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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The comment thread here, and the national attitude more generally, is the literal embodiment of cognitive dissonance. Science and facts are only useful insofar as they are convenient to our ends. I suppose, in light of the shortcomings of h
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
This is a baffling argument. Far more lives are threatened by coronavirus today than will be threatened by police brutality over the next several decades [1]. You're basically saying that immunocompromised and elderly persons are accep
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
> All I think we’ve proven is that a large percentage of the population is more comfortable risking a infection and far less comfortable with the police violence. The problem is a large percentage of the population has very little to fea
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Those challenges are everywhere in data science/engineering. It's enormously expensive to do things shoddily in those domains and the resource constraints are very much bottlenecking what's practically achievable.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I'd be careful to generalize from the almost certainly distorted view you have of the "facts on the ground". Also keep in mind the irony of weaponizing sweeping generalizations against a particular group of people. You should
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Virtue signaling the obvious is a poor "return on attention", to borrow your way of looking at it. My point at the top was that it's the easy thing to do.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I never said violent revolution isn't a possibly effective means of enacting political change. History in fact demonstrates that quite vividly. But violent revolution is also not, in the aggregate, a net benefit in the immediate term.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I wish he'd gone a little further in condemning the rioting. It would have been the courageous thing to do. The rioting is a mistake. It will not change hearts and minds. It will not undo the problems endemic to police forces. In fact,
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Ask HN: Why haven't libel laws caught up to the social media age?
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Exactly this. It's annoying but also not as intractable as it sounds. NASA has a similar requirement for mission critical software operating under strict constraints.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The GCP Pub/Sub API has largely replicated all the features you'd want out of Kafka (including Consumer Groups). The primary consideration at this point is cost. There's an inflection point in size (at some very large message
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Joe McMillan was one of my all time favorite character arcs in any show period. That final scene in the series is something I'll never forget. Given what we've been told about Jobs, it's very unlikely he achieved the same deg
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The whole site offers a poor UX with weird redundancies, terrible navigation, grammatical errors, etc. It's probably sensible to conclude the methods used to gather, clean, and present the data are correspondingly untrustworthy.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
The choice to try and look younger is partly a function of inherent vanity and partly a function of pragmatic value. Appearing more youthful improves outcomes in romance, socialization, and at work in both overt and subtle ways. The reason
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Any book you'd recommend to get a quick general grasp of accounting? Aside from the one referenced in the parent, which I'm probably going to buy.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
UV damage accounts for 80+% of visible signs of aging. The difference between daily protection with sunscreen and not compounds over years and you can find plenty of pictures illustrating the sharp divergence in end result. You should use s
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Not sure what you're trying to imply. Reinsurers do in fact reinsure against their own risk. It's turtles all the way down.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Sadly it might cost Berkshire even less to just reinsure against the risk.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
You think not knowing about Bloom Filters is a 'humorous gap in knowledge'? Are you saying you worked some place that expected people to know about them and also hired self-taught engineers? I've worked at some companies peop
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
I didn't realize until reading the comments in this thread that some people hawking crypto are now using the term 'Web 3.0'? That's utterly repugnant.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
> It's a cognizant choice that learning isn't worth the effort. They're very often not wrong. If you're trying to optimize for learning new concepts instead of new implementations (particularly when said implementatio
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
It seems like they're rolling all their platforms (Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, FB Main) into that one metric? HN's position has generally been that FB Main is on the decline and I'm not sure this metric is enough to contr
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Friendly suggestion: paywalled articles should be somehow flagged explicitly in the title so the community can collectively decide how to treat them and users can choose not to click into or comment on them. The origin domain isn't eno
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
It even sucks for books. Defaulting to the Kindle/Audible versions, changing the search category to Kindle/Audible, and the unique key of a book in a list is (format, title), so collision detection is predicated on you remembering
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
So the solution is to make currency flows centralized, traceable, and subject to government regulation? Fascinating...
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
'Here's how criminals use Bitcoin to launder dirty money' ( https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/11/26/bitcoin-money-lau... ) 'Bitcoin Money Laundering: How Criminals Use Crypto' (
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
That's a horrendous argument. 'Nefarious activity' is a vanishingly small fraction of how dollars are used. Not so for crypto. And the reason for the discrepancy is obvious: it's much harder to identify and counter illic
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Has anyone done an analysis of her past reports to see if she's really any good at prognostication? I feel like in the past she stuck to describing incremental changes and trends but this was much more opinionated.
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by realtalk_sp 6y ago
Oh not sure about that. Haven't encountered one to date.
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by realtalk_sp 7y ago
wkhtmltopdf has options to adjust some of the things you mentioned. I'm sure there are other more sophisticated programs that go further. It's really a question of what HTML/CSS can be transformed into. PDF suffices for my us

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