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by chroem- 5y ago
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/man-shot-in-...
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by chroem- 5y ago
What's the difference between an anti-fascist and a fascist if they use the same tactics? Two weeks ago "anti-fascists" opened fire into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in my state's capitol.
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by chroem- 5y ago
Although tragic, it would be a fitting end to this boondoggle of a project. JWST was originally marketed as a quick, cheap win for NASA, but it turned into the polar opposite of that.
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by chroem- 5y ago
I won't be executed in the US for doing the wrong kind of yoga. Also, as an aside, I wonder if 1930s HN would have guidelines against "nationalistic flamewars" vs. nazi Germany.
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by chroem- 5y ago
I'm honestly relieved that the adults are back in charge at the Justice Department. We finally have rule of law again. :)
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by chroem- 5y ago
Good, I hope this will give Australia the power it needs to finally crush disinformation and right wing terrorism. The two go hand-in-hand.
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by chroem- 5y ago
They didn't cling to the outside of airplanes.
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by chroem- 5y ago
They created a power vacuum by pulling out in the dead of night, and then willfully ignored rapid advances by the Taliban. Nobody is disagreeing that it was correct to withdraw, but the handling of this has been nothing but sheer incompete
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by chroem- 5y ago
I expect this will be unpopular with many HN readers, but it needs to be said: US presidential elections are often ugly, but they're an important vetting process to make sure that whoever wins the election is highly competent. Tech co
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by chroem- 5y ago
The researchers we're talking about are in a spat with Facebook over the notion that Facebook isn't doing enough to censor ideas they disagree with. You're projecting your own bad faith arguments onto other people: we'r
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by chroem- 5y ago
It's not a strawman, because you said it yourself: > Why would we not want to know how that misinformation spreads, and how best to combat it? You don't get to suppress ideas in a free society, no matter how much you may disagr
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by chroem- 5y ago
Your premise that there are bad ideas that need to be studied and actively suppressed by authoritarian means is flawed.
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by chroem- 5y ago
Science is for everything that can be objectively measured, and politics is for everything else that people can't come to a consensus on. Bad things happen when you try to frame your subjective political opinions as objective scientif
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by chroem- 5y ago
The threats posed by disinformation are too broad and numerous for these smaller academic organizations to handle. We need to consolidate our efforts under a single entity that will have more power to fight disinformation and protect truth
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by chroem- 5y ago
It's not strictly semiconductor-related, but if there's one thing I would like to see, it's low cost, made-to-order integrated analog computers. The low power consumption of analog devices would offset the larger feature siz
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by chroem- 5y ago
Stablecoins have instant transfers between exchanges because they're not dependent on the legacy banking system. Their primary purpose is moving money around. There are also algorithmic stablecoins which maintain their price by adjus
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by chroem- 5y ago
Capital requirements are for something else. We're talking about retail customers being able to withdraw their cash, in which case the reserve requirement is the correct number.
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by chroem- 5y ago
> Walking back to first principals, why can't the USD fail? Because you can print whatever adults in the room decide need to be printed to hold the economy up. You cannot do this with a deflationary digital asset, nor one tied to sm
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by chroem- 5y ago
As opposed to banks in the US, which legally have a 0% reserve requirement. [1] [1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
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by chroem- 5y ago
Ah, so it's can by default, but should only when it affects a certain subset of pre-approved issues.
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by chroem- 5y ago
I thought we collectively agreed that since Facebook is a private entity they can do whatever they want on their platform, and they have no obligation to support these researchers. Why the sudden change of heart?
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by chroem- 5y ago
The 450 MWh plant is composed out of 210 battery units [1], so a little over 2 MWh just went up in smoke. Sources say that commercial chemistries emit between 20 and 200mg of hydrogen fluoride gas per watt hour. [2] At 100mg/Wh, the p
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by chroem- 5y ago
> Residents and motorists will notice smoke in the area ... There is currently no threat to the community That's certainly a bold statement. Conventional Li-Ion chemistries are quite toxic.
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by chroem- 5y ago
I didn't know freedom of speech had a cooldown timer. >but it's a private company! No , the executive branch has come out and said that they're the ones organizing this censorship.
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by chroem- 5y ago
I couldn't disagree more. There are clear links between gaming violence and far right terrorism: all of the white incel mass shooters have been avid gamers. These games are practically training camps for right wing terrorists.
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by chroem- 5y ago
Destroying the environment to promote violence and toxic masculinity isn't entertainment.
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by chroem- 5y ago
Less than a factor of two difference is "approximately the same order of magnitude", as I originally stated.
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They're marketed as gaming PCs. Why shouldn't they be regulated according to their intended purpose?
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There are a lot more gamers than there are bitcoin miners, so it ends up balancing out: https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-playstation-cloud-gaming-en... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018&
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by chroem- 5y ago
Do the majority of gaming PC owners spend most of their time doing those tasks though? I think if the answer were yes, we would be discussing VFX and ML workstations, not " gaming " PCs. If we can legislate less environmentally h

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