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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Not an HN staffer...but maybe read this and update your title? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> ...wouldn't it be sufficient to... Probably yes. The college's motive is to axe the rate of mendacious malingering; pushing beyond that could give them legal costs without commensurate benefits.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
If the "disability" means that Chris Smith needs 2X the hours to complete tasks - sane employers might do Whatever It Takes, to keep a "certified 0.5X" worker" off their payrolls. Similar for decent grad schools -
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yep. Obvious counter-move for the elite universities: Detail every student's disabilities & accommodations on their transcripts, to assist potential employers and graduate schools in anticipating their special needs.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
A camera has quite a few failure modes (bad lighting, fog, dirty lens, obscured by plant growth, privacy laws, etc.) which a TPMS receiver & directional antenna don't.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
First thought: Development of amber & green CRT's was driven by real-world use - not consumer preferences. The military was especially focused on ergonomics in the decades after WWII - and for them, the failure of a fatigued oper
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Your account is 45 days old, and it sounds like you came to HN with many specific expectations - which we failed to meet. Might we ask where you got those expectations? HN doesn't do much marketing, to have mislead you there. "M
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
While "carbon capture" and "climate change" may get the clicks - I'm seeing an immediate use case in life support systems for manned space missions. And in the current political environment, "we need this for o
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Before you even get to the "AI dataset ... forever-conviction" or copyright issues, you need to address AI's propensity to hallucinate when fed legal data and questions.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Doing hard work in not-so-cushy environments often pays pretty well. For example: https://alaskafishingjobs.com/earnings-and-wages/ https://www.goarmy.com/benefits/while-you-serve/money-pay
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> Parents are typically asked to sign paperwork at enrollment granting consent for the schools to give their kids laptops. Nicki Petrossi said when she initially refused to sign it in 2024, the school district in Fullerton, California, t
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> 90% of startups coming out of Israel seem to be ... Not to claim that Israel is the land of saintly virtues - but if your news sources are inclined toward tech or polarized left/right politic, they make sure that's what you s
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Prudent financial regulators* might want to dampen such disruption by requiring that boom-and-maybe-bust industries purchase their huge quantities of supply-constrained, price-spiking commodities on relatively unfavorable financial terms -
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Modern America has plenty of "proclaim absolute loyalty to our group's canon or else " on both sides of the right/left divide. Maybe ask Congresswoman Liz Chaney for details? Another part of the problem is the obsessio
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> Lets say someone has lower urinary tract symptoms. And is 60 years old. An MRI could visualize as well as ... Not a doctor - but maybe start with some quick & cheap tests of their blood & urine, polite questions about their sex
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
While I'm sure that Mamdani's policies and implementations suffer from many failings, the delivery app companies also have rather mixed reputations. And the article reads too much like an old anti-abolitionist screed for me to at
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
> While the morning rush is under way, the 2.8-kilowatt-hour battery can directly power the commercial oven to reduce the company’s reliance on the electric grid [...] Two more batteries are paired with energy-intensive refrigerators in
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
You don't remember this classic? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878489
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
What's the term if your car is an old clunker, and you're forever having to tinker to keep it running you around town?
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Anyone familiar with the sport? At £750/stone, and 16 of 'em needed to play a game, I'd assume that non-Olympic competition is done with more-affordable kit.
891.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
For those unfamiliar with that phrase: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blood_libel In the current context, OP's use of "insane blood libel" is a very efficient way to communicate his interpretation of
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yes, and Ireland is not famed for its "all one big happy family" politics. That might be one of their reasons for drawing 2,000 winners at random from 8,000 applicants. But in a democracy, gov't-selected art has a failure mo
893.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Sounds too close to AnonymouslySlanderSomeone.com.
894.
by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yep. And even a world of perfect good faith, "forgiving in what you receive" has both costs and scaling problems - from researching what "spec" you'll need to design to, to customer service when the added complexit
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Kudos to the Vulcan's flight control software team, for their seamless handling of these SRB anomalies. Here's the buggy bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite-Epoxy_Motor#Active_va...
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Maybe sometimes? With how many bugs are normally found in very complex code, would a rational spy agency spend the money to add a few more? Doing so is its own type of black op, with plenty of ways to go wrong. OTOH, how rational are spy
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
A problem for ideological purists, and an opportunity for performative offenders. Ordinary folks understand the whole "he who pays the piper" thing, and that "democracy" means the voters can choose to support the arts...
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
If the object was actual persuasion, then something more nuanced (and not framed as Deep Red Scripture) might work better...
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
You're free to denounce as a "censor" anyone who fails to offer their soapbox to your cause. But like aggressive panhandling, that may rub a lot of people the wrong way.
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by bell-cot 9mo ago
Yes, supporting en-masse stuff is important. Artsy or not - playgrounds, parks, football pitches, and other things count. Or spaces for civic choral groups and painting clubs, repairing old church organs, ... For the arts, free studios &a

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