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by jacobr1 6y ago
I was being serious. But perhaps I wasn't being clear. I'm certain _I_ and probably most everyone on HN could refute a flat-earther (or at least present a coherent case that undoubtable would be ignored). The question I was raisin
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by jacobr1 6y ago
Are there good studies that show this? Like a big survey of recovered bone/dental evidence over centuries? It certainly seems plausible to me, but I'd be fascinated to review the data and how it correlates to time and geography.
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by jacobr1 6y ago
Possible a timing/age issue. When I first encountered the antivaxers, it was in the late 90s with parents of children on the autistic spectrum grasping at whatever cause they could. Now it is pretty much just the kind of people that ar
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by jacobr1 6y ago
How many people could actually refute a flat earther? Or does the average person believe in a globular earth because “science” without detail or just because “everybody” knows it to be true?
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by jacobr1 6y ago
I'm pretty sure non-pecuniary damages are ground for civil cases in plenty of non-US jurisdictions.
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by jacobr1 6y ago
If the signs are just small set of cues for the most common phrases a police officer needs to convey, then why not just teach this as an ASL subset?
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by jacobr1 6y ago
I think more comparable examples might be: The symbol for 1 in different orthographies, such as: 1 I ١ ― 𒐕 一 etc ... The words for father/mother are often a bilabial and open syllable combination regardless of language family origin. T
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by jacobr1 6y ago
I once had to report an uber driver for watching a movie on his laptop. Almost scarier than the distraction watching the movie, was that every turn (or swerve) caused the laptop to slide on the dash and he'd reach way over the passenge
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by jacobr1 6y ago
That is another good point - having a passenger. Our Toyota has safety features prevent bringing up a keyboard (mainly for the gps to search for new locations while driving). The car needs to be stopped. For a solo driver this makes sense .
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by jacobr1 6y ago
An analogy might be chess with derided "computer moves." The aren't necessarily more complex that existing human heuristics, especially at the grandmaster level, but they lack at least one of several traditional "aesthet
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by jacobr1 6y ago
This isn't an argument for privatization, but the proposal from the OP are not the same as full an open free market. You still have the USPS responsible for ensuring delivery to the long-tail routes. That just gets bid out (probably at
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by jacobr1 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo... According to bloomberg the US has purchased 300M doses each of Moderna, Pfizer and AZ. That doesn't mean they actually have production capacity thoug
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by jacobr1 6y ago
I don't know, I get both recruiter emails as a hiring manager and as a potential hire. The majority them try to be familiar, each seems to fail with a different detail. Some guess my location incorrectly, or talk about a product launch
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by jacobr1 6y ago
The "right" solution is usually the one that models the underlying complexity of whatever phenomenon the the systems is addressing. If you make it simpler, inevitably you'll grow the system to address those use cases. Sometim
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by jacobr1 6y ago
It is another classic confusion between a definition in technical jargon (maybe even a formal definition) and the vernacular. Real-time for most people means "instantaneous," and definitions of latency are not considered. So it is
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by jacobr1 6y ago
> If you need a compiled language I would wager jvm/clr are probably the main competition for Go at least for product/tech companies and enterprise IT.
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by jacobr1 6y ago
It seems like Basic has been the closest we've come on a general purpose language with "easy to pick up features" (at least in widespread use)?
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by jacobr1 6y ago
This paper has an interesting take on the history: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442
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by jacobr1 6y ago
Are there any nearer-term concerns? Imagine we have large scale asteroid mining within the next century. Is there a point where the extra-mass matters on any reasonable timescale (hundreds of years) similar to the impact of industrializatio
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by jacobr1 6y ago
So how can you get the benefit of price-surge based supply without the social-inequality disruption? Minumum subsidized purchases (like first gal costs low-$, more at market rates)? Direct-to-citizen cash payments? "Community based pur
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by jacobr1 6y ago
There seem to be two cases. Rare, but on human scales regularly reoccurring disasters (hurricanes in the east, fires in the west, etc ...) and more-rare "black-swan" events, basically 100+ frequencies. The more regular disasters s
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by jacobr1 6y ago
The money was given out pretty indiscriminately (on purpose, they didn't want vetting to slow down the process). There has been massive fraud, but on the otherhand the benefits made a real difference to a lot of people at a time when t
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by jacobr1 6y ago
Also it is almost never for "funsies," it is instead usually the "wrong solution" to a very real problem. The current system has bad performance, or doesn't support some new use case that is a major company initiati
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by jacobr1 6y ago
There seem to have been a numbers of surveys of this, most citing Pew research, but I couldn't actually find a pew study to confirm it. I did find thus study that was a survey of grocery users: https://www.supermarketnews.co
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by jacobr1 6y ago
And a few wikipedia-like sites: wiktionary and wikidata in particular.
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by jacobr1 6y ago
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0
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by jacobr1 6y ago
If the point is the keep them as a nature preserve, their distance is probably a feature.
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by jacobr1 6y ago
I suspect most non-social-media writing more often suffers from longer, more complex sentences than those too short. The programing analogy might be cyclomatic complexity and separation of concerns. Examples abound of functions with overloa
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by jacobr1 6y ago
This is when I find good teachers/explainers switch to analogies - however imperfect they might be.
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by jacobr1 6y ago
And further than that, even if when do know most the pertinent details, the best way to communicate them is probably not the jumbled order it appears in your head, nor is it even some "logical" order (such a timeline or logical ar

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