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by gosub100 1y ago
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. This is the core of the problem. Political posts should be prohibited on here, because each one of these discussions turns into political bat
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by gosub100 1y ago
There is an incredible amount of waste in the US government (both state and federal), almost by design. Departments get fixed budgets for the year. If they don't spend it, their budget for the next year is reduced by that amount. This
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by gosub100 1y ago
They crawl for data, usually to train a model. Poisoning the models training data makes it less useful and therefore less valuable
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by gosub100 1y ago
> Murder-suicide looks like the likely conclusion But why cutoff the fuel instead of flying into terrain? It's such a passive action
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by gosub100 1y ago
its not a green plant if they conveniently escape all accounting. its a scam.
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by gosub100 1y ago
It's not a boycott if you are the product.
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by gosub100 1y ago
So why do it at all if there is no accounting to prove it's green? It's almost as if this movement is a scam. No CO2 equivalent publications on solar, or on recycling. It's just "do what we say or the climate will die&qu
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by gosub100 1y ago
Is this whole "new set of cables" factored into the CO2 emissions equation? We're undoubtedly going to use massive amounts of energy to mine the metal, melt it into wire, transport it to the site, build the towers, etc. Is th
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by gosub100 1y ago
Please don't partake in virtue signalling. It makes you feel like you're making a difference, allows you to signal to your tribe that you feel a certain way (gaining you virtue among them), but requires 0 actual effort.
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by gosub100 1y ago
Guessing: if you publish too much about your design, competitors can use it against you during sales negotiations. "Don't buy theirs, ours has better pin placement, better IF, better thermals, etc"
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by gosub100 1y ago
thats true, if there were one sigle "coder" who was cloistered away from the team and came back when s/he claimed the requirements were met and the task was complete. Whereas, in FDA (and presumably FAA/DoD) regulated de
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by gosub100 1y ago
the keyword there is "design". systems engineers/architects design those things, not coders. And they are made safe by entire teams of academics, clinicians, engineers, testers, scientists, and even lawyers.
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by gosub100 1y ago
There is also power line Ethernet adapters that are well above 300mbps. Even if that's the nameplate speed on your wifi router, you won't have as much fluctuation on the power line. But both adapters need to be on the same breaker
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by gosub100 1y ago
It's probably decades old anecdata from people who re commissioned old drives that were on the shelf for many years. The theory is that the grease on the spindle dries up and seizes up the platters.
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by gosub100 1y ago
You shouldn't have to do this, but have you tried calling the colonoscopy practice and asking for a cash price? It might not be as expensive as you think.
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by gosub100 1y ago
Even if they die, reviving them still opens the door for organ and tissue donation.
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by gosub100 1y ago
An entire political party would not function without a steady and diverse input of "marginalized groups".
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by gosub100 1y ago
ah name calling, now that takes effort.
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by gosub100 1y ago
fair, but then don't ask me when the page loads. ask me when I fill out the order, and even better, put GDPR: <question> asking up-front allows them the anti-pattern of giving me 40+ choices of what to opt-in or out of, and it al
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by gosub100 1y ago
I think it's also because of water. There is too much water in the northeast - central to make permanent roads.
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by gosub100 1y ago
There should be a browser setting that just answers yes/no for you. Not an extension, or a hack. A setting that is read on page load and doesn't interrupt me.
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by gosub100 1y ago
Just consider it a tax on the amount of damage your business did to local housing costs.
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by gosub100 1y ago
> The model itself is not a copy, Agreed > the Sony Betamax case, which found that it was legal and a transformative use of copyrighted material to create a copy of a publicly aired broadcast Good thing libgen is not publicly aired in
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by gosub100 1y ago
They should still have to pay damages for possessing the copyrighted material. That's possession, which courts have found is copyright violation. Remember all the 12 year olds who got their parents sued back in the 2000s? They had un
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by gosub100 1y ago
That's why CEO pay is so low. They take the honor in leadership and across the board just take a menial compensation package. Why work hard , 60 hrs a week even, if you get paid FU$? This is why boards limit comp packages so aggressive
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by gosub100 1y ago
Maybe its a bug in their telemetry? They have to pass the parameters to azure to data-mine customer activity and azure accidentally returned the incorrect result.
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by gosub100 1y ago
Only if you included all images and video
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by gosub100 1y ago
20 years ago before there were as many erosions of personal privacy and before I realized how important privacy was, I thought of a similar system to detect counterfeit money. Scan it and upload the serial to a database. If that serial has
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by gosub100 1y ago
> one that will quickly be left without any enterprise I would be fine with a small town lacking any chain restaurants or big box stores. Imagine that, small business owners could do commerce with each other and not have to have 7-figure
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by gosub100 1y ago
What would be awesome is to have a double screen device. OLED on the front, eink on the back. So you could operate in simple mode if you want or use the sharp screen for photos when needed.

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