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by mcbits 4y ago
You speak as if "HN" is some dude with multiple personality disorder.
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by mcbits 4y ago
Active illumination isn't always safe. Russians in Ukraine have (or at least at one point had) a conundrum where if they turn on the radar to detect incoming HIMARS missiles then the radar gets targeted by HARM missiles. In a domestic
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by mcbits 4y ago
At a minimum, passive radar could be useful to augment more conventional types of cameras in a home security system, especially for someone with acres of land with a lot of trees, etc.
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by mcbits 4y ago
I think the best rule of thumb for UI animations is to keep speeding them up until users stop praising the beautiful/elegant animations. They shouldn't notice the animations.
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by mcbits 4y ago
> Is there context missing? Yes. The missing part is that when every customer is technically violating one or more policies, they can pick and choose who to target without further justification. Like discretionary traffic enforcement, th
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by mcbits 4y ago
As long as you and your neighbors all had the same understanding (in writing) before buying the property, that's fine. It's not something that should be foisted on people after they own their property, since "you're free
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by mcbits 4y ago
If someone has a lung tumor and the immune system is coaxed into killing/eating the cancerous cells, what happens after that? Is the lung able to fill in the gap with new healthy cells, or can the patient end up with a big hole in thei
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by mcbits 4y ago
That's what they get for using cupric oxide. At this point they should rebuild it from scratch in ferric oxide.
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by mcbits 5y ago
It's not as if corner stores are banned, but zoning restrictions have that effect in many places.
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by mcbits 5y ago
Maybe stars are the Dyson spheres, and their emissions are the waste energy that wasn't worth harvesting.
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by mcbits 5y ago
> People murder to get cocaine. When’s the last time anyone murdered for Starbucks? If people could buy cocaine at Starbucks (or get cheap stuff at a dollar store), would supply be such a problem for users that they resort to crime? If c
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by mcbits 5y ago
> Said that it was because my mailserver did not send enough legitimate mail for their algorithm to trust it. In other words, a small self-hosted email server will be considered a spammer until it starts sending out large amounts of emai
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by mcbits 5y ago
No need to burn it down. Just buy a bunch of gift cards for the bar and hand them out to people recently released from jail for drunk & disorderly conduct. If the bar is trying to optimize for maximum traffic at the expense of all other
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by mcbits 5y ago
You're carving out a definition to fit intuitive inferences gleaned by observing instances of "sandwich" and "not-sanwich" labeled by influential people in your life who had no objective reasons for constructing and
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by mcbits 5y ago
If the reproduction rate is kept low enough for an extended time, the virus eventually extinguishes itself. With vaccination, "self-vaccination" among the uncooperative, sanitation, testing, contact tracing, and some fraction of t
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by mcbits 5y ago
It can and will be eradicated, and eventually the flu along with it (which was already a high research priority before Covid). Just not soon.
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by mcbits 5y ago
It already coexisted with a host: bats. If we're going to anthropromorphize the virus, maybe it's searching for a way to kill off one of the biggest predators of its preferred host.
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by mcbits 5y ago
If true, that would be an embarrassing oversight in the study as well as possibly #1 in one of those "Top 10 accidental scientific discoveries that changed everything" articles.
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by mcbits 5y ago
Where Covid vaccination could work (remains to be seen) is if, combined with other mitigation measures, it brings the effective reproduction rate down low enough and for long enough to eradicate the virus. Problem is, the long tail can la
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by mcbits 5y ago
> what do I do when there’s a hurricane and no power for weeks If I ever (can afford to) buy an electric car, this is actually the strongest selling point for me. It's enough of a reservoir to keep my most important electronics powe
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by mcbits 5y ago
Maybe more benign or more malignant among them, or maybe more benign or more malignant among us, yes. Or they may reach literal herd immunity before any significant mutations get established.
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by mcbits 5y ago
> when police jam cameras at protests they just use bright visible strobes Ironically then the story just goes from "here police are brutalizing the people protesting brutality" to "and also being childish with their flash
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by mcbits 5y ago
VAERS shows more than 15,000 cases of COVID-19 reported after vaccination. Are we to conclude that they got COVID-19 "from" the vaccine?
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by mcbits 5y ago
Hypothesis: The accompanying text in people's posts sharing the link got flagged, but Facebook's system doesn't differentiate between that and flagging the link itself. It just sees the link being repeatedly flagged and faili
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by mcbits 5y ago
They've archived past weekly reports going back to 1999-2000 (not sure if that's when the weekly report started or just when the archive starts), although the formatting and specific information has changed over the years. https:
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by mcbits 5y ago
Put two iron pellets on a very thin, flexible fabric. Underneath the fabric, put a magnet so each pellet is stuck to one pole of the magnet through the fabric. Tug the magnet "down" in the third dimension, which will fold the fabr
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by mcbits 5y ago
This is why I think AGPL is a reasonable default for personal projects where the dev doesn't want to fuss over licenses or sue anyone, but would be uncomfortable with $BigCorp exploiting their work. Even though it doesn't explicit
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by mcbits 5y ago
Nobody ever argued that molecules of air and ink have some duty to participate in enforcing laws prohibiting various types of speech and the press, I guess because it was never possible. Bits and bytes are rapidly supplanting ink and air fo
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by mcbits 5y ago
I'm not sure how to track the history of US code, but it looks like that law didn't exist until 2012.
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by mcbits 6y ago
Open source isn't just a label. If the label is a lie and the product is not actually open source, that's a separate issue. Assuming the product is actually open source, the important question to answer is the same as if it's

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