drak0n1c

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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Japan's private rail lines outcompeted their government rail lines early on, and led the growth of rail throughout the country over the past few decades. There is a way to do private rail right, and it looks a lot more promising than t
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Insects and other arthropods thrived in prior warm high-carbon eras, what you read was a sensationalist pop sci report about pesticides specifically.
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Those are not necessarily opposites. The centuries of various forces, traditions, and habits are what insulates them from western homogeneity. That is what enables them to produce artifacts that seem to be out of the norm to a western obser
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
I see it as edifying - a creative and insightful display of biological and chemical reactions. No different from the pyrotechnical demos or frog dissections used to spark curiosity in children.
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Precisely, if your subsidized monopoly can afford to take the hit for a decade or two - the international competition starts dying, their facilities and towns shutter, and locally accumulated institutional knowledge and its transfer disappe
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There's a reason why people say "the best thing since sliced bread". Sliced cheese has similar structural advantages. What is convenient becomes popular - for better or worse.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
For those interested in why - Japan always had very high tariffs on cheese (40% on WTO, 37.5% on EU). In comparison, the US has a general tariff of 10% on cheese, with many exceptions making it 0%. http://www.customs.go.jp/e
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Interesting facet of the policy - even wanted Nazi party members were allowed to migrate to Argentina after the war, and oftentimes extradition requests were refused. Combine that with close relations with Israel, and that is why Argentina
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Many of those banned on Twitter were using language that poked fun at media departments or corporations, not specific individuals. Is targeted criticism of a corporate group now taboo? Why has it become OK to share memes criticizing Fox New
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Your allegation is fitting, as that was another bit of viral fake news from the weekend. The alleged harassers were proven not to be part of the Covington Catholic group. Confirmation bias is tempting, but maybe everyone (including the medi
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
It's still a big factor in the US. Unpaid hospital bills get factored into prices charged to other patients, and insurance premiums go up as costly treatments increase. Especially since ACA, which legally requires insurance to cover me
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
I agree, but there are externalities. Medical care resulting from personal choices should be paid by the risk-taking individual (or the research firm, if it's a sponsored experiment), rather than society or other people in the insuranc
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
The plan is to build in increments, starting with the areas that see the most traffic.
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
There is a comedy skit about what it's like trying to mention the grounded practicalities behind current events in the presence of those who find it outrageous to dig deeper than the headlines: "Stop Making Me Defend Donald Trump!
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Hospitals routinely spend huge sums of money on new equipment that significantly improves their competitive edge on diagnoses and outcomes. They are also willing to spend money on drop-in solutions that lessen the need for paperwork that ea
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Confusion, rumor, and misinterpretation sparking mob rule and misguided shaming is one of the technological excesses listed on the ledger. Hopefully humanity is learning to be more careful before rushing to "burn" people's li
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Google's own location timeline also can be used in court, and is updated in near real-time.[1] Practically speaking, I would think that Google's data is even more susceptible to be found in court and used in that manner than data
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
True, developing sustainable institutions with vision and effective knowledge transfer/accumulation mechanisms requires more than cash. It requires cultural attraction and perhaps some measure of prestige. NASA, and the major military
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Exactly, I don't see how setting up another cold war for the sake of proportionality will be good for the world. In the cold war nations still engaged in brutal proxy wars, and everyone lived in fear of a massive hot war. Doesn't
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Imagine if all engineers had boycotted weapons development due to the heinous nature of napalm firebombing in WW2. US military competency stagnates at the stage of napalm. Would that actually change the behavior of the government's mil
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Unfortunately, the divide between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon will be bad for national security in the long run. Recent news cycles keep revealing yet another piece military equipment suffering from software weaknesses. Technology does
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Ad hominem should not totally discount ideas in an unrelated discussion. Of course you should weigh someone's biases and conduct with what they are saying to the degree that their credibility is relevant to each point (for example, if
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
There have been repeated cases of journalists from different media publications relying on shared email lists and private "Hacker News" style forums as a starting point for coming up with stories and angles. https://en.
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You can make the argument against private ownership of certain types of land for the purposes of public benefit, but I don't see the environmental point in this case. Privately owned areas, particularly beaches, usually fare better env
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Everyone who was living in the area that considered the land their homeland were welcome to stay, maintain their private property, and join the fledgling nation. Arabs who stayed and abided by the UN agreement were given first-class citizen
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Hopefully these facilities can consistently confront disagreeable and potentially unstable users and ensure they are discarding all needles that were used before leaving. Seattle's track record of enforcement in other areas makes me pe
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Please read my comment closely. I said neither are "damning", because ad hominem shouldn't be considered a reason to "damn" ideas in an unrelated policy debate. Especially unsubstantiated allegations about a second
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Ad hominem isn't a good look, nor an effective argument when it comes to policy. Too often I see dismissals based on indirect associations with the Koch brothers or unsubstantiated allegations of white nationalism. I don't see how
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by drak0n1c 8y ago
Seattle does not enforce laws against public drug use and recently vacated all gross misdemeanor charges, citing the "case load". This just incentivizes bad behavior and further increases the case load. Every time I take my weekly
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Bridging the Gap Between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon(defenseone.com)
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