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by csense 6y ago
Of course Huawei cooperates with the Chinese government. If you're physically located in a country, every building, bank account, and employee can be held hostage if you defy the government. The assets could be seized, and the employe
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by csense 6y ago
> with the same logic the US Treasury Department should impose fines on parents who want to pay the ransom for their kidnapped children, because obviously (paying the ransom) benefits and promotes the illicit objectives of the kidnappers
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by csense 6y ago
If a lot of companies have rigid hiring processes where a lot of talented people through the cracks, why aren't those people snapped up by competitors who are more flexible?
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by csense 6y ago
There's a Paul Graham essay [1] where he talks about how job security was a much bigger thing in the mid-20th century. It makes more economic sense to train your workers if people tend to stay with one company for a long time. [1] htt
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by csense 6y ago
If a rich guy's willing to pay a lot of money to get his dumb kid into a university, enough to fund scholarships for two or three smart-but-poor kids, what's the ethical problem? I see no problem with universities having an admiss
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CE jailbreak allows ASM programs to work again(ticalc.org)
2 points by csense 6y ago|0 comments
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by csense 6y ago
Why can't these be free?
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by csense 6y ago
Interest rates are super low. The Fed's printing money like there's no tomorrow. It makes a lot of sense that investors would want to put their cash in the market and/or take advantage of low interest rates to lever up. If y
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by csense 6y ago
In the past, I've seen articles that say: Americans aren't saving enough money! It's both cause and effect of serious economic problems! This article says: Americans are saving too much money! It's both cause and eff
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by csense 6y ago
I've heard native speakers make this mistake too.
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by csense 6y ago
Seriously? You really think that the purpose of charging for electricity is to be mean to poor people? Electricity is generated by enormous, complicated machines. Those machines cost money to build and maintain. They consume massive amou
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by csense 6y ago
What's the alternative? If the electric company's not allowed to shut off service to non-paying customers, what would stop someone from just shredding every single electric bill they receive? If everyone knows there's no con
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by csense 6y ago
Ultimately the goal is that nobody gets kidnapped. One way to ensure that is to ensure ransoms can't be paid, by threatening criminal penalties to anyone who pays a ransom. Of course this means if your child is kidnapped, you have a c
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by csense 6y ago
University education is basically an economic transaction. The student pays $X to get Y, where Y is certain learning and social experiences, plus a valuable credential, with a certain level of safety and protection. Due to COVID-19, the un
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by csense 6y ago
They care so much because they want to be able to track your location and listen to your microphone for who-knows-what level of frightening analytics and ad targeting.
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by csense 6y ago
"Y'know, it sure would be a shame if our OS went around telling users your software's a virus. Now we c'n make sure this little problem doesn't happen to you, all you gotta do is fork over the $300 (yearly of cours
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by csense 6y ago
When I was a kid, we carried a game system to restaurants and we usually played while waiting for the meal to arrive. The game system was a notepad and pen. The game selection included Hangman, Tic-Tac-Toe, and dots-and-boxes.
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by csense 6y ago
> If the goal was to maximize societal benefit, we'd remove Factorio from the market entirely. I suppose you're one of those people who sees video games as, well, I'll use your own words: > pointless...addictive time-si
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by csense 6y ago
This is one reason I think it's important to that kids be exposed to video games. You need to learn how to stop when you need to do other things. It's better to learn that when you're young and the consequences of overplayin
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by csense 6y ago
I highly recommend using a USB mouse if playing on a laptop.
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by csense 6y ago
Chinese government mandated pre-installed spyware on all phones made in China is certainly a huge problem. But on the other hand, isn't it a violation of First Amendment protections if the US government can dictate certain apps aren&#x
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by csense 6y ago
I'd be interested in whether false positives are statistically independent when you run the test multiple times on the same patient. If they are, this suggests that at some point you ought to simply re-test everyone who tests positive
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by csense 6y ago
Requiring certain walled gardens to not publish certain apps is a form of censorship. But it's not exactly "splitting the Internet." Everything's still connected together, it's just that certain sites aren't
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Some Volunteers Want to Be Infected with Coronavirus to Help Find a Vaccine(fivethirtyeight.com)
4 points by csense 6y ago|0 comments
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by csense 6y ago
From the article, the port officials thought they needed a court order to sell it. And the court system ignored their request for one. But maybe they were applying to the wrong official, or in the wrong way? For example, maybe they were s
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by csense 6y ago
Arcologies in real life are way less cooler than the Simcity 2000 version. It would be pretty neat to see a single enormous building with self-contained housing, commerce and industry for 20k-50k people. Not to mention the optional space l
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by csense 6y ago
What in the world is this? "Informal settlement" suggests someone's trying to hack the system, that is the social / legal / administrative system for real estate, as in physical land and buildings. But I don't
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by csense 6y ago
No. Buy a PC and install Linux.
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by csense 6y ago
Lying to a suspect is one of the main tools police have to investigate crimes [1]. It's normal business practice. [2] Lying in court testimony is perjury. It's a crime. A police officer who lies to a court ought to be locked u
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About Poweroutage.us(poweroutage.us)
1 points by csense 6y ago|0 comments

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