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by kbart 9y ago
"James Damore is a junior programmer who wrote a 10 page 'manifesto' accusing his colleagues of having inferior genes." Read it again, there was not a single word about "inferior". "Different" is th
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by kbart 9y ago
HN has the most civil, quality and supported (from both sides) discussion I've seen out there. Sure, there are some emotional, unsubstantial posts, but they get downvoted to the bottom fast. Just because you don't agree with the p
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm not saying that women or minorities are somewhat inferior (neither does the memo btw, if you've read it carefully), but there are fundamental differences among these groups, like it or not. Ignoring these differences only ma
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by kbart 9y ago
"hitler did it with the Jews, whites did it to the blacks , Japanese did it to the Chinese" Well, that escalated quickly[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by kbart 9y ago
"your evidence being psuedo-scientific bullshit" *Citation needed.
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by kbart 9y ago
Open source baseband only won't be enough, there are plenty of CPUs/MCUs capable of running backdoors/malware spread on any modern board (heck, even battery controller often runs on a full fledged MCU). Until we have an open
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by kbart 9y ago
"Because, really, who among us hasn't built and sold software used to harvest Amazon logins, bank account logins, and credit card numbers from botnets?" You don't need that. Adding up all the torrents I have downloaded
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by kbart 9y ago
If food in a restaurant is too salty or spicy, I accept that as a signal that chef might be trying to hide something. Contrary to the salt and spices, the problem with MSG that it's hard to tell how much of it was used just by tasting,
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by kbart 9y ago
Serving size is highly individual matter and, from my personal experience, usually much smaller than actual amount I take of pretty much everything.
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by kbart 9y ago
MSG itself is not a problem. Actually, it is so good, you can use lowest quality products, add some MSG and still get tasty meals. I avoid MSG precisely for this reason - I try to eat quality food and you may never know what's behind i
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by kbart 9y ago
"what’s the Model X performance in Alaska or Yukon style subarctic conditions? I would be not particularly good." There are many Teslas in Norway, which is also known for its harsh conditions, so I'd guess it's not tha
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by kbart 9y ago
"If they didn't care about recycling why would they make people sort their trash in the first place?" At least in EU, companies can get generous grants for recycling, but there's little oversight, so often "recycl
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by kbart 9y ago
Not everywhere around the world taxis are so awful as in USA. In my town, for example, Uber is both slower and usually more expensive than taxis.
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by kbart 9y ago
How does government prevent you from that? In most western countries it is illegal to build super tiny flats and for good reasons, but nobody prevents you from renting a 3-5 m^2 room (or a closet) in a shared flat and live there. Or get a
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by kbart 9y ago
Looks an interesting video not only for this particular part, thanks, I'll watch it fully when I can.
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by kbart 9y ago
"Kill everything that moves" scenarios. Like during Chechnya wars.
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by kbart 9y ago
It's hard to hide from IR using insulating clothes, because of the heat building up inside. But an insulating suit with active cooling might be an interesting idea to explore.
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm not familiar with Amazon internals enough, but I doubt they keep SKU for every individual item , maybe for categories or types, so i.e. all the headphones of the same model has the same SKU. Then it's enough to scan a single
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by kbart 9y ago
Look at Amazon warehouse photos[0] and try to imagine how long it would take to scan every single item out there. Also, what happens when 1000 items have the same QR code? Do you inspect every of them individually to determine which one i
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by kbart 9y ago
This analogy is false, because mall doesn't handle goods directly, while Amazon does. It's not uncommon to get counterfeit item even in orders "fulfilled by Amazon". Amazon is more like supermarket imho, where you can &q
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by kbart 9y ago
I do understand what you mean, I just don't understand how Amazon avoids responsibility for not filtering their suppliers whereas all other retailers are enforced to that and face hefty fines for failing to do so. There's no use o
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by kbart 9y ago
Why should I even care about their data model as a costumer? If any other seller would pull a trick like this: "sorry, my supplier provided counterfeit items - I have nothing to do with it", they would be f-cked anyway. If Amazon
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by kbart 9y ago
"Contacted Amazon and they refunded. Still selling them though!" That's the most annoying thing about Amazon. Even if you report obviously counterfeit item, they still continue to sell it. I don't get it, how this can
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by kbart 9y ago
Microwave LoS is still widely used to connect cell towers for example. Look at these circular dishes in this picture[1]. 1. https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000JUzapOxgCs0/fit...
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by kbart 9y ago
Most of Eastern Europe and I think Russia use dot as thousand separator. Though it's rare to see these days, it's much more common to simply use whitespace for that, like "1 000 000 000". On the other hand, comma usage f
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by kbart 9y ago
That doesn't solve the problem because you still have to set 'size' manually.
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by kbart 9y ago
Heh, it would be a nice and symbolic name for the next cryptocurrency. "How much tulips goes for today?", "hackers stole $300m worth of tulips today, the biggest hack after yesterday's $100m heist!".
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by kbart 9y ago
These rules are perfectly fine, but you don't cover wrong or premeditated accusations which is the key problem here. Most people here know what sexual harassment is, but don't know if the accusation was true or not by seeing some
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by kbart 9y ago
By this logic, we could abolish legal system at all and rely on anonymous accusations and public opinion to do all the bidding, because you know, there are real killers/rapers/thieves/robbers etc. out there and the accusation
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by kbart 9y ago
Trains are very efficient when you need to move huge volumes between industrial centers, ports, metropolises etc. but we still need trucks for the end mile or else good luck laying tracks to every country shop out there.

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