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by just_steve_h 5y ago
We would (almost) all of us be better off if we had a financial transaction tax, and the IRS focused on THAT.
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
So many words to say so little. In other words, a Harvard PhD in Psychology!
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
These incredibly innovative industrial processes of the mid-20th Century never cease to amaze me! I was lucky enough to sneak through the fence and explore the abandoned Polaroid plant in Waltham along 128 before it was torn down. So many m
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
I think the fact that "automotive safety" begins at the headlights and ends at the tail lights is extremely relevant (and frightening). The safety of cars for literally everyone in the world EXCEPT for the 1-5 people inside that
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
This article begins with the clearly implied belief that "Science" is not political, and degenerates from this false assumption into a paroxysm of wounded cries over the renaming of buildings and other, may I say, even less weight
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
OnlyFans bans porn: over 1000 comments. Tesla announces humanoid robot: 190 comments. Rain at the summit of Greenland: 1 comment, after 7 hours.
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
I have a similar reaction as bejelentkezni – why would we expect a specific sensation to always activate the same set of neurons over time? It would seem to me that we are observing patterns in a dynamic system. Their relations to other pat
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by just_steve_h 5y ago
Machines are designed, constructed, and built by humans. If humans are "machines," then who built us?
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
A passenger photo appears to show exactly this: one blade missing entirely, the adjacent blade broken about halfway.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
That's the excuse I keep heading. Then, I find out that the "low consequence" software I've worked on is being relied upon in very consequential contexts. Can I tell your customers that the software you're selling t
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
I'm wading into waters that are way over my head here, but my understanding is that it is possible for software to be provably correct, in the mathematical sense of "proof." I'm well aware of the admixture of folklore, e
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
It's unclear what benefit there would be. On the other hand, instantly changing the balance of the aircraft by jettisoning a large mass from one wing would almost certainly make the aircraft uncontrollable. An American Airlines DC-10 c
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Simon (the founder & proprietor of The Aviation Herald) is an incredible force for good in the world. His work on that site, for well over a decade now, is legendary.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
I worked at a Large Internet Infrastructure Company for a long time, and saw software development practices that made my hair curl. All I could think was, "Gee, I'm glad we're not working on aviation software!" Seriously
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Yes, cell towers are obviously a function of population density and presence of people with ability to pay.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
"Why hasn't Google 'fixed' this 'bug' that gives them access to so much more of my valuable data?"
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Is the threat not from a competent nation-state or supranational entity? Is that not the intention of designating power & water & electricity systems as "critical infrastructure?"
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
> I worry that they'd just find somebody who wouldn't have those scruples, though. If I may speak slightly out of turn to a stranger, using a possible & currently imagined future person less scrupulous does not modify in an
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
…or at least could be wrong.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Why is it spreading? Because ACCESS TO CARE is extremely unevenly distributed. It can be extremely difficult for people with limited resources to get proper care.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
You going to blow up your enemies with a solar sail?
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
The biggest takeaway here for me is that we collectively achieved something previously considered impossible: by making different behavioral choices, as a species, we achieved the largest cut in CO2 emissions in 75 years. It's tragic t
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
I know you're being snarky, but it actually IS likely a result of anthropogenic climate change! The north polar region is warming much faster than most places on the globe. Without its usual thick mass of ice, the region isn't col
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Boeing's fine is essentially nothing more than a one-time 10% rebate to their largest customer. (Reference: In 2017, Boeing booked over $22 BILLION in revenue from the US government. https://www.forbes.com/sites/gr
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
It's funny that the marketing & design folks keep doing this (IBM in the 80s, Akamai in the 90s through today, and so on). It looks super cool and informs the viewer of very little. (Full disclosure: I ported a prototype version of
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Internal Medicine Doctors Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags(nakedcapitalism.com)
12 points by just_steve_h 6y ago|2 comments
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
This is a very useful & frightening read.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
So far I've seen ZERO EVIDENCE. Reuters and the Washington Post have breathless claims of Russian hackers "according to officials familiar with the matter." Uh huh. Saying "APT29" or "CozyBear" doesn'
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Companies that provide faulty software are "magically" exempt from liability – neat trick!

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