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by iron0013 6y ago
This is one of my favorite stories. The fisherman survivors (not mentioned in this scientific account?) riding the megatsunami experienced something rarer than walking on the moon.
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by iron0013 6y ago
What they actually do is give data to law enforcement when users make violent and terroristic threats, which is what the right-wing users described in the article did. I know this because I read the article. Reading the article is usually a
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by iron0013 6y ago
Presumably only if they make violent and terroristic threats like the right-wing subjects of the article did. The valence of their political beliefs is irrelevant, making the headline highly misleading.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Somehow I suspect that the folks at the USPS have put at least as much thought into the logistics of mail delivery as HN commenters in this thread have—maybe even a little more if such a thing can be conceived!
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by iron0013 6y ago
According to mail carriers, the actual result is an ever-growing backlog of undelivered mail. The first mail to be delayed may only be one day late, but as the backlog grows, the undelivered mail gets later and later on average.
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by iron0013 6y ago
If the intentional mail slowdowns were evenly distributed that would be true, but if some areas (eg cities in battleground states) are targeted for heavier service disruptions, then the postal sabotage will have the desired effect of decrea
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by iron0013 6y ago
Pretty facile analysis. Boxes are being removed from the blue parts of Montana (which definitely do exist, it’s a much more purple state than most people think), and Montana’s senatorial race is close this year. In any case, this is happeni
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Dozens of Montana USPS drop boxes removed(nbcmontana.com)
71 points by iron0013 6y ago|15 comments
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The Ten Scariest Election Scenarios, According to Experts(slate.com)
8 points by iron0013 6y ago|0 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
This has nothing to do with the article.
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by iron0013 6y ago
This submission has been effectively sabotaged by its title having been replaced with a much less interesting title.
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by iron0013 6y ago
If you are interested in using causal inference in actual research practice rather than just talking about it in theory, this book (and not anything by Judea Pearl, for example) is the way to go! An earlier draft of this book was absolutely
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How Pro-Trump Forces Work the Refs in Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
7 points by iron0013 6y ago|0 comments
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Contingency Planning for Presidential Interference with the Election(lawfareblog.com)
2 points by iron0013 6y ago|1 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
Here in Minneapolis the feeling is similar. Suburban and rural folks seem awfully concerned about crime in the city, while those of us who actually live in the city just want the cops’ boots off our damn necks.
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I Was a Useful Idiot for Capitalism(theatlantic.com)
55 points by iron0013 6y ago|3 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
The actual title of this article is “Facebook Fired An Employee Who Collected Evidence Of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment”
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by iron0013 6y ago
Inauspicious first couple of comments. Might want to burn this one and move on to the next account on the list. Try starting more subtly next time; ease in with a few banal comments on a Rust thread or something
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by iron0013 6y ago
^ it’s neat to see a sleeper account being brought out of dormancy. Be interesting to see what you have to say between now and November 3.
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by iron0013 6y ago
The way their clothes fit on them isn’t really any of our business either
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Instagram 'bug' heavily favored Trump content over Biden for months(engadget.com)
7 points by iron0013 6y ago|1 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
He’s really milking it, isn’t he
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by iron0013 6y ago
Inside of a frog it’s too dark to read.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Sounds like they were engaging in straight-up slander—-even worse than if they had “cancelled” their victims, whatever that actually means.
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by iron0013 6y ago
This has been known for so long that the “Mozart effect” is routinely used as an example of bad science in undergrad psychological research methods courses.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Well, they have an ethical duty not to follow those orders. Since Nuremberg, at least, “just following orders” has not been considered an acceptable defense for having committed atrocities.
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by iron0013 6y ago
It’s a pretty important point to make in this historical moment: lies are not opinions, they are just lies.
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Anne Boyer – Freedom(anneboyer.substack.com)
1 points by iron0013 6y ago|0 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
It’s true. I would like to feel free to exercise my constitutionally protected right to protest in public, but instead I must now worry about being kidnapped by government goons in unmarked vehicles. This is an actual, textbook, flagrant 1s
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by iron0013 6y ago
Just activated your sleeper account, huh? How many of these do you have?

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