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by mLuby 7y ago
The distinction is responsibility. If he were operating under orders from Russia, Russia bears ultimate responsibility for his actions. If they have no control over him and his actions merely benefit them, he bears responsibility for his
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by mLuby 7y ago
You must mean 40% in the United States , right?
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by mLuby 7y ago
I think they meant government-directed (mega-)engineering projects will solve this, not individual efforts. When the US wanted to get to the moon, its government created and funded a huge engineering program (Apollo) but the most individual
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by mLuby 7y ago
I imagine it's a compromise between cutting through the fluff and using the primary source material. You could just read the plot synopsis or watch the highlights, but sometimes those don't convey build-up, suspense, or other data
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by mLuby 7y ago
- my cassette player is a CD player (with a cheap adapter) - my VGA port is an HDMI port (with a cheap adapter) - my wall outlet is a micro-USB port (with a cheap adapter) - my Lightning port is a headphone jack (with a cheap adapter) Adapt
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by mLuby 7y ago
"SpaceX, in a new statement, says they were aware of the potential Aeolus/Starlink collision, but at first the probability was low. When the probability increased, “a bug in our on-call paging system prevented the Starlink operato
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by mLuby 7y ago
That's what flagging is for. Why don't people flag more?
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by mLuby 7y ago
That's fine, but then share that data and there'd be no need to waste delta-v for either satellite. Also these aren't military assets, their specs and locations aren't secret, so if they have better tracking, they should
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by mLuby 7y ago
>ESA noted that it performed 28 collision avoidance maneuvers in 2018, but it was mostly to avoid dead satellites or bits of space debris. Maneuvers to avoid active satellites were “very rare”, they said, but the arrival of mega constell
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by mLuby 7y ago
Runnable code snippets are helpful in this regard, but even better would be runnable test cases. Example: How to check for Invalid Date in JS? ```js function invalidDate (date){return isNaN(date.valueOf())} console.assert(invalidDate(new
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by mLuby 7y ago
I found the first answer insightful: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/252340/1862046 Roughly, it seems downvotes are used by people to indicate not enough effort has gone into the question (easily researched, du
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by mLuby 7y ago
Wish HN had a similar thing. Downvotes can mean a bunch of things, including: 1. "This isn't welcome here." Should be flagged instead, and often is. 2. "This is factually incorrect but I won't comment as to why.&quo
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by mLuby 7y ago
A well-written piece. TL;DR: African-American prodigy learns racism not a thing in Stalin's USSR, sings his and communism's praises. Stalin rewards him for his continuous loyalty. After Stalin's death and horrors are revealed
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by mLuby 7y ago
The "bottom dropping out" means at minimum a great depression, quite possibly wide-scale violence. Economists almost always hand-wave away the financial (let alone human) cost of forcing people can switch jobs or careers, then com
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by mLuby 7y ago
All attempts to cure aging have been magic/religion-based until very recently. Also it's not like we "learned to fly" as if cavemen could have done it had they only known the right wing shape and arm technique. It was
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by mLuby 7y ago
That only works if everyone follows it, which they don't for a host of good and bad reasons. Imagine 100 informed people understand the issue; 60 vote for it and 40 against. But 500 uninformed people like the celebrity who opposes the
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by mLuby 7y ago
>Such centralized government power, too, may be the only force capable of counteracting the centralized power of corporations that are less accountable to the people whose lives they affect. In ways like this, most effective forms of dec
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by mLuby 7y ago
Nobody drinks the tap water in Mexico City. Most people either buy water cooler bottles at the local store, use portable filters, or if you're lucky get a filtration system installed.
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by mLuby 7y ago
I'd guess that's $800 for services, perhaps $2K for rent, and depending on lifestyle around $700 for food, drinks etc in CDMX. There's a type of deal-hunting digital nomad that would laugh at $3.5K/mo being called "
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by mLuby 7y ago
Find ways to get college-age students involved in government (local, national, etc), especially voting. Young people are a large, yet chronically underrepresented demographic. Just because it's true now doesn't mean it'll alw
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by mLuby 7y ago
1. Sell 2. Gratis. 3. Gratis; donations welcome. #3 is barely adware. Sometimes people are extra appreciative of someone's work and want to express that through action; this just tells them how. On a personal level, I have no issue w
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by mLuby 7y ago
Only the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed may enter the meeting room.
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by mLuby 7y ago
The raids are efficacious, not in their legal purpose of securing the homeland and enforcing the rule of law but in their political purpose of providing media-worthy evidence to voters that the ruling party is aggressively protecting thos
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by mLuby 7y ago
>"We don't sell your data, we share it." -all the companies involved Am I the only one thinking there might be some Clapper-level double-speak going on here? Why would these company share admittedly valuable data witho
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by mLuby 7y ago
No. Stop it. Funding is, science isn't. There's an effective debate tactic where attackers DDoS the other side with innocent questions about their premises. As defenders drown under these reasonable-seeming queries, onlookers wond
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by mLuby 7y ago
The "likes me/likes me not" thing is exciting because of the risk of being wrong amplifies the reward of being right. Same as game shows with a "wager it all" mechanic. But it's not fun to be on the other side
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by mLuby 7y ago
> I vow to raise an amount equivalent to the donations the Media Lab received from Epstein and will direct those funds to non-profits that focus on supporting survivors of trafficking. Raising money to combat human (child sex) traffick
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by mLuby 7y ago
It's definitely possible, if the photos are suitable. There was a burst of interest over a decade ago specifically around reconstructing a 3D model of Notre Dame from public tourist photos, so that might be something to look into. Here
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by mLuby 7y ago
If you have Pocket, you can add the article and then immediately read it in Pocket.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Friends got $1K for winning a Yo hackathon with "Marko Yolo" X~D

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