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by nemo 13y ago
Yeah that's why OSHA puts responsibility on business owners instead of employees. People have cognitive biases that cause them to make all kinds of terrible decisions about safety, which is why leaving safety to "personal responsibility" i
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by nemo 13y ago
"The most we can do is force workers to trade pay for safety, which they might not want to do." This is a weird way to frame things, as though workers don't really mind being killed or injured on the job. Safety is management's responsibil
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by nemo 13y ago
It's true that the U.S. did model some of its public education on the Prussian model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system But there's a lot of conspiratorial libertarian agenda in your comment. American schools existed
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by nemo 13y ago
In Papua New Guinea the prion based disease, Kuru, transmitted by cannibalism was last reported in 2005. There is still cannibalism among the Korowai tribe. Papua New Guinea has many corners that are a far, far different place from the mo
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by nemo 13y ago
Pro since 2007, so deeply relieved at this update. Many people will complain about any change since it requires them to learn something new, even if the new way is an improvement.
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by nemo 13y ago
If I were an Afghanistani/Iraqi/whoever planting IEDs/mines trying to defeat this, I'd make small bundles with explosives in them and sprinkle them in random areas to create large enough numbers of false positives to make using this onerous
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by nemo 14y ago
That's true, camera tech. is steadily improving to the point that a DSLR left on auto can do some impressive work behind the scenes. A modern DSLR has a lot of amazing tech for low light handling, autofocus, setting the white point/color f
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by nemo 14y ago
I think they mean fill flash, which can help a lot. You can use a built in flash for that, if you look up "fill flash" tutorials you can find info. appropriate to your camera. I use a speedlight for fill flash, since I tend to shoot thing
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by nemo 14y ago
I'd say that the photos were nice. Not great, not outstanding, not attention grabbing, not technically excellent, but nice. Phones are fine for getting photos that are good enough, and if that's all you want buying equipment that's expens
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by nemo 14y ago
It depends on what you're doing with photography. The big selling point of a DSLR is interchangeable lenses, I have a telephoto, a macro, and a general purpose kit lens. I have macro shots of jumping spiders with amazing detail far better
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by nemo 14y ago
This thing where people frame the currency as a commodity to invest in for huge profit seems like it is driving instability that makes the currency less useful as a currency.
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by nemo 14y ago
What should you google to find out about how people with goods/services are handling instability in currency value? Even if a vendor updated pricing indexed to the dollar regularly (which is not desirable at all) it's seems like it would s
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by nemo 14y ago
While there seem to be serious issues with the research, it's hard to be won over by an article that starts with "You all know that the Journal of Cosmology is complete crap, right? In addition to some of the worst web design ever — it look
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by nemo 14y ago
For the record, DFW wasn't in great life circumstances when he committed suicide. He'd switched his antidepressants that worked but had horrible side effects to another med which didn't work for depression and he fell in deep. When he swi
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by nemo 14y ago
She's not standing by principles, she's self-justifying.
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by nemo 14y ago
I hadn't communicated with uriel on Hacker News, so perhaps he had better behavior here, but part of the reason I avoided him was because of interactions with him on reddit. He was a really bright guy, and when discussing software he had a
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by nemo 14y ago
The article's description is way off. "Ironically for a book ignored by most philosophers, it contains the answers to a lot of their questions, and the method for answering all of them." As you say, he is among the most influential 20th c
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by nemo 14y ago
Religion is a pretext. Greed is a cause. Wars that were driven by leaders' economic motivations used religion as a justification. As religion became less effective as a pretext in the 20th century, other pretexts came along ("progress",
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by nemo 14y ago
That's weird, I've never had any trouble finding what I was looking for on Craigslist. There definitely are ways that they could improve the search interface, but the current implementation works fine for me, and given their user base it w
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by nemo 15y ago
Disabling JavaScript doesn't strike me as "tech-savvy", it strikes me as "paranoid."