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by hammock 4mo ago
Did we ever get a vaccine for trench foot?
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“Freedom works for me but I want to also control millions of other people, for the good of me and their own good since they don’t know any better”
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by hammock 4mo ago
This is a solid point and the only answer to it I can think of is that execution is 99x harder than ideas. Even if you enumerate everything someone else trying to use it is still going to muck it up
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by hammock 4mo ago
This administration might be the exception, but it is actually normal for the US military to be getting more vaccines than average, even when their effectiveness is suspect (some past flu vaccines) or side effects are moderate to severe (e.
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by hammock 4mo ago
> A genius student who had never been taught those subjects wouldn't even know what the symbols meant. This is pedantic. Take it to the logical next step. Words and letters are symbols too. How would someone who can’t read do on the
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by hammock 4mo ago
> OMG. Calculators are useless on the SAT anyway. No, they removed all the non-calculator “thinking” and “logic” math questions. It’s calculator stuff now. They really nerfed the crap out of the SAT. It’s so soft
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by hammock 4mo ago
Everything you’re saying makes me so mad
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> I don't buy the notion that tests do not test relevant skills. In my long career I've noticed a strong correlation between SAT scores and academic performance as well as job performance. SAT tests intelligence (aptitude), not
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by hammock 4mo ago
> Would you want a pilot on your flight who flunked flying school exams, but somehow "really knew how to fly! Sure, just not in the cockpit
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by hammock 4mo ago
The SAT is actually a lot easier today than it was when most of us took it. It is an hour or more shorter in length, the long reading passages have been replaced with short paragraphs, calculators are allowed, and vocabulary has been remove
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by hammock 4mo ago
> I hope the USA goes down, fast... Realest comment in this entire post
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by hammock 4mo ago
What specifically are they going to make in this fab?
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> It's clear to me that in order to get a billion, you have to swidle a lot of people out of their fair share of the billion. For those who are sympathetic to this idea, look no further than China. They have a very good system (supe
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by hammock 4mo ago
Markets have growth rates the same way that products do.
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by hammock 4mo ago
Having been on HN for 15+ years I have found it fascinating to witness the fawning and adulation over pg blog posts completely reverse and everyone has turned on him now. It used to be if you criticized anything in his blogs you’d get downv
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by hammock 4mo ago
Halfway through your second paragraph you started conflating income with wealth/capital. The wealth controlled by a startup investor becomes earned income, in your words, when the founder receives pay for their work, in the form of
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by hammock 4mo ago
And Mumbai. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=924979063386109
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by hammock 4mo ago
Imagine thinking you can build an all inclusive resort or other 8fig+ development in a foreign backwater and NOT kick back revenues to the local mafia. Couldn’t be me. Good luck with that Even Zuckerberg paid in an extra 10% ($20 million)ov
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by hammock 4mo ago
> Don't forget that resorts et al typically belong to international capital. What does the local economy get out of it? Same goes for any natural resource. Oil, precious metals, water, etc. Globalization feeds this behavior, but tha
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by hammock 4mo ago
Is this meant to be an anti-Jewish remark? Or just eugenicist more generally
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by hammock 4mo ago
At a restaurant it’s hard because people use way too much and it’s expensive stuff. A solution could be tiny packaged packets of it, the way they do with butter (in part for much the same reason)
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by hammock 4mo ago
Sounds like a blown capacitor
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by hammock 4mo ago
AI review is never going to beat a fully resourced human review. It might beat an underresourced human review, on time, efficiency, cost metrics. But on the metric of accuracy, throwing unlimited humans at a problem will still beat throwing
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by hammock 4mo ago
You seem to have forgotten to answer the question of an example. Or when you said “they sure do” did you mean “they possibly do,” since no example is available but you can’t rule it out?
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by hammock 4mo ago
By all reports, the USA only has agreements not to spy on Five Eyes (plus secretly, Israel). Germany is not in that group. Ally has nothing to do with it. And it sounds like you are setting up an untestable claim. Can’t help you there. Beli
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by hammock 4mo ago
That speaks to my comment (which was not sufficiently specified I guess) but it does not speak to “the USA spies on Israel” which is what I was replying to
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by hammock 4mo ago
> They sure do Do you have an example?
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Ah I forgot writing has magic powers. Especially between nation states. /s In this case the writing part is not important.
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Since the 1951 Angleton-Harel Secret Pact, there has been an unwritten agreement that CIA and Mossad will not spy on each others countries. Kiriakou (who is a wonk) confirmed as much in recent remarks. But no one without at least a TS real
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by hammock 4mo ago
Same reason that FISA Amendments Act (2008) was passed less than two years after Mark Klein revealed Room 641A. Same reason that CISA (2015) was passed less than two years after the Snowden revelations. Once the secrets are open, the feds c

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