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by hsod 9y ago
Yes, the reaction is appropriate. You seem to agree that this is malicious action, so your position is kind of hazy. > People have been whipped up into a frenzy for data that a webapp wouldn't blink twice at collecting. But when it&
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by hsod 9y ago
I generally think HN'ers are too quick to boycott, but this seems like a level of malicious action that will be very difficult to recover from, both for Kite and it's principals (including the maintainers who sold out their user b
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by hsod 9y ago
They bust the guy for pawning a laptop he stole from his girlfriend's father for 150$. He claims to have $34.6 million in stolen BTC. The article addresses this contradiction superficially-- the police say he couldn't access his B
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by hsod 9y ago
I see it as more of an opportunistic application of solipsism under the guise of skepticism. Using doubt and uncertainty as a weapon to avoid responsibility or accountability. If the truth isn't on your side, attack the very concept of
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by hsod 9y ago
> In my personal experience, when fact checking political fact checking, three out of the four claims I investigated turned out to be highly misleading. Usually it was by the person doing the fact checking leveraging the fact that people
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by hsod 9y ago
I saw on Twitter that the public defender who discovered this emailed all the other local criminal defense lawyers and told them to dig on any case that involved testimony from any of these three cops.
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by hsod 9y ago
Yes. This was true before and after the hard fork. Seems like common sense to me, but I guess it's a good thing that the hard fork happened because it educated people that this is possible.
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by hsod 9y ago
For anyone else curious, MWe stands for "megawatt electric". The average American home uses very roughly 1000 watts on average [0], so a 500 MWe plant serves very roughly 500,000 American homes. [0]: https://www.eia.gov
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by hsod 9y ago
Or maybe you're minimizing a real issue due to anti-marketing bias.
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by hsod 9y ago
OP said "I hope" so I'm not sure how applicable your correction is here.
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by hsod 9y ago
I tried out CodeStar a month or so ago and it was decidedly not ready for primetime. In particular, I recall it being absurdly difficult to debug/troubleshoot failing builds.
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by hsod 9y ago
Trump and his supporters are the proximate cause, and it does help to identify that.
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by hsod 9y ago
I think skeptics uncover truth, while solipsists spread uncertainty.
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by hsod 9y ago
When does skepticism become solipsism?
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by hsod 9y ago
I'd love a more passive version of Pokemon Go. I very quickly got tired of walking around with my face buried in my phone, or having to leave it open and unlocked when walking to hatch eggs. I'd love an AR game which gathered your
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by hsod 9y ago
context?
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by hsod 9y ago
Just because it's critical of a large group of people doesn't mean it's wrong.
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by hsod 9y ago
Keeping a secret is not necessarily unethical, deception is (with the same caveats as above). For instance, your employer isn't ethically obligated to tell you how much money your co-workers make. However, if they do tell you, they
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by hsod 9y ago
I addressed this pretty directly in my second paragraph. Some people are interested in behaving ethically even in the face of unethical behavior. It is absolutely a double standard, but one that a person willingly applies to themselves.
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by hsod 9y ago
Ethical behavior generally requires honesty and forthrightness. If you are only concerned about your own ethical behavior, you should tell them. Keeping it a secret is effectively lying. If you want to do some ethical calculus, you can prob
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by hsod 9y ago
Probably via their smart phones
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by hsod 9y ago
The article itself seems to be a pretty even-handed summary of some the underlying research (which was not carried out by Jeff Bezos).
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by hsod 9y ago
Are you talking about this part? It seems a pretty thin statement on which to rest an allegation of obstruction. "The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate on December 5th,
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by hsod 9y ago
Except in the author's own narrative, Uber explicitly acknowledges that a trip and a theft took place during the first court date.
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by hsod 9y ago
That's not true at all, in the narrative of the first trial the author makes it very clear that Uber did not deny that the trip or theft happened: "The one good thing that he did was he did not deny the contents or existence of my
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by hsod 9y ago
I'm saying the article is muddled and unclear, not Uber. > "The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate on December 5th, 2016, just after 11 PM, and the driver had no
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by hsod 9y ago
Is it? "It was later asserted that they reached out to the police detective to clear this up. They found the information and tried to contact the detective with all the information." "If you are curious as to when this happe
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by hsod 9y ago
Interesting story, but I think it was a bit unfair to Uber. I'm glad this guy was made whole, but I'm not sure Uber's reluctance to paying you 4000 dollars because a driver stole your backpack qualifies as corruption. From wh
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by hsod 9y ago
What does the car-buying public think those folks in blue suits are doing at the front of the plane?
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by hsod 9y ago
Perhaps in some cases a broad consensus mechanism (like hard fork) is preferable to putting it in the hands of 12 random people.

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