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by optimiz3 5y ago
> maybe I should be paying my taxes to them This is possible via emigration. The highest profile adversaries of the US don't have a better track record when it comes to domestic surveillance however.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
In general the check here is the Legislative branch, where select members have access to classified data and can exert corrective pressure on the Executive. Not perfect, but allowing any member of the public to expose classified secrets via
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by optimiz3 5y ago
A serious study of North Korea will illuminate how trite many issues are relative to the basic freedoms and services we take for granted.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
> given the obvious conflict of interest, and he did not This is being litigated and there has been no finding of fact. Even if true, who cares? Tesla owes much of it's success to Musk's leadership. > reusable rockets are no
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by optimiz3 5y ago
You can't use your examples of what hasn't been delivered yet without the things people said were impossible and have been delivered (reusable rockets, M3, etc.). FWIW it's SolarCity, not SolarWinds. The SolarCity acquisiti
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Microsoft is in the affiliate link business now?
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by optimiz3 5y ago
None of the amendments sufficiently clarify the role of mining pools. I.e. the pool does validation, but it also divides up the mined yield. If you regulate pools, this will significantly reduce and centralize the entities with control o
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Have we resolved why a cohort of younger folks were getting myocarditis? That is not something you want to get as a teenager when your body is developing. Have gotten the shot, but have heard this question from parents and it is completely
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Source? Most of these systems didn't disclose location.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Many of the demon sigils resemble circuit schematics!
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by optimiz3 5y ago
My oldest TSLA shares are from back in 2013; other decisions along these lines have given me the freedom to pursue what I love in life.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA! Defeatist thinking. As they say, pessimists get to be right, but optimists get to be rich.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
> Elon doesn't operate under the same jurisdiction as us common people. Elon doesn't get any special treatment. You can do all these things as well if you're willing to expend resources when faced with repercussions. My s
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by optimiz3 5y ago
> need to built roads for autonmous cars Not any more friendly than they are to humans. AI driving needs to handle the general case. Otherwise a road that has a lapse in autonomous-friendlyness could be catastrophic.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
It's a limited beta with the goal of discovering error cases.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Wait till you read the stats and see videos of what humans driving cars regularly do!
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by optimiz3 5y ago
OT but what a toxic cookie acceptance dark pattern. The prompt (which takes up half the screen) doesn't go away unless you click accept all on Brave mobile. Configuring cookies causes it to stay visible.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
For all practical discussions (i.e. top 10 languages used in real world production), when people say static they mean strong+static.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
First financial application where you accidentally assign a string to an int or NaN gets treated as 0 (implicit floating point when dealing with fixed point money = shudder) makes you enthusiastic about static typing real fast.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Cats have the evolutionary benefit of being cute to humans. This allows them to be one of the most invasive species in the world. Case in point is Hawaii; attempts to bring the wild cat populations under control are immediately met with re
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by optimiz3 5y ago
You can bet the social media teams of Verizon, Comcast, and the rest of their ilk will be pushing this article through social networks hard.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
For those that don't read, this is a global population survey, not an American one. If you're American, surprise - you're much more likely to believe work pays off. Won't stop the parade of people with unsubstantiated st
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Perfect is the enemy of the good.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
> Humans are taxed on their income. Corporations are taxed on their profit Not true. States like WA have general B&O taxes which are a tax on revenue, not profit. This makes it much harder to operate thin margin businesses like groce
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Allegedly. What is a transgression of the law and whether a law is just or valid can be open to interpretation, which is why we have juries.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
> any fresh hire could never truly know if they passed interviews Always get large a signing bonus.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
> starting my own country Technically this worked pretty well when we had unexplored continents. If Elon has his way, maybe we'll soon-ish have Mars.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
I don't think the story is an example of conflicting messages though. Different messages at different times based on new data, but not at a single point in time.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Doesn't mean her concerns are warranted when the vaccine has been given to hundreds of millions and we have data on it. A phd is just a certification. Take from that what you will.
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by optimiz3 5y ago
Information about the virus and the virus itself has changed since last summer. One adjusts approaches based on changing data. Being flexible is a positive trait.

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