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by obmelvin 6y ago
That's fine - it doesn't matter what is right for 'some people'. It just matters if it's a better situation for the person accepting a new job - whether money is part of their viewpoint or not.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Similarly, and I honestly feel a bit silly asking this, but does this ban US investors from purchasing Tencent stock? It doesn't seem so - are these literally just bans on app transactions? Or does this also mean that, for example, WeC
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I don't understand what their AUM has to do with it?
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by obmelvin 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/dna-database-sea... That the primary consequential use of these databases will be for law enforcement, not to tell you about your families history.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Thanks for pointing out the size - didn't quite think about just how much thinner lids are than phones. That is certainly a very real limiter
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by obmelvin 6y ago
And that's even more absurd
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by obmelvin 6y ago
It may work fine, but its slightly absurd to need a better webcam for a recently made 2k USD laptop
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Ah, that would probably explain it. I was wondering if the actors wanted to avoid touching services that could impact peoples lives, due to that potentially leading to more motivated investigations. Possibly, but also could just be that it
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by obmelvin 6y ago
supposedly inReach wasn't included in the down time? Wonder if due to better infra or just highly (and rightfully so) prioritized once things went south
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Yes, you are very much correct. Unfortunately, if HHMI and the like are unwilling* to do these sorts of funding experiments, I'm not really sure who will. * I can't claim to be up-to-date on the distribution of labs funded so for
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by obmelvin 6y ago
HHMI is crazy, it has definitely had a positive impact on my girlfriends PhD experience and allowed her to take on a 'post doc killer' project. It's taken her almost 3 years, but she's gotten great quality data, and just
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by obmelvin 6y ago
>The victim isn't Amazon, it's the next customer who buys the returned product--which wasn't even necessarily labeled as such. Not saying that I'd want this to happen to me, but assuming Amazon made it right I'd
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by obmelvin 6y ago
While I do feel like it is still an appropriate joke to make in the sense that it sounds ridiculous to say you aren't interested in Mt Everest because its too crowded, sadly it seems we have already reached that point in time - https:
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Yes, but the computing they are trying to do is expensive, so it makes sense to then try and get some self-sustaining revenue by leveraging their research into a software service. I must admit I don't know about their current status of
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by obmelvin 6y ago
A sibling commenter of yours pointed out that the EX variant will retain the dual-seat configuration of the E variant, which allows a dedicates weapon systems officer. An obvious fundamental improvement that can't be addressed through
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Can I ask you something a bit off-topic? In Spanish (well, specifically in what you've heard in Mexico) do people use the word Jesus like you just did (i.e. Jesus esto es horrible)? Or is there a similar word/phrase that you would
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by obmelvin 6y ago
Hm, interesting, I appreciate your comment as someone who has regularly driven both. I've only driven the model 3 a bit, with much more time in the passenger seat and I feel like I have to look away from the road a lot.
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by obmelvin 6y ago
> large touchscreen navigation that gets updated continuously Specifically with the model 3 I think the central touchscreen is awfully placed and dangerous as the driver
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by obmelvin 6y ago
You can try to argue that certain things aren't "hate speech" but I don't understand how you can claim it to be a made up term. Hate is a real thing and if you channel that into certain language you get hate speech, plai
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by obmelvin 6y ago
He definitely seems approachable. Someone I knew from school interned at nvidia and supposedly he hosted a party at his house for the interns (possibly just PhD interns) and let people rev one of his fancy cars
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by obmelvin 6y ago
uh, if you actually read the links you posted...from the second article one of the people visited by law enforcement said "In my opinion, gasify everyone" [google translate I must admit, but there were plenty of quotes like this t
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by obmelvin 6y ago
>People put up the same comments about Alex Honnold when the Free Solo documentary made the front page of HN. That he was an irresponsible jerk who lived only for himself. There is a big difference between these two cases. Honnold's
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by obmelvin 6y ago
I just want to thank you for your actions and ask if you have any advice for career paths to do something about this type of academic bullshit. My GF is currently pursuing a PhD in biochem but very interested in pursuing science policy so t
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by obmelvin 6y ago
> particular well-known machine was unracked are you able to comment a bit further on why this machine was well known?
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Absolutely. For example, companies in New Zealand are pursuing a coronavirus vaccine. Do you think they really doubt the willingness of Moderna [0] (Boston based biotech company) to sell them the vaccine if it is successful? I'd be wil
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by obmelvin 7y ago
I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be delighted to be in that situation. At the end of the day Zoom is looking to stay a run-away success - assuming eng is being compensated appropriately it's really one of the best pro
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by obmelvin 7y ago
I've tried googling and didn't see any blog posts. 140 chars is certainly enough for someone to link that :). Anyway, thank you for making me and others aware of this blog.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
You are the first person I've seen to know enough about the OSX APIs to know that it is real. I went back to look at the twitter thread and only saw (certainly could've overlooked) one person who was saying that it is real. Thanks
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by obmelvin 7y ago
I'm sure there are other reasons, but three understandable reasons I've seen: 1) The lack of e2e encryption despite trying to market themselves as having secure video chat. 2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Excuse my ignorance here, then what is the purpose of the fake system dialog?

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