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by knaq 6y ago
This isn't going to go well for anybody above you, since you are only equipped to judge in one direction. Some ideas though: 1. generating new and unusual humor 2. spotlessly logical grammar, aside from interruptions like changing an a
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by knaq 6y ago
You've created a heuristic that scores people as "not smart" if they are your political opponents or if they have different views on religion.
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by knaq 6y ago
I wouldn't say so. Just looking at what Biden did as a senator: In 1983 he introduced the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act, which became law in 1984. That's the main piece of law that enabled civil asset forfeiture. That's how co
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by knaq 6y ago
This is just really basic old-style security, like you could do over a century ago. Kuwait collects DNA.
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by knaq 6y ago
That message isn't as generic as it seems. It was introduced for political censorship, to suppress information detrimental to Biden. This is mainly the content of Hunter Biden's laptop hard drive, which wasn't even hacked. (h
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by knaq 6y ago
In lots of telescope designs, the sensor is behind the dish. The part in front of the dish is only a reflector. Done that way, weight of a transmitter doesn't matter.
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by knaq 6y ago
It doesn't seem to have had a thought given to the possibility of repair. How would the center be lowered down for replacement? There doesn't seem to be a landing spot. One of the cables even had a catwalk, making it clear that th
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by knaq 6y ago
We have it right here. Hacker News is written in the Arc programming language, which was developed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
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by knaq 6y ago
It's an excuse. YouTube would not do this if CNN or MSNBC posted the exact same thing. The "fact checkers" would accept the video as new facts, or they would find some other way to be lenient. Uneven enforcement is a great wa
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by knaq 6y ago
Also consider: sleep, vitamin D, drug use, carbon monoxide, concussions, early onset Alzheimer's
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by knaq 6y ago
Your brain is full. I don't think that's just a joke. There is a finite amount of space in your skull, so you can have a finite amount of neurons with a finite amount of interconnections and so on. Some people fill up faster than
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by knaq 6y ago
Censorship is applied unevenly, with judgement calls favoring some creators over others. You ask about "all the other non-Covid content that the channel is prevented from uploading during the suspension". I think that is the whole
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by knaq 6y ago
Make the desk a solar panel, then place it next to a big window or bright lamp.
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by knaq 6y ago
I don't think it's obvious that those men were chosen for thousands of years. In those long-gone societies, did the women really get to pick men based on looks? Maybe they didn't get to pick at all, or maybe they picked based
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by knaq 6y ago
Well, they aren't horrible for two groups. 1. Men in the top 5% who are seeking commitment-free sex. 2. Women in the top 50% who are seeking commitment-free sex. If you happen to fall into one of those two groups, online dating is wond
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by knaq 6y ago
This uses Plymouth governor William Bradford's historical accounts to provide an explanation for the famine and recovery. It's not often taught these days, but it is an important story that revolves around economics and exposes so
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Lessons from a Capitalist Thanksgiving (2008)(forbes.com)
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by knaq 6y ago
Even within the meat-heavy category, there is a world of difference between boiled chicken and crispy-fried hot dog slices. That kind of difference might account for all the negative effects of meat in the diet.
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by knaq 6y ago
It's not a threshold. For getting infected, it's like lottery tickets. For severity of infection, a bunch of "winning" lottery tickets make it difficult for your immune system to catch up. Getting a large exposure is lik
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by knaq 6y ago
There is no magic "6ft apart". It's just the maximum that seemed reasonable to demand. It's about the width of a supermarket aisle or a typical business hallway. Metric countries surely don't use that distance. Noth
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by knaq 6y ago
Having already broken Linux audio (PulseAudio) and booting (SystemD), he wants to break home directories. The fact that Red Hat still employs him tells us a lot about Red Hat's business objectives and complete lack of concern for thing
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by knaq 6y ago
Without a doubt, it has to be the Free Software song. Old original recording: https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.ogg More performances and lyrics: https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-
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by knaq 6y ago
Rule of law means we must check the US Constitution for what is "a valid use of public funds". OK... Well, it looks like war gets the public funds.
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by knaq 6y ago
We could remove the Jones Act, causing cargo to be carried by ships with lax (affordable) regulation, or we could get a similar cost and regulation result on American ships by adjusting our regulations to worldwide norms. It's really t
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by knaq 6y ago
Pretty much everybody agrees with you: "rejecting the result of free and democratic elections and pushing for the subversion of a democratic regime by arguing in favour of installing an illegitimate ruler at the highest position in gov
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by knaq 6y ago
In response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25132392 which doesn't have a reply link: being open to other viewpoints doesn't mean automatic acceptance. I do listen and think. I'm not very likely to
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by knaq 6y ago
The fear of other language and religion is reasonable. In fact, I'd have to say that a person is extremely foolish if they don't fear it. Language is how we communicate. Communication failure creates isolation, hostility, and loss
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by knaq 6y ago
USMCA plugs a hole in NAFTA. It had been easy for non-NAFTA countries, particularly China, to import things into the USA via Mexico. USMCA mostly stops that. Canada isn't so alienated. The prime minister may be unhappy that his own fai
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by knaq 6y ago
If you're missing something, it's probably because you dismiss what was said. I've seen that happen all too often. For example, suppose a person doesn't want to become a linguistic or religious minority in their own coun
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by knaq 6y ago
The blood libel stuff is absurd. Unfortunately, we have blackmailed politicians. So many of them have been caught doing absurd and evil acts that the absurd possibilities become oddly believable. I'm not saying it happened... but I wou

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