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by runamok 6y ago
I've heard that was done to CDs as well. E.g. people psychologically prefer louder music so mastering practices have done this at the expense of dynamic range. This kind of explains it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by runamok 6y ago
I dont't agree with "If they don't survive it will just be a matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsupported." Unlike Google, Amazon is fantastic about supporting older AWS products. I can't th
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by runamok 6y ago
The clarion call was "defund the police" not "abolish the police". Some people believe these are are synonymous but IMO most agree "defund" means things like de-militarize and add social workers to deal with th
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by runamok 6y ago
The relevant passage is below. Basically it's a funnel, so It takes testing a large amount of people to tease out just a handful of infections. 162 cases for placebo vs. 8 in the vaccine group. Analysis of the data indicates a vaccine
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by runamok 6y ago
The point you make (e.g. societal concerns vs. individualism) IMO is valid. However, if the intent of your comment is to change minds it will fail because the way you have phrased it inherently puts people on the defensive. Something I ofte
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by runamok 6y ago
A health care worker with covid when they should not have it because of access to vaccines is a potential super spreader vector to others that are not yet vaccinated or for whatever reason can't be. So to me that goes against the hippo
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by runamok 6y ago
That seems like a bit of a leading question but that is scary. Though the fact that so many Republicans don't believe the DNC hacks is scary too. "Tampered with tallies" might be misinterpreted by those with poor comprehensio
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by runamok 6y ago
E.g. when learning one should not also need to implement something new. As an example making tic-tac-toe or a calculator or bubble sort are all tried and true exercises which you can find plenty of prior art on to compare and contrast your
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by runamok 6y ago
I call BS on this. You can read just the home page of the Second Harvest Silicon Valley homepage that demand has doubled and people have stepped up to fill the gap. https://www.shfb.org/ SF spends something like 40k per hom
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by runamok 6y ago
I think of it a different way. Many people think our taxes should be used to provide a basic "floor" to support the basic needs of people. E.g. shelter and food. However, all that money flows up to the state or federal level to th
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by runamok 6y ago
I've always noticed when I am doing things for others I can't spend too much time dwelling on what isn't perfect about my life. I have found you have to be careful not to expect much in return otherwise you can start feeling
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by runamok 6y ago
It's probably this you are thinking of: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rent/palo-alto... It sounds dumb but IIRC it's an attempt to have teachers and police and city employees able to live
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by runamok 6y ago
It depends on what you like to do outdoors I guess. I've lived in southern or northern california for almost 20 years and can pretty much run 365 days a year and bike almost that much. I HAVE run in snow storms in Illinois and North Ca
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by runamok 6y ago
I see the Tuskegee example trotted out pretty often and frankly I was ignorant of it. Is this a well known and discussed thing among black people or might it be more about a general distrust of the government, etc. and as you pointed out, b
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by runamok 6y ago
English is my first language and FTA your coal pollution hypothesis would seem to be refutednwhich I think was what they were pointing out because so few people DO read the article... E.g. more species would seem to be affected although per
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by runamok 6y ago
Meta :-)
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by runamok 6y ago
That seems the whole premise of the site: "Long Bets". You can't just say "some day" as given a long enough time horizon many improbable things will occur.
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by runamok 6y ago
Libel exists so I'd imagine some sort of legal consequence could be supported if you are spouting lies you know to be lies. It is a slippery slope though. I was just reading something recently about how the espionage act was used to
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by runamok 6y ago
Maybe some kind of patent infringement settlement in that area? Or liability? A specific region feels like an ip or legal issue... I see this thread below and there is a phone number you could call to get answers. I believe there are legit
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by runamok 6y ago
> but policy-wise he didn't really make any horrible decisions You don't feel how he handled the Covid pandemic was a bad policy? The guy's vanity wouldn't allow him to wear a mask to act as a good example to his base
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by runamok 6y ago
I read about this eons ago but it is possible for your employers to take a policy out on you though you do need to allow it... https://www.businessinsider.com/is-there-a-dead-peasant-life...
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by runamok 6y ago
I have a suspicion in a future war a swarm of cheap drones will do things like take out aircraft carriers and waste a large portion of that arsenal.
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by runamok 6y ago
My wife had a similar comment which surprised me because we are both fairly individualistic and have our own hobbies and passions we spend a lot of "me time" on such as learning to paint and cycling/running and ahem hacker
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by runamok 6y ago
Frankly I read about all this years ago so I'd have to spend a lot of time looking all this up and that's unlikely at the moment. I may very well have some details wrong. Re: parallel construction reference here though clearly thi
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by runamok 6y ago
I was on mobile so difficult to give adequate sources at the moment. My point was they were essentially MITM'ing all traffic in google data centers. I fail to see how that "makes the US more secure". "The National Securi
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by runamok 6y ago
It took 7 years for the courts to finally figure that out even though it seemed like ridiculous overreach to everyone. Off the top of my head I recollect they were intercepting hardware like switches and compromising it, inserting spying
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by runamok 6y ago
The fact that the secret program he leaked was ultimately determined to be unlawful says he is vindicated and should be pardoned. "A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program has been ruled unlawful, seven years after it was
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by runamok 6y ago
I don't see any posters pointing to how broken DMCA is too. This could be fixed tomorrow if the law had significant penalties for copy fraud in cases of fair use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud Give the
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by runamok 6y ago
FYI it was a bicyclist (singular) but they were walking their bike across a crosswalk at 10pm. Not to victim blame but if they were not wearing lights or a reflective vest I think a human could have made the same tragic error. As you point
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by runamok 6y ago
You can also add a lock icon to the touch bar.

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