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by hackuser 10y ago
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Clearly you have the judgment to understand that. I was just elaborating by pointing out an aspect of people in positions of power and their egos - 'obviously she's infatuated with me'.
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by hackuser 10y ago
I sure hope so! I wouldn't want to be on that flight. The NASA article brought to mind a story of a well-known Cosmonaut knowingly launching in an unreliable vehicle because the politicians insisted. He died. He flew because he didn&#x
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by hackuser 10y ago
Or maybe it wasn't you they were flirting with. :)
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by hackuser 10y ago
>> The power differential involved makes it automatically wrong. > To be fair, though, that's a relatively recent perception ... That doesn't make it any less important or wrong. On the historical timescale, democracy and
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by hackuser 10y ago
Sexual harassment has almost nothing to do with appropriate romantic conduct. Those are two different behaviors, even if both involve sex. As an analogy, you can weave in out of traffic at 120 mph or drive appropriately. The crazy driver wo
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I wonder how many execs the investors will let Kalanick burn through before they go after him. An interesting point. What value does he add by remaining? It's a serious question; what are his strengths and weaknesses as a CEO? A m
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by hackuser 10y ago
Note that NASA, I believe at Trump's urging, recently said they would try to place humans on the first flight of the Space Launch System (the new heavy lift rocket) - i.e., no unmanned testing first. https://www.nytimes.com&
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Sometimes i wonder if that's an strategy from the management team to put pressure in the engineers. Or simply a way to generate press and attention, including on Hacker News.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Said one Chinese scientist under Mao or soon after: The Academy of Sciences is the Academy of Sciences ... It is not the Academy of Production. It is a place where one studies, not a place where one plants cabbages. It is not a potato patc
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by hackuser 10y ago
> It's not like was the only car he owned Is that known?
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by hackuser 10y ago
I wonder how recently intensified U.S. customs enforcement will affect this project? It affects demand for travel to the U.S.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742033 And the difficulty of crossing the border could de
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Travel Press Is Reporting a Drop in Tourism to the United States(frommers.com)
22 points by hackuser 10y ago|8 comments
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The risk of death in a vehicle far exceeds that of gun violence. Per the CDC: * Motor vehicle traffic deaths: 33,804 * Firearm deaths: 33,736 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm > If you're ta
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by hackuser 10y ago
> we should just keep them small and out of the way Large businesses also cause colossal problems when unregulated. Consider the Great Depression and Great Recession, the two greatest economic calamities of the last century. The answer t
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by hackuser 10y ago
> This is probably a simple mix-up What basis is there for concluding that? Also, apparently Rousso has been traveling to the US for years, presumable sometimes in the same circumstances, without a problem.
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by hackuser 10y ago
We lack quantitative data, but the article has an expert practitioner's impression: [Immigration attorney Jason] Mills said the treatment Mr. Rousso experienced was unusual, but representative of a shift in how some border agents are
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by hackuser 10y ago
That struck me too: Are there leading modern entrepreneurs who are as non-materialistic? I recall hearing of several in prior generations. (Also, sometimes those stories are merely marketing, and they have a personal chef and private jet to
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by hackuser 10y ago
I can see how that could happen, but the reality is that it doesn't. The people controlling oil today are almost all the same as the ones controlling it since 1979, Saddam Hussein being the big exception I can think of.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> How did they test the $10 million dollar system empirically? Did they send it on 500 missions before it was certified? My point is that there are other methods of assurance; one of them is additional investment in reliability, somethin
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by hackuser 10y ago
Here's a leading scientist's description of peer review: Peer review works superbly to separate valid science from nonsense, or, in [Thomas] Kuhnian terms, to ensure that the current paradigm has been respected. It works less wel
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Thus, $4.1 trillion in consumer debt works out to $12,638 per person. > The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States was worth 18036.65 billion (about $18 trillion) US dollars in 2015. That is about $55,424 per person. Anot
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by hackuser 10y ago
> you test both of them on the same flight That seems too simple to me. Can they afford to test enough rockets to empirically validate an acceptable failure rate for high-reliability components? If it should fail 1/500 flights, for
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by hackuser 10y ago
> You can built it for far less, but you can't get it approved as safe You can build anything for less. Safety isn't a regulation issue, it's an issue of harming human beings. I'm very glad for those regulations.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Hmmm ... people controlling oil arguably have more power in the world, and possibly more wealth, than people controlling anything else.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Related, from Mozilla: * The end of SHA-1 on the Public Web https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/02/23/the-end-of-sha-... As announced last fall, we’ve been disabling SHA-1 for increasing numbers of F
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The working class is living better than at any other time in history On the larger scale of history, yes. I don't think working class people are necessarily doing better than a few decades ago, when they had stronger unions and mo
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by hackuser 10y ago
Great point.
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by hackuser 10y ago
This is a question I sometimes wonder about, but haven't found an answer. Libraries deal with this issue, sometimes called digital preservation. A data dump is below; I've collected the info with the idea of looking into it later.
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NY Times confidential tips page: 50-100 tips/day, about half possibly newsworthy(poynter.org)
5 points by hackuser 10y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 10y ago
I agree with the main thrust of your statement. My understanding from my synthesis of reading the experts is that the U.S.' current economic success and international power comes down to: 1) Political stability and the rule of law: No

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