jhayward

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by jhayward 8y ago
Ah, I was absolutely misreading it. Thanks for the clarification.
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Education is a basic need. Inequality in access to education is an accelerator and maintainer of inequality.
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> extort wealth until they’re forced back into absolute poverty — which there are signs of happening. ~~It is hardly sufficient to simply say that this outrageous claim requires enormous proof. Please, show me the billionaires who hav
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by jhayward 8y ago
> above all it is primarily a consequence, not a cause It absolutely is a cause, of many things, including more poverty. In the US, the largest determiner of a child's future socioeconomic status is her parent's wealth. Whethe
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by jhayward 8y ago
"I'm not saying they're racist, I'm just saying that racists like them a lot" [1] (paraphrased from Gillum) [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/11/..
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> But characterizing the clocks this well meant that the ytterbium clocks could detect how Earth’s gravity had slowed time, accurately determining their location in the Earth’s gravitational field to within a centimeter. This is amazi
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by jhayward 8y ago
> There was a saying back in the 1990's that developers should be forced to use obsolete hardware Back in the mid to late 1990's I used a 16 MHz, 24MB unix workstation to do all my encryption development for just this reason.
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> Joe Rogan for example swims frequently in a bucket of liquid nitrogen This is so ludicrously dangerous and unsound that I was sure it was trolling and was poised to flag. But a quick Google shows it is actually true. Amazing.
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by jhayward 8y ago
EPIC [1] [1] https://www.epic.org/
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When you invested in a company you bought in to both its assets and liabilities. Those include good will, implied commitments, and public or government attitudes formed over decades of operation. You bought the whole history. There is m
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Also known as a "series hybrid". I'm not in favor of pedantic nit-pickery.
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I think what you mean is "make enough of them to deliver to people who paid $1000 to reserve a place in line"
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> Is there a Facebook smear campaign going on or people just love to pile on Zuckerberg? How about "neither"? Facebook has been abysmally led on the subject of misuse, in fact going so far as to tell themselves explicitly it
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by jhayward 8y ago
> Sealed gears like sturmey Archer live on in rental bikes Sealed gear drives are quite high end[1] these days, for the folks that ride in messy conditions a lot and don't have the time or money to do lots of drive train maintenance
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> Do they assume/suspect that Echo/Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera? Or do they have evidence that Echo was actually activated around the time of the murders, or afterwards by the suspect h
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Race drivers have extremely fine senses for how the car is handling, and what makes it handle. While there is a degree of preference for the most part engineers use professional drivers as more of a highly refined sensor to tell them how t
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> but I guess I'd have expected a military jet to receive broad airspace clearance & use advanced radar to zoom straight to their POI. That would required clearing the airspace. As well as being incredibly disruptive, it woul
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I'm not sure what you mean. There have been electric trains for nearly 100 years. I mean, ever heard of the TGV?
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The data doesn't support such a conclusion. It says that when you fully control for individual choices, the difference disappears. In a different profession or industry there may be different effect sizes of those choices.
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> different, mainly mental What evidence do you have that the placebo effect is 'mental'?
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> The thought of someone advising another person on whether or not to use an ambulance when they ask for one is unimaginable You literally can't imagine a medical doctor, responsible for the patient in question, advising on whethe
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by jhayward 8y ago
Texas is one of the highest tax states in the union. Simply because there is no income tax does not imply low taxation. For instance, property taxes in Williamson County (Austin suburb, extremely conservative, are at 3.08% for new construc
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by jhayward 8y ago
You've illustrated the problem in anecdata: Nothing in what you said indicates that cannabis causes his episodes. It is just as likely, given the description, that the sequence that results in an episode includes the prompts that trigg
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by jhayward 8y ago
Clearly one can have petty squabbles about any topic, regardless of the seriousness of that topic. It isn't helpful to start requiring every single conversation be taken as life or death. I take GP's comment to be more in general
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by jhayward 8y ago
As I indicated above, separate systems on electronic warfare platforms can jam GPS signals. This is not part of the GPS system, and is what the article refers to. Building your own GNSS system does nothing to protect against electronic war
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by jhayward 8y ago
Not sure whether you're agreeing or disagreeing, but that refers to jamming done by electronic warfare units, not part of the GPS system, as I indicated above.
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No, the US has never done any blocking in the GPS system. The article refers to a request by India for access to the military GPS signal and military equipment, which was not granted. The US, as well as virtually all other technological po
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Quantum mechanics. Thermodynamics. Fluid dynamics. Signal processing. Information theory. All are statistical in nature. Nature is built on probability.
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by jhayward 8y ago
There are several on-the-record, non-anonymous reports of people presenting themselves at a port of entry and requesting asylum, and ending up with their children taken from them and put in camps[1]. Your comment aligns with the propaganda
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by jhayward 8y ago
It is literally not a crime. There are criminal immigration offenses, overstaying a visa isn't one of them. Words have meaning. Facts matter.

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