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by cryptoz 7y ago
Wait, why not? Knowing who votes for what content, when, and in coordination with whom else seems like it would be extremely useful indeed! Aren't techniques like this already used by FBI etc on Twitter when investigating illegal conte
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by cryptoz 7y ago
It's not. None of us know how many points your comment has, or if you have an email address on file, or how many times you visited HN today, or what IP you're using, etc. But all of those things are in the HN database(s) I'm
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by cryptoz 7y ago
HN contains a lot of information that isn't visible on the public web. Ban lists, point counts, user access history, etc. > Everyone has read access to HN No, not to their databases as OP is discussing. It would be definitely a crim
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Microeconomics classes in America teach undergrads that 'rational' people only care about increases in wealth and do not care about non-wealth-increasing activities. It is such a wrong model about human behavior but it gets repeat
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> It would not take significant time or effort for them to change the threshold value if it were something they considered broken. Do you have reason to believe this? To me that sounds like a complicated change with significant potential
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Is Disney+ expected to work fully before launch date? Isn't in 'testing' right now as described by the author? Why is everything expected to be perfect while still in testing? From this text, it sounds like Disney is active
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I agree it serves a purpose; I believe it serves a purpose by adding a layer of indirection in there, making the conversation flow easier. I think it's passive aggressive, yes, but I also understand why it is done. It's not done t
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by cryptoz 7y ago
It's not a "direct ask". The "would you be willing to" hides the direct question behind weasel words and adds confusion. The additional phrase equivocates the person's initial point; now it is ambigious if th
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by cryptoz 7y ago
A quick skim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) reveals that "only collected meta-data and not full on conversations and contents" is false. > Data, both content and metadata, th
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> It's super hard compared to fixing Planet Earth. I don't think that's true. Most of Earth's problems are political, with humans in charge exercising their power on purpose to make pollution on Earth worse . On Eart
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The author isn't just talking about being hard or take a long time, as opposed to quick and easy. The scientist is suggesting that humans will never go; it seems to me that it's much too early into the history of spaceflight t
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> As for any other reason to live on Mars aside from temporarily in the name of science—I'm not seeing it. Why don't you see the human desire to move to new places? It's a simple matter of wanting to go . No other reason
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Is someone really advocating for destroying Earth and moving lightyears away? I've honestly never heard this idea spoken or written down seriously - surely this is the realm of fantasy and science fiction?
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by cryptoz 7y ago
+1 to this. Article has no bearing on Mars development efforts, refers only to exoplanets. Also seems to attempt to dispel misunderstandings about exoplanet distances and feasibility - perhaps some people think that a solution to climate ch
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> How do you falsify his claim that he can read his opponent's faces and tell what cards they have? This would be super easy to test. Since the cards are RFID spied-upon by the House, a player simply has to pretend to look at thei
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. I thought Hopper was not about Raptor tests but about VTOL as well. The FH had to wait while F9 got down the vertical landing science and engineering (though a lot of tests, explosions, delays).
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by cryptoz 7y ago
There is a quote somewhere (by Elon?) saying that FH is not "just" 3 F9s strapped together. A significant source of the slowdown for FH was the desire to not launch it without full reusability of all 3 stages and not to launch i
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by cryptoz 7y ago
FH was 5 years+ behind schedule before it was built and launched. Starship already has multiple constructions going on, with multiple prototypes to test and multiple full-size vehicles planned quickly. In 2011, FH was supposed to have &quot
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> presence of greed and actively harnesses it for the benefit and advancement of everyone. This is not what capitalism does. Much of capitalism today and in US history is that of a destructive force that hurts the entire population witho
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> You can't expect your country to remain the same Why would anyone want or expect their country to remain the same? Especially the US? There are massive problems here, with millions of people hurting every day. The current state of
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I think that's underthinking the issue. It's not just about individual court cases, it's about the dramatic and rapid influence that corporations exert on human-to-human language use. Emoji designs are for-profit investments
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Do you mean U+1F604? (HN won't render emoji) https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-open-mouth-and-smil... :-) has nearly none of the issues that the emojis have, as it is static, displays nearly the same on all devi
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> For example, the pistol emoji looks like a real gun on some devices and a water or toy gun on others. Article mentions the water gun issue but fails to note that it also changed on the platforms. Open the message one day and see a pi
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by cryptoz 7y ago
That paper is older than 20 years, and takes place during a short period of time in Florida, from a very small number of private prisons. A lot has changed since then, and the paper makes assumptions that are invalid with the current discus
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Why are cars relevant here? Weren't most of the people who died from this elderly anyway, less likely to be driving? I think the most dystopian idea would be Exxon not paying for their crimes against humanity, but rather allowed to c
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> However, I can't tell for a population like France if this is a large number. Sure you can. The number should be 0 for any country regardless of size, and 1500 is a huge number compared to 0. There's no reason in our modern
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> In France and the UK hardly any has an AC because it's not really needed Thousands of people just died. It is clearly needed.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
How are these power moves? They transfer your power to someone else? Showing up late for a meeting purely to waste time tells the other person you are extremely inconsiderate and someone they should actively avoid. If I value my time, why w
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> because anyone currently renting Not everyone who is renting has tight money situation. Your complement states that everyone who is renting will have a tight money situation and then follow the 'strong incentives' that you ha
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> Supply and demand is one of the simplest concepts in economics That's what makes it one of the weakest. The housing market does not follow a standard supply-demand curve for a number of reasons. > Rent control has never been go

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