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by bialpio 5y ago
I think this could be defendable if they were selling the devices at a loss ("cheap printer, expensive ink" model, or gaming consoles model), but providing something that is effectively a general purpose device on which they alrea
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by bialpio 5y ago
I don't think this is true. If a scientist follows the methodology correctly, they are not malicious. And if they are not following the scientific method, then they are not scientists. The trick is to figure out which self-proclaimed s
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by bialpio 5y ago
Concrete example is Polish Penal Code, article 162. Up to 3 years of jail time for failure to bring aid - there's a bunch of quantifiers that reduce the liability, but that's the gist of it.
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by bialpio 5y ago
What's more, in some cases you are required by law to at least try to save a life. For example, in some jurisdictions you are required to bring first aid to a victim of a car crash (assuming you won't endanger yourself in the proc
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by bialpio 5y ago
IIRC this will make the compiler error less helpful than it could be? I think you'd get an "attempt to use private member" instead of "attempt to use deleted member". End result is probably the same, but it feels li
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by bialpio 5y ago
Seems that it could be used to solve an old-time classic: generate a mapping from an enum value to its string representation. Another use case that comes to my mind is maybe automating test case generation. Occasionally I was running into s
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by bialpio 5y ago
To me it feels like a "you won a million dollars, please send us $1k to cover the wire transfer costs" scam. Employment in the US is at-will, as an employee I have zero guarantee that I won't be fired the very next day. Edit:
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by bialpio 5y ago
Is your TC number including the stock appreciation from the time of award to the time it vested? Because if it doesn't (and I think that's how we should talk about TC), it looks to be pretty good to me.
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by bialpio 5y ago
You're right, I got thrown off by the "countable" part in the "set of countable ordinal numbers", which is indeed uncountably infinite.
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by bialpio 5y ago
I think you have a mistake in your aleph-one summary, if I recall correctly aleph-zero is the cardinality of countably infinite set (like natural numbers), and aleph-one is for uncountably infinite sets. It's been a while though so I m
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by bialpio 5y ago
I'm assuming the implication was that if you have a somewhat popular website, you can embed an Ethereum miner into it via JS and effectively make your users into a botnet.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Who is liable now if this happened with a human driver involved? Aren't there any rules about it already?
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by bialpio 5y ago
I like this analogy, let's run with it even further! Can the aversion be caused by watching butchers that kill animals in an inhumane way, in a dirty shed? (i.e. if you observe telemetry data being abused at the company you work for an
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by bialpio 5y ago
This made me think of Unison: https://www.unisonweb.org/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652677
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by bialpio 5y ago
I was under the impression that the last step can potentially be made pretty efficient if it's "electricity -> heat pump" (but that depends on the conditions). Also - can nuclear power plants operate in combined heat and p
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by bialpio 5y ago
Part of the article speaks about the uses that are a bit closer to home. I'm not that worried about Mars, that part is still SciFi to me and I probably won't live long enough to see it become reality. :-(
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by bialpio 5y ago
This may very well be the case that it's a non-issue, but an article that only mentions the good parts without even acknowledging potential problems with the solution makes me think "what else did they not mention that a lay-perso
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by bialpio 5y ago
I wish they addressed the fact that methane that they will be producing is said to be an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Are there any worries about the leakage for example?
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by bialpio 5y ago
> Instead of one car per adult, it'll be one car per person once the kids get to primary school age in suburban families. I was actually thinking that it would reduce car ownership. If I could commute and then send the car to home s
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by bialpio 5y ago
Switching to proportion is actually the wrong thing to do. If you look at the data from a place with high vaccination rates (such as King County), even low probability of a break through case among the vaccinated will translate to high prop
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by bialpio 5y ago
Way more contagious variant that spreads rapidly among people w/o prior immunity? At least that's what is being theorized based on what happened in the UK (very sharp rise in cases, followed by pretty sharp drop-off, although that
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by bialpio 5y ago
You open up a competing car dealership on the opposite side of the street and sell for cheaper (assuming that you have access to wholesale prices from the car manufacturer - that is the part that needs to be regulated).
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by bialpio 5y ago
Why is it a problem? If they were charging more than MSRP and still move the cars, it means that the market values the cars at a higher rate than MSRP and someone can make money off of the difference - isn't that the whole point of cap
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by bialpio 5y ago
I think I'm missing something. Are the developers forced to offer the in-app purchases right now? My understanding was "no" based on how Netflix does not offer purchasing subscription through the app specifically to avoid hav
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by bialpio 5y ago
Thanks, I haven't skimmed that far!
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by bialpio 5y ago
I seem to recall reporting around some Supreme Court ruling that was phrased as "there is a ruling but the question is still undecided". It may have been Google v. Oracle, where it didn't say APIs are copyrightable or not, bu
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by bialpio 5y ago
I'd expect one of the 2 phrasings to be present: "the Court concludes that Apple is a monopolist under federal / state antitrust laws" "the Court concludes that Apple is not a monopolist under neither federal nor st
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by bialpio 5y ago
Hmm. I'm reading "the Court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws" as "we cannot decide on this matter". Is this not the right interpretation?
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by bialpio 5y ago
> I hope this puts a permanent stop to all the thread on HN arguing one way or another whether Apple is a monopoly. Why would it? The court basically dodged the question, so we still don't have an answer provided by the court system
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by bialpio 5y ago
CDC has archival surveys at https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/questionnaires/index.htm The phrasing based on 2018 form was: "During the past 30 days, which one of the following ways did you use marijuana the most

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