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by primer42 3y ago
> But Uber told the 2022 hearing into Bauer’s complaint that it didn’t violate the human rights code because it’s an app and doesn’t provide a service as defined under the code. What a slimy, disgusting, in-human argument to make.
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by primer42 3y ago
What is a "mathematically perfect" orbit?
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by primer42 3y ago
Tldr - it's impossible
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by primer42 3y ago
TLDR no
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by primer42 3y ago
IMHO our system of law cares more about precedent than almost anything else. The first case addressing a situation sets the bar, which is backwards. The most important decisions are made when we, collectively, know least about the topic at
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by primer42 3y ago
The top of the article says it's a 2018 republish
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by primer42 3y ago
Massachusetts I think https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/feds-tell-automakers-no...
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by primer42 3y ago
Far too little far too late
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US workers deserve a break. It’s time for a 32-hour working week(theguardian.com)
13 points by primer42 3y ago|7 comments
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by primer42 3y ago
Economics claims to be a science, complete with mathematical laws to back up claims. In reality, a huge number of economic papers are cherry picking data to fit their claims. Check out https://theconversation.com/the-reinhar
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by primer42 4y ago
Ahhh another example of the hardest problem in CS - naming things!
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by primer42 4y ago
What does this mean for DDG search? Don't they mostly use bing?
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by primer42 4y ago
That's a great correction. I was absolutely not taking into account the population sizes at each part of human history. Are your numbers assuming that everyone in the world knew about each "invention", for example writing, a
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by primer42 4y ago
Humans have been on this earth for 300 millennia Most of that time, we were nomadic hunter gathers. No one really knows what is "intrinsic" to human nature. We only have records for the most recent 1-2% of our time on this planet.
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by primer42 4y ago
Humans have been on the earth for 300 millennia. If we're being VERY generous, we've consistently lived past 40 for the last 2,000 years. So for 99.33% of human history the ONLY leaders we had were under 30.
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by primer42 4y ago
The blockchain is so cheesy Italian cheese makers Hold my wine
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Got scammed by using Bing instead of Google(old.reddit.com)
28 points by primer42 4y ago|3 comments
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by primer42 5y ago
So Unicode has all these mysterious characters... but I would bet that it's still true that many people on the planet speaking common languages can't even type their name... This post is from 2015, and I'd love to know if uni
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by primer42 7y ago
This is a great idea. I'm happy to see the FCC proposing something good for once.
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Show HN: Serverless Asynchronous Task Execution in Python(gitlab.com)
4 points by primer42 7y ago|0 comments
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by primer42 8y ago
why...... just let old languages die. We've taken lessons from them, and grown. I know there is of are a good amount of financial systems written in COBOL, but that's because no one has had the guts to rewrite them, not because C
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by primer42 9y ago
This is a little off topic, but this un-closed parenthesis pair is killing me > Since the earliest days of computing, there's been a simmering debate about whether computers exist to control their users, or vice versa (as the vision
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ISPs are already packet sniffing to throttle certain sites(theconversation.com)
3 points by primer42 9y ago|0 comments
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by primer42 9y ago
I'm not a big fan of putting machine learning into a file system. Usually you can't understand why a machine learning algorithm is doing what it's doing, and I would be worried about a production server suddenly having massi