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> Western countries definitely won't do that in Belarus, a boots-on-the-ground invasion like that seems totally implausible and would risk escalation into a military conflict with Russia, it's just not going to happen I don&#x2
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> the max speed of a normal GA plane (think Cessna) is below the stall speed of many interceptors which can result in amusement Somehow I get the inkling that terrorist groups probably aren't going to start trying to crash into offi
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I'm unaware of any jurisdiction in which plastic straws are banned that does not explicitly make exceptions for those with disabilities.
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The bill is providing more funding to prevention measures and resources for victims.
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Google's ad/tracking code is generally measured in the tens of kilobytes. Compare that to e.g., the tens of megabytes that news sites routinely waste autoplaying videos on completely different stories to the one you clicked on.
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Possibly this was not there when you looked at it, but right now as I view the third headline in the list is as follows: > Congress Passes Bill To Counter The Rise In Anti-Asian Hate Crimes ...which despite the negative language is defin
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> My electricity costs $0.0816 per kWh. I agree that the statement "you can't make a profit any more" is just incorrect because of the subjectivity of "you", but it's also worth noting that this is extremely
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A very major part of that decision was because the payment was not reasonably assumed to be a mistake. Obviously that argument isn't going to work here.
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> even with various levels of lockdown both country is currently experiencing the highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic. "highest number of cases" here meaning between 1 and 2 cases per million people per
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> No, they mean 192KB. Because that's how they refer to it literally every other time. Are you suggesting that you believe that both the number and the unit were a typo? > Oh, and because it's NOT 196 thousand. 3072*64 =
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On the other side of the coin, as someone in Australia I couldn't believe it when I heard that in many other countries you can "quarantine" in a house with other people who are free to go about their day! Of course that'
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Whoever told you that was almost certainly lying. This was a very common claim amongst anti-lockdown protestors where I live, turns out when the yearly national suicide prevention report was published suicides had gone down significantly.
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> Australia and NZ have the huge advantage of no land borders. Australia had a major outbreak in Victoria in July last year. Victoria has a 2,550km land border with other states, including with South Australia, which peaked at 10 active
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From that article: > It’s hard to imagine what Google looked like without ads ...I'm not too sure on that one, Colin. Not a whole lot of imagination required.
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COVID could have started to go away in May 2020 with extremely aggressive lockdown and quarantine measures. In fact, where I live, it did - we reached 0 active cases for the first time almost exactly a year ago today, and have only had any
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> there is no understanding in the GPT-2 system, but it's able to generate increasingly plausible text Under some definition of "understanding". GPT understands how to link words and concepts in a broadly correct manner. A
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> People romanticize it You're clearly talking to different people than I am.
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Eh, in some markets trademark genericisation would mean that someone searching [BrandName] might genuinely be looking for any product that fills roughly the same function. If I google "Blu Tack" I don't care if I get the stuf
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They mean 196K, aka 196 thousand. You mean 192KB.
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Rule of thumb #1: don't. The compiler is probably smarter than you, it can handle things itself most of the time. Rule of thumb #2: always test low-level performance improvements on real data. This is very similar to rule #1 - the comp
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I'll be honest, that was exactly as complicated as I thought it would be. Not sure HN is exactly the target audience for that title. On the bright side, now I can finally finish my all-emoji rendition of Russell Coight's All Aussi
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> This distinction is made not "somehow", but explicitly, at the moment of recording the interaction. Explain to me what non-paid interaction you are thinking of that I cannot do to someone's post if they hand me a $10 not
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Fortunately all of the security problems you mentioned also make it extremely easy for the students to compromise the machines and install a clean OS. The high school I went to (about 5 years ago) had a laptop program, and every year when
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I don't think China would take too kindly to Belgium invading them, but maybe they'll be so confused that it will work.
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Alternatively perhaps people on HN are simply aware that the most popular TV show in the last decade was a fantasy show with similar themes produced in North America, which renders your criticism somewhat nonsensical.
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> your argument is that the parts are worth more than the whole. Is that all the thesis is? Yes. Just about everyone on the planet is aware that Yahoo is a cursed company that you should stay extremely far away from, but if you look excl
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Your solution is to first handwave away the entire problem by somehow distinguishing between organic and artificial interactions, and then make the solution worse by using blockchain for no reason. To draw on your analogy to explain the pro
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> Would you buy AOL and Yahoo for $5? Absolutely. I'd then sell Yahoo's Finance and Fantasy Sports divisions off for a couple billion dollars profit, and try to flip the rest of Yahoo at a pawn shop so I'm not stuck with t
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> There's no "wrong" enunciation in linguistics though. Yes there is. If a linguist a century from now claims that English speakers in 2021 pronounced "car" the same way they pronounced "book", they wou
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While the various profession Stacks have some extremely high quality stuff that's worth discovering even for someone not in that field, most of them unfortunately have an extremely limited "supply", as the Q&A format limi

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