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by edrxty 6y ago
Agreed, if that logic is applied with the same intensity everywhere, the world would be painfully bland. Obviously we've made some mistakes and possibly have gone too far in one direction on that axis, but particularly with regard to p
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by edrxty 6y ago
It's actually pretty trivial to build a mechanical governor and they have existed for hundreds of years [1] Everything comes down to political will. The German manufacturers have an informal agreement to limit all their cars to 155mph
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by edrxty 6y ago
Sure, but the vast majority of HN is US based and it's very important here not to perpetuate any notion that corporate wish lists are synonymous with the force of law lest we make any of our problems worse.
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by edrxty 6y ago
I miss the good old days of Vista where there was a straight keyboard command to change monitor orientation. It was something like win+shift+arrow so everyone would prank each other with it until it was removed.
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by edrxty 6y ago
The author is a lay person, they're just trying to report what they've been told. In reality, single satellite detection with the described resolution is extremely simple and the tech has been flying since the 60s. There isn&#x2
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by edrxty 6y ago
Maybe, but aircraft tend to follow much stricter paths than one would normally believe. Particularly around urban centers (airports) they queue up and only really fly a few routes through the area. On clear nights you can often see the li
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by edrxty 6y ago
Ding ding ding! This thread is cargo culting hard. This is just a tool for making decisions in stressful situations buy forcing a separation of planning and acting so you don't flop around frantically. It's not a tool for organi
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by edrxty 6y ago
An answer to the question would be an example of a policy and an example of when said policy "really hurt and isolated a significant population" It's pretty straightforward, everything else is frantic hand waving.
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by edrxty 6y ago
> I'm hesitant to even admit that far-left politics are more accepted Yea, I should have been more specific, it depends heavily on the circles you run in. > It's frustrating, because I think that the left should chill out wi
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by edrxty 6y ago
I think this ties in well with all the recent discussion around advertising and its effect on internet discourse. To become counter-cultural now inherently means foregoing ad revenue supported platforms, which inherently means you lose aud
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by edrxty 6y ago
In a way this makes sense, the mega platforms have become a highly uniform slightly left leaning milquetoast walled city. That leaves being either a raging socialist (guilty) or a raging....bigot. The far right isn't tolerated as they
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by edrxty 6y ago
Further, reddit is built from the ground up to force consensus. Counterculture cannot exist on the site by definition, as anything prevalent on the site is there by consensus.
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by edrxty 6y ago
I find this is a good way to learn. Comfortable mega-platforms don't really foster anything productive (generalizing, obviously) but when you start to play with the bleeding edge decentralized options it allows you see "what coul
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by edrxty 6y ago
Beyond being objectively untrue, this doesn't even come close to attempting to answer the question.
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by edrxty 6y ago
And further, while you maybe can make an argument that it wasn't possible ten years ago, we're headed in a very centralized direction at this point. There are basically three places where broad populations can engage in discour
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by edrxty 6y ago
Examples? I'm not really sure what you're aiming at here. I don't know of any documented cases where too much environmentalism or healthcare really hurt significant populations.
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by edrxty 6y ago
So what you're saying is if some people banded together, they could manipulate the storage tech market with the force of a nation state behind them?
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by edrxty 6y ago
I think the implication is that if estate taxes are high, then when someone dies their estate is calculated as hard assets + cash and they have to split that somehow to pay the tax. If taxes were 25% and the house was worth 200k and the dec
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by edrxty 6y ago
What's the cause of this tendency?
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by edrxty 6y ago
Judging by the number of homes that have been in progress in my area for several years now, I don't think this is 100% the case. It's also worth noting that even for a "solved problem", driving down costs is still benefi
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by edrxty 6y ago
70% of the global hash rate is in china... The map symbology doesn't even begin to do that justice
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by edrxty 6y ago
It's not actually that bad. There's a lot of defense, security, and highly proprietary development that happens on isolated networks. You have to put significant effort into IT infrastructure but you'll end up with all your
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by edrxty 6y ago
Bigger picture, what's the endgame here? It seems a lot of institutions handling sensitive work are considering air-gapping some or all of their networks at this point. Maybe that's even what has to happen. Is there a means of f
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by edrxty 6y ago
That's a better way of putting it. What I mean to say is the events are rare and the number of recertified MAX miles flown is still quite low. I fly ga so my risk tolerance is different but if you want to wait a year that'll give
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by edrxty 6y ago
Statistics is probably the wrong word. If a safety incident happens you'll hear about it. They're so rare across the board that they almost always make the news and the max is especially exposed in this regard. I wouldn't
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by edrxty 6y ago
I accept my inevitable gray punishment for negative meta discussion but it's worth stating, HN is overwhelmingly corporatist and authoritarian these days.
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by edrxty 6y ago
I'm pretty sure gmail caches everything to prevent anyone from getting useful data from this.
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by edrxty 6y ago
And in the vein of Eternal September, they're accidentally created a moat to prevent anyone from creating a board with its own unique culture because: A) everyone assumes reddit culture is internet culture and will transplant it everyw
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by edrxty 6y ago
My thoughts as well. This should be pretty easy to monitor in a newsroom setting. Just have a few phones hooked up to recorders saving everything of interest. Worse, it's probably relatively easy to spoof the app and automate the pr
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by edrxty 6y ago
IDFK... HN just likes to be weird sometimes. I don't think anyone actually read my entire comment about the obvious math error and just assumed I was siding with them?

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