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811.
by creato 6y ago
I don't doubt the proposal existed... But can someone explain why this is a good idea even assuming a lack of ethics? Would this really have changed the behavior of pharmacies somehow? Pharmacies don't have any influence over pres
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by creato 6y ago
> Currently, however, this promotes large-scale monoculture. Which is inherently harmful on almost every level, including the ability to keep the cost of food down and and the supply up. It's hard to reconcile this point with the st
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by creato 6y ago
Quote from the paper cited in the post describing this algorithm: > These algorithms do not perform well with adversarial streams , but we have mathematically analyzed the 1 unit memory algorithm and shown fast approach and stability pr
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by creato 6y ago
I don't think these are the same thing. Donating to the Sherriff's reelection campaign is a lot closer to a bribe than donating to a university, because the Sherriff is benefiting personally a lot more than the head of a universit
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by creato 6y ago
I think it would only take a few years (very few, as in low single digits) of 1.5% growth in housing supply to invalidate the extrapolations being used here.
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by creato 6y ago
It'd be a lot harder to run them, that's for sure. This is not an easy problem. There are obviously a lot of upsides to social media: stack overflow is very useful, I think hacker news is a positive contribution to society, and ev
817.
by creato 6y ago
There's a lot of misguided talk about Section 230 in this thread, but I wonder if repealing it actually is the answer for a different reason: maybe websites, including social media, should be liable for the content they host? Repeali
818.
by creato 6y ago
Half of this proposal would neuter the amplifier aspect of social media.
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by creato 6y ago
There's a game called Rocksmith that has been on the market for many years that basically does this in real time on live guitar playing with far more than enough accuracy to make the game fun. And that is doing it basically per-note! T
820.
by creato 6y ago
Are you thinking of Foxconn? I don't think anything you said makes sense for TSMC.
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by creato 6y ago
I found this unbelievable, so I searched for a source. Measuring by number of fires, it is true. However, fires started by lightning burn a larger area: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/IF10244.pdf I think your p
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by creato 6y ago
The states that had long delayed results were due to being close, and accepting mail in ballots long after polls closed. It's not a matter of counting speed.
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by creato 6y ago
I actually think Safeway is getting exactly what they want from you. They don't care to know who you are, they just want to know the frequency and correlation between the items you buy. That's not to say it's a bad thing that
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by creato 6y ago
Trees may not be deliberately optimized for carbon capture, but they really aren't much more than maintenance free, solar powered carbon sequestration machines. Most of the mass of a tree is carbon that came from the air.
825.
by creato 6y ago
I think it is very unrealistic to expect carbon capture technology to ever compete with growing trees.
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by creato 6y ago
> Apparently HN knows my ballot better than me! Saying the moment you became a trump supporter was when trump abused the resources of the United States to extort a foreign country for personal political gain is not a good look.
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by creato 6y ago
Eh, I don't really buy that these contributions are so huge. What is the replacement cost of tools like this? It's not that high. It actually seems like this kind of software negligibly impacts large businesses, but small busine
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by creato 6y ago
People would complain they never got their ballots, and mail in ballots are tracked. So a few people complaining they never got their ballots, but their ballots show up as voted, would be a big deal, and we would know it was happening.
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by creato 6y ago
Trump lost support among whites and gained support among black, latino, asian voters [1]. Whatever it is that is going on is not as simple as you make it sound. Personally, I think Democrats need to simply stop talking as much about rac
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by creato 6y ago
That seems to have hinged on south Florida. Bernie would not have done well there given his comments on Cuba and Venezuela. In fact Bernie's comments may be the reason even Biden lost there.
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by creato 6y ago
From the context, I think the point was about the whole "work"station, not just the computer. It sounds like intel has cubicles, while google has smaller desks with no dividers.
832.
by creato 6y ago
I think being pro legalization doesn't win many votes, but being anti legalization could cost votes. It's an easy attack ad to make. One of the worst things about politics seems to be that the substance of the attack doesn't
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by creato 6y ago
- Plastic pollution has little to do with climate change. - "5 times more" says nothing about the absolute amount. According to https://www.plasticethics.com/home/2019/3/17/the-countries-p... ,
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by creato 6y ago
In my experience, a lot of malware scanners don't care about file types, they just look for patterns of bytes.
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by creato 6y ago
Property taxes going up would be a negative feedback on property values. Perhaps part of why property values are so absurdly high is because there is little incentive to sell, which would add more supply to the market
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by creato 6y ago
The Bush administration controlled the information used the inform congress (and the media while we're on the subject of the parent posts). Congress and the media deserve some blame for not digging hard enough... but when assigning bla
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by creato 6y ago
This might sound bad especially to you or the someone you know, but if the legal system (criminal or civil) was not able to act (presumably due to lack of evidence), then I don't think events or other organizations should act either.
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by creato 6y ago
> George Hotz makes some good points about Waymo. At best it's a slower Uber (drives more timidly and slower) with the potential to be cheaper. So let's customers trade time for money. But uber pool already does that and accoun
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by creato 6y ago
> If this is disinformation, the FBI, which has ostensibly been in possession of the documents for several months, has every incentive to comment on it, as does the CIA. This is ridiculously wrong. The FBI and CIA and every other governm
840.
by creato 6y ago
I can't tell you for sure if this story is misinformation or not. That's part of the problem with misinformation. Well constructed misinformation is not easily proven false. What I can tell you is that it is absurd to believe it i

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