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by ggreer 6y ago
This proposal seems totally disconnected from reality. First, Amtrak is not a competitive transportation option. It can be a fun novelty, but it's expensive and slow. Going from Portland to Oakland is supposed to take 18 hours but actu
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by ggreer 6y ago
In 2016, Portland had 20 murders. In 2020 they had 55 murders (50 of which happened in June or later). This year they’re on track to break 100. Crime has gone up in the nation, but not by a factor of five. Portland’s problems are very much
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by ggreer 6y ago
Unlike most heavy metals, cesium doesn't really accumulate in the body. Its biological half-life is around 70 days.[1] Also it's hard to overstate just how little cesium there is in this honey. The EU limit for cesium in baby food
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by ggreer 6y ago
Here's the actual paper described by the Vice article.[1] For those who aren't familiar with the unit, a becquerel[2] is one nucleus decay per second. The highest level of Cesium radioactivity they measured was 19 becquerel per ki
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by ggreer 6y ago
We did find out. The US has had a total of 4 cases of vCJD, all of which were contracted overseas.[1] For comparison, the UK has had over 170 cases.[2] 1. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/vcjd/vcjd-reported.html 2. See
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by ggreer 6y ago
If US beef was contaminated, wouldn’t there be thousands of cases of vCJD[1] by now? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Creutzfeldt–Jakob_dise...
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by ggreer 6y ago
Those interventions are to get somewhere faster, not to avoid a collision. If anything, such interventions tend to increase the risk of collision, not decrease it. Training autopilot to behave more like humans in those situations would make
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by ggreer 6y ago
There are a couple reasons why your criteria would get almost entirely false positives. First: Most Tesla owners disengage autopilot by tapping the brakes or turning the wheel. This is typically more well-known and more convenient than the
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by ggreer 6y ago
> The main benefit of challenge trials is to speed up development as I understand it not to broaden risk estimates. Right, which is why it was crucial to have such trials a year ago. We could have shipped vaccines 3 months sooner and sav
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by ggreer 6y ago
The vaccines give you antibodies for one part of the virus: the spike protein. Recovery from covid gives you antibodies for more parts of the virus. This is why reinfection in recovered people is so much rarer than infection in vaccinated p
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by ggreer 6y ago
Not a single one of those health authorities allowed vaccine challenge trials. That tells you how much they care about saving lives versus how much they care about not getting blamed for any deaths.
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by ggreer 6y ago
That is a much better article. Thank you.
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by ggreer 6y ago
I agree it's not a good article, but it's hard to find any decent reporting about this. Washington legalized most drug possession in February and nobody's talking about it.
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Court’s drug possession ruling upends WA’s criminal justice system(crosscut.com)
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by ggreer 6y ago
The J&J vaccine having lower effectiveness makes sense. Unlike the mRNA vaccines which use lipid nanoparticles as their delivery mechanism, the J&J vaccine uses an adenovirus. Some fraction of the population has immunity to this ade
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by ggreer 6y ago
I don't know of any place requiring different rates and metering for certain uses, but many power companies offer such things as an option. For example: In California, PG&E offers different metering plans for electric vehicles.[1]
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by ggreer 6y ago
I find it funny that the environmental arguments have come out again. Major news companies were making the same argument about the Internet back in the 90s.[1] Pretty much any activity has some effect on the environment, so the argument ten
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Dig more coal – the PCs are coming (1999)(forbes.com)
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by ggreer 6y ago
Isn't it the FAA's fault for requiring an inspector on scene before every launch? There's simply no way to iterate quickly with a constraint like that, especially if the inspectors are in Florida and need to be flown out eac
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by ggreer 6y ago
Previous discussion of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113414 I am the author of this post and I stand by what I wrote. I'm glad to see that Stallman is back on the FSF board, though it's unclear
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by ggreer 6y ago
The alternative to a car with bad brakes or a plane with design flaws is another car or another plane. The alternative to a covid vaccine is that you get covid. Even for young and healthy people, that can mean debilitating long-term illness
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by ggreer 6y ago
I think a lot of people (myself included) are more than willing to take a vaccine with these risks. As long as there is informed consent, what’s the problem? Banning everyone from getting this vaccine is typical bureaucratic ass-covering. T
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by ggreer 6y ago
I think his argument is that it’s a freak accident, not a routine one. If it were routine, the stats for unarmed people dying during arrest would be much higher.
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by ggreer 6y ago
Related HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405056 Cloudflare's post doesn't mention it, but the Twitter account that claimed credit fo
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by ggreer 6y ago
You can see the resolution of the cameras in some of the account's other tweets. It's not high enough to see information on the screen. Watching keyboard inputs might be possible, but even then I doubt the framerate is high enough
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by ggreer 6y ago
A later tweet claims they got access through a vulnerability in the Verkada security cameras used by these companies: https://twitter.com/nyancrimew/status/1369442432639770624 That's not good, but it's b
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by ggreer 6y ago
This proves too much. By this argument, it’s fine to arbitrarily deny people access to payment services and banking, since anyone can still mail them precious metals or send them cryptocurrency. There are many gradations between “all compa
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by ggreer 6y ago
Baltimore spends $16,184 per pupil per year.[1] That places it 3rd of the 100 largest school systems in the country and far above the national average of $12,201. This is not a funding problem. 1. https://www.census.gov/news
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by ggreer 6y ago
The only screw-up I see is his prediction that the US would conquer the spread by the end of April. All the other info is pretty accurate, especially considering how little we knew back in March. Compared to most authorities and experts, he
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by ggreer 6y ago
Musk has never been a covid denier. He understood that covid wasn't as dangerous as many claimed, especially for younger and healthier people. The only thing close to covid denialism that I can find is Musk's decision to resume pr

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