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by phs318u 4y ago
Shocking. /s
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by phs318u 4y ago
I'm sorry but you lost me at "pro-vaccine propaganda". Where's the characterisation of all the obvious disinformation spreading on social media (and rage-maximising MSM) as "anti-vaccine propaganda"? You'r
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by phs318u 4y ago
Maybe this will come across as yet another Australian telling the Yanks how to suck eggs at this democracy thing (because I'm sure you haven't had enough of us tut-tutting you about your gun laws or health system), but I believe t
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by phs318u 4y ago
We globally have (relatively) free movement of money, goods and services. What we don't have globally is (relatively) free movement of people (for work). I do believe, that if the world were to add free movement of people to the first
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by phs318u 4y ago
I can't state with absolute certainty but I seem to recall OpenVMS clusters back in the 90's transparently supporting "portable" processes across cluster nodes.
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by phs318u 4y ago
Whenever I read anything on hypersonic/stratospheric flight, I can't help thinking of the PanAm space plane from 2001: A Space Odyssey. https://www.space.com/32258-orion-space-plane-2001-space-ody... EDITED: spell
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by phs318u 4y ago
But it’s not what one would typically class as “the criminal element” committing mass shootings in churches, schools, or other community spaces. It’s the whackjobs right?
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by phs318u 4y ago
This seems like the perfect post to spruik this cool tool (not mine, but greatly appreciated by me): http://ff-extractor.sourceforge.net/ The Flat File Extractor command line utility has saved my bacon a few times in my car
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by phs318u 4y ago
> The medical community is full of contradictions. Looking after our physical and mental health via modulation of multitudes of interrelated bodily systems and their unique chemistry and biology is a massive multivariate optimisation pro
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by phs318u 4y ago
There's a marked difference between a dip and a cliff. A dip, by definition, implies a continuation through a period of depressed price/earnings/some-metric. Buying at the bottom of a dip is logical. A cliff implies a discont
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by phs318u 4y ago
If we ever get to a sci-fi future in which an all-knowing benevolent AI is governing wisely on behalf of the human race, it will surely have been trained on data points such as this. In the meantime, to me this is another crumb of data weig
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by phs318u 4y ago
Many years ago I did some consulting at Telstra and I needed a billing module for their upcoming online gaming platform. Another division had almost the exact thing I needed. I asked my stakeholder if we could reach out and talk to those f
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by phs318u 4y ago
Give it back to whom exactly? How does she know who the "rightful" owner is without knowing its provenance? Possessing looted art is not a good look and neither is transmitting (wittingly or not) to a party that isn't the rig
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by phs318u 4y ago
Aren't you then saying that it's impossible for anyone to hold a sincere view that "the state is legitimate"? By definition you're defining any such view as propaganda. All propagandists believe the state is legitim
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by phs318u 4y ago
> I laugh at the notion we have a free market since the basis of our system is 50-70 year old back room deals that boosted families like Gates, Musk, Andreesen, Bezos. Can you please clarify what you mean? 50 years ago Gates was 16, Bezo
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by phs318u 4y ago
In all those cases there was a pre-existing, widespread social bias and open bigotry against the groups being targeted - which of course doesn't make it right, but does explain why such things were tolerated and even thought to be good
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by phs318u 4y ago
Hate to be that guy, but can such articles be unambiguously titled e.g. "Is the US in a silent Covid wave?" The question is still interesting. The assumption that all HN readership is US based isn't.
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Physics *is* something that girls fancy(physicsworld.com)
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by phs318u 5y ago
Please don’t turn HN into Slashdot. I regularly downvote comments that make no points, are solely there to make a gag, and add no substance to the discussion.
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by phs318u 5y ago
It’s not even about your or my standards. The overall tone of media sets the standard. There’s already a rising tide of anti-intellectualism that seeks to actively disparage intellectual thought as “uppity” as described in a comment above.
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by phs318u 5y ago
Really? Titles that are factually reflective of content are “uppity”, and not liking obviously intentional click-bait titles makes you “intellectual elite”? Wow. Welcome to the idiocracy.
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by phs318u 5y ago
Haha indeed! Plenty of racist immigrants, more so among 2nd/3rd generation (then it all becomes a bit of a blur). It still churns my stomach to hear adult children of migrants - some of my peers, who themselves have done quite well - m
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by phs318u 5y ago
What follows is a generalisation from the Australian experience (my experience - I'm a child of first gen migrants i.e. a 2nd generation Australian). For the first generation and some of the second generation this is true. Migrants oft
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by phs318u 5y ago
This would be an awesome browser extension, especially if it can distinguish between channel and source.
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Perhaps I wasn’t being clear. Following the principle that your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins, the thing about free speech and an undiscerning audience is that there are often consequences that cross that line even when
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by phs318u 5y ago
> The only logical course of action is to allow all speech and let the reader discern for themselves. The assumption being that most readers are discerning. Kind of reminds of the adage about markets working based on rational actors. In
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by phs318u 5y ago
Except that's not quite the sequence that occurred to my recollection. With the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, what was previously "unsayable" was being said by the highest voices, directly legitimising fringe vo
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by phs318u 5y ago
Replacing furniture every 5 years is decidedly less environmentally friendly than replacing it every 100 years, irrespective of price difference.
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At the risk of going massively off topic and triggering a flame war, I always thought of movements like BLM in this way - “until <minority> lives matter too, then all lives clearly don’t matter”. I.e. if you support ALM you must also
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by phs318u 5y ago
Wake me up when the nuclear industry starts calling for the repeal of the Price-Anderson Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...

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