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by ggreer 6y ago
One thing that seems to not be mentioned in Reddit's new policy: They're now auto-removing comments that contain certain phrases or words. Not even moderators can approve them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMott
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by ggreer 6y ago
Note that AFC is only required for high power communications. Low power devices (<250mW & <11dBi in any 1MHz band) don't need AFC. It looks like the rules are meant to avoid AFC for consumer gear and require it for profession
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by ggreer 6y ago
Do you think that your current views will be acceptable by the standards of society 20 years from now? 50 years from now? If not, you are basically guaranteeing that on a long enough time scale, you (along with everyone else) will be cancel
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by ggreer 6y ago
Annoyingly, I can't find the original report by J.D. Power. Ars Technica has a more detailed summary.[1] Apparently the study favors cars with fewer features, as that means fewer things can go wrong. The results contradict brand stereo
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by ggreer 6y ago
I'm all for quality investigative reporting, but that is not something that 99% of journalists do. I've been interviewed by journalists a few times and I've seen at least a half-dozen other people be interviewed. The articles
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MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign(infoproc.blogspot.com)
148 points by ggreer 6y ago|228 comments
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by ggreer 6y ago
That's why I put dirty in quotes. I think it's hilarious.
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by ggreer 6y ago
Watching GMs play bullet can be fun, and Carlsen is crazy good, but in that clip Carlen's opponent simply blundered his queen in one. Based on how quickly the rook move was, it might have been a premove. Either way, the other guy just
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by ggreer 6y ago
How? There's no risk of escalation in the chemical weapons regime from the protestors, nor is there any chance of the police using lethal chemical weapons such as sarin gas. The logic around chemical weapons in the Geneva conventions w
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My Favorite Liar (2008)(overcomingbias.com)
1 points by ggreer 6y ago|0 comments
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by ggreer 6y ago
Is it true that public education is being destroyed? I'm having trouble finding metrics by which it has declined. In terms of budget, 4.1% of US GDP is government expenditure on education. For comparison: Japan is 2.9%, Canada 4.3%, UK
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by ggreer 6y ago
The big chains won't run risky or unprofitable stores. It's the communities that will be hurt by this. Despite interest-free loans and over $100 million in federal funding, Baltimore still hasn't recovered from the 2015 Fredd
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by ggreer 6y ago
I think the term "assault rifle" is very misleading here. People are imagining fully automatic weapons like the ones the military uses. But outside of SWAT, such weaponry is very rare. (And in most countries, their equivalent of S
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by ggreer 6y ago
> But my small city police department recently got a grant for 450 high powered assault rifles and armored vests, on top of the hundreds they already had. There are only 700 officers including things like traffic enforcement. I'm p
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by ggreer 6y ago
How does one inadvertently steal?
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by ggreer 6y ago
Police have been ordered by the city government to avoid enforcing certain laws. It basically means that homeless people can get away with theft and any nuisance. Also criminals are quickly released re-offend. Here are some examples. This g
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by ggreer 6y ago
My main issue with bay area public transportation is the public. I've had a person threaten to stab me because I was white. He got away. I've had someone smoke meth and then scream in my face, wanting to fight me because I was bei
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by ggreer 6y ago
Tesla doesn't claim that their current cars are full self driving. They claim that future software will allow FSD on some models sold today.
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by ggreer 6y ago
I'm quite sure this guy could afford a bottle of ethanol at the higher price. He just didn't want it enough to pay that much. If price caps were in effect, he would have bought some ethanol and someone else who wanted it more (as
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by ggreer 6y ago
People used to do this as recently as the 1990s. They'd buy supplies like ice and generators, transport them to the disaster area (often clearing any debris in the road so they could get in, which helps everyone, including emergency ve
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by ggreer 6y ago
I think the misunderstanding here is that, like most people, you don't like when sellers make huge profits off scarce goods. After all, the seller has more than enough of the good for himself. Why is he also making absurd amounts of mo
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by ggreer 6y ago
That's the great thing about commerce: It makes selfish greedy people beneficial to society. It doesn't matter what this guy's intent was. The end result would have been to move a scarce resource from the shelves of some stor
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by ggreer 6y ago
It sounds like the price mechanism had the intended effect. It encouraged more efficient use of the scarce resource and a search for substitutes.
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by ggreer 6y ago
That man bought a good in a place where there was high supply and low demand. He wanted to sell it in a place that had low supply and high demand. There were people who were desperate for hand sanitizer in coastal urban areas. They were wil
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by ggreer 6y ago
Yes, manufacturing does take time to ramp up, but higher prices mean that people use that good more efficiently, try to find substitutes, and try to import more from elsewhere. Also if there was a norm of not having price limits during emer
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by ggreer 6y ago
I'll bite that bullet and argue that child labor laws, like GDPR, are well-intentioned but cause more harm than they prevent. Let me explain. First: If child labor laws were abolished tomorrow, almost no parent in a developed country w
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by ggreer 6y ago
The system fonts are legible. With web fonts... sometimes they are and sometimes they aren't. And web fonts have that re-flow during page load, which is super annoying when you're reading the first paragraph and lose your place
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by ggreer 6y ago
If by "consistent" you mean "looks like garbage on some platforms", then yes, it's possible: https://medium.com/@ValidScience/two-mysterious-web-font-bug... Web font bugs show up in the weirdes
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by ggreer 6y ago
I was talking about wordpress.com, not Wordpress blog themes or wordpress.org. Of course the themes are going to go wild and use every possible browser API to customize their appearance. That doesn't mean it's a good idea. I'
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by ggreer 6y ago
When I visit Facebook I see... font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif ...on every element I inspect. When I visit Wordpress.com and check the font on the body, I see: font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Seg

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