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541.
by mkempe 9y ago
By that standard, what economic activities would be outside the province of state intervention?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Or the reports of others in the neighborhood... How does the power utility collect these reports?
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Chimpanzees greet emphatically but show no leave-taking behavior (2016) [pdf](ishe.org)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Given that NK has totalitarian surveillance software that keeps track of USB devices being plugged into phones/tablets/computers -- what is a (relatively) safe method that the intended recipients are expected to use to access the
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Robots do chin-ups, push-ups, and sit-ups for the sake of science(latimes.com)
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Christmas should be more commercial(sfgate.com)
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“Synthetic Embryos”: The Wrong Term for Important New Research(leapsmag.com)
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Blue Origin a year away from crewed New Shepard flights(spacenews.com)
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by mkempe 9y ago
There are many small, excellent ISPs; for instance Sonic [1] and Wave [2]. I hope people can and will now focus on the deeper problems behind awful Internet access in the USA, compared to most of the developed world -- local franchise monop
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by mkempe 9y ago
Why completely? is there room for marginal profits at the individual level?
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by mkempe 9y ago
You can blame the locomotive engineer as much as you feel to sate your anger -- still, people have died and been injured. Meanwhile, it is a fact that fail-safe engineering controls would have prevented the disaster. And what if the locom
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by mkempe 9y ago
Regardless of how much an individual is to blame or not, fail-safe controls are a proper part of engineering practice, for two fundamental reasons: unknown unknowns, and human fallibility.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Let's dig further into the root causes. WSJ: "An anti-crash system for trains designed to thwart serious accidents of human error, such as derailments from over-speeding, wasn't activated, according to an Amtrak spokeswoman.
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by mkempe 9y ago
If we grant that they need PCT, and it is installed but not enabled on this track, who is to blame?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Going 80 mph in a 30-mph-limited curve is the immediate cause of the disaster. Apparently positive train control (PTC) was installed for that track, and would have prevented the disaster -- but it was not enabled. That gets us one step cl
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by mkempe 9y ago
Accents are generally considered unimportant in the context of a search, at least in French.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Interesting. It looks like you only have people in the legislative branches, at the Federal and Canton levels. Will you expand to the lower levels of government and include, at least, people in the executive branches? do you have a mechanis
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by mkempe 9y ago
That's a completely absurd claim. Satellite measurement of Arctic sea ice coverage for 2017 is currently tracking significantly higher than in 2016. [1] Also, in context of sea ice coverage reduction due to climate change -- when the V
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Cues of men's upper-body strength account for most variance in attractiveness(rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Unrelated. Uber's plan is to buy standard Volvo XC90 SUVs and add their own self-driving implements.
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Feeling of beauty and amplitude of pleasure are independent of stimulus duration(jov.arvojournals.org)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Note that engineer salaries are much lower in Stockholm than in the Bay Area. So them spending that amount of money on new office space is not really significant.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Google and Facebook have been pulling huge profits thanks to pushing their dominating contents/ads without payment to net-neutrality-shackled ISPs. If ISPs could negotiate for some of that money they could invest in better connections
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by mkempe 9y ago
You're not alone in experiencing a similar issue on HN while using a VPN.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Weinstein's course of action is a personal choice and responsibility. It is absurd to infer or assert collective guilt, or to ascribe some sort of original/social sin to "society." What he did is his individual vice; it
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by mkempe 9y ago
Yes, whenever someone suggests prosperity via free markets and free minds here their comments are downvoted. If PR could become a new Singapore or Hong Kong we would all benefit.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Puerto Rico's government debt was in crisis before the hurricane hit: outstanding bond debt of $70 billion ($12,000 per capita); very high poverty rate; and 10+% unemployment. Maybe they could try to become a new Hong Kong in the Carib
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by mkempe 9y ago
UVB rays do pass through clouds.
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by mkempe 9y ago
1. The key UV for vitamin D production by our skin are UVB rays, optimal between 10am and 2pm, except in the winter at 40+ latitude when the rays travel longer through the atmosphere due to the low solar angle. For instance in Washington st
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Survey Finds 40% of Smartphone Use Is Compulsive(studyfinds.org)
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