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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Every HN thread including any discussion of demographics eventually reaches a man insisting women are biologically programmed for certain roles. When specified those roles are invariably service based ones and never engineering innovative p
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Total federal civil asset forfeiture passed losses from burglary in 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Yes, this user grotesquely underrepresented the scale of chattel slavery in America at the peak of the American slave economy. The original commenter is still completely wrong if you look at the 1860 census. The first user made a wild, inco
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
They are also wrong by absolute numbers.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
That figure of 7m is not the total incarcerated population. It's the total correctional population, which includes parole and probation.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
The 1860 census counted just over 4 million enslaved African Americans in the South, out of a population of about 31.4 million.[0][1] There are about 1.9 million people incarcerated in jail or prison in the United States today.[2] The scale
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
But a dumpster is a complete and functional item. I think that's a key distinction. This is an incomplete high rise blighting the landscape until it's taken down. What if you like your job, your area, and a developer shows up one
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
I actually essentially do that, I have a reusable bag that folds up into itself with a zipper into a package about the size of a wallet. Fits well in a purse or jacket pocket and is more pleasant to carry when full than a plastic bag anyhow
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
In particular because Appin Training Centers was only incorporated several months after being named the plaintiff in the lawsuit, and appears to exist in order to facilitate these suits.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
One of my favorite aspects of pinball is finding and playing those odd machines tucked away here and there, thanks to some enthusiast at a local business, or because it’s always been there. Fond memories of an old laundromat in CNY that had
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Worth noting the performance characterizations of an individual machine can depend on how it’s maintained and how the operator chooses to set it up - so this may not be a completely level playing field. On the other hand, if you’ve figured
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
I believe it was right here on HN that I read last week the pithy aphorism, >to err is human. to screw up a million times a second, you need a computer.
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Autodesk investigating why customers are receiving infinite email notifications(health.autodesk.com)
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
This takes me back to my own first experiences 'hacking' and tinkering with the guts of a computer system, which put me on the path to a career in IT and engineering: - Breaking the family computer with a trojan pirating Halo PC
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Yeah, I'm sure some of the experience quality is because the only other riders are people Waymo selected for the beta, and nobody wants to get kicked out for misbehavior. We've joked a few times "don't forget that water
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Wow, that is really cool. Thank you - I frankly feel a lot of relief knowing the collection is still being maintained, even if I can't visit it. Maybe they need volunteers.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
The jarringly bad nature of my recent experiences with Lyft/Uber compared to Waymo has likely inspired some hyberpole, but - I have been an Uber and Lyft rider for almost 10 years myself. Back then I was at town meetings in Syracuse, N
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
I really hope Waymo succeeds, or at the very least survives in its current markets. It is so much more comfortable, convenient, and safe than traditional ride share. I switched to more or less only using Waymo for ride-share in SF after I g
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
If you're a renter, recovering $500 a month in funds probably looks like cutting back on entertainment, switching to cheaper brands at the grocery, declining to visit those friends in the East Bay to save on gas, tolls, and/or Ube
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
> The only running CDC 6000 series machine has been restored by Living Computers: Museum + Labs. Wonder what's become of it, now that the Paul Allen foundation deemed the LCM a needless expense and who knows what happened to all the
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
For me, it's just constant cable news cycle clutter on my home page. At least with cable TV I could change the channel to Food Network and all I would see was Food Network stuff. With Youtube, even though 90% of what I watch is cooking
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
>All those things plus some fancy instagram marketing is tricking people to spend $700+ on an air filter. I think there is also the middle ground of spending about $150 on an air filter, because the ones from Ikea and Bluair look and sou
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
There is also an opening for someone to market this exact product exactly the same, but just undertake the testing to prove it actually works as advertised to comply with California law. As a state where air quality is a major public health
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Before this entire debacle unfolded, I really liked having Beeper on my iPhone to send and receive texts from my Windows computer and mix my chat platforms together like the old days of IM. I was on the waitlist early and I even got the Bee
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
>Schools nationwide have invested millions of dollars in the monitoring technology, including federal COVID-19 emergency relief money meant to help schools through the pandemic and aid students’ academic recovery. Marketing materials hav
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
>Understanding traffic police, sign turners, "follow me" trucks, etc. I can confirm that in my experience, Waymo handles these kinds of situations fine. Better than many humans in SF seem to, ha! Compared to my past experiences
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
In my opinion the "Latest in the Area" screen using 30% of real estate by default when you launch the app is an ad, regardless of whether the businesses featured there actually pay Google or just show up there randomly.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Is "all weather conditions" a global benchmark, or is it "all weather conditions occurring in the cities of operation?" At least in SF, I haven't seen a day where Waymo refused availability for the weather. Rode it
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
It feels like you have to choose between Google Maps, with up to date information but an ad-riddled, not-useful interface, or Apple Maps, with a simpler map interface but worthlessly unreliable information. Looking for a place to eat in dow
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Unfortunately no, and I should mention a cursory search turns up known driverless startups active in Mountain View - so I think unless any other HNster has better evidence, treat me as hearsay. I also shouldn't oversell them, the ones

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