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by jgeada 3y ago
Define "accident". There are very few circumstances where correct attentive driving technique ends up as an "accident". Most so called accidents are not "accidental". It had a predictable causation chain caused
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by jgeada 3y ago
It doesn't help that vehicular manslaughter is basically not punished at all in the US. You can run over a pedestrian or cyclist due to inattention or dangerous driving and get away with a no-jail sentence of community service of 60 da
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by jgeada 3y ago
It is wild that this is the take. This eep distrust of government is at the root of many American problems. It is deliberately created and fed, and it directly leads to some truly awful results: bad education, bad healthcare, virtually no p
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by jgeada 3y ago
Do not migrate into a country if you're not prepared to adopt their culture. Seems straightforward to me.
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by jgeada 3y ago
There are roundabouts in England that are just a painted white circle in the middle of the intersection. Those work once the population knows how to handle roundabouts though. In the US, people barely comprehend regular roundabouts and in m
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by jgeada 3y ago
Today I learned that according to NY Times: "That all changed in 1974, when a business school student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Paul Kalikstein came up with an idea. American consumers would probably get over s
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by jgeada 3y ago
This is something I fundamentally don't understand; it seems that American jurisprudence optimizes for "ignorance" and "deniability", rather than prudence and responsibility. Seems the rich and powerful get given ca
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Billions of crabs went missing around Alaska. Scientists now know why(cnn.com)
7 points by jgeada 3y ago|2 comments
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by jgeada 3y ago
Even the deep ocean is now seeing heat waves, and that is causing snow crabs to starve due to increased caloric needs, as well as increased depredation from species that previously couldn't reach them due to the cold temperatures
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by jgeada 3y ago
That's a bit like claiming that an astrophysicist needs to understand astrology to make informed nuanced claims. That is obviously absurd, it is the people making outlandish claims with zero concrete evidence that need to prove their c
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by jgeada 3y ago
Quoting from the article "Newton's theory of gravitation, while incomplete over vast distances and enormous speeds, is perfectly suitable for the Solar System. Halley's Comet appears punctually as Newton's theory of grav
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by jgeada 3y ago
I think you missed the entire point of the essay. You should actually read it. Science is incremental, revolutions in science mostly just adjust the edges of our knowledge, at more and more extreme corner cases (extreme high energies, extre
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by jgeada 3y ago
Hard in this forum frequently means technically hard, but I think in this context you mean "politically hard". I do not think there is a major technical problem, at the core the easiest solution is to just stop collecting arbitrar
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by jgeada 3y ago
It's an MIT press release. Technique probably doesn't work at any interesting distance, but this way they can make it sound as if they've discovered something incredible without ever having to acknowledge that they know it wo
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by jgeada 3y ago
Not sure it is unique, but it is certainly a very real property of the system. In many cases, the point isn't to ever get to trial, it is just to exhaust the finances, resources or time for the other party. It has been manipulated over
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by jgeada 3y ago
There is an easy way to fix this: make the companies collecting the data be criminally liable for any misuse or leaks of this data. Something with teeth, such x% of total revenue, not our current “sorry, we leaked your data, tough for you”
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by jgeada 3y ago
It is unfortunate that the modern retirement, in the US, is "work until you're incapable of working", then survive your last lingering years using up whatever savings you managed to stash away. Yes, it was always thus for the
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by jgeada 3y ago
According to Freaknomics, realtors get about 3% higher average closing prices on their own properties than when they're representing you as a customer. That is the delta when it is their money on the line vs yours.
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by jgeada 3y ago
Most managers I encountered sooner or later would get an MBA, particularly as they made it further up the corporate ladder. Yes, it makes sense to get the specialized training being management needs, but an MBA almost never is that training
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by jgeada 3y ago
Professional managers, particularly American MBA types is what destroys businesses. Not KPIs, Agile, Scrum or whatever the fad of the moment to blame may be. Management is a service task, it does not produce value itself. Good management is
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by jgeada 3y ago
Even if you identify as a US Democrat, you're likely right of center most anywhere in Europe.
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by jgeada 3y ago
That's simple: Ivy schools are mostly for $$$ to schmooze with other $$$, with a thin veneer of actually talented kids that had to pass insurmountable odds to get in. The talented kids are there to make the $$$ think they're also
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by jgeada 3y ago
I am not sure we disagree, as I proposed no solution. I certainly wouldn't trust or give politicians the ability to censor what they don't like. As I said, this is a hard problem. No individual should be censored. But, as with mos
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by jgeada 3y ago
America's notion of freedom of speech was designed at time when we thought humans would prefer truth over "truthiness". Turns out none of that was true, or only true for a small subset of the population. No other country runs
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by jgeada 3y ago
The building is the easy part, almost trivial part. Getting the enough ASML machines to supply a fab for an advanced process (and they have a backlog that is almost a decade long), starting up the whole complex logistical process to feed th
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by jgeada 3y ago
I think you mean cocó (Portuguese/Brazilian for shit, mostly used by little kids; adults use a different word) I love it when people are incensed on my behalf on things I actually don't care about.
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by jgeada 3y ago
I am European and my name and surnames would not render. Most English speakers can't even pronounce my name correctly, which bugs me slightly more than the name not rendering correctly in a computer. But I still don't see this as
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by jgeada 3y ago
For reference, my actual name and original languages cannot be spelled without some Unicode. And I am still the OP that said I'd prefer to turn Unicode off, or at very least have very tight leash on what it is allowed to do The reasoni
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by jgeada 3y ago
OK, in the entirety of my computer usage, I never have had a need to render of unicode in all of its oddities. I would love to have a setting that just turns off all of Unicode permanently. If something arrives with unicode I'd rathe
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by jgeada 3y ago
Nobody is comparing against Bangladesh. They're comparing against India, China, Brazil, etc.

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