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by hermannj314 9mo ago
A national "War on Data", a Data enforcement agency (DEA), and a Data Abuse Resistence Education (DARE) program and we should have this problem wrapped up in no time. Negative consequences and money always work!
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by hermannj314 9mo ago
From an article in 2021 regarding Lyft, 38% of sexual assault is passengers assaulting drivers. [1] Rep. Dingell says, "There is no trade-off that should be acceptable to Uber, considering the devastating impact of sexual assault"
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by hermannj314 9mo ago
If you could sit with the authors of this paper and let them know this valuable insight, what do you think they would change about their paper and its conclusion?
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by hermannj314 9mo ago
The school is tax-payer funded, but I don't get to know why every teacher called out sick. Government employees, contractors, etc. don't owe your curiousity satiety. We are buying their service, not their soul.
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by hermannj314 9mo ago
"Corporate welfare recipients that got free money to build data centers, testing the water on asking for more free money to hire employees." The cycle repeats: send jobs somewhere else, hold those jobs hostage until the government
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by hermannj314 9mo ago
If you can have a nom de plume to speak truth to power, why can't one have a visage de plume as well? I want future generations to have the power of anonymity, that some use that anonmyity for something I disagree with is precisely why
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
That is an excellent point. My recent coursework at Penn State, there were guardrails around cheating using Honor Lock, I am guessing a motivated student could find ways around it, but the system was better than trusting students to do the
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
It is incredibly trivial to stick a knife into human flesh. Triviality is not a dimension of ethics as far as I have come to understand it.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
For years we were told trans-oceanic communication was best done with messages in bottles and suddenly even those are being intercepted. Finally time to switch to protonmail.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
I learned something cool about cron filtering and a nice api I didn't know existed - date.nager.at
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
It is a snarky political jab. President Trump loves to pardon white collar criminals in exchange for donations. It is his whole thing and well documented.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
I am not qualified to interpret what that means in the context of Israeli law, America's equal protection clause seems to live in its own multiverse of interpretation, so I assume it is the same everywhere else.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
People with advanced degrees accumulate in those specific states, despite not significantly different rates of HS graduation from other states. Smart people, as measured by educational attainment, live in the NE coastal states and exception
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
I was offended and then I defined "exceptionally stupid" a few ways and all the statistics support this claim. I'm still offended though. Fucking a lot of smart people in Mass., Vermont, Conn., New York, Maryland, DC.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
I need to know the rates in the general driving population before I can assume driving high is dangerous.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
Don't do anything until you are an expert is excellent gatekeeping, fortunately this is hacker news so we can ignore the gatekeepers! I suggest people fuck around and find out, just limit your exposure. Spin up a VPS with nothing impo
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
Whether taxes, health insurance, the Church, or gofundme, technically all life saving care is mostly crowd-funded. Maybe not in some Wild West dystopia, but generally the pooling of funds seems to work better than solo funding. Involuntar
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
>>> Companies have told Canberra they will deploy a mix of age inference - estimating a user's age from their behaviour - and age estimation based on a selfie, alongside checks that could include uploaded identification docume
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
My belief is that late stage capitalism pushes democracies to fascism and the overton window requires politicians to break-up unpopular changes into a smaller changes. I am prognosticating why politicians would pretend to care about the me
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
Ban kids, implement identity verification checks, remove ban on kids, keep identity verification checks.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
HN does not and has not ever valued human input, it has always valued substantive, clever, or interesting thought. I am a human and more than half of what I write here is rejected. I say bring on the AI. We are full of gatekeeping asshole
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
$22 a month for YouTube Premium is what I pay. Donating 100% of my income (a number larger than $22/mo) was not the issue being discussed in this post.
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
You cancelled YouTube Premium because YouTube was trying to keep content creator income on pace with inflation?
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by hermannj314 10mo ago
The one thing that stirs the hearts and minds of the American people is a 67 page deep dive statistical analysis of an issue. If only Congress and Americans had access to more figures and math, then we would do the right thing. This paper
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by hermannj314 11mo ago
Reefer madness in the 1930s, comic books caused violence in the 1940s, Ozzy Osborne cause suicides in the 1980s, video games or social media or smart phones caused suicide in the 2010s. Anyway, now it is AI. This is super serious this time
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by hermannj314 11mo ago
The inital goal of counting every person for determining congressional appointments seems trivial in our modern surveillance state. I feel like we know this answer every minute of every day even without a census. I don't understand wh
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by hermannj314 11mo ago
Data centers don't create jobs, pit municipalities against one another in a race to the bottom, and typically demand abated taxes and almost never deliver a net positive for where they operate. But if you create a "water" mon
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by hermannj314 11mo ago
Can someone give an example of a law Montana passed or tried to pass that this law now prohibits a future legislature from passing? I don't like a legislature compelling a future legislature to not have power, isn't that really a
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by hermannj314 11mo ago
In HOI4, you got to level up your troops and generals with amphibious assault experience with a minor nation to prepare for the war with the major nation down the road. I like to think everything is about prepping for what happens when Chin
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by hermannj314 11mo ago
I didn't agree with this idea, but then I looked at how much HN karma you have and now I think that maybe this is a good idea.

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