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by evanb 6y ago
Yes, they do. While it took years, the falsehoods he spread during the pandemic and during the run-up to the election convinced many newsmedia outlets to cut him off. In other words, they learned. Consistency is not to be desired above a
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by evanb 6y ago
They switch away when he begins spouting unmitigated lies, which is a responsible form of journalism.
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by evanb 6y ago
Agreed, but they do have jurisdiction on land completely surrounding the Capitol complex. Moreover, these police forces practice and work together.
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by evanb 6y ago
Sounds like a 500/500 way to spend some time!
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by evanb 6y ago
The Metropolitan Police are good at kettling; see, for example, the Swann Street Siege during protests this summer. The objective was to arrest every protestor. That so many people just walked away is mind boggling.
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by evanb 6y ago
When I talk IRL I don't use GIFs or stickers, and the only background is whatever is behind me. I like the idea of moving around to decide who you talk to; it is the premise behind jitsi-powered Work Adventure http://workadv
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Work Adventure(workadventu.re)
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How Eight Covid-19 Vaccines Work(nytimes.com)
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by evanb 6y ago
If you have a high-dimensional array then in your latter convention if you had to specify the “remaining” axes you’d need to provide a lengthy list. That’d be user-hostile.
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by evanb 6y ago
This is one of my biggest pet peeves---GDP is a rate! The units are often quoted as dollars [or equivalent] but they're actually dollars/year. Or, put another way, they're the rate, but integrated over a definite time per
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by evanb 6y ago
Towards the beginning of cryptomania there was a company selling room heaters where the heat was produced by GPUs or ASICs or something. Look, you’re cold. You want heat. May as well help pay the heating bill. Don’t know if they’re still
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by evanb 6y ago
3 days ago on a different thread I asked HN for a way to avoid AMP. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25467112 ] User coldpie recommended [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25467438 ] the firefox
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by evanb 6y ago
This is good, and what I will use. It's snappy---the redirect happens before the page renders / any tracking has a chance to kick in. HOWEVER It's not perfect---2 of the 4 first examples I tried failed and required manual int
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by evanb 6y ago
I mostly get AMPed when someone sends me a link.
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> And yet you did. It was unwilling. When I navigate to OS X 11.0.1 -> News -> Preferences I am presented with only two tick boxes: [ ] Restrict stories in Today (... description ...) [ ] Restrict st
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by evanb 6y ago
Maybe this deserves its own Ask HN (but probably not): What automatic things do people do to get rid of amp links to see “the original”? In an ideal world I wouldn’t even load the amp. I’m especially interested in solutions for Safari on
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by evanb 6y ago
Somewhat orthogonal to the question, but if you're looking for good programming exercises (for any language!) Advent of Code adventofcode.com is always a great place to look.
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by evanb 6y ago
Indeed, it’s remarkable they want to make a fuss out of something that I can undo entirely via unitary transformation. There have been a number of papers with these kinds of “theorems” that seem to miss that proponents of the many-worlds i
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by evanb 6y ago
Only if you forget about how complex conjugation works. (e^-ix) = (e^ix)* = cos x - i sin x
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by evanb 6y ago
Unit [ https://unitworkers.com/about ] is interested in helping establish small, locally-run unions.
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by evanb 6y ago
No, faraday cages do not protect you from high speed charged particles. For that you need meters of water equivalent.
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by evanb 6y ago
On a log scale 1 is also halfway between 0 and infinity.
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by evanb 6y ago
Podcasts also often target advertisements geographically (based on IP address, I guess?). Being able to serve to each listener is part of their value proposition to advertisers.
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How Many Potatoes Does It Take to Run Doom? [video](youtube.com)
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Not Found(trumpcovidplan.com)
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Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride [at 155 GPa](nature.com)
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by evanb 6y ago
With vim vixen, at least, f shows links, [capital] F hides them, which follows a lot of vim patterns. (esc hides them too.)
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by evanb 6y ago
Chemical bonds are on the scale of eV---the cost to liberate an electron from a hydrogen atom is 13.6eV, for example. So the best you can hope for, in a chemical reaction, is a change in mass of the scale of 10s of eV / c^2. In compar
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by evanb 6y ago
Computerphile did a great video with Brian Kernighan on "Where GREP Came From" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk
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Group theory and why I love [the monster] [video](youtube.com)
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