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by lovecg 6y ago
Neither does HN, but I personally find it as addictive as anything else on the Internet.
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by lovecg 6y ago
There are some plausible theories, like RNA randomly crystallizing on a suitable surface. Sooner or later a self-copying one just happened to crystallize by chance, and there was no going back. Fun lecture series: https://youtu.b
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by lovecg 6y ago
If you then compare the total in your bank account to the sum of the receipts and it matches, then all is good.
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by lovecg 6y ago
With the election process, optics is as important as the actual security. It has to seem simple and secure for most people to accept the results easily. We saw recently that even that does not always work but I have hope it was an aberratio
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by lovecg 6y ago
That’s a story as old as time. Getting millions of people to believe a lie is not exactly an innovation.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Hah!
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by lovecg 6y ago
Thank you, wasn’t aware of this before. But still, a strongly worded letter from the legislative is a far cry from immediate enforcement by the executive.
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by lovecg 6y ago
That’s already a rare event though, so the probability of it coinciding with a GPS outage is smaller still. Time integral of risk exposure and all that.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Did the US government remove those posts or ordered those articles to be written in a specific way? Not quite sure what you’re asserting. Not to mention that Jan 6th and the current situation in Russia have approximately 0 things in common.
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by lovecg 6y ago
I’m not sure what you are referring to. As far as I know internet connectivity was never intentionally disrupted on Jan 6th, and of course people could and did communicate. We have a whole cache of videos that were livestreamed from that ev
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by lovecg 6y ago
I’m not too worried about commercial airlines. I’m more worried about press-button-and-fly weekend IFR warriors.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Big commercial aircraft do that and more (including inertial navigation, older systems like VORs), combining and error correcting all available inputs. Long range air travel existed before GPS was available to civilians, but a certain unfor
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by lovecg 6y ago
> not to mention the incentive to start blocking many more accounts I’ve seen this simplistic “incentive” thinking in many many arguments of this kind recently. I don’t see why this would at all be the case here. Do you think the team re
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by lovecg 6y ago
What filesystem did Kraft create? Wikipedia is silent on the matter.
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by lovecg 6y ago
9/10 better than I thought.
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by lovecg 6y ago
People who elected these politicians evidently approve of their performance.
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by lovecg 6y ago
It’s a system that converts greed into (an approximation of) justice. There might be better systems, but it’s not the worst one to have.
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by lovecg 6y ago
This is eyebrow raising but hardly the news to lose any sleep over. If for example Google were to unilaterally purge sci-hub from its search results (for “greater good”, not as a result of however questionable but legal-at-this-point takedo
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by lovecg 6y ago
I think you have to approach it with a certain mindset. I didn’t read it as a source of reliable history, but I definitely got a lot of value out of it. He has a way of presenting ideas from perspectives I haven’t considered before. In fact
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by lovecg 6y ago
And don’t forget murder. So, so much murder: https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
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by lovecg 6y ago
Having your income suddenly reduced to near zero is a significant financial shock to a lot of people. Rents/mortgages are due, etc. I suppose you can make it optional and have each employee negotiate but that will either end up with no
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by lovecg 6y ago
Seeing the graph’s relentless climb upward year after year leaves one feeling increasingly hopeless. Every decade or so one of those “see, the trend stopped!” discussions come up, and every time it’s just temporary noise. We’ll have to figu
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by lovecg 6y ago
Well, I did not expect to see this subthread here. One could make an interesting study just out of thread sizes and downvote color variations of various topics on HN. It’s amazing and a bit horrifying how much simply stating “the Civil War
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by lovecg 6y ago
Baby steps.
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by lovecg 6y ago
I don’t remember where I read this explanation, but it appears that originally the writing was in both directions: you would get to the edge, and then write the next row backwards under it (in a snakes-and-ladders fashion). Then over time s
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by lovecg 6y ago
I enjoyed this visualization https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/ Not all connections are super well established, but a lot of them are. It really drives home the point that writing
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by lovecg 6y ago
Section 230 does not protect the network from illegal speech. Edit: assuming there’s a federal law about it. Not sure how civil litigation is handled. Not a lawyer, etc.
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by lovecg 6y ago
You talk a lot about theoretical outcomes, but isn’t it reasonable to look at what different systems result in empirically? Which of the aforementioned countries had a violent assault on their seat of government in recent times? Does that s
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by lovecg 6y ago
I’m curious what was your estimate of the likelihood of what happened last Wednesday before it happened? Were your priors updated in any way since then?
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by lovecg 6y ago
Everyone keeps bringing up Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission these last few days, but it seems very few people actually know what was decided in the case. The Supreme Court didn’t want to get its hands dirty with this

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