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by eesmith 5mo ago
No vaccine is without safety issues. That's why so much research has been done to evaluate the safety issues. The consensus conclusion is the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks in this age group, including because the risk
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by eesmith 5mo ago
I can see you don't recognize native sovereignty. Tribal nations are domestic dependent nations, and count as a "state". The water rights were not taken by coercive force but remain with the nation, and at least nominally pro
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by eesmith 5mo ago
If they had, I wouldn't have switched to Sourcehut, at least not for a while. Though at some point I would have realized that Atlassian was the wrong fit for my needs as a single-dev, no-AI project and switched.
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by eesmith 5mo ago
No more half Sprite half Fanta option?
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by eesmith 5mo ago
> If the Native Americans have water rights, they can also sell them. You've just described the standard practice for taking over Native American lands by economic coercion instead of direct force. Take away land and water using mar
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by eesmith 5mo ago
The 101 level solution means that Native Americans who were granted water rights by the Spanish, and guaranteed those rights by US treaties, would have to outbid urban users in order to grow subsistence crops. The heavy users have more infl
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by eesmith 5mo ago
The stick has a third end - people added an IR transmitting filter so they could record in near-IR during daylight.
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Once upon a time most households had a small particle accelerator, used daily. While the the electrons in the cathode ray tube (CRT) traveled at relativistic speeds (something like 0.1-0.3 c, from what I can tell), people did not need need
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by eesmith 5mo ago
Even if your observation were 100% correct, it's also 100% irrelevant to the point. We still refer to Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism as a theory even though we know quantum electrodynamics is a more precise match to the pri
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by eesmith 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang > The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. .. A wide range of empirical evidence strong
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by eesmith 5mo ago
It started even earlier, with US military funding projects in microwaves/radar, electronic warfare, and aerospace. Think Varian, which developed military applications for the klystron, including nuclear bomb fuses. The first semiconduc
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by eesmith 5mo ago
And what's your point? That I don't realize that a bunch of assholes who don't care about the people who aren't clever enough to figure out Prisoner Dilemma style puzzzles have no problem knowing the rest of the world ar
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by eesmith 5mo ago
I have no idea what that scenario means. How does the buoyancy work? How did it not capsize when there was no one on it? You're loading people above the waterline, to be on/off in a minute, so that makes it more likely to capsize,
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by eesmith 5mo ago
One button means you almost certainly contributed to homicide, since the odds of everyone pressing red is essentially 0%. The other one does not contribute to homicide. The right answer, by the way, is to not press either button. "The
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by eesmith 5mo ago
These sorts of problems assume that actions have no consequences beyond the immediate decision. These tests, run in places which have higher long-term expectation of social connections, give different results than in the US. In the world wh
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by eesmith 5mo ago
From https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/disneyland-facial-recog... > The facial recognition system has been running since Disneyland began testing it in December 2025 [4]. But new signs explaining which lanes use
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by eesmith 5mo ago
The lowtech magazine raised you already with a link to their previous article on the one-wheeled Chinese wheelbarrow - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-... . ;) HN comments at https:&#
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by eesmith 6mo ago
> physical labor, "blue collar", heavy chambray or something along those lines) of comparable quality & materials to what was in a Sears catalog in the 1930s For a supporting example from the Spring and Summer 1929 Sears Ca
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Which category is TRAC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAC_(programming_language)
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by eesmith 6mo ago
The reason people are so shocked about the administration isn't the horrible things they do, but how they are so bad at it. You can look at the financial blockade of Wikileaks as an example of how to get away with it. It is impossibl
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by eesmith 6mo ago
The world is complicated. That's why there is a legal system. In this case, the judge explicitly considered and rejected the applicability of every one of your points, writing at https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap&
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by eesmith 6mo ago
I want them to actively seek foreign sovereign tech funding which come with stipulations that commit Mozilla to certain levels of privacy and anonymity. I want them to go cap-in-hand to other countries and say "if you don't fund u
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by eesmith 6mo ago
There is a common misapprehension that the term "monopoly" can only be used when there a single supplier. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly : "In law, a monopoly is a business entity that ha
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by eesmith 6mo ago
My point is that things weren't as dire in 1970 as you wrote. You can make your same argument without doubling their prices. I think people are correct to be angry that RAM over the last year has gotten more expensive for the same qual
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by eesmith 6mo ago
Since the McDonald's burger is now cheaper (after adjusting for inflation) then is it also worse than it was in 1970? Because if it's the same or better than it sure sounds an example of why people may have acquired "some imp
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by eesmith 6mo ago
You'll need to give more details. Diners like the one portrayed in The Olympia Restaurant sketches on SNL were cheap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJePACBoIo Others now are far more than $18. My first >$20 burge
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by eesmith 6mo ago
"a burger and fries was $17"? That doesn't seem right. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/mcdonalds-old-photos/ shows a menu at McDonalds from the early 1970s. A hamburger and fries was $0.63 or (assuming
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by eesmith 6mo ago
There are a lot of products which are nowhere near my Pareto frontier, but for the most part I lack the information needed to make that judgement. The result is that I, like others, spend too much on crappy products.
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by eesmith 6mo ago
I give a more complete followup at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779948 .
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by eesmith 6mo ago
I did not explain myself well enough. The essay show the timescale for "getting bought out, for their products to be reamed out, for the brand to be discarded" is 20 years or more, dating from the Eagle Creek purchase to the curre

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