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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Abandoning subway lines is virtually unheard of, which is why this article exists in the first place.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
The BBC article is a summarizing a linked study reputable enough to be published in the Lancet. Also, the CCP is quite good at using brute force to impose its will within China, but they've been signally unsuccessful in crafting propag
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
How does a virus spread primarily by aerosols/droplets travel 7 miles across a city of 10 million people? Also, the first known confirmed case has no known connections to the Huanan market or the virology institute. https://
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
> the speed, efficiency, interoperability, and low cost associated with these products These are generally not considered features of Bitcoin.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
In larger companies management, HR and compensation are all separate teams, and a decent manager will be negotiating "with" you and "against" the other two to get your salary match.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I mean this in the kindest possible way: have you consulted a psychiatrist? Feeling like you are being persecuted by shadowy, all-powerful enemies is a common symptom of schizophrenia.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
It was blatantly obvious where his sympathies lay, so I read them with a grain of salt from day one. But florid (and occasionally hilarious) writing style aside, I have no reason to doubt the factual content of his reports, which repeatedl
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Quite unexpected! Like many HNers who followed Craig Murray's reporting of the trial (see below), I thought Judge Baraitser was a compliant puppet and the extradition to the US was preordained. Will be interesting to see his take on t
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I suspect the fact that it's very densely populated and extremely expensive to live in has more to do with it. Couples can generally only afford to move out into their own apartments in their thirties, and the ancillary costs of schoo
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Activists are already cracked down plenty. Here's one currently under criminal investigation for holding up a sign with a smiley face (and nothing else) on it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55068007
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I moved from Europe to the US as a teenager, and I remember being shocked at the evident shock, decay and poverty I saw even in what was supposed to be a large and prosperous city (New York). It took me a long time to realize that this is h
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I hope this original is published as a book. (This is actually fairly common for journalism in the New Yorker.)
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Lucky Dragon Nr 5 (Daigo Fukuryu Maru)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
It's hard to justify $47k for the Zoe when you can get a similarly sized Honda Jazz or Mazda 2 for well under $20k.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
> the longer it exists, the better the data will become . This is unfortunately not a given. The world changes constantly, and things like having up to date coverage of restaurants require an immense amount of essentially ephemeral wor
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
They're building a new highway from Magadan to Chukotka, which will be 1800 km through some of the most fearsome territory known to man. It will only cover a small portion of the route to Petropavlovsk though. https://en.wi
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
In Gulag Archipelago , Solzhenitsyn notes that denying prisoners the right to go to the bathroom during lengthy interrogations was a standard tactic, and a surprisingly effective one. The shame of soiling ourselves is so deeply ingrained
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Why do you have button X if you're not supposed to tap it? Will all your users read, understand and follow your instructions?
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
"Medium of exchange" is standard terminology in economics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_of_exchange
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
The word "media" has become shorthand for "communications media". While correct in the original Latin, trying to use "media" as the plural for "medium" in any other context in English is jarring.
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As 2021 dawns, Israel becomes first country to vaccinate 10% of population(timesofisrael.com)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Except the last part didn't actually happen: their plan to sell stock was cancelled after the SEC told them off. https://fortune.com/2020/06/17/hertz-stock-suspended-offerin...
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Misleading title. The article is not saying we need more than equal safety; it's saying that self-driven vehicles are perceived as more dangerous and people in the study wanted them to be 4-5x safer than human-driven vehicles to o
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
It's worth remembering that normal life in Afghanistan includes toddlers freezing to death at refugee camps. It's one of the world's poorest countries, and has many problems that are worse than COVID. https://nyti
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Anybody living on the Bay Area is painfully well aware that there are seriously sketchy neighborhoods. It's probably more an issue of data: there are no street-by-street crime maps for most of the world, and neither can Google feasibl
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Weekend Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Soemthing seems to have been lost in translation here? The "Road of Bones" is indeed infamously bad, but it's also the only road between these two extremely remote locations, I don't see how else Google could route th
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Is there? I thought Bitcoin hodlers tilted more towards the Lambos, hookers and coke end of the spectrum, at least aspirationally.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
(Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
No, the authors are debunking the popular theory that poor people are poor because they don't have the skills/gumption needed to not be poor. Turns out that when you give them a productive asset (a cow) that lets them be not-poor

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