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by hnfong 3y ago
Not the only reason, but shitty food is generally cheaper to produce. Modern history is full of examples where corporations strive upon making people suffer.
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by hnfong 3y ago
The charitable (and more reasonable) way to interpret 'loving your tools' is not 'liking your tools intensely' but rather 'don't enter into an exclusive romantic relationship with your preferred tools'. Ge
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by hnfong 3y ago
> “Don't complain that Chinese is ugly and unreadable just because you speak English as your native tongue.” The analogy here slightly breaks down since there are billions of people who speak and read Chinese already , while appare
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by hnfong 3y ago
A paper should have enough information for an independent researcher to reproduce the results. Otherwise, years later, if the author dies, the paper would be basically worthless for reproduction. (We're still talking about reproducibil
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by hnfong 3y ago
A related idea: "Win32 (via wine) Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
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by hnfong 3y ago
If they fire everyone from the acquired company in one go, it sounds more like a giant hemorrhage than a thousand small cuts...
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by hnfong 3y ago
I think we're basically on the same page, diverging only on speculative items. Do note that the fact that CPS prosecuted cases does not mean the CPS didn't throw out dubious cases. We only know the ones they did prosecute, but we
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by hnfong 3y ago
To be fair they are slowly making their institutions conform to a more democratic outlook. For example, their Supreme Court finally moved out of the House of Lords in 2009... (so much for "separation of powers" before that, even
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by hnfong 3y ago
The key "complaints" of GP, as I understand them, are that being simultaneously the victim and prosecutor, the prosecutor-as-victim is more incentivized to use heavy handed tactics during the prosecution process. Whereas a generic
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by hnfong 3y ago
Another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947580
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Is it legally differentiated if they respond to the reporter? Nobody knows. But between taking an unknown legal risk, vs being seen as ungrateful, the choice for legal is quite clear.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Unless the "hero" is law enforcement or some other government agent with a warrant, he will likely have broken a bunch of laws by breaking into a person's house uninvited, and not very likely rewarded. That's modern soci
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by hnfong 3y ago
> give them an option to pay a consulting fee for the discovery in exchange for NOT publishing the exploit (after it has been fixed) I'm not making any moral judgments, but purely from a legal perspective this sounds dangerously lik
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by hnfong 3y ago
In my comment I originally considered writing "people want concrete answers, now "... I totally agree that for important issues more research is always needed when one needs to resort to Bayesian analysis, but sometimes for polic
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by hnfong 3y ago
The whole point of priors is that everyone can have different ones. If the priors don't affect the results too much (due to a huge amount of evidence), then you can just get the same results using frequentist methods.
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by hnfong 3y ago
There's big company and there's BIG company. # Market caps: Target 64.99B Sony ~116B (I think) TI 152B BMW ~70B Fedex 62B Mitsubishi ~70B Exxon 396B Home Depot 343B Siemens 141B P&G 349B 3M 60B Nestle ~290B Broadcom 501B ... A
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by hnfong 3y ago
It can be more sinister. (Disclaimer I'm not a scientist) Apparently in scientific circles, people can shoot down new claims by saying it doesn't have enough evidence, while the "default/fallback position" (held by
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by hnfong 3y ago
I totally agree, but even good bayesianists still can't deal with the problem that people want concrete answers , and they don't accept "it depends on your priors"... :-/
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by hnfong 3y ago
I think "ignoring it" is unnecessarily imputing bad faith. But ignorance is a thing, even for authorities. There's a difference between a person/institution having no evidence of X, and no evidence of X in general . So,
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by hnfong 3y ago
The problem (in your case) about religion is when one side wants to convince the other side. For example, I have personal "spiritual" revelations that I acknowledge nobody in their right mind would believe unless they witnessed&#x
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by hnfong 3y ago
The problem is that when public figures come out and say "there's no evidence...", they aren't assuming the public are smart and capable of understanding nuance and able to fill in gaps. At least in the COVID context, th
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by hnfong 3y ago
The problem with your argument is that there are already hundreds if not thousands of alien abduction reports. (They probably didn't have turnips though, I hope that wasn't the point.) The problem here isn't whether this is s
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by hnfong 3y ago
In English common law, this is called "taking judicial notice". It's usually for common-sensical things that aren't controversial. Of course, judges could misapply this rule, but if a judge is sitting on a blasphemy tria
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by hnfong 3y ago
I agree with the other replies that "true evidence must be verifiable" should only apply to scientific evidence. It's a fact that legal evidence in court does not need to be "verifiable". There are rules for what co
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by hnfong 3y ago
I think there are different types of claims and they require different approaches. For something purported to be factual and experienced personally (eg. did the accused assault the victim? did person experience alien abduction?), there&#x27
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by hnfong 3y ago
It seems to be due to conflicts/attacks in the Red Sea region arising from the Gaza conflict - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/what-is-the-re... Disclaimer: I learnt about this 3 minut
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by hnfong 3y ago
I think there's a lot of confusion about what records are needed presumably due to lack of understanding of what the law requires for proof of ownership. Generally the party asserting ownership has the burden of proof. The standard is
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by hnfong 3y ago
OP may also want to look at discussions like these to get a feel of the general market: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847978 These are anecdotal, so you might want to supplement with something more data-analytical,
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by hnfong 3y ago
No worries. If anything it means I somehow failed to get my point across in the first go. Much to learn. Thanks for giving me a chance to clarify.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Let me try again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24185710 - Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26485608 - Lost in Thought: Psychological

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