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by modriano 5y ago
Email connects 4 billion people and helps small businesses reach customers. And email manages to do this without starving local journalism, or algorithmically recommending extremist groups to susceptible people, or cause genocides, or relea
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by modriano 5y ago
Can you support that belief with any evidence or a coherent argument? What good does FB do that offsets the great amount of evil it does? What offsets FB's choices that connected millions of extremists and gave them protected spaces to
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by modriano 5y ago
Text, email, zoom, etc. Facebook did not invent online communication. Facebook didn't invent the ability to share photos online. As far as I can tell, Facebook's innovation is it's great at identifying people susceptible to e
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by modriano 5y ago
If someone wanted to make the case that Facebook is a net-good force in the world, I'd read that. But I haven't seen anyone even try to lay out evidence of Facebook doing any good things. I like pytorch, prophet, and their decent
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by modriano 5y ago
What would stop the good Facebook employees from just memorializing evidence of the harm Facebook does to girls/society/the elderly/the conspiracy minded/the Rohingya/etc by emailing supervisors about it and then le
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by modriano 5y ago
You can often get past a paywall by plugging the URL to the paywalled article into the wayback machine. In fact, the top comment (at least in my HN reader) is just an archive link to the article.
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by modriano 5y ago
Police don't skulk around in the shadows at night, waiting to observe crimes. Crimes occur far too infrequently for that strategy to make any sense at all. They're either in cars or if they're patrolling on foot (which is bas
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by modriano 5y ago
I doubt people would use it for actual porn, but I fully expect it will herald an explosion of creepshot porn where guys take (and distribute) sexualized, male-gaze footage of women and girls in public. These glasses will absolutely be used
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by modriano 5y ago
I hate this. If people are recording me, I want the cameras to be obvious. I don't want them to just look like Ray-Bans. If they have to exist, I want them to look ridiculous, like Google Glass did. And I absolutely don't want Fac
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by modriano 5y ago
I'm very skeptical that the cost would be that low. The facility in this article claims it will be able to pull 4000 metric tons of CO2 from the air each year. Per the EPA, the average US driver produces 4.6 metric tons of CO2 per year
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by modriano 5y ago
That would be hard to sell. Trees actually pull CO2 out of the air and lock it away in wood fibers. That produces an actual (albeit infinitesimal) reduction in the net atmospheric CO2. Choosing to not take a flight to Australia, on the othe
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by modriano 5y ago
Wow. There are about 14k to 19k homicides per year in the US. I think there should be at least 1 geofence warrant per homicide. I can't imagine anyone would find that controversial, to just see what devices were in the vicinity of a ho
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by modriano 5y ago
> What? I have never heard anything like that at all. Rights are absolute. 1A text: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, o
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by modriano 5y ago
But a second landslide defeat with no improprieties would probably kill any chance of unionization ever happening in any Amazon warehouse. The median household income in Bessemer, AL, is $32,301 per household per year (~$15.50 per household
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by modriano 5y ago
A $3300 fine would get me to change my behavior. I don't think Zoom is profiting from breeching privacy; I think they profit from providing video-meeting software. I think penalizing undesirable behavior that doesn't produce profi
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by modriano 5y ago
Looking at it now, I see I forgot a "k". It was 350k in 1988, not 350. [0] [0] https://www.cdc.gov/polio/progress/index.htm
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by modriano 5y ago
The thing that really hammers home that there's something to study here is that we basically eliminated polio through vaccination campaigns, and we did this in my lifetime. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 (
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by modriano 5y ago
Actually that's average number of DAILY deaths from the past 7 days, not the number of deaths in the past 7 days. As a lot of people take the weekends off, reporting of new cases and deaths decreases sharply on weekends and increases o
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by modriano 5y ago
Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of human lives. Human lives are valuable. Refusal to get vaccinated against things like measles, polio, smallpox, or COVID-19 cause a lot of unnecessary deaths, which destroys a lot of valuable thing
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by modriano 5y ago
A) BWC is constantly recording to a circular buffer. It doesn't "start recording" when an officer presses the button; it just writes the buffered data to memory and adds new video data to that file until ~30-60 seconds after
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by modriano 5y ago
If you listen to a police scanner for a bit, you'll probably hear at least a few social (security number, full name) pairs. If you're in range, a $20 SDR dongle let's you listen and record on your own, or you can just google
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by modriano 5y ago
None that are public (that I'm aware of), but it's just a matter of time. We just got ShotSpotter alerts put up on the Chicago data portal. But to make it less difficult to believe, I'll point you too LEMART training [1], an
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by modriano 5y ago
Yeah, it's a really useful tool. There are a lot of gunshots in Chicago (last year there were over 4000 incidents (in Chicago) where someone was shot, and there are far more gunshots where no one is hit), and in many of those shootings
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by modriano 5y ago
100%. I've largely been focused on implementing recommendations from a PERF report on Chicago homicide investigations [0] after years of attrition in the Bureau of Detectives collided with a massive spike in violent crime (in 2016, fol
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Hundreds. You may be surprised to learn this, but shooters and killers often violently resist being arrested unless they face clearly overwhelming force. A lot of murderers and shooters have been peacefully arrested by CPD tactical officers
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by modriano 5y ago
I'm a homicide researcher in Chicago. There were over 4000 shootings and 769 homicides here last year. AFAIK, there were 0 swattings here. So, I don't think it would be a good idea to set "assume it's a swatting" as
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by modriano 5y ago
Just in case it's of interest to you, it's very easy to get historical weather data from weather stations all over the US [0] (and I assume most EU countries also publish this data). [0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/p
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by modriano 5y ago
> Videos which point out that the conspiracy videos are garbage have the potential to adversely impact their astronomical view counts and by proxy their profitability. Do they really though? Is there evidence that there are *any* effect
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by modriano 5y ago
I sleep about 6 hours a day, I work about 9 hours a day, and the rest is for life sustaining activities, housework, personal projects, and leisure. Work is where I spend most of my time. Being a positive force in the world is important to m
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by modriano 6y ago
For someone looking to get started, with the knowledge I've gained over the past year, I'd recommend starting with a Kratky grow [0]. It's extremely simple and extremely inexpensive (you basically just start some seedlings in

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