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by m0zg 5y ago
Yes, soldiers on the battlefield are very thankful for the land mines, assuming they're the ones who installed them. With any luck a dude from the other side might not be able to cross the field and slit their throats in the dead of th
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by m0zg 5y ago
All of the things you've listed aren't universally bad. Prisons keep bad people out of society (and yes, I'm aware that some folks shouldn't be in prison, and I wish that'd change, but majority are in the clink for
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by m0zg 5y ago
Better yet, the state needs to get out of the way of the private sector building things and let it create more supply. A friend of mine wanted to tear down and rebuild an old house he bought. Spent a year and a half trying to obtain all the
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by m0zg 5y ago
Would be fun to query that DB for men traveling to Thailand alone several times per year.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Also: because climate has gotten a bit warmer, _a lot_ fewer people freeze to death.
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by m0zg 5y ago
I wonder what (if anything) they're going to do with the fact that these cars carry $200K in additional equipment (maybe more), which will be immediately sawed off and broken into by SF's extensive homeless population. BayArea see
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by m0zg 5y ago
Software, sure, but up until this I could at least trust that if I turn my iPhone off it's not spying on me. Now I don't even have that. It's amazing the people _on this site_ in particular don't see a problem with this,
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by m0zg 5y ago
If they aren't under a gag order, that is. If they are, you won't even know it's on.
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by m0zg 5y ago
The difference, which will be missed by many, is that previously you could be reasonably certain your device is actually not spying on you if you power it off. That option is gone now. You should just assume it's on and sending your da
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by m0zg 5y ago
Precisely. AI outside the beaten-to-death academic problems and datasets is a vast and completely un-plowed field with enormous potential. And unlike last time, there are some sub-fields of this that do actually work this time (computer vis
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by m0zg 5y ago
If there is such a capability (a rather technically involved one, I might add, all the way down to the silicon), do you really believe Apple can't turn it on at CIA/NSA's request without popping that dialog? And you wouldn&#x
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by m0zg 5y ago
Yep, that's not going to spark conspiracy theories and damage the brand at all, just like the backdoor they've recently put in. /s Again, why would $3T company damage its brand like that? It's not "for children&quot
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by m0zg 5y ago
Just buy Pulumi already and have them do it the way it's supposed to be. It's ridiculous that AWS documentation usually contains dozens of error prone manual steps.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Airplanes are also stuffed like sardine cans with people, some of whom may be contagious. Not even N95 would save you after 5 hours in that environment. Nor are they sanitized after the previous group of passengers disembarks. Just give it
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by m0zg 5y ago
Think of it this way: the establishment is merely not a single source of misinformation anymore. Misinformation was always easy to propagate. I'd say easier, in fact. See e.g. Iraq war - 100% disinfo, parroted uniformly and enthusiasti
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by m0zg 5y ago
There was (and maybe still is) Solstice parade where people ride their bikes through Seattle completely (or partially) naked. So that's only partially true.
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by m0zg 5y ago
If all we get from this is the impossibility of droning children in the Middle East, it's a worthwhile tradeoff in my view. But I feel like we'll get more than that, in time.
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by m0zg 5y ago
That could have something to do with it, but as someone who lived in WA for quite some time - you don't go outside without clothing for ~7 months in any given year in WA either because it's raining and unpleasant. So that's w
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by m0zg 5y ago
Before Jan 20 the democrats too were the "anti-vax" side. Do you want me to dig up videos of Joe and Kamala telling everyone they'd be insane to take the "rushed" vaccine? I don't think such overt politicizatio
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by m0zg 5y ago
I'd actually say critical thinking has seen considerable improvement in the past few years. For one thing people no longer unconditionally trust the press and government institutions like they used to in, say '00s, and instead see
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by m0zg 5y ago
Fun fact: incidence of skin cancer in notoriously cloudy and rainy WA is substantially higher than in almost always sunny HI or CA or TX. I bet the vast majority of "scientists and doctors" don't even know this. https:/
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by m0zg 5y ago
Vaccines are effective at reducing severity of the disease, sure, cold, hard data supports that. Masks though? In confined spaces like airplanes and especially if you did not even screen for basic symptoms like fever beforehand? LOL. Fact i
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by m0zg 5y ago
The point (which you half-missed) is that the vast majority of people don't even know what those incentives are and think HR is there for them. Whereas it's only there for "them", as you pointed out, if they could bring
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by m0zg 5y ago
PCR cycle threshold was reduced in January, so if anything we should be getting a lot fewer false positives now (and a lot more false negatives), even though testing throughput is 1.5x of what it was in Sep 2020. But again, half the people
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by m0zg 5y ago
Everyone's risk of getting covid is 100%. It's an endemic disease that's never going away. _At best_ the vaccine would only postpone the inevitable. Also, vaccine does not prevent you from getting COVID. It just significantly
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by m0zg 5y ago
> large swaths of the country were in lock down Not in September. There were massive riots and political rallies, remember? > they are refusing to get vaccines A lot of them are already immune due to having had covid. About half, assu
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by m0zg 5y ago
Could someone knowledgeable please explain how it is that we're having _worse_ infection rates than last year given that, by CDC estimates, 160M+ people already had covid [1] (and is therefore at least partially immune), and hundreds o
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by m0zg 5y ago
> warned Amazon that his wife had brain cancer when they began trying to recruit him Not to defend Amazon, god forbid, but I'd be surprised if this actually reached the people who would be able to make decisions about this either wa
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by m0zg 5y ago
I actually wish more people got it through their heads that HR _is not_ and _will never be_ their friend or savior. Their only loyalty is only to the company, by design. There are no exceptions to this that I have seen in 25+ years in the i
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by m0zg 5y ago
Well, maybe "easily" was an exaggeration, but Germany is home to some of the bleeding edge particle physics installations, and some of the world's leading scientific institutions, so at least the science side should be pretty

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