jMyles

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by jMyles 2y ago
It's obvious to everyone that on sufficiently long time scales, there aren't going to be peculiar divisions of society who are solely responsible for enforcing laws, and who are given special powers and weapons to do that, right?
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by jMyles 2y ago
As always happens in these threads - and for good reason - let's be sure to mention the book "Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources", by M. Kat Anderson. I learned a
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by jMyles 2y ago
> do firefighters not get qualified immunity when acting in their official capacity? Putting the matter of settled law to one side, I think the discussion here is about criminal liability, not civil.
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by jMyles 2y ago
Yeah, it was an old kitchen cloth, washed many times, including freshly washed right before the incident. Do you think we'd be feeling any effects from the portion we already ate? If not, do you think that's a data point in favor
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by jMyles 2y ago
Well yeah, but does simmering on low for 8 hours and then removing constitute eating?
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Ask HN: I accidentally left a microfiber cloth in a pot of greens – safe to eat?
2 points by jMyles 2y ago|6 comments
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by jMyles 2y ago
Selection acts on viruses far faster than on humans. And this effect is observable to the naked eye at the population level, with multiple powerful examples in living memory. The comment to which you are responding is borderline nonsense i
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by jMyles 2y ago
Every single popular / well-funded take on this topic seems to focus entirely on quantity, and not at all on quality. There are many wonderful things for kids - even very young kids - to do on the internet, in collaboration / supe
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by jMyles 2y ago
Is this also your assessment of hku1? How about h3n2?
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by jMyles 2y ago
I think (hope?) we all agree that awareness of "long-covid" is important. But it's also entirely orthogonal to designations of a pathogen as being "over" or "not over". Coronaviruses have been with humani
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by jMyles 2y ago
Yes, it's a frustrating attitude. It's not only "long-lyme" patients who have been ignored or downplayed, but also many "long-covid" patients from the other four endemic coronaviruses, who have been reporting t
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by jMyles 2y ago
Yeah, the technical aspects of the subway shots in Seinfeld are interesting, and really give a sense of how hard everybody worked to make that show what it was. The first scenes to take place in a subway (to my knowledge, anyway) were in th
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by jMyles 2y ago
You know it's funny; I actually went back and forth several times on that part. I really just wanted to distinguish between city-states (and for that matter, cities), which, it seems obvious, have an easier time staying in their lane
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by jMyles 2y ago
> It's nice when you hear about our government doing something good for once. Critically, what the government is doing here is reducing its own authority with regard to information, the internet, and ultimately at some level, though
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by jMyles 2y ago
> the enumerated computational processing units are global transformations, while tampering is inherently a local, "contentful" transformation. This is a brilliant way to examine / explain the distinction.
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by jMyles 2y ago
I agree that it is an interesting configuration, but I also agree that it is click bait. The clickbait part is the "Turn your Android phone" bit. Of course you can turn your Android phone into <x>, where <x> is a USB-
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by jMyles 2y ago
I've been engineering (mostly backend but lots of full stack too) web technologies for almost two decades. Not the world's greatest sage maybe, but I have some solid contributions to open source web frameworks, have worked on pro
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by jMyles 2y ago
> The underlying social forces can't be eliminated from the equation ...nor is that desirable, or a goal of decentralization. Quite the contrary.
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The unlikely shared origins of bluegrass and blockchains [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jMyles 2y ago|0 comments
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by jMyles 2y ago
> the wanton abandonment of the rule of law we see in that space in practice This applies only to the laws of the legacy states, not the laws of mathematics. Blockchains are a highly lawful place in this sense.
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by jMyles 2y ago
I'm interested to try, and to figure out where those limitations are, rather than to just shut down discussion for lack of proper credentials. I honestly don't know whether, for example, a deer carcass is a potentially destabilizi
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by jMyles 2y ago
> But the OP doesn’t really state any sources not does the argument have a ton of merit Agreed; I just think that it's better for the discussion to proceed on that basis.
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by jMyles 2y ago
HN is one of the few places on there internet where, more often than not, assessments and arguments are mostly integrated based on their merits, logic, and referenced sources, rather than the credentials of the author of the comment.
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by jMyles 2y ago
I was particularly moved by the importance of basket-weaving, and how many different aspects of ecological balance were kept by this one practice.
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by jMyles 2y ago
I cannot strongly enough suggest the book "Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources" by M. Kat Anderson. It was suggested to me in a comment here on HN, though I cannot
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by jMyles 2y ago
...we're not talking about force-feeding someone a fifth of whiskey here. A stable, thoughtful, trained scientist, in the company of supportive and emotionally intelligent colleagues, does not present a significant risk when fed a norm
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by jMyles 2y ago
> the first one to drop acid in space Seems unlikely we'll ever definitely now, but I suspect that whomever does it next won't be the first (or second, or third).
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by jMyles 2y ago
Sorry; I was unclear. I meant that the ransomware admins need to be reliable and responsive.
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by jMyles 2y ago
We're getting closer and closer to a situation where some jurisdiction eschews so-called "intellectual property" altogether, and then houses essentially of the data on the internet. What will happen then? Will other states at
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by jMyles 2y ago
> better than the contracted support I get from Microsoft. ...that's a pretty low bar. It seems to me that they'd have to be quite reliable and responsive to be able to routinely collect.

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