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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Nope. Opening windows is very often disallowed - whether socially, or you'd need a hammer, or the space doesn't have windows. Or opening windows would have other downsides - letting in rain, or too-hot/too-cold air, or poll
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> That said, there is no question that, in a better society than the one we have, key parts of Amazon’s operation would be retained for offering functions that contribute to the social good. The capacity to deliver prescription medicines
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> An industry source said at least 60,000 metric tons of gasoline have been dispatched from India to Russia. Another source said that two tankers, with parcels of 30,000 to 40,000 tons each, have been sent. So... If an Ukrainian drone
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> Returns per acre are far higher for corn ($604) and soybeans ($544) than for oats ($111). How much of that difference is "natural", and how much is the Federal Gov't spending $billions to make it so? https://w
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> There are a lot of lessons here, but they start with training every member of the team to be suspicious of people coming from the outside, without badges, no matter what they say or do. Schloss noted that, if someone looks and acts lik
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
"And that is why God is far less interested in modern mortal affairs than Theists want Him to be." - [source forgotten]
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
How convenient that Mr. Orwell's patents have all expired, eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
[2021] Originally 2333 points and 392 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991300
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
From what I've heard of murine health and life expectancy stats, all those "good medical breakthroughs" aren't actually doing them much good. Vs. there's a whole lotta of money to be made in mouse medicine. Symbolic
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Most humans would prefer hiding in a bunker to burning. And far better to be hiding, than watching and playing a fiddle from atop some convenient high wall. Or plotting how to destroy your fellow alpha arsonists next.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
They need to add an apologetic legal disclaimer, about why they can't currently accept job applications from intelligent extraterrestrials.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
tl;dr: - barely a wrist-slap Daydream: The Egg Producers' C-suites are shipped off to an exclusive conference facility (sign out front says "ICE Detention Center"), to consult at length with each other about how to Make Amer
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Sadly, no: > Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
In many ways, it's a story about far more than just oats. US Ag policy is so, so screwed up. But with more entrenched interests than the US has Congressmen, and probably 10X that number of full-time lobbyists - good luck trying to f
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Ask a rocket scientist how many up-front tons of CO2 a rocket launch puts into the atmosphere, per pound of will-eventually-reenter satellite mass. This is kinda like how it's "rational" to pooh-pooh away the possible radon e
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
To paraphrase Napoleon - because India has the will to do it, and the EU does not.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Might the Evil Overlord List be due for an update?
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> an account-takeover problem email doesn't have, for a couple of reasons. > For email, the namespace is large. > As far as I know personal email providers don’t reuse identifiers. Email providers vary, their policies can chan
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Only if lawmakers and bureaucrats are allowed to bet on legal and regulatory changes destroying the business models of the prediction marketplaces.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
It sure doesn't help that New Zealand's housing market is one of the most unaffordable in the world.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
"Unobstructed view of the stars" will soon be how space tourism companies upsell their customers to higher orbits.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
If you are questioning the gov'ts motives: > His guilt stemmed from the fact that, despite his excellence, “you are obviously someone who is struggling to make the switch from your own skills to another’s.” He did not recognize the
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
From the PoV of any wanna-be Skynet - snuffing out all "the wrongs sorts of" humans, with the help of some powerful group who imagine themselves "the right sort", sounds like the best possible stepping-stone toward compl
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Very nice article, though the length is up to New Yorker standards.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
620 points, 547 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446 Or the tl;dr; version - "Don't buy a Ford".
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Sadly, the article feels like it's arguing against ideologues. Whose definitions of "air conditioning" are zero-competence straw men. That doesn't sound like the setup for a healthy or productive public policy debate.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
True. Family-owned is " allowed to be good". Not "motivated". And bluntly put, the vast majority of businesses are running on thin margins - they couldn't pay well for reasonable work if they wanted to.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Literally, you are kinda correct about Dodge . Practically, not so much. The court's judgement quite effectively ordered to Ford to abandon his rather pro-social plan, the keystone of which was dramatic corporate growth , in favo
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
He was a niche-specialty career archivist, sorting through his library's collection of stuff from the right era and area. That is the discovery story behind a rather large fraction of such documents.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Even inside the tiny niche of the classical music history world, a book of daily exercises - written for some now-obscure student, and owned by a national library - is actually a pretty minor thing. Very few counterfeiters bother doing ni

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