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by donw 5y ago
> The entire left/right ideas are pretty lame. Agreed. It's a poor model, and doesn't reflect the current reality.
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by donw 5y ago
> That worked in Japan because the culture there is far less selfish. No, and I'm tired of hearing this trope. People are plenty selfish everywhere. Japan works because Japanese government understands trust . So does China, and for
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by donw 5y ago
> You can't possibly compare the USA's culture to Japan's. I can and shall. > Much of Japan's culture is rooted in making sure you aren't disrupting the general flow of society. It may surprise you to learn th
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by donw 5y ago
Trust flows both ways. From the get-go, the messaging should have been: "This is an evolving situation, and we're doing our best to keep up. Right now, our recommendations are X. As we learn, those are going to change." That&
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by donw 5y ago
Honestly, we've gone backwards in a lot of ways. I remember, in the mid-90s, looking up stuff at a library on a VT100-ish terminal connected via some sort of serial arrangement to a larger computer. Function keys were clearly labeled,
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by donw 5y ago
Great question. :) If you're on a jobsite without power, a combined truck-generator saves the cost of the separate genny, setup/teardown time, fuel logistics, logistics for the equipment itself, etc. For disaster response, you sho
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by donw 5y ago
Ford's new hybrids are also seriously interesting. Having a proper truck that is also a full-on portable power station is a game changer.
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by donw 5y ago
And hire a competent designer.
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by donw 5y ago
Why wasn't this a problem from 1950-1970 or so?
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by donw 5y ago
I hadn't thought of that, but good point! A truck driven by a person feels very different than a robot. Not sure that putting people on security quite fixes that, though, as they'd need to be properly kitted up to engage with raid
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by donw 5y ago
It's a good motto. As is "do the work".
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by donw 5y ago
Unacceptable. Once you've run a highly public witch-burning and realized that was a Rather Bad Idea, you need to do better than quietly sweep up the ashes afterwards.
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by donw 5y ago
How do you handle your text/feature extraction?
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by donw 5y ago
I recall a video where a biologist talked about how students from prestigious universities had become completely incapable of doing science. He would take them in the field, and they were utterly unable to study the real world. To make pr
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by donw 5y ago
Why do you not have your full name, home address, phone number, and political affiliations in your HN profile? Privacy matters. For everybody. Yes, even the people you hate.
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by donw 5y ago
The TOTO Washlet is Japan's greatest gift to civilization. They start from around $400. Power is likely a problem in the US, I suspect. Japanese bathrooms have GFCI plugs right behind the toilet, and I don't recall that being comm
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by donw 5y ago
Depends on the size of your household. Add in kids, and you burn through stuff really quick. The key thing is to (a) only buy stuff you actually use ; and (b) rotate it.
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by donw 5y ago
You don't just shut down a tightly interconnected global economy and then start it up again. You sure as shit don't play the start, stop, start game with your logistics, either. Supply chains are going to be a mess for years . Yo
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by donw 5y ago
> I would like to eventually get rid of the concept of teams, gradually through expanding and integrating other teams into one huge team until there are no "other teams" left, and also getting back on the same team when we get
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by donw 5y ago
The problem is twofold: 1. I want to look around and find what is useful for me. I'm not willing to spend very much money per unit of information, because I'm sifting through a bunch of crap. 2. For stuff that is valuable, I'
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by donw 5y ago
You mean... they might need to charge money in exchange for goods and/or services? How capitalistically gauche!
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by donw 5y ago
> Unvaccinated people are a danger to themselves and others. False for COVID. The available prophylaxes do not prevent spread. They merely prevent the disease from becoming acute. E.g., get the shot, get covid, and you're less likel
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by donw 5y ago
> I have absolutely no clue why you're continuously focusing exclusively on Japan to avoid the fact that vaccine/immunization mandates have global precedents and they've existed forever at this point. Because Japan is a co
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by donw 5y ago
Two factors are at play. The total percentage of bridges which have their collapsed, as well the the frequency of collapse, plays a role. A bridge collapsing every week for two months would likely have an impact. And there's also a sor
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by donw 5y ago
> That's because a significant number of countries that require vaccines also require something called a "visa." Japan is not one of these.
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by donw 5y ago
Probably because your team is winning, at least in terms of institutional power.
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by donw 5y ago
> Making laughable assertions doesn't help convince the unvaxed to get the jabs. Being unkind rarely changes anyone's mind.
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by donw 5y ago
This is something I talk about quite a bit. Modern society requires trust . Trust that bridges are built correctly, airplanes maintained correctly, water treated correctly, etc. No one person can manage all of that. We have to trust that o
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by donw 5y ago
> Obtaining a passport is completely irrelevant. For most travelers, it is the only document you show at the border. > Countries deny people with valid passports from entering all the time. For example, if they don't have the pro
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by donw 5y ago
> With travel at least, countries have the right to deny people for any reason whatsoever. That isn't where I was going. There is a current hard push for border controls at each state boundary; e.g., even domestic flights. Not law y

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