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by hashmap 7y ago
> I'm of the opinion that if we suppress it, it doesn't go away. When it comes back, it's much harder to control. The available evidence says the opposite is true. http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/
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by hashmap 7y ago
That is a good point, I would say there is a good case for an "Uber tax" in any city that sees heavy use.
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by hashmap 7y ago
Those silly legislators. Trying to pass laws to solve problems.
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by hashmap 7y ago
Right. It means you can't be forced to say anything - Facebook is under no obligation to proliferate things these people want to post.
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by hashmap 8y ago
Saying "the Nazis had doctors, therefore the lawn signs today are actually worse than religious atrocities of the past" is an equally unconvincing argument.
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by hashmap 8y ago
Comparing book burning, jailing, and being murdered to getting made fun of on internet dot com is just not compelling. The whole "but science is just as bad as religion" argument rings quite hollow.
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by hashmap 8y ago
eh. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-debun...
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by hashmap 8y ago
They manage to do it (just sound, not keypresses) with a 60fps DSLR camera at the end by examining the rows of the video - does this mean that for any videos already in existence, sound can be decoded from the images?
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by hashmap 8y ago
If a nurse was comin at me with a lethal dose of morphemes.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheme Yeah, still way more pleasant than any suicide I could manage on my own.
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by hashmap 8y ago
Losing an hour of sleep is bad for you, and having a mandated lost hour of sleep every year could be more than just bad for some people: https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/heart-health/why-daylight-...
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by hashmap 8y ago
It favors hn links that have a low squabble index. > This site scrapes Hacker News once every 30 minutes, then sorts according to this formula, with upvotes as positive signals and comments as negative ones. In my experience, the best ar
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by hashmap 8y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615297/ This study says earthquake precursor movements send signals into the ionosphere, that cause other signals to propagate to earth, which can make objects vi
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by hashmap 9y ago
Man, what a mishmash of non sequiturs, bad reading of charts, inability to research, and lack of scientific understanding; sure, the data may not be fake, but the words are stupid: > There is absolutely no evidence that humans are having
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by hashmap 9y ago
That certainly would be news to the IPCC https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm... And innumerable scientists who are in the business of documenting the climate change they observe.
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by hashmap 9y ago
Reduced exposure to lead probably has something to do with it. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/08/childhood-lead... "This means that lead exposure is likely to be associated not just with viol
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by hashmap 10y ago
When individual comments on Reddit or HN get voted up, they cease to be sample bias and become a reflection of the community's opinion. That's what these sites do . I guarantee you'd never see a comment like that voted up on
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by hashmap 10y ago
Second comment from the top, "Women are gold diggers." Screencapping this for when HN's users claim they don't make the tech space awful for women.
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by hashmap 11y ago
Slamming something that causes no one inconvenience but can save some people a lot of pain is so weird.
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by hashmap 12y ago
From Wikipedia - > The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET)[1] has defined "engineering" as: >The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop st
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by hashmap 13y ago
The whole "disincentive to work" idea is preposterous. If you get $2000 a month for free, do you still want more money or not? It goes without saying that you do. People will always want more money. If this "disincentive&qu
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by hashmap 13y ago
The statement does not refer to how states may pay their debts - it refers to their power to issue currencies. "...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts... " means states cannot issue their own cur
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by hashmap 13y ago
This is willful ignorance. What drug kingpin would ever be morally against theft? Does the fact that this trade is being done via the internet imply that these groups have all adopted some kind of code of honor? DPR of SR1 put out hits on p
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by hashmap 13y ago
"The US government is cracking down on companies that scam millions of dollars out of people looking for jobs, WHERE'S THE FREEDOM??" Come on, man.
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by hashmap 13y ago
What are you talking about? A "free market" encourages exactly this behavior! If it weren't illegal it would go on indefinitely.
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by hashmap 13y ago
It isn't though - it's a way to illustrate Bitcoin's usefulness as a currency as "worse than gold." I'd put bitcoin's inherently deflationary nature, inability to perform chargebacks, vulnerability to self