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by oska 2y ago
I wouldn't perhaps have expressed myself as callously as you, and I think the 'Darwin award' is a silly concept that doesn't deserve referencing but I do agree with your general sentiment. To directly reference the sensa
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by oska 3y ago
I urge you to read the comment guidelines for this forum, as you are clearly going against a number of them (e.g. "Assume good faith"). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by oska 3y ago
> Fungibility is just a social convention No, the fungibility of money is law, established by legal precedent. Specifically the case of Crawfurd v The Royal Bank (1749) . > On 30 July 1748, an Edinburgh lawyer named Hew Crawfurd mail
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by oska 3y ago
My understanding is that they have developed an import substitution plan for the jet and are resolved to keep producing it. [1] For instance, they are substituting the original SaM-146 engines with fully domestically produced PD-8 engines a
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by oska 3y ago
> was pleased to see quite a few visibly out of shape people puffing their way around the lake I'm never pleased to see these people when out walking as they almost invariably have very poor running form and, if they persist, will d
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by oska 3y ago
You can manually filter out airlines that have substantial 737 fleets. (Wikipedia usually has good information on the makeup of each airline's fleets.)
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by oska 3y ago
> I’d never expect that behavior out of any human driver. People will slam on the brakes when they see an animal run out on the road. It's generally considered better driving practice to not do that, as you risk rear end collision
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by oska 3y ago
Why do you think the Sukhoi is 'done for' ?
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by oska 3y ago
Couple of nice attention to local detail things in Bluey : 1. The internal walls of Bluey's house are timber using VJs (vertical joins), typical in Queenslanders (historical style of house in Brisbane & Queensland). 2. The panora
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by oska 3y ago
Please read the Guidelines for commenting on this site https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by oska 3y ago
> They are extrapolations of fundamental human economic desires i.e. they are fantasy
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by oska 3y ago
> Why walk around in the dark? Walking around in the dark outside can actually be really nice. Your eyes adjust and, of course, it's never completely dark (moonlight, starlight, etc). Torches (flashlights) are fine, but ppl tend t
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by oska 3y ago
> Visit takeout.google.com and select Google Podcasts to export your Google Podcasts data in OPML format source : https://antennapod.org/blog/2023/11/google-podcasts-migratio...
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by oska 3y ago
(Official) guide on how to migrate from Google Podcasts to AntennaPod : https://antennapod.org/blog/2023/11/google-podcasts-migratio...
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by oska 3y ago
A better polling company would use more objective language, such as : "Millions of Jews were targeted for persecution, imprisonment and extermination by Nazi Germany" It's fine for people to use the word 'Holocaust'
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by oska 3y ago
Certainly if you are suspended you should be told the time period the suspension will last for, yes.
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by oska 3y ago
Ok, this particular case is interesting and certainly looks concerning. Checked his handle [1] and yeah, it's still "suspended" over 6 months later. And while it only says "suspended" there, according to this thread
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by oska 3y ago
Thanks for that link. I wasn't aware that he suspended journalists at that time. However, I do note that they were only suspended and not banned. And this is consistent with what he has said on a number of occasions, that people might
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by oska 3y ago
Doesn't answer my question. I would actually like to know if there have been any. I'm quite open to criticising things that he has actually done, and have made criticisms of him plenty of times. But I'm not aware of any journ
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by oska 3y ago
Unfortunately, idiots in many other cities around the world did have their way at that time
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by oska 3y ago
> In, let's say, Russia, everyone knows that things are corrupt My guess would be that things are less corrupt in Russia in 2023 than in most 'Western' countries now.
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by oska 3y ago
Interesting to hear about other ppl's experience with warping. I have some metal combs that I bought 20+ years ago that haven't warped at all (i.e. I have them on the table in front of me right now and they are lying perfectly fla
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by oska 3y ago
Which journalists has he banned from Twitter/X ?
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by oska 3y ago
You can also buy metal combs for ~$10 that will last centuries, with virtually zero chance of breaking any of the teeth off
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by oska 3y ago
Alternative link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGV6lvNTR4 (Edit : added another) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7bhLPso2Y
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by oska 3y ago
The DeathList website finally gets to mark him off their list, after nominating him for likely death in the next year 10 times previously (and I believe he first made the list back in 1993). https://deathlist.net/ https:&#
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by oska 3y ago
I had a look at the Collison response and it read strongly like "mate puts in a good word when asked to" for me. An impression that was reinforced by the 'like' that Sam put on the answer. Also, I wouldn't call it a
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by oska 3y ago
Conversely, 'grifting' is exactly what you should be doing if you want to undermine the current server farm supported by advertising business model. Videos don't need to be hosted on a server, they can be shared through peer
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by oska 3y ago
dang, I see you've changed the submission title back to the article title. The thinking behind going with my submission title : > Fei-Fei Li wants AI reimagined from the ground up as a human-centered practice was that the article
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by oska 3y ago
> especially after moving from Stanford to Google I understand that she only worked at Google during a sabbatical from Stanford (Jan '17 to Sept '18) and that she's back at Stanford now. [1] It's a little bit confusin

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