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by bun_at_work 4y ago
> People rather argue that the safety excuse is BS and people do not require being a Linux expert to detect spam, that they can also get over the landline or in person knocking on the door, for that one needs common sense and some not co
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by bun_at_work 4y ago
Surely the FBI doesn't need this app that only appeals to people with children to tap every phone in the country.
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by bun_at_work 4y ago
People are easy to manipulate at scale. The idea that people are rational agents who can make educated decisions as consumers is deeply flawed. Yes, people _can_ make educated decisions, but more often than not, they don't have the req
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by bun_at_work 4y ago
Just piggy-backing on this comment; a great book about sleep is Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. The author does seem to fall into the "everything is a nail when all you have is a hammer" trap, but they do know a lot about sleep an
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What Is the Fastest Food Logger? We Designed a System to Find Out(macrofactorapp.com)
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by bun_at_work 4y ago
For context, Intuit's market cap at end of day today: $126.68B.
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by bun_at_work 4y ago
You should watch The Social Dilemma, if you haven't. It's quite a good summary of issues with social media, all of which are present on Facebook/Instagram. Social media exploits human behavior, often in the worst ways. You sa
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by bun_at_work 4y ago
It doesn't seem fair to compare Facebook to the other companies you listed, with respect to negative public sentiment. People rightly criticize FB for the numerous scandals, data leaks, and lack of ethics, and as Zuckerberg runs the co
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
This isn't a declaration of war in any sense. It's a security measure (aside from the random earmarks like the coconut water duty being lifted). Semiconductor integrity and independence is vital to US national security in the digi
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
As far as I know it comes down to enrichment levels of the nuclear material used (Uranium?). Nuclear power requires much lower enrichment levels. > Most nuclear reactors that produce electricity only require fuel that is enriched to betw
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
I think a lot of the time is spent dealing with local regulatory issues, at least in the US. Non-standard models for nuclear power plants lead to long approval times, which have to be more or less restarted each time there is a design chang
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Unfortunately, adding complexity to legislation often makes it impassable. This is especially true now, with the increased polarization in our politics. Some variation of your suggesting is better than what we currently have for minimum wag
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
First, let me say the number comes from the readme presented, not my own research or claims. Second, the claim that the water isn't clean enough for drinking should be qualified. You can drink it and survive, hopefully. But bacteria ex
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
> Data and geospatial tools around access to safe drinking water are provided here to aid academic reproducibility and advancement in the context of the Nature Paper “Global Potential of Harvesting Drinking Water from Air using Solar Ene
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Many people don't have good access to clean water, over 2B according to the repo's readme. Those people probably cannot afford $150, but the goal of the project wasn't $150, it was lower. The unit is supposed to be solar powe
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
I'm late to respond to your comment, but I qualified my statement with a reference to how we commonly refer to intelligence. Speculating about what's in the universe while ignoring what data we have is fooling, imo. There are an e
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Of all the life we can see only one (or a few for the more generous of you) species has what humans commonly call intelligence. Intelligence as we commonly refer to it is not a given in evolution. Evolution seeks forward propagation of gene
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
The war started between Russia and Ukraine, not the US and Russia.
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
It seems like the popularity of Zoom is related to the singularity of the product's purpose. Zoom is a video conferencing service. Google is everything and the kitchen sink. So when the pandemic started, that worked in Zoom's favo
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Google is certainly more secure than Zoom to outside attacks. Regardless of what Google chooses to do with your data, they do want to protect that data from everyone else, on your behalf. At least as much as any company can (government subp
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
This is my experience as well. Running on MacOS 12.2 for desktop app, Firefox for the browser (latest stable version). However, the iPhone version is working just fine.
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
As other commenters have pointed out, it makes sense to work with one of the two largest advertising firms when figuring out how to support their advertising needs, while maintaining user privacy. If Facebook doesn't use this method, t
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Some things on HN seem to have become more polarizing over the years I've been browsing this forum. Some examples include blockchain (and all related technologies) and anything related to Elon Musk. Both are tech-related, so frequently
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Who is talking about AGI? No one.
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
> Unlike Apple, the user is welcome to use any other app, and yet chooses to use Google Maps. iPhones let you install Google Maps, you're not locked in to Apple Maps.
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Easy - we can define the computer's objective function. Why would it get distracted by things it doesn't care about? Meanwhile, humans are checking Instagram and Pornhub while driving around.
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
This is just not true and is particularly obtuse. I am not expecting free content using an adblocker, there is often just no way to avoid ads with some products.
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Who is saying they expect free content? I'd pay a monthly fee for unmolested search results. I pay for Youtube Premium. I only watch ad-free content that I pay for. I don't want the content for free - the free stuff is usually wor
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
If the competition exists for Sony already, why is it necessary for Microsoft to own that competition? Activision Blizzard already competed with Sony, which is why people think the market is more healthy prior to this acquisition. In your c
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by bun_at_work 5y ago
Do you have sources? Who said the vaccines were going to stop the pandemic, as opposed to death from covid?

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