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by just_steve_h 4y ago
Everyone acts like all these wonders arise from private innovation. They discount the decades of public investment that brought us to the point that a company could develop a specific mRNA vaccine. From the public roads and public education
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
Read up on “qualified immunity.” My only slightly exaggerated take is that police on duty can do whatever they want to whomever they want - up to and including killing someone - and not be held liable.
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
Really surprised no one has yet posted the software that’s almost certainly used to create these images, the Measurement Factory’s ipv4-heatmap package, on GitHub here: https://github.com/measurement-factory/ipv4-heatma
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
This article highlights the responsibility that ALL technical workers share. We must be ethical in our actions at all times. For example: Is it ethical to create a biometrics capture & storage system that does not encrypt the data it st
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
There's a sucker born every minute, and there's an entire Valley full of con men waiting to pounce with grand claims of "AI" and "genetic breakthroughs". Many of the latter are congregated right here!
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
It's alluded to briefly in other comments, but one of the biggest problems in our country is the fact that our built environment was completely reconfigured for the automobile - and not simply due to "demand." Since the 1960&
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
We'll, it is true that our "ownership class" and its media and political mouthpieces have spent the better part of the last two generations drilling this notion into people's skulls will all the considerable power at the
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
This is amazing! For many years, I've been a happy customer (no other affiliation) of Rogue Amoeba, whose (closed-source, commercial) Airfoil software: https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/ does all this &
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
Technological hubris is a helluva drug. We would each be wise to develop our own capacities for humility.
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
"Opto Electric Phrenology" (OEP) would be a better name. "Depression" and "Schizophrenia" as diagnostic categories are fraught, as they include many subtypes and, in the latter case, may lump together multiple
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by just_steve_h 4y ago
Which is also why there's bipartisan consensus on giving lots more money to police and the military. After all, someone has to control the violent rabble as they are priced out of decent living!
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
This is one of the most important books I've ever read. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Also recommended: the long documentary by Marcel Ophuls, "The Sorrow and the Pity," about ordinary French and German people who live
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
The strangest part for me is when the car drives away from the officer, but then pulls to the side and puts on its flashers. If I had to guess, I'd say maybe it was in a mode where it started to drive away & sensed the police light
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
This is an ugly caricature and reeks of ignorance and faux victimhood.
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
"We don't live in a police state. We just happen to have a lot of [State | Federal | Regional | Capitol | Transit | Park | University | Hospital | County | Airport | Local] Police!"
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
Money doesn't "keep track of resources." If it did, the Fed would not have been able to create $2 trillion in "Quantitative Easing." It's an imperfect analogy, but I think dollars are more like inches - useful
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
This article includes some essential details that are largely unknown to most readers: the US government not only severely restricted the ability of foreigners to even enter the United States based on ideology and national origin; they also
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
The house cost $30,000 and the car cost $5,000.
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
You literally just described most operating nuclear power stations. The GE Mark I reactors had an OPTIONAL system to vent hydrogen from secondary containment, as but one example.
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
The US has been using Israel as high-tech offshore military R&D for at least the past 40 years. The US "gives" $4 Billion in "military aid" to Israel each year. You may also be aware that Israel invaded territory in
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
Yeah but Netflix is better than most (possibly not better than the NSA but likely on a par with them) at determining which users are coming in via VPN.
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
Write Once, Burn Anywhere
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
This is fantastic. I must quote from the conclusion: "Can we already grasp the rough outlines of these coming forms, capable of threatening the joys of marketing? Many young people strangely boast of being 'motivated'; they r
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
This seems like a great tool for my area of interest: counting different types of vehicles (including bicycles, scooters, mopeds, skateboards, light electric vehicles, passenger cars, commercial cars, and different sizes & types of truc
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
I assume this is also part of a product development process: if the EWS flags a particular variant, BioNTech can begin crafting a new vaccine component and have it ready sooner, earning a competitive advantage in the (capitalist) vaccine ma
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
"Say what you will about those Fascists, at least they made the trains run on time!" (Note on the above off-repeated cliche: they did not, in fact, make the trains run on time.)
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
This is an outstanding article that invites all of us in technology to question some of the foundations our current world is built upon: ownership of intellectual property; rapid obsolescence; indeed, monopoly capitalism itself. The readers
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
I strongly encourage HN folks to read one of the linked articles, a piece of monstrous garbage regarding a new "social sciences system" the authors claim to have developed which is a "combination of Social Sciences and System
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
Are commenters here familiar with the history of police and "private security" being deployed against striking workers? This has been happening without interruption in the U.S. since the nineteenth century. There are some excellen

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