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by fwungy 3y ago
Then they can't resell your data.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Down votes because the response isn't according to HN rules, or because you just don't agree, which would be against HN rules.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Ideas that undergo adversarial attack are strengthened or weeded out. A good, quality, debate can serve that purpose.
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by fwungy 3y ago
So how is that different from veing a full time job in climate change as a scientist or policy maker? Do you believe that Koonin wants a climate catastrophe? If a person could be so monumentally blindsided to ignore a threat that will not o
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by fwungy 3y ago
I'm going to summarize Physicist, Caltech President, and Obama DOE appointee Steven Koonin on climate change: 1) Climate is an extremely complicated phenomenon 2) It is extremely difficult to model beyond a limited time frame. 3) The
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by fwungy 3y ago
Just two more years.
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by fwungy 3y ago
And the second order effects of surviving the war also took a toll for the young.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Toyota is perhaps the last auto manufacturer interested in building great consumer vehicles. The Prius is an amazing car, and probably responsible for the biggest portion of electric vehicle operation given the numbers. Their philosophy, an
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by fwungy 3y ago
Just use Rust. Rust solves all of this.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Useless features required by federal regulations . There are all kinds of affordable, simple, proven private cars running decades old tech available in other countries, from Ladas to Land Cruisers.
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by fwungy 3y ago
"It's for the children" Big red flag.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Global Warming will kick in in two more years.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Why didn't I think of this? Very cool.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Here for the F-104 discussion. Fascinating plane.
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by fwungy 3y ago
They make the tax code complicated so they can leverage it. This is why they can't get Trump on tax issues. Trump pays the best tax people to cover him. If they nailed Trump on anything they'd have to nail a lot of other people to
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by fwungy 3y ago
Simple, relatively high, taxes for the plebs and a complex, exploitable tax code for the rich. There's no need for wagies with low net worths to go through the full process.
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by fwungy 3y ago
This is the most important quote for the modern era.
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A dict_to_object function would be a good little intermediate exercise.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Typing is nice just for the documentation it provides. Refactoring old python scripts was a pain because you had no idea what the arguments and return values were. Is date a string or an object? It gets tiresome.
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It's almost always straight white males slated for personal destruction. The funniest was probably Marilyn Manson. These women really didn't know that he was a disgusting pervert just from seeing him, then dated him for years, com
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by fwungy 3y ago
He used to go to strip clubs with his sketch pad and draw the strippers. It was an effective ice breaker and relationships with the strippers outside the club are inferred. Feynman was a successful, charismatic man with insatiable curiositi
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by fwungy 3y ago
These stories surround virtually all successful straight men. Even Garrison Keillor, as mild mannered as they come, got taken down for it. We are simultaneously told that women are equal to men, and yet we also are told there are male preda
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by fwungy 3y ago
Time series works amazing until a fundamental assumption breaks or the time frame extends too far. It's pretty much just drawing the existing pattern out further with mathematical precision. It only works till the game changes.
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by fwungy 3y ago
It's a small upward movement in a larger downward trend. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/...
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by fwungy 3y ago
Replication is a real problem in modern science, especially with more complex subjects like medicine[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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by fwungy 3y ago
Consumer spending is getting hit hard and luxury campgear is easy to forego.
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by fwungy 3y ago
1) Military has minimum intelligence standards for entry and intelligence is a heritable trait. 2) Military members are required to show discipline and are held accountable. Both of these factors make military schools different from public
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by fwungy 3y ago
Base Model 3 is under $35k and has well over 200 mile range.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Step 1. Write crappy paper Step 2. Seek peer review. Step 3. Wait months for peer review Step 4. Apply to journals for publish Step 5. Wait months for journal publish Step 6. Add paper to CV Most research papers are garba
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There are highly placed researchers, people who've climbed the ladder over the years and have lots of authority in their field. They have their preferences about the direction the field should go in, and who should be doing the work, a

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