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by pageandrew 4y ago
Some parts of SoMa, this is true, like 4th Street+. The area where this man died is known as Rincon Hill and is dominated by tech offices, Sweetgreens, and luxury highrise apartment buildings and is basically dead after 8pm every day of the
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Spying drone -- correct. European water -- not correct, its international water. European airspace -- not correct, its international airspace.
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Flying over international waters in international airspace.
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by pageandrew 4y ago
This balloon would never come down? I imagined that eventually, it would come down on its own. Isn't it bound to leak helium at some small rate?
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Its very possible that they could jam the radio frequencies the balloon uses. "Hacking the comms link", not so much, but neutering its ability to phone home... very possible.
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Since DART crashed into Dimorphos, changing its orbit around Didymos rather than its orbit around the sun, isn’t there almost no cause for concern because Didymos is still on the same non-intersecting orbit around the sun? Is the concern th
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by pageandrew 4y ago
The app is still showing me a "sign up to be part of our testing program" screen, and I'm currently in the city of San Francisco.
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Do founders set their own salaries? Do they need to be approved by a board/VCs? Do investors have heuristics to help decide if a given founder's salary is appropriate, and not exploitative to boost a founder's lifestyle befor
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Psychedelics still can’t legally be sold in SF. What good is criminalizing simple possession? Besides, for every animal sacrifice on LSD there are 100 (probably more) drunk drivers crashing into trees, parked cars, oncoming traffic, and ped
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Why not $10m?
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Is this a problem in southern / Eastern Europe or just Western Europe, USA, and Asia?
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Was ATACMS sold to Ukraine?
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by pageandrew 4y ago
A startup or mid sized company with operational/management/admin requirements but no dedicated internal tools team and/or limited engineering resources.
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Any recommendations for Postgres?
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by pageandrew 4y ago
You can write declarative Infrastructure as Code in a language you’re already familiar with, rather than having to learn (& work around) HCL. I’ve written a lot of HCL and find myself wanting to extract things into components and put in
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by pageandrew 4y ago
Started kicking off in universities around 2014-2015, really accelerated on social media (and by extension legacy media) through the Trump years, and has been solidly established across the corporate world as the college students of 2015 en
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by pageandrew 5y ago
I agree its a kneejerk reaction. But to be fair, its not discrimination against the Russian people, its discrimination against a particular ideology that is predominantly held by the Russian people.
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by pageandrew 5y ago
Americans are more reliant on driving than Europeans.
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by pageandrew 5y ago
Yes, if someone is struggling to survive, that will limit their ability to become a world-changing entrepreneur. That said, the average westerner is not struggling to survive, and the average westerner does not end up founding 3 world chang
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by pageandrew 5y ago
> birth lottery There are plenty of people born into more favorable conditions than Elon Musk, who haven’t had 1/10,000th of the success that he has had.
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Ask HN: Have you ever switched personal email providers?
15 points by pageandrew 5y ago|32 comments
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by pageandrew 5y ago
> Not only can we read about this lab leak hypothesis across all media outlets, there is an ongoing debate about its validity in most respectable ones. This was not the case throughout 2020, into 2021. Discussing the lab leak publicly wa
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by pageandrew 5y ago
Agreed. So why do people try to stifle reasonable debate about a plausible theory by making unfalsifiable allegations tying that theory to hate crimes?
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by pageandrew 5y ago
I think the virus starting in China is more to blame for the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes than a technical discussion about whether it was more likely that the virus came from animals mixing in a wet market, or from the L4 Virology lab, w
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by pageandrew 5y ago
> It was denounced because at the time there wasn't any evidence There was, and is, no evidence of the theory that it originated from a zoonotic leap at a wet market, which is arguably more racist because it places Chinese culinary
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by pageandrew 5y ago
> They were doing exactly what they should to tamp down crazy far right wing propaganda that was aimed at incentivizing the public towards violence against asians. What you've just said is baseless. Nobody "aimed" this th
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by pageandrew 5y ago
> There was a clear consequence of tying COVID-19 with some sort of WMD released by the Chinese and it was the increase in violence against AAPI folks. Nobody said WMD. Most likely culprit is irresponsibly risky experimentation combined
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by pageandrew 5y ago
Is there any evidence that those hate crimes were connected to people concerned about the experiments conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
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by pageandrew 5y ago
Mere weeks after Covid-19 arrived on our shores, nearly every media, social media, and scientific establishment were in lockstep denouncing the "fringe", "far-right" lab leak theory, and suppressing it as best they could
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by pageandrew 5y ago
Its called virtue signaling.

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