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by mLuby 5y ago
That does happen. :)
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by mLuby 5y ago
> It's unacceptable work from our vendors and procurement processes… It's as if our procurement process and the vendor collaborated to absolve themselves from any responsibility by serving us such an aggressively unhelpul[sic]
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by mLuby 5y ago
That's reasonable. Sloppier would've been: "The Connecticut alone could destroy any other nation's entire nuclear submarine force."
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by mLuby 5y ago
They tried that in the excellent documentary The Core (2003) but as I recall they didn't all survive.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Total tangent: very nice ASCII diagram, especially for a throwaway account. It's so unusually nice that it'd probably help identify the author if they ever made ASCII diagrams on their non-throwaway account (and who could resist
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by mLuby 5y ago
Like Biosphere 2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 Improvements in space life support technology should have significant and positive applications on Earth as well.
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by mLuby 5y ago
To be fair to the cashier, they were probably given no choice in the matter. One of those "I'm sorry, the system won't let me proceed without this info." "Required form fields" are one of those great power&#x2F
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by mLuby 5y ago
Yes, good point.
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Compensation of $3,000 if you can prove you've been harmed is barely justice.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Ah, what I meant was that lawyers should be paid for their billed hours, but shouldn't be able to earn percentages of settlements.
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by mLuby 5y ago
How do they justify that? Or is it part of some agreement with the primary claimant that they'll take the case for free but get some % of the winnings? Either way, mixing justice and profit feels slimy.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Last year I told Robinhood to "delete (not just close) my account and related data." I hadn't used the service in years and wanted to reduce their annoying "your account statement: still $0" emails as well as to red
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by mLuby 5y ago
One learns to walk differently in San Francisco, to avoid stepping in **it.** And of course if you walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm.
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by mLuby 5y ago
If the terms of the contract are illegal in the jurisdiction in which they were signed, are they still enforceable? What happens if the buyer and seller are the same? Does the soul remain in place or transfer out and back? Are the input fie
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by mLuby 5y ago
"The boy said my name's Johnny and it might be a sin but I'll take your bet and you're gonna regret 'cause I'm the best there's ever been." The kid knowingly commits a deadly sin (pride) and the
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by mLuby 5y ago
It'll be like skydiving or visiting Everest basecamp or Antarctica. Maybe soon you'll pop open the window on one of these new suborbital flights and skydive from the black back to Earth!
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by mLuby 5y ago
> Try very hard to delete the part or process "Perfection is achieved not when there's nothing left to add but when there's nothing left to take away." -Saint-Exupéry or more recently, "no code means no bugs.&quo
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by mLuby 5y ago
> proportionality and tactics are rare and unique Are they though? First it's "only" to catch the super-terrorists. Then it's only to catch the murderers. Then it's for VIP missing person cases. Then it's pe
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by mLuby 5y ago
From what I've read, Senator Ron Wyden is a relatively vocal opponent of surveillance. Hopefully he's not an outlier forever.
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by mLuby 5y ago
If we must surveil, make sure it covers lawmakers and police too. Nobody is above the law (except a drone at 1500' apparently).
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by mLuby 5y ago
Just be careful not to blind yourself. Even a narrow flashlight cone could be enough for you to find and kill the bug by hand. Link to a previous post about this mosquito turret concept: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by mLuby 5y ago
Jeff Goldblum: Don't you see the danger inherent in what you're doing here? Killbots will be the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun. Richard Attenbor
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by mLuby 5y ago
Good ones. Here's what I'd say: 1. Belief/religion: there's an experiment I heard about where researchers put a banana in a tree but monkeys got shocked if they went for it. So the monkeys stopped trying to get that bana
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by mLuby 5y ago
> As I flew, a licensed pilot sat beside me. He talked me through the flight and generally kept me in check. At one point, I turned east and twisted the joystick with a little too much confidence. He reached over, grabbed the joystick an
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by mLuby 5y ago
I challenge you to name a behavior that most humans do (or did) that no other animals do. There's usually at least one other example in the animal world. Just that we may do these things in combination and so much better that the diffe
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by mLuby 5y ago
Wouldn't the fair comparison be tossing depleted batteries overboard? Or less ridiculously, storing rather than exhausting the burned fuel. Obviously we won't do that, but it's worth considering what the apples to apples comp
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by mLuby 5y ago
Cold winters drive homelessness out of sight; don't mistake out of sight for not having these problems.
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by mLuby 5y ago
Rulers can't be an expert in all the domains they oversee. Thus the test you speak of should be whether they can build a team of experts and harness that collective expertise to make good* decisions. Alternatively you could pick the pe
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by mLuby 5y ago
I wonder if there are moderation tools out there that identify who first proves Godwin's Law in a given thread.
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Hooray for the return of MagSafe and the other ports! Thank you for listening, Apple. Just one mention of "games" and it's about the display resolution, so it sounds like Apple still doesn't care about getting more game

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