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by nkurz 6y ago
Are you making a joke, or did you perhaps miss the description of the expiriment that involves burning a piece of incense when he starts the test? I agree though that in a more formal test, a "null" version without the incense wo
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by nkurz 6y ago
Note that this can be a really bad idea. While it might temporarily improve the air quality, extreme filtration will reduce the air flow through the system. This will in turn reduce the efficiency of the heater, possibly in a way that ca
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by nkurz 6y ago
This is a great point to raise, but it's worth noting that it directly contradicts the GP's anecdotal observation. Had they instead found greater severity on birthdays and attempted to statistically correct for it, the two would
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by nkurz 6y ago
Thanks for the article! Using incense for testing seems like a good approach. And yes, the lack of difference between "taped" and "non-taped" is definitely interesting. I'm wondering if this might be in part becau
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When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet(glinden.blogspot.com)
175 points by nkurz 6y ago|404 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
While there are differences between sales taxes and VAT's, and while there might be an advantage to the VAT approach, I don't think the argument made in your article is correct. I'm worried that you might not understand how
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by nkurz 6y ago
1) As a California LLC, it is unlikely that Ycombinator has a legal obligation to comply with a European data law. Under California law, though, you do have the right to request deletion of your personal information if you are a Californi
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by nkurz 6y ago
While it's still going to be a very real number, I think you are overestimating the number of deaths considerably. I appreciate that you provided a link, but I don't think that source includes the information you would need to mak
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by nkurz 6y ago
https://archive.is/yp447
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High Density and Sustainability(newgeography.com)
21 points by nkurz 6y ago|10 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
I think this is right, where "most recent post" is chosen from both comments and submissions. Looking at top of the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest page illustrates this pattern. Almost every timestamp there
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by nkurz 6y ago
Hello! I fear you submitted the wrong link. When I follow it, I get to a sign in page for Wordpress rather than the article you intended, which was presumably this one: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2020/11/22
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Rules for Evidence Communication(nature.com)
48 points by nkurz 6y ago|3 comments
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by nkurz 6y ago
As one might fear, Olson died shortly after the article was written, still age 97: https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/john-w-olson-obituary/12...
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by nkurz 6y ago
> They refuse to hire a woman, black or Latino developer explicitly. I appreciate that you are making a specific accusation. Could you provide online evidence that would support it? If demonstrated, this would change my opinion of t
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by nkurz 6y ago
> They refuse to hire a woman, black or Latino developer explicitly. I appreciate that you are making a specific accusation. Could you provide online evidence that would support it? This would indeed change my opinion of the project
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by nkurz 6y ago
> That's also the correct use of an Oxford/serial comma, yes? In the off chance you were being serious, no. An Oxford comma goes (or doesn't go) after the second to last (penultimate) item, not after the final. And even
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by nkurz 6y ago
Your suggestions are good, but I have to wonder why you are making them under a newly created account. Ironically, several of your suggestions depend on persistent user identity. Why not use one? Or rather, if you have one, why not use
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by nkurz 6y ago
I'm responding here because your other posts remain dead despite vouching for them. I just wanted to say that your questions about sctb seemed reasonable to me, and yes, your comments for the last year (and probably more) have been h
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by nkurz 6y ago
> A typical oil tanker consumes a couple of hundreds of tons of bunker fuel per day to move a couple of thousands of tons of fuel around. While it certainly makes sense to calculate for the entire journey, if you were talking about the &
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by nkurz 6y ago
Seems like a good article, but could you edit to use the original title? The rules suggest it, and I think it will be flagged off if left as is.
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by nkurz 6y ago
While certainly Greenwald's article could have been improved, this was an opinion piece and it seems clear that his editors wanted not just greater clarity but a different opinion. Using the code review analogy, the editors wanted not
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by nkurz 6y ago
> I dunno why we don't just pay the ranchers for livestock killed (it's pretty rare) and everyone goes home happy? I think the answer is that while there is not currently a federal program, many states already do pay ranchers f
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by nkurz 6y ago
> This was a calculated move to paint all the protesters as rioters I don't think this is true. Quoting from his piece: "Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandabl
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by nkurz 6y ago
Thanks for backing your opinion with a good summary like this. It provides a good framework for discussion. People should read it. That said, although it outlines the issues well, I disagree with many of their conclusions. I think in p
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by nkurz 6y ago
> And it was also were I decided to stop. I can see why you might think this is a good heuristic---don't trust blog authors who don't know the right names for common typographic symbols---but in this case I think you went wrong
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by nkurz 6y ago
Perhaps this title could be edited to end with a complete word? Also, today I learned that "artifact" can also be spelled "artefact" (although chiefly British): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
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by nkurz 6y ago
It wouldn't explain a recent change, but the label "flag" does imply calling something to someone's attention, and that someone would presumably be a moderator. Whether or not not stories are killed immediately by flagg
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by nkurz 6y ago
I'm not sure. What is the exact contradiction that you see? Viewing moderation as another form as speech seems reasonable to me, or at least as reasonable as viewing a campaign contribution as a form of speech. Perhaps the actual iss
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by nkurz 6y ago
> Probably in this case it's because metadrama threads like that are a dime-a-dozen and never lead anywhere new I think that's unlikely. While it would be great to know why users flag the stories that they flag (feature reques

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