play football play organized tackle football. Frisbee is nice, but there is no
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by basetop 7y ago
It's pretty much impossible to decipher if you don't remember the operator precedence or have the operator precendence handy.
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by basetop 7y ago
SF created a "Poop Patrol" a few months ago... https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Set-to-R...
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by basetop 7y ago
Algorithmic bias really was born a long time before then. There were "computers" and "algorithms" long before the 80s. Perhaps algorithmic bias in the age of personal computers was born in the 80s. Is the code available
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by basetop 7y ago
Earlier post of the exact same story. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693233
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by basetop 7y ago
I too agree that trade can be a mutually beneficial endeavor. But it's not an either-or nor an absolute. Trade can be good, trade can be bad. Protectionism can be good, protectionism can be bad. History has shown that a certain amount
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by basetop 7y ago
Lets say you are right. If protectionism was so bad for the US and so good for our competitors, then our competitors would be begging us to increase our protectionism. But they are doing the exact opposite. If protectionism was so good for
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by basetop 7y ago
She wasn't a physicist, she was a computer scientist. Harrassing her was wrong, but so is what happened to this physicist. Stop trying use her to push divisions. If you truly cared about harrassment, you'd be just as offended at w
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by basetop 7y ago
This is an example of where a topics based news aggregation and discussion would be better rather than article based aggregation and discussion. Instead of getting one side's story (one article), how great would it be if we had a &quot
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by basetop 7y ago
Especially on hacker news. It's an odd push towards orthodoxy, authoritarianism and government governance which goes against the hacker ethos. Strange to see many "government knows best" and "multinational corporations k
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by basetop 7y ago
Extreme protectionism can be dangerous for sure. But the Bombardier example and protectionism in aerospace isn't a negative example of protectionism. It actually shows that protectionism works. The US benefited by having bombardier pla
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by basetop 7y ago
Frankly, it's hard to say. The year before it, we had super gonnerhea scare. Before that the hospital super bacteria scare. Before that, it was the ebola scare. Ever since I'd started paying attention to the news, we have a medica
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by basetop 7y ago
It would be like a sleep paralysis you could not wake from. The stuff of nightmares.

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