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by rfrey 5y ago
If they answer complaints on Twitter, does it follow that they don't support people who call the help desk, fill out a web form, etc.? Your position makes sense if everyone who complains in social media only does so because traditional
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by rfrey 5y ago
Do you think Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos were ever at risk of becoming homeless?
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by rfrey 5y ago
The world was not 100% behind the US invasion of Iraq, or even 20%. The US had the world's support, after 9/11, to go into Afghanistan. The US was emboldened by that and attacked Iraq with very little global support, for reasons u
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by rfrey 5y ago
"roots as a founder hangout"?? The roots of HN are techies, geeks and nerds trying to crack the entrepreneur code, not "growth hackers" and entrepreneurs already in the VC ecosystem.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Harshly put, but the point is a good one. It feels incongruous for an upstart startup to say using upstart startup software is too risky - especially for something as fungible as project management software. Seems more like a lack of imagin
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by rfrey 5y ago
Tow truck companies at a blocked Alberta border crossing were reporting death threats from American extremists when their companies appeared on video recordings of the blockade. The RCMP reported they were unable to contract towing companie
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by rfrey 5y ago
My read of your parent's comment was that elephant racing due to speed limiters happens less often than people think... Not the races themselves.
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by rfrey 5y ago
How stressful do you think the last couple of months have been for that reporter?
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by rfrey 5y ago
That's horrible. I hope that person is working tech support for Comcast now.
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by rfrey 5y ago
As an honest question from one who learned clojure but never CL, could you expand?
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by rfrey 5y ago
>the SDC manufacturer must be liable for any accidents the SDC causes. There's the rub... How do you seperate those from the rest?
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by rfrey 5y ago
Nobody argued that country-of-origin isn't real, or that there aren't physical attributes related to the physical location of one's ancestry. The Irish used to be a "race" unto themselves. Jewish people still are ac
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by rfrey 5y ago
Sometimes a change of perspective, or a new piece of information can revitalize a song that was 100% dead to you. For example, I would ALWAYS turn the station / hit skip when I heard Cecelia by Simon and Garfunkel, since I overdosed on
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by rfrey 5y ago
The vaccines also offer very little protection against infection by Omicron, and less with the B.2 variant. Definitely not saying vaccines aren't important - they keep you out of hospital! But they don't prevent infection post Del
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by rfrey 5y ago
I kind of resent being lumped in with a politically motivated, black-and-white, feign ignorance kind of crowd. I try to assess the data as it arises, and the data about Omicron is markedly different than previous variants. I don't thin
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by rfrey 5y ago
Omicron is very resistant to the antibody response of the vaccines - the antibodies are supposed to cover the protein spikes which latch onto and enable infection of cells. The t-cell response to infected cells learned from the vaccine, tho
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by rfrey 5y ago
Thanks for that site, it's very interesting and a very worthwhile project. I do note that their Omicron model was last updated on January 4, and they say "we suspect that Omicron also does not affect the hourly multiplier, but do
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by rfrey 5y ago
I don't mean to present a false dichotomy, thank you for alerting me that I may have. Slowing it down is obviously helpful and anything we can do to accomplish that is important. In Canada I'm still doing everything I can because
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by rfrey 5y ago
Many (I suspect most but I only follow a few) epidemiologists are saying there's no stopping Omicron. It's more contagious than measles - if you're in a room with somebody who has it, you're exposed barring a properly fi
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by rfrey 5y ago
This is probably true! However YouTube also knows how many times I personally have clicked on a video I have already watched. Which is zero, barring the possibility of a mistimed mouse click.
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by rfrey 5y ago
IP is definitely a fraught subject.
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by rfrey 5y ago
I challenge you to show me a case where mere presentation of statistics led to a ban, shadow or otherwise. More likely the "raising of a statistic" was accompanied by a first-order explanation of the number that, besides being tri
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by rfrey 5y ago
This article was not about retelling the GNU story. Think of that sentence as a cultural reference, not an explanatory history.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Believing something is the best past for an individual does not mean believing it to be "scalable" or that it would be good for society (or even possible in a society) for everyone to adopt that path. Socrates was executed for cor
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by rfrey 5y ago
Am I a victim of satire blindness? This reads to me like it's parodying arguments made by advertisers.
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by rfrey 5y ago
No. There is nothing similar to perpetual motion except that both use the word "energy" a fair bit.
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by rfrey 5y ago
That all sounds great... But none of your examples require, or are even improved, by being internet connected.
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by rfrey 5y ago
If they worked through the material prior to the lecture, perhaps the lectures were spurious for them, and the credit for the high grades goes to the individual work.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Please name some of these skills.
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by rfrey 5y ago
Most moral panics are in-retrospect entertainment. But some are on the money.

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