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by modriano 2y ago
> Obviously not, or they wouldn’t have lost. That doesn't follow. It would be true if everyone voted on a correct and comprehensive understanding of the issues and where candidates actually stood on issues, but a massive proportion
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by modriano 2y ago
> But the people are getting what they voted for, so is it really ethical to intervene in that? Did people vote for this? I thought people were voting on the price of eggs. Trump dishonestly disavowed the Heritage Foundation's Proje
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by modriano 2y ago
> He might end up in jail in 2-4 years. You think the Trump administration is going to prosecute the wealthiest person on earth? Attention and wealth are the currencies of Trumpian politics, and I would be shocked to see Trump try to fig
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by modriano 2y ago
Yeah, it's just a mountain of coherent circumstantial evidence at this point. We can infer that liquidation of leadership and oversight in the agencies responsible for the safety of air travel might distract and strain remaining operat
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> DOT/FAA are really going to need to step up after this and figure it out, for good. Yeah. First, we should fill the currently vacant US Secretary of Transportation role. Then we should fill the currently vacant FAA Administrator r
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by modriano 2y ago
A) Behavior and statements are different things. B) Biden also said he wouldn't enforce the ban (and also, it was the last day of his administration, so enforcement by Biden wasn't even possible) This was a political gift to Trump
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GitHub Experiencing Major Outages
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by modriano 2y ago
You should set aside an hour or two and research how the administrative state actually works. These agencies aren't full of political appointees, rather they're staffed with engineers and scientists who are dedicated to keeping ou
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by modriano 2y ago
> It's hard to argue with this in principal. The rules as law BS has been a band-aid over dysfunction. It needs to go. It's very easy to argue with this in principle. Congress can't be constantly updating every law as new
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by modriano 2y ago
Wild. I can't think of any companies that were more product-focused than Steve Jobs' Apple. They created so much value across so many industries. They created so many transformational products. Their machines in the 1980s revoluti
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by modriano 2y ago
I just start new chats whenever the chat gets long (in terms of number of tokens). It's kind of a pain to have to form a prompt that encapsulates enough context, but it has prevented me from hitting the Pro limit. Also, I include more
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by modriano 2y ago
> Unlike some other ideologies they will happily answer any questions about it, it's just that the answers are extremely bad, whether it's "how would you make insulin" (you won't) or "how does criminal justi
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by modriano 2y ago
How could this make slack a better product? The platform was very convenient for sharing files and proprietary information with coworkers, but now I can't trust that slack won't slip in some "opt out if you don't want us
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by modriano 2y ago
We've had nearly 4 years with no scandals and emerged from the pandemic with the best economic recovery of any country, and despite having no margin to spare in Congress, master legislator Joe Biden has secured massive climate change,
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by modriano 2y ago
You can read about it in the wikipedia page [0]. This refrigerant isn't manufactured anywhere anymore because it was creating a hole in the ozone layer. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodifluoromethane
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by modriano 2y ago
My city started a program to train librarians to administer narcan and the city distributes narcan to libraries [0]. I can't imagine Chicago is has a larger homeless population than most other cities (as it's very affordable here)
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by modriano 2y ago
If your mental embedding for "carpentry" is very similar to your embedding for "woodworking", this [0] HN post provides many excellent reasons. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31687378
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by modriano 3y ago
Companies can focus on providing service to their paying customers and (for the most part) ignore everyone else. Governments, on the other hand, have to govern over everyone. As a society (through our group decision-making process, politics
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by modriano 3y ago
To understand means a few things, but they all essentially boil down to having a correct (or at least correct enough to be useful for your usecase(s)) model for something in your head. Have you told someone something like "no, don&#x27
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by modriano 3y ago
> Says who? Rigorous audits in technically savvy jurisdictions: * San Francisco has a technical population that has passed numerous ordinances focused on protecting privacy of San Franciscans in balance with protecting safety. As such, t
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by modriano 3y ago
Um, the things Israel has done to Palestinian citizens in Gaza over the past 15 years (e.g. [0] - [3]) have been pretty horrific, as are the things Hamas has done to Israeli citizens. This situation didn't randomly start on October 7,
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by modriano 3y ago
And regarding your last question, the first of the two court cases where verbal communications were captured (because they were at the same time as the shooting), was in 2007. So shotspotter has been around for a while. Have there been any
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by modriano 3y ago
The website says the audio buffer on the sensor holds the last 30 hours before overwriting. So police have less than 30 hours to flag a missed shooting so shotspotter staff can check sensors for audio around the shooting time. Regarding the
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by modriano 3y ago
These devices don't send audio over the network unless a shooting-like noise is detected. I get it, if the state can listen to all of our communications that are immediately coincident with shootings, what privacy will any of us have?
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by modriano 3y ago
The voice recordings were only picked up because they were incident to shootings. Without the shooting, the audio wouldn't have been written out to file or ever be heard by anyone.
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by modriano 3y ago
Is there any evidence of shotspotter using the data that it collects for something other than good? Even if shotspotter collected audio that didn't contain gunshot-like sounds (which they don't; without a triggering event, the sen
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by modriano 3y ago
Yeah, but the only reason anyone listened to those sections (or was even able to listen to these sections) of tape was because they contained shootings. These systems work on a rolling buffer storage system; they're constantly recordin
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by modriano 3y ago
Unfortunately you must look closely at the details to deeply understand how something works. Even when I already have a decent mental heuristic about how an algorithm works, I get a much richer understanding by calculating the output of an
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by modriano 3y ago
The title "data scientist" was massively overloaded over the past decade, so while it might mean "statistician" on one team, it might mean business analyst, visualization designer, data engineer, or a number of other thi
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by modriano 3y ago
That's wild. I must have said "I am going back to the office" organically hundreds of times. For example, if I went to lunch with a colleague and had to get back to the office for a meeting or to get back to my computer. Or i

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