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by positr0n 10y ago
That line of thinking is erroneous in my opinion. Autonomous technology only needs to kill a few less people than the existing manual technology to be worth debating, and it's a no brainer if it kills orders of magnitude less people.
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Money, Race and Success: Achievement Gap Visualizations(nytimes.com)
4 points by positr0n 11y ago|0 comments
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by positr0n 11y ago
I agree. I was just pointing out it's a fallacy to compare coal miner's deaths to deaths caused by automated trucking. Whatever happens my only prediction is that it will be messy and polarizing :-)
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by positr0n 11y ago
Yes but those 30 deaths are people knowingly working a job that society understands is dangerous, not a family in a minivan driving to grandma's house that was unlucky enough to be in the wrong part of the highway at the wrong time. Th
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The Minecraft Generation(nytimes.com)
2 points by positr0n 11y ago|0 comments
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by positr0n 11y ago
GitKraken looks pretty. I haven't used it enough to provide a full on recommendation yet though. https://www.gitkraken.com/
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Fighting Heroin, Ithaca Looks to Legal Injection Centers(nytimes.com)
1 points by positr0n 11y ago|0 comments
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by positr0n 11y ago
Does that equation have a name? A naive google search doesn't return anything. Edit: Found it. A is known as Mill's constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills%27_constant
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by positr0n 11y ago
That would also be missing a filter to show all unresolved comments, which is a huge use case. (Or maybe you can do that, if you can it is not very quick and intuitive).
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by positr0n 11y ago
To give you more context, it is not just "a" javascript engine. It is the engine behind node.jj, Google Chrome, and others!
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by positr0n 11y ago
It's a link to his personal saved comments on HN. You can't see it because it's for his username. Yours would be https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=catilac&comments=t (access it by clicking on your use
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The 2 most dangerous numbers in the universe are threatening the end of physics(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by positr0n 11y ago|0 comments
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by positr0n 11y ago
https://lobste.rs/about - It is like hacker news but requires invites.
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by positr0n 11y ago
Agreed with my sibling post, that email would probably get flagged and dropped as spam before it got to the accountant. I've seen an email like this aimed at the company I work for and it was something like ceo@yourrcompany.com (just o
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by positr0n 11y ago
They actually have a pretty well-regarded "serious" journalism team. Times is the only outlet with a reporter on the ground, which makes everyone happy until another editor says, “I think BuzzFeed actually has somebody there.” Th
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by positr0n 11y ago
If you don't mind me asking, can you expand a little on how it has helped your career? I've thought about creating some ambitious open source projects before, but I always imagined it would be purely for fun/technical advance
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by positr0n 11y ago
I've tried this approach and one thing that I couldn't fit in my workflow was consuming HN comments. Many times I find the comments as valuable as the article, but no read it later app will A) format the comments section sanely AN
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by positr0n 11y ago
Yes that section exactly answers his question.
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by positr0n 11y ago
Reminds me of the first half of this smbc[1], which I found quite insightful considering the medium. [1]: http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3576
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by positr0n 11y ago
I have two kids and own a house but I guess I'm still 5 years away from being an adult! Unless maybe their definition of adult is 18+ and that sentence means "the 15-29 age bracket is twice as likely as 18+ to be unemployed"
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by positr0n 11y ago
Don't credit unions still use your deposit as backing for mortgages, auto loans, etc? A run could still happen on a credit union.
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by positr0n 11y ago
I live in Texas and I've never seen a plan more complex than a couple of tiers of prices depending on consumption, or different prices depending on the time of day (e.g. nights and weekends free). So no I don't think any residenti
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by positr0n 11y ago
Bird strikes have taken down commercial aircraft, so I would guess that yes drones are a threat
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by positr0n 11y ago
It's not that impressive considering an article positing doom and gloom for China's economy has been in the mainstream news about once a week for the last decade. :-)
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by positr0n 11y ago
He said decreasing intake would inadvertently cause mild depression, not help. (I read it that way too at first)
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by positr0n 11y ago
Even better: imap jk <ESC> imap kj <ESC> I just hit both and j at the same time with my pointer and index fingers so it's essentially one keystroke.
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by positr0n 11y ago
"Using somewhat subjective definitions of "at war" -- Korea counts but Kosovo doesn't in our analysis, for example"
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Soaking the Rich to Fight a Water Shortage(nytimes.com)
1 points by positr0n 11y ago|1 comments
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by positr0n 12y ago
why?
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by positr0n 12y ago
Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for updating desktop applications? If you had asked me I would have guessed the limitation would be QA time. Surely they need to do some manual QA before pushing a release to prod, and surely that is

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