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631.
by fnord77 3y ago
that came out of taxpayer's / insurance budget that did not come out of the police budget
632.
by fnord77 3y ago
why aren't hack sabotages seen as acts of war? they can do as much or more damage as, say, blowing up a bridge
633.
by fnord77 3y ago
the rise in obesity correlates to the rise of HFCS in food and also the "war on fats" in diets around the 80s
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Target Knew a High School Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Parents Did (2012)(techland.time.com)
15 points by fnord77 3y ago|1 comments
635.
by fnord77 3y ago
behold, the great filter. or one of many
636.
by fnord77 3y ago
something like this almost happened where I worked - an atlantis/terraform apply started tearing down our cassandra cluster, which was not backed up. Caught it in time before it got the volumes
637.
by fnord77 3y ago
> Our datasets and models today [2055] look like a joke. Both are somewhere around 10,000,000X larger. will there really be 10 million times 400 million images floating around then?
638.
by fnord77 3y ago
it would completely ring true if it weren't for the racist bit. otherwise great song, tainted
639.
by fnord77 3y ago
no, this wasn't it. It was mentioned in the HN comments section about a week ago. The book was from 2017
640.
by fnord77 3y ago
I don't think it was this, but this looks interesting
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Ask HN: What was the Data Engineering book recently recommend in HN comments?
3 points by fnord77 3y ago|6 comments
642.
by fnord77 3y ago
big oil astroturfed a campaign against nuclear in the 70s. It was framed as hippies warning nuclear would mean certain death for everyone. that perception stuck
643.
by fnord77 3y ago
I was super thrilled the first time I rode in a waymo. The second trip seemed humdrum. I've taken over 100 trips now and it is no more exciting than riding the bus
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The Big Fix – How the union's bosses rule by fraud and intimidation. (1999)(villagevoice.com)
3 points by fnord77 3y ago|0 comments
645.
by fnord77 3y ago
what are the issues with async/await?
646.
by fnord77 3y ago
So, 1,000 years from now, who will still be a household name from our era?
647.
by fnord77 3y ago
> The Nevera is clearly grip limited, otherwise it could go much faster.
648.
by fnord77 3y ago
OMG. I have crohn's disease and walking into a library gives me the urge to go, consistently.
649.
by fnord77 3y ago
wouldn't work in SF because SFPD has announced they're no longer pulling over people for "minor" violations, like not having license plates
650.
by fnord77 3y ago
Spring has gotten so bloated. It seems like there's no feature request they can say "no" to. Plus there's multiple ways of doing the same thing. e.g. JPA, spring-data. their call stacks between injected components a
651.
by fnord77 3y ago
radio.com looks legit, what is wrong with it?
652.
by fnord77 3y ago
crypto seems like a massive cargo cult
653.
by fnord77 3y ago
I hate that it is becoming normalized to pay rent to use features on a car you bought. I'm sure data is being sold, too.
654.
by fnord77 3y ago
google groups won't even load > Something went wrong. Please try again later.
655.
by fnord77 3y ago
why is this drug specific to PP depression? Would it work for typical, general depression in both sexes?
656.
by fnord77 3y ago
I think we'll eventually discover superconductivity isn't possible at STP
657.
Ask HN: What are some of the most impactful novel inventions in the past 20 yrs?
9 points by fnord77 3y ago|11 comments
658.
by fnord77 3y ago
I've seen some math that shows RTS are not possible.
659.
by fnord77 3y ago
alcohol is unsafe in any quantity. when are we going to move beyond this poison?
660.
by fnord77 3y ago
It's not a common trope, it is a fact. All but the most serious crimes are currently being dismissed, either by the DA or by judges. And those were the ones where the police bothered to make arrests. There's an epidemic of pro

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