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by rfrey 6y ago
It's amazing to me, and my long-gone 18 year old activist self, that vocally supporting Freedom to Read week in 2021 would get me branded a right-wing bigot (if anybody cared to brand me at all, which they wouldn't.) It's a d
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by rfrey 6y ago
Funding institutions wouldn't match grants because the resulting paper was available for free rather than by paying $50 to a publisher?
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by rfrey 6y ago
I'm not sure why this is appearing light gray to me. Laws and mores change via active opposition, as they should; but those opposing should know and accept the risk they are taking.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I think the "if Amazon/Google/FB don't comply, someone else will take their place" argument is weaker when replacement requires a constellation of thousands of satellites.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Because software development is a skilled trade, not a science. The consortium discussed in the article is made up of actual scientists who do actual science. "I am surrounded by bullshitters therefore all fields are equally deep in it
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by rfrey 6y ago
For added incentive for those who make the poor call to not check out the videos, he doesn't just recreate the mechanism... He invents or re-invents the tools and techniques required to make it, using only materials and technology know
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by rfrey 6y ago
Seems to me that if reputation firms are buying reviews and their effect is "short lived"... then those reviews are getting removed.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Alternatively, they want the NSA to obey the law, and for surveillance-for-profit business models to be forbidden.
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by rfrey 6y ago
It's not inaccurate, in the same way that "buy low, sell high" is not incorrect stock trading advice.
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by rfrey 6y ago
1. See the future and build what it needs 2. Do something that exists 10x better 3. Scratch your own itch Maybe I'm just feeling cranky, but this feels pretty shallow to me. Mostly it seems like filler to pump their portfolio companies
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by rfrey 6y ago
It also started 150 years after the last Samurai battle, during a time when the Samurai were a bureaucratic clerical class. A fantasy nostalgia written by a clerk who had never seen battle or a fight of any kind.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I haven't seen much if any support for "censoring Republicans" on HN, or for that matter, anywhere. What I have seen is support for censoring groups instigating violent overthrow of US institutions. The fact that those advoca
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by rfrey 6y ago
It seems to me that there has a just been a giant experiment that has disproven that point of view. When it comes to extremism, at least in the early 21st century, sunlight seems to be a fertilizer not a disinfectant.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I ran some calcuations, and the mass of 7 billion people at an average of 60kg each, spread uniformly over New Zealand, would definitely not cause it to collapse, sink, crack, or tip over. Please stop using such hyperbole.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Is there any group at all that doesn't think that the "mainstream media" boogeyman is at war with them?
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by rfrey 6y ago
This feels like what software used to cost before the subscription model became ubiquitous. Their prices are certainly high, but I suspect that range is close to what a "just let me buy a perpetual license" world looks like.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Unless you were dead, which was a distinct possibility throughout most of history for one accused of heresy (political or religious).
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by rfrey 6y ago
>Sooo? Buisness as usual and ignore the problem? pwagland never said anything close to that. It is the opposite of conversation to instantly lump anybody who says anything out-of-catechism into an extreme, mortal-enemy-to-the-cause bucke
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by rfrey 6y ago
It's not a substitute for the friends you make in high school. It's a substitute for the friends you make at Harvard, Yale or Stanford.
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by rfrey 6y ago
A translation to “nationalistic” instead of “patriotic” makes the difference less pronounced, although the point still stands.
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by rfrey 6y ago
"John Doe" above is not a public figure - your parent's point is that social media enjoys all the advantages and power of newspapers without bearing any of the responsibility to strive for truthfulness. In fact IMO it's
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by rfrey 6y ago
That strategy worked out ok for DeepMind.
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by rfrey 6y ago
That means you earned more than $80,000 post-tax income surplus to your needs. That surplus is a third more than the US average total household pre-tax income.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I just checked, and there’s no such award.
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by rfrey 6y ago
The comment is “these concepts and artifacts are table stakes for any discussion on this matter, and they seem to be missing”, which in my view is a valuable contribution.
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by rfrey 6y ago
If you can’t make something without knowing the exact machines or their configuration, that info should be in the patent for it to be valid.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Now I'm being downvoted because my comment seems like a non-sequitur. But prior to an edit, my parent was wondering why they were being downvoted, which is what I replied to.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I didn’t downvote, but calling people out for not reading the article — even if it seems blindingly true — is against HN rules and always gets downvoted.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Without commenting on the politics of this particular case, I think what you describe is built into the definition of "boss".
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by rfrey 6y ago
From your comment history, you appear to be shadow banned. A perusal of your dead comments does not immediately reveal why.

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