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by mantap 6y ago
Do you really think that if they had had brown skin instead of white we would be having this conversation at all?
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by mantap 6y ago
With great power comes great responsibility. The president of the United States should be aware of how his words will be received. And he is responsible for the consequences of those words. He doesn't have to concede but by constantly
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by mantap 6y ago
Geohot regularly streams programming on twitch. He's the real deal, you can go check out his streams on YouTube to see what he's doing now. What's especially impressive about him is how he can perform at a high level for hour
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by mantap 6y ago
If they as teenagers resent you for teaching them programming then the problem is not that you have taught them too much, the problem is that you haven't taught them the harsh reality of human life. We programmers live especially pri
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by mantap 6y ago
Efficacy, like stock prices, can go down as well as up. We don't know what would happen to that chart if the second dose wasn't given. It could look like a bell curve for all we know.
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by mantap 6y ago
Compliance with the law is not binary. The US has a system of selective enforcement whereby they go after the most flagrant violators to make an example to everyone else. Blocking requests is compliance enough, practically speaking.
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by mantap 6y ago
Block requests from Iran, display a message that connections are blocked for legal reasons. Allow account to be used when not in Iran.
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by mantap 6y ago
Perhaps paradoxically the fact that other betacoronaviruses have made the jump to humans naturally, would increase the probability that this was a lab accident: scientists want to study the most likely candidates for a pandemic.
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by mantap 6y ago
There's a difference between an intentional release of the virus, which is what conspiracy theorists say, and an accidental release, which is what this article postulates. Do people have a tendency to dismiss both as if they were the s
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by mantap 6y ago
What specific incompatibility do you find between his reporting and the ruling? It seems to match quite well?
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by mantap 6y ago
We are talking about a political map. So the essential question is: Are the Great Lakes managed by the federal government or by the states?
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by mantap 6y ago
It's not easy to renounce American citizenship. The US considers itself entitled to taxes from citizens who live in other countries. Even if they haven't been to the US since they were a baby. If you want to renounce citizenship y
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by mantap 6y ago
Systems of democracy require legislators to vote often, frequently on the same issue several times. For instance, in the UK a bill has at least a first, second and third reading. In a direct democracy, where voters take on the role of legis
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by mantap 6y ago
Wouldn't accessibility software back then have been able to deal with table based layout, considering most websites were constructed that way?
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by mantap 6y ago
What percentage of grand juries throw out the charges?
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by mantap 6y ago
If you have zero kids there's a reasonable chance you will spend your last years alone with nobody to care for you. Doesn't seem very rational.
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by mantap 6y ago
Do you want to eat pizza and garlic bread? - inclusive Do you want to eat pizza or garlic bread? - exclusive In natural language "and" works like a inclusive or. If there is pizza and garlic bread I can choose to eat one or both.
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by mantap 6y ago
It works both ways. People in London can benefit from remote working even if headquarters are somewhere else. In a world where work is conducted over the internet, the status of a city is dependent far more on what kind of place it is to li
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by mantap 6y ago
The point is that the penetration of WhatsApp is way higher than the penetration of unlimited SMS plans. So whatsapp has broader reach. SMS only works if you live in a region where unlimited SMS plans are standard AND you don't have an
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by mantap 6y ago
A lot more than with SMS. You can send someone an SMS but they are not going to respond because either they cost money or they have some tiny allowance of them.
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by mantap 6y ago
It's more insane than the monitor stand. That monitor stand is for a monitor that is aimed at professionals working on HDR content. It's a very low volume, specialised part, $1k isn't entirely unreasonable. These headphones w
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by mantap 6y ago
The Pfizer vaccine won't be available privately in UK, not for a long time. So I think they will be disappointed.
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by mantap 6y ago
History is strewn with chat apps that had their heyday and then died. It's a very dangerous business to be in. Slack is a total anomaly. Technically it's not very good considering the resources poured into it, but it has had a ver
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by mantap 6y ago
Personally, I would definitely choose to die of Ebola rather than Fatal Insomnia. You get slowly driven insane by your inability to sleep. Truly one of the worst ways to go.
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by mantap 6y ago
Algorithms only get better. Did Google "solve" computer Go when AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, when Master beat Ke Jie, or when AlphaZero learned Go from scratch? Even though Google only won 4/5 games against Lee Sedol, that was the
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by mantap 6y ago
Not sure. There are clearly some problems with the x86-64 ISA. If the world switches to ARM in the coming decade, that leaves Intel in a perilous position: no advantage in IP and no advantage in fabrication.
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by mantap 6y ago
The existence of companies that have voting and non-voting shares allows us to measure how much voting is worth. Google's non voting shares trade at basically the same value as their voting shares. Berkshire Hathaway's reduced vot
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by mantap 6y ago
It may be just as likely to win but it's not just as good, the expected value of the prize is much smaller because the prize will be shared with a large number of people. Better to choose a random set of numbers.
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by mantap 6y ago
The UK has a vaccine rollout plan that involves starting with health workers and over 80s. Due to supply issues, only those with the highest risk of death from COVID will get this vaccine.
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by mantap 6y ago
You can't just multiply the cost for 1 person by the number of people in the population. If it's mass produced it will be a lot cheaper. e.g. if you want to pay a chemist to synthesise Aspirin in a lab for you it will be very expe

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