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by moduspol 7y ago
After the anti-Google story, I like to then move on to the story that paints any interaction with a corporation that is not completely anonymous as bona-fide evidence that we're a half-step away from a corporate-controlled surveillance
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by moduspol 7y ago
Yep. And it's Apple that's pushing for a HomeKit router [1]. Reading between the lines of how Apple's been handling the "smart home" business, they've been focusing on privacy and security relative to competito
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by moduspol 7y ago
> And your comment is an example of assuming that government regulation is at best a necessary evil and something to be avoided if at all possible. The role of government regulation is a separate question, but we're really jumping t
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by moduspol 7y ago
Perhaps, but some things are inherent to how markets work. It's not surprising that by making a ton of student loan money available, that more students are more willing to spend more money, and thus prices rise.
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by moduspol 7y ago
It's federally guaranteed student loans that got us here! It wasn't like this for our parents. This comment is an example of how any amount of problems caused by government intervention can be framed as a need for more government
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by moduspol 7y ago
> You're talking about career changes as opposed to initial schooling Yes, but it's the same question. Initial schooling is implicitly accepting a working age adult contributing no income for four years. We're just accusto
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by moduspol 7y ago
Even if it were free, the idea that it would take someone with an existing career four years as a full-time student to pursue a different career is too much. We need to start questioning bad assumptions about education. Shuffling money arou
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by moduspol 7y ago
The other responses to your comment are good, but another point: They also support autoscaling the provisioned concurrency. See here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/application/userguid...
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by moduspol 7y ago
AFAIK it's not a solution, it's just a workaround. As others have said, the previous workaround was a cron event that would invoke a function every few minutes to keep it warm. This is a lot better than that. They're still wo
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by moduspol 7y ago
As a conservative here on HN: I think the author is using conservative in the more direct sense: the people are fighting to keep things the way they are in terms of housing. This is at odds with the way the city is normally thought of in te
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by moduspol 7y ago
This. I normally just avoid commenting in these threads, but clearly most users don't see this as quite as big of a problem as the HN users that comment in these threads. And maybe, just maybe, they're right.
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by moduspol 7y ago
Reminds me of Bill Gates trying to explain the value of the Internet to David Letterman. "Does 'radio' ring a bell? 'Tape recorders' ring a bell?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lskpNmUl8yQ
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by moduspol 7y ago
Probably the same way you approach people who don't trust every claim of "soft" sciences, like human psychology. You do the best you can with what you have, and continually work to improve the science.
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by moduspol 7y ago
Teslas have moved past the "theoretically can we drive across the US" a long time ago. Nobody questions if any EV can do it given a careful selection of start and end points, route planning, and luck with third party charging st
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by moduspol 7y ago
I guess it depends on how you define "range". How long will it take to drive across five states in a Tesla Model S as compared to a Porsche Taycan? We know the answer for the Tesla because people do it every day, across many combi
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by moduspol 7y ago
It's not really reasonable to compare a residential ISP to one for a college campus. It probably is cheaper if you count only the Internet service itself, but everything between that ISP and each end user's device has significant
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by moduspol 7y ago
I wasn't in a position to be explicitly told, although I did at one point see an anonymized list of faculty salaries and they did not seem unreasonable (only one in six figures). This school is about 40 minutes away from a city with an
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by moduspol 7y ago
I worked for five years at a private university a few years ago, and my experience is similar, although to add a little: It never felt like a plan or conspiracy to make administration costs bigger. It's just very easy to do when you ha
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by moduspol 7y ago
It's a matter of defining "full self-driving." If you're accustomed to horses and see someone selling cars, it'd be reasonable to say, "Those are ridiculous. There are numerous places only my horses can reach.
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by moduspol 7y ago
They may not have to share a ride. We (as a society) are fully capable of building single-person cars. It's just the economics of car ownership incentivize having four to five seats and a lot of trunk space just in case you need it, ev
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by moduspol 7y ago
There are multiple issues with quoting the statistic out of context: * Even the article cites it as only a single study * The wording of the statement implicitly includes suicide, which while non-negligible, are often conflated by gun contr
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by moduspol 7y ago
> As someone else said, guns might be okay for someone's personal circumstances but on average they are far more likely to hurt you than help. The comment I was responding to did not say this. > Also I'm curious about your d
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by moduspol 7y ago
> One study found that when a gun is present in the home, that gun is 43 times more likely to kill a family member than to kill an intruder. There's a world of difference between OP's own circumstances and a statistical househo
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by moduspol 7y ago
The MacOS one must be a userland implementation because if it required kernel modules, it wouldn't be able to be in the App Store. The only way to implement a VPN on the App Store is to use the higher level APIs, as far as I know. The
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by moduspol 7y ago
The sandboxing of apps is a nice benefit, though. I can be reasonably confident apps won't conflict with each other and that they're interfacing cleanly and minimally with the host OS. Perhaps not the best example, but I set up Wi
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by moduspol 7y ago
Honestly, this is the appeal (to me) of building a private World of Warcraft server. This way, the user-facing artsy stuff is mostly done. You just need the backend stuff, although admittedly some fun is removed since you have to work with
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by moduspol 7y ago
> You can not drive a Tesla without using the touchscreen on an almost constant basis. There's your quote, verbatim, and it's false. If you don't want to get called out for verifiably false statements, I'd avoid makin
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by moduspol 7y ago
> the Tesla only has a touchscreen for interfacing with the vast majority of the vehicle's functions False. There are voice controls, buttons on the steering wheel, the steering wheel itself, pedals, pedestals (for turn signals like
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by moduspol 7y ago
Nearly every setting you'd use while driving is also on the steering wheel. Your claim was this: > You can not drive a Tesla without using the touchscreen on an almost constant basis. This is patently false, but I can't prove a
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by moduspol 7y ago
I've had a Model 3 for about a year, and it is absolutely not the case. You are ludicrously misinformed, but don't let that stop you from commenting.

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