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by saulrh 9y ago
I was specifically thinking about historical methods for asbestos installation . I don't know the numbers exactly. I know that modern methods for handling hazmats like asbestos are good enough that it's basically not a risk facto
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by saulrh 9y ago
Well, we already ban: * Selling cigarettes to children * Building buildings that burn to the ground with everyone trapped inside * Murder So... I guess that America isn't a free country? If everyone was a perfectly informed perfectly
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by saulrh 9y ago
9% chance, the best possible case given the current data, of a horrible, slow, lingering death 20 years later is still unacceptable . What's the rate for getting mesothelioma after working with asbestos?
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by saulrh 9y ago
It's even worse when it's "you will die slowly and horribly years from now", which is what football is starting to look like. There's no "risk"; you're just storing up your consequences for later.
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by saulrh 9y ago
That's what I thought when I read the title. There's probably some reason it wouldn't work. Dictionary attacks are an obvious possibility; if your password is "password" the only thing you're depending on is no
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by saulrh 9y ago
I misparsed this as "A bug regarding an OOB write in systemd has been resolved by deployment of a crafted TCP payload" and was hoping for a legendary tale of deeply grey-hat infrastructure hack-patching.
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by saulrh 9y ago
My issue is less about accidental clicks and more about accuracy: I have not yet figured out how to depress the pad without moving the cursor. Even one-in-ten outright misses is enough to make computer use absolutely infuriating.
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by saulrh 9y ago
This is a short program that listens on a port and responds to any attempt to connect to that port by sending back movie spoilers. The idea being that anyone that tries to port-scan your machine will be punished by having all the twists i
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'm using Surface Ergonomic keyboards at home and at work, can confirm good build quality. I won't weigh in on quality of typing experience. Everybody I know says that I type like I'm trying to beat my keyboard to death, so w
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by saulrh 9y ago
Dams are built on large rivers. Inundations resulting from dam failures tend to follow the path of the river. Cities are also built near large rivers. The Banqiao Dam failure displaced fifteen times as many people as the Chernobyl and Fukus
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by saulrh 9y ago
Chernobyl was just about the worst possible outcome of a nuclear disaster: The majority of the radiological material was swept up in a cloud of graphite dust and lofted into the upper atmosphere by a fire that burned, uncontrolled, for over
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by saulrh 9y ago
If you want to talk risk-of-terrorism, look at dams, not nuke plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
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by saulrh 9y ago
Um. This isn't something where you can just run your reactor in different configurations at test time and run time. The technology has come a long way since the 1960s and the math and science have advanced transformatively. Building
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by saulrh 9y ago
Estimates of excess deaths due to nuclear, counting chernobyl , are the lowest of any energy technology. This isn't even counting the part where no new nuclear reactor could possibly be as unsafe as Chernobyl or Fukushima in the same
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by saulrh 9y ago
Thanks for the legal link. I'd gone googling for "kingpin law" and hadn't found it. That explains that, and why my guess was wrong: I'd been looking at cases from before its introduction. > I'm sorry but I c
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by saulrh 9y ago
So I went looking at this number to see how it stacks up to existing drug distribution. The US market for illicit marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin was just over $100B in 2010. This lines up well with estimates that legal mari
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by saulrh 9y ago
Ceci n'est pas une pipe. I've found that a lot of people that "aren't good at math" don't have a good grasp on what a number is , beyond a couple letters on a sheet of paper. They're stuck manipulating nu
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by saulrh 9y ago
On the contrary, I think that this would be incredibly valuable even if the only thing it did was teach that numbers could be encoded using a series of left or right flips on bits of plastic. I've done little "computers 101&quot
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by saulrh 9y ago
So, did script kiddies just achieve a whole new level of scary?
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'll second the recommendation for Duluth Trading Co. I've been wearing these [1] for a while and they're great. Every pair of jeans I owned before that wore through at the knees and the crotch within a couple of years; these
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by saulrh 9y ago
This has become the case in Chess [1]. However, it took 15 years for that to happen. Chess engines now are orders of magnitude stronger now than they were when Deep Blue beat Kasparov. So this is definitely the case, it'll just take a
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by saulrh 9y ago
That is something to mourn, yes. It is in some way disappointing to see such an old culture, one that's been the focus of so much effort, be overtaken and undercut by newcomers that don't have that culture. It's interesting,
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by saulrh 9y ago
It's become a sport, with all that that implies. Training and supporting an olympic sprinter is a multi-million dollar investment. But olympic sprinters haven't been the fastest mode of travel in centuries. If all you want to do i
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by saulrh 9y ago
One of the perceptual spaces would probably be best, something like CIELAB. Make the gradient of perceptual change wrt change in the space the same for the entire space and you might get more generalizability.
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by saulrh 9y ago
Many of the cheapest, hackeriest cubesats are deployed into low orbits that decay within weeks or months. Space isn't completely empty, only mostly empty, and even minute air resistance is enough that things like the ISS need to th
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by saulrh 9y ago
Car costs $30k-$60k lifetime (repairs and such). Not many taxi services run luxury vehicles. Paying a single person full-time probably runs $30k-$40k/year, and you're probably running two to keep the duty cycle up. Gas is probably
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by saulrh 9y ago
When and where did that happen? Every time I've been to a movie theater in the last fifteen years, it's had a ten-person line and everybody was in get-in-get-out mode. I can see value in moving the people in the box sideways into
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by saulrh 9y ago
Ease of use is key . I'm much more likely to support a project if I don't have to enter credit card information, and even more likely to do so if I don't have to it once a month. I already have a Patreon; I would absolutel
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by saulrh 9y ago
There're likely to be some structural issues with human neurology - things like Alzheimers, but software-level bit rot or overfitting instead of physical failure - that will need to be addressed as part of immortality science. For exam
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by saulrh 10y ago
I've seen the "Express <Form with Personal Data>" vuln before, but with people's SSNs, DOBs, and bank account numbers, plus sequential numeric user IDs instead of emails. It's fixed now, thankfully, but, uh,

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