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by lph 5y ago
Sure, job security for many has collapsed in a way that makes traditional jobs less appealing. That's a good insight. But "everybody wants to follow their dreams and go into business for themselves!" is sort of an LOL Hacker
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by lph 5y ago
It's almost as if any crypto scheme whose mining entails the massive waste of a resource is going to cause problems.
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by lph 5y ago
Moving water around a grid like we do with electricity is prohibitively expensive. We need to move people instead. Cities in deserts are just not sustainable.
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by lph 5y ago
> 4,700 with iCloud user IDs and passwords How does this amount to only four felonies?! Our system is so abysmally bad at understanding crimes of scale, especially when they happen over the internet. If he burgled 4,700 houses, it would
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by lph 5y ago
Ah, you're right, it does go into that later. The reporting isn't helping, with sentences like 'the company is rolling out a new machine-learning tool that will scan iPhones for images that match certain "perceptual hash
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by lph 5y ago
This is weird. Apple's own announcement only talks about hash matching, but other reporting (e.g., [0]) talks about a system called 'neuralMatch' that's doing AI on user photos. To me, the privacy implications (and chanc
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by lph 5y ago
This is presented in a way that infers political partisanship, but without any evidence for or against that argument. - No statistics for previous administration's like/dislike removal rate. Was it lower? Higher? We don't kno
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by lph 5y ago
> Authority is the problem. We need to use our own minds. No offense, but that depends on the quality of minds. What you've just said is exactly what Q-Anon proponents say, just before they go on to repeat absolutely baseless conspi
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by lph 5y ago
My mother passed away a few weeks ago. It was her wish to go with Recompose. She was a master gardener, and to her, the idea of returning to the ecosystem was so much better than cremation or a cemetery. Through Recompose, her 'soil&#x
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by lph 5y ago
You can, at least here in Washington state. It's called 'green burial'.
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by lph 5y ago
It's hilarious to see libertarians whining about being oppressed by corporations. Like, dude, isn't your whole philosophy that corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want without regard for anybody else? Go start your
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by lph 5y ago
> I am sure this cryptoqueen scammer put a ridiculous amount of effort into her scam when these people who actually made absurd amounts of money legally in altcoins did far less work. Right?! All they had to do is fork an open-source cry
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by lph 6y ago
> That said, Tesla's Bitcoin purchase does make a lot of sense ... They then announced their Bitcoin purchase with fanfare that drove the price up, marking a quick return on their investment. Tesla is a car manufacturer! It doesn&#x
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by lph 6y ago
Seems like a stretch to claim that approving an app on behalf of an employer is protected political activity, but is this really so different from the pharmacist who refuses to fill a birth control prescription on religious grounds?
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by lph 6y ago
> China is very well managed. LOL. China is able to move very fast, but the idea that it's a well-oiled machine functioning in perfect harmony is a ridiculous fiction. Construction projects in China cut every corner possible. When s
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by lph 6y ago
Yes, I can hear the high-pitched CRT TV noise. And also the high-pitched squeal that some CFL-backlit LCD monitors used to make. I'm not sure if it's that my ears are better, or if I'm just hyper-sensitive to sounds that othe
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by lph 6y ago
One of the frustrating things about "the hum" that the article mentions is that, academically, it's been lumped into the lunatic fringe of conspiracy theories, and serious scientists aren't interested. It does seem like
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by lph 6y ago
It would be interesting to gather hum-hearers together and run some experiments. I'm also in Seattle, I also hear the hum, and like you, my hum is very location-specific.
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by lph 6y ago
It definitely is a thing; see my reply above. It's the engines. I was able to experimentally connect /one/ source of hum to tug boats specifically. Interestingly, though, the huge container ships that passed by did not make a
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by lph 6y ago
For coastal city dwellers, I think it's likely that marine traffic is a major source of the hum, but the world hum map has a lot of reports from far inland that aren't explained by that. I used to live in a place that overlooked a
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by lph 6y ago
I started hearing a hum in March, coinciding perfectly with my shift to working from home during lockdown. Glen MacPherson (who runs the hum database) has also reported a surge in hum reports.
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by lph 6y ago
That brings back memories. I loved my Transmeta-powered Lifebook P1120 and used it well beyond its reasonable lifespan: A nine-inch laptop that predated the netbook craze and had a fantastic keyboard. I wish they made a modern version.
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by lph 6y ago
If it's he-said/she-said between officials from NY state and the White House Coronavirus Task Force, I don't see any reason to automatically side with the White House except for political bias. This White House has proven its
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by lph 6y ago
...which could also be explained by progressive groups being the target of more repression lately than conservative groups.
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by lph 7y ago
We're going to be fine... whew, that's a relief... > Levitt said the social-distancing mandates are critical ...as long as we practice fastidious social distancing, which, at least in the U.S., big parts of the country are utte
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by lph 7y ago
> "As a parent" is one of my favourite phrases, by the way. It translates to "I know better than you, regardless of your parental status". I sympathize with this. Lots of parents are vociferous morons, because lots of
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by lph 7y ago
You clearly haven't seen some of the horrifying stuff that slips past the filters. We're not talking about the episode of Leave it to Beaver where Wally smokes a joint. There is a category of malicious amateur cartoons that look
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by lph 7y ago
What a garbage article. There's not even any substance to disagree with. Why is this on HN? Because it uses Bill Gates as the representative of a progressive income tax? Washington state is hamstrung by its constitution, which forbids
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by lph 7y ago
One of the cornerstones of neoliberalism as practiced in the US in the Clinton-era and beyond has been predatory lending disguised in a facade of laissez-faire feel-good marketing. Drawing a line between Jack Ma’s new lending scheme and t
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by lph 7y ago
tl;dr: if you call computer programs “software robots”, Bloomberg will think you’re a genius.

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