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by clankyclanker 4y ago
I suspect it’s related to a lack of immediate cost to the largest companies. Derailments are still infrequent enough that the company can be insured against the losses, so if derailments happen, there’s effectively zero cost to the company.
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by clankyclanker 4y ago
Looks like the Freedombox.org folks are shipping that now, for €70: https://freedombox.org/buy/
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by clankyclanker 4y ago
(To contextualize the votes: I think you were getting down voted for assuming that sexual and racial bias don’t exist. You assumed the statement mentioning that such biases existed was inaccurate and wanted explanation as to how. However, p
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by clankyclanker 4y ago
Nothing is inaccurate. Here's a few primary and secondary sources. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/women-and-pain-dispariti... > a 2000 study[0] published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
It’s probably a problem of non-specificity: if you say “the brain” some folks will consider just the prefrontal cortex, where thought happens. Olfactory nerves, where the smell happens, is a different enough concept that it might not align
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Strictly speaking, that’s not wrong: it’s only through the Herculean efforts of the army corps of engineers that New Orleans is as unsubmerged as it is. Don’t forget Hurricane Harvey: we spent ~$170B cleaning that up. It’s never that we can
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Also see yesterday's related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919163 IPCC report: The evidence is clear: the time for action is now > Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy
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Ask HN: Name of when inconsistent UI makes you feel like youre about to stumble
4 points by clankyclanker 5y ago|5 comments
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
> ridiculously intelligent entity Intelligence is a far-cry from self-awareness. I once knew someone who would regularly (daily, for years), in conversation, cut other people off like they weren't even there to completely change th
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
> Tesla's "FSD" has the "capability to drive a vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring by a human operator," but it does not yet have the capability to do so safely. It’s that bit that seems lik
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Impossibility check?
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Not even English can be correctly written in (lower) ASCII, it has far too many borrowed words, like naïve and résumé. Say nothing of archaic spellings or ligatures, like encyclopædia, or ruﬀle. It's almost surprising ASCII was as su
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
I occasionally contemplate this article (and am glad I found it again!), mostly because of this quote: > there is no standardized way to build a shared library in Unix. Instead of standardizing how to do that across all Unixen—something
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
At that point, it’s more time effective for the attackers to disable the management hub or attack any other piece farther up the supply chain. The oil pipeline ransomware shutdown is a perfect example of attack efficiency. I don’t know of a
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
They can't be this stupid. Can they?
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Or the corollary: any advertising distinguishable from malware is insufficient advanced.
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Those Cold War systems have since been replaced with much more efficient systems that don’t just spew signals into space, so there’s only a ten or twenty year window during which another civilization could have looked to see those signals.
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
(This was, of course, a joke.)
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Thank god they fined the companies more money than they made from the fraud to deter them from such shenanigans in the future.
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Org-mode: Please help by becoming a Worg maintainer(orgmode.org)
2 points by clankyclanker 5y ago|0 comments
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
So, all we have to do is defeat regulatory capture, and then we can have meaningful advertised speeds. That also might first require getting money out of politics. If you’re in the US, fortunately, Larry Lessig has been working on fixing bo
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
The smallest size at which English capital and lowercase letters are differentiable is 3x5, so 5x8 is pretty close to that minimum possible size. Any smaller and some letters become ambiguous or lose too much information to be unique (e.g.,
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Yes.
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
The FTP masters’ message (from 14 years ago!) is pretty convincing: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495721#17 The follow on questions on that thread seem to be fairly hypothetical handwringing, and so
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by clankyclanker 5y ago
Why is spam score always weighted as a single outcome and never as a population-based result? I mean, you’re processing more data, I get it, but it feels like that would be a model much more resilient to tampering, bad actors, and just diff
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by clankyclanker 6y ago
What's to say Chrome will actually respect the opt-out headers in the first place? It could easily go like the DNT-headers, which was just interpreted as a signal to please-track-harder.
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by clankyclanker 6y ago
It's terrible, but post-purchase advertising is an entire field of advertising, trying to get you to keep thinking about the product, trying to encourage you to re-purchase the product after it runs out, and trying to encourage you t
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by clankyclanker 6y ago
How do they plan on enforcing this? Unless their enforcement strategy is “force international companies to do cryptocurrency business in other countries.”
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by clankyclanker 6y ago
Implicitly, if it's provided as a reason I can't get root-by-default permissions in a device I purchased.
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by clankyclanker 6y ago
A $20 gift card is great for those things. Then, it doesn’t matter whether you remember to cancel.

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