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by jds375 7y ago
I wonder if the popular HBO show Chernobyl will add any fuel to this fire. It paints nuclear power in a very bad light (albeit fairly — Chernobyl was horrific). I’m afraid it could cause some serious resistance to nuclear power, which could
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by jds375 7y ago
This article on the front page is causing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341855 Once I hid it, things worked fine. I believe it’s the long title that is causing the issue. They seem to be aware of it in that thr
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by jds375 7y ago
There are some potential downsides with the model that they are using with respect to the client-doctor relationship. See here for some more details: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/technology/for-him-
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by jds375 7y ago
Do you have any further references about what exact military installation was doing this and when? I’m reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and one of the main characters builds a mercury-based data analysis machine that reads punch car
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by jds375 8y ago
Id also recommend Cryptonomicon by Stephenson. Undersea cables is a major subject in the novel. It also touches on many things that have become relevant today despite the book being written 1999 (cryptocurrency, encryption, etc). https:&#x
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by jds375 8y ago
I don't think it's that simple and I don't see why it's a given that refs are bent. There is far more money at stake in maintaining the legitimacy of the the NBA (player salaries, tv deals, team valuations - all of these
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by jds375 8y ago
It's true there's a lot of money in sports betting, but there is even more money in the NBA (TV deals, player salaries, team valuations, etc). That larger sum of money would be existentially threatened by continued corruption with
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by jds375 8y ago
I would love to get more people's opinions on if this is still happening in the NBA and to what extent. Naturally, I would assume that this rarely happens still if ever. Modern methods of oversight and statistical methods ought to be e
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by jds375 8y ago
I totally understand what you’re saying, but at what point does it become “putting money under your mattress” versus using a bank? Yes a major outage that’s no fault of my own could take down my site - and that isn’t great. On the other han
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by jds375 8y ago
Because not every employee was complicit in that....... And those that weren’t most definitely DO deserve their PTO. The problem is when you say “same people” you’re just lumping everyone together and implying everyone at Buzzfeed news was
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by jds375 8y ago
Hopefully that doesn't get shut down anytime soon (it's actually owned by Lyft I think). That service is one of the few services I've seen over the past several years I've seen where I've gone "Wow, this is a g
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by jds375 8y ago
Agree with the point about tipping. As for why this is happening see https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-rest...
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by jds375 8y ago
That's definitely a good point; language would likely be much better than binary unless the aliens had some special capacity for binary (which I'm pretty sure was not the case)
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by jds375 8y ago
But it wasn't a human computer. It was a trisolarian computer made up of trisolarians that were alien beings that had the ability to do things like hyper-fast communication and always be truthful. Both of those traits could actually ma
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by jds375 8y ago
I actually disagree and have wondered myself how he got such a book published in China. He is very critical of China's history throughout the series and collectivism. Also the sophons seem (at least to me) to be a direct parallel to th
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by jds375 8y ago
Much of the content of that article is talked about in depth in Why We Sleep[1] (and much more) [1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
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by jds375 8y ago
Great explanation (even though you're not OP), makes sense now!
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by jds375 8y ago
Very interesting comment, thanks! Could you elaborate on what you mean by ‘evolution doesn’t abstract’? I did not totally understand what the example given had to do with abstraction
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by jds375 8y ago
They seem to suggest that it is being removed because it wasn’t being used. Does anyone else find that hard to believe? Obviously it’s totally antectodal, but I checked that EVERY time I logged onto Facebook. Just because people don’t click
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by jds375 8y ago
I actually completely agree with you (Enlightenment Now by Pinker provides excellent data backing all of this up). Our collective pessimism is actually a major problem I think. But to clarify, when I said “sure it’s bad now” I meant that in
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by jds375 8y ago
I agree. I’d guess that the downvoters are thinking along the lines of: - Sure it’s bad now, but the US military is made up of far more than just the president... many of which may be good, rational actors. - Just because it’s bad now doesn
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by jds375 8y ago
Obviously not EVERYONE is. I think it’s pretty clear that I mean most people are. Do you take everything literally? I doubt that strategy works well in the workplace or life
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by jds375 8y ago
Living in SF I think this is totally false. I see a bike on the street once in a blue moon (and it’s often someone riding extremely slow). Bikes literally don’t fit on most sidewalks and there are extremely clear bike lanes. Plus you can’t
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by jds375 8y ago
Just because a rule applies to more cases doesn’t mean it’s the best answer for a given case (or that we should prefer it over other rules). Consider this example that’s true for many cases, but overall not a sufficient proof https:/&
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by jds375 8y ago
After reading the comments in the linked google group it seems like the issue is that they just need to more clearly define (and perhaps more fairly) what ‘merit’ is. Each team/role should have this clearly defined to eliminate bias&#x
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The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now(nytimes.com)
447 points by jds375 8y ago|241 comments
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by jds375 8y ago
I completely agree. It’s super fascinating to think what other skills/practices that reasoning applies to as well (nutrition stands out the most to me). That being said, I don’t think your final comment is true (minus the part about fa
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by jds375 8y ago
This suggests to me the need of another Asilomar Conference whereby scientists can get atop regulation ahead of the game[1]. From the book The Gene, "Asilomar was different: here, scientists were alerting themselves to the perils of th
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Did T-Mobile Really Just Admit It Stores Customer Passwords in Plaintext?(gizmodo.com)
26 points by jds375 9y ago|0 comments
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by jds375 9y ago
I'm going to guess it's the potential the technology has. In the US in 2016 almost 40,000 people died in car accidents and millions were injured [1]. Also the average commute round trip in the US is almost an hour [2]. Self-drivin

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