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by panarky 4y ago
> a business could eliminate exposure to credit card fraud by not accepting credit cards A business could eliminate all fraud, abuse and theft of every type by shutting down completely.
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by panarky 4y ago
Do you think Twitter should be forced to provide a platform for all speech with no exceptions? If not, what exceptions do you think should be allowed?
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by panarky 4y ago
When you have evidence that some governments are timely and cost-effective, then it's a myth that governments are fundamentally incapable.
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by panarky 4y ago
There is nothing obviously prurient about rescue breaths. More often than not, the rescuer will get a mouth full of blood, mucus and vomit for their trouble. There is nothing lascivious or sexual about it.
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by panarky 4y ago
My kids' daycare lets moms and dads volunteer, but only moms help kids in the bathroom. Not because they think the dads are abusers, but because it's far less likely that the moms are abusers. Seems like a strong policy backed by
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by panarky 4y ago
I have never been accused of sexual harassment, and none of my friends or family have been either. It seems statistically unlikely that you and most of your friend group have all been accused of sexual harassment if your behavior was unimpe
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by panarky 4y ago
Depends on what you're looking for. Do you want standard English syntax, grammar, punctuation and capitalization, with simple words, short sentences and coherent paragraphs? Cory does this well. Or do you appreciate an eccentric, exper
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by panarky 4y ago
You're only blocked if Twitter knows who you are, so just open the link incognito.
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by panarky 4y ago
The fact that other people are willing to pay money for a professional's work is a social signal that the work meets at least a minimum standard of quality or fitness to purpose.
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by panarky 4y ago
Maybe your free article limit isn't influenced by which articles you read, but how deeply you engage with them.
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by panarky 4y ago
A decision that increases revenue X dollars is not rational if it also increases costs 10X to deal with customer complaints and bad publicity.
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How the New York Times Uses Machine Learning to Make Its Paywall Smarter(open.nytimes.com)
11 points by panarky 4y ago|4 comments
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by panarky 4y ago
Doesn't seem to matter whether I spent the hundred dollar bill with the specific serial number provided by an OFAC-sanctioned individual, or if I kept that serial number in my wallet and spent a different piece of paper, since currency
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by panarky 4y ago
Let's say I have a stack of 1000 hundred dollar bills. Then an OFAC-sanctioned individual adds another hundred dollar bill to the stack, to make 1001 hundred dollar bills. Are you saying if I spend 1000 of those, and leave one hundred
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by panarky 4y ago
Ethereum has addresses just like Bitcoin has addresses. You can choose to use a different address for every transaction (more private, less convenient), or you can choose to use the same address for every transaction (less private, more con
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by panarky 4y ago
Coinbase's Brian Armstrong just got OFAC'd https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1557013888264183808
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The next phase of online advertising could be even worse(netzpolitik.org)
7 points by panarky 4y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 4y ago
Who said it's a myth? Who are you arguing with?
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by panarky 4y ago
Also, the average bicycle trip is shorter than the average airplane trip, therefore bikes are faster than airplanes.
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by panarky 4y ago
You are correct in normal circumstances, but when there is an active information operation in progress, people should be aware of that so they can evaluate claims in that light.
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by panarky 4y ago
> not a "right wing fear", but a scientific fact Of course it's both, with the kernel of scientific fact being hyped and exaggerated by the right. It's important to call this out so people can evaluate whether the d
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by panarky 4y ago
Homage to the original exploration of forty orders of magnitude, from 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
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Eames Power of Ten Reproduced with DALL-E 2(twitter.com)
1 points by panarky 4y ago|1 comments
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by panarky 4y ago
Why bother to downvote political content if you're just going to post a lot of political content yourself? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com&#
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T-Mobile to pay $500M for one of the largest data breaches in US history(arstechnica.com)
2 points by panarky 4y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 4y ago
> right now there are lots of Russians who think it's fine to invade, kill and steal, ... It's not even that the Russians who think this are especially evil people, or irrational people, or people who are unlike us in any fun
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by panarky 4y ago
Steelmanning is when your interlocutor agrees with your description of their argument.
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by panarky 4y ago
> Way, way more money Yeah, it seems like we could solve a lot of social problems if we had a lot more nurses, school teachers, mental health pros, librarians and psychologists, and if they all had deep knowledge and high motivation. I
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by panarky 4y ago
Are you predicting starvation in Canada? If not, then it seems like lower demand for artificial fertilizers in Canada would increase the supply of the stuff to other nations, thus reducing prices and increasing caloric intake.
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by panarky 4y ago
It's not censorship when you delete your own content.

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