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by flunhat 6y ago
What happened was an attempted political assassination: Q anon supporters stormed the capitol with guns, zip ties, and pipe bombs, chanting "hang mike pence." I imagine we make "I will kill you" exemptions for free speec
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by flunhat 6y ago
Just don't storm the capitol with zip ties and guns chanting "hang mike pence" bro
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by flunhat 6y ago
Exactly -- I love the pearl-clutching tone of these of slippery-slope complaints: "Just you wait, leftists! One day the power of the state shall be visited upon you, and then you'll see! How would you feel if the government censor
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by flunhat 6y ago
You might be right -- at this point, with everything that's gone wrong at the govt level, I'm pretty willing to accept rank incompetence as an explanation.
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by flunhat 6y ago
Someone else commented this on the thread, but my understanding is that some non-zero percentage (maybe even non-trivial percentage) of people without, say, a pulse can be revived only at a hospital but not by an EMT (because of equipment o
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by flunhat 6y ago
I suspect the limiting factor is personnel, not beds (i.e. trained staff to manage covid patients), which can't be increased on short notice. But still -- we have incompetent state & federal leadership that basically knew what woul
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by flunhat 6y ago
> Does that make NASA liars? No. It makes them not-successful. Which also applies to SpaceX in that regard. > Their actual goal (self-sustaining Mars civilization of at least a million people) is 5-6 orders of magnitude grander than t
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by flunhat 6y ago
Musk doesn’t think that they’ll take a lifetime. He thinks SpaceX should reach Mars in 4 years & transhumanism should arrive next year, for example.
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by flunhat 6y ago
> SpaceX is an essentially unprecedented success by any reasonable definition of success in the modern space launch services market. Sure. I agree. > minimize their obvious accomplishments based on Musk's own incredibly ambitious
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by flunhat 6y ago
Musk said the first passengers could go to Mars in 2024, which is 4 years from now. So I’m being generous. Hasn’t he repeatedly proved everyone wrong? Where does the quote “Never bet against Elon” come from? I’m being quite bold. But you’re
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by flunhat 6y ago
Like I said, they’re fine companies. And they’re doing innovative things! But you’ll have forgive me if I hold Musk to public promises he’s made, especially regarding self driving cars & Mars. At a certain point, what’s the difference b
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by flunhat 6y ago
I agree with you that they’re working towards these goals. And there’s obviously a ton of daylight between Musk and Milton. But the point I’m making is more specific than that: you can’t call them successes because they haven’t achieved the
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by flunhat 6y ago
How are you judging SpaceX, Neuralink, & Boring to be successes? They’re fine companies with good products, but none of them have fulfilled Musk’s original stated goals: going to Mars, transhumanism, and networks of tunnels for mass tra
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by flunhat 6y ago
Palantir lost half a billion dollars last year & are notorious for overpromising to clients but ultimately under-delivering. I'd say they're still a Silicon Valley company at heart.
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by flunhat 6y ago
> cheerleading for mass arrests and martial law One of the darkly hilarious parts of the latest "Q" drops was that the entire cast of Friends had been arrested and executed. (Why? One can only imagine it had something to do wit
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by flunhat 6y ago
My understanding is that it’s the other way around — both cases and deaths are being undercounted substantially. And testing capacity has been intentionally kneecapped by the govt (if you test fewer, you’ll find fewer cases, which looks goo
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by flunhat 6y ago
It’s like eating a cake made purely out of frosting -- fun at first, but then it just becomes too much after a hundred pages or so.
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by flunhat 6y ago
The book is ok — it has plenty of interesting stories about Facebook during its heady IPO ish era. And a bunch of great startup-y tales. But what kills the reading experience for me are the constant metaphors/analogies/similes&#x2
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by flunhat 6y ago
There are 212 job openings listed on Stripe's careers page as either located in the United States or remote. Of those, 17 are remote (~8%) & the rest are not. So even excluding non-US listings, it's a small percentage -- Seatt
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by flunhat 6y ago
It’s at least 12 separate articles — I can see your submission history
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by flunhat 6y ago
For the past two months, you’ve been frenetically posting about how Bill Gates planned coronavirus to institute some new world order. I think your posts are getting flagged because they’re starting to verge on spam.
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by flunhat 6y ago
Most people on this site couldn't imagine it back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817850
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by flunhat 6y ago
Worth noting that elite universities aren't elite because they impart special knowledge that you couldn't reasonably get elsewhere. They're elite because they get the pick of the litter from each graduating class. And top stu
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by flunhat 6y ago
Of course the planet will be fine, it’s the people we’re all worried about
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by flunhat 7y ago
Car accidents do not pose systemic risk, a super contagious virus with a fatality rate of ~1-2% definitely does. I think a misunderstanding of this phenomenon (risk comes in different flavors!!) combined with an inability to grok exponentia
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by flunhat 7y ago
The top comment above, for example. I think people are generally terrible at understanding exponential growth & systemic vs. one-off risk.
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by flunhat 7y ago
All public Trello power-ups have to be GDPR compliant, for example. The requirements are laid out on their developer documentation page [1]. You have to poll an endpoint every 14 days to remain compliant, delete data on request, etc. If you
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by flunhat 7y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but those numbers are extremely misleading. I can tell you from close personal observation that this low divorce rate is almost certainly because divorce is extremely taboo in the kinds of s
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by flunhat 7y ago
I agree with you -- I just think it's funny how these two completely different sources dunked on McNamara. Bobby Baker seems like he wanted to redeem his image (and Lyndon Johnson's image, too, I think), so you can see this as an
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by flunhat 7y ago
Bobby Baker, who was one of Lyndon Johnson's closest aides, had this to say about Robert McNamara (who was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War): "The biggest disaster in the history of this country was [Robert] McNamara. H

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