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by sellyme 6y ago
> You could replace ring camera with mobile phone Okay, let's do that: > [paraphrasing] We've published an app that will live-stream your phone's camera to the police, you should use it. ...yeah, that actually seems wo
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by sellyme 6y ago
If you've found an OLED screen that doesn't reflect ambient light I'd recommend trying to sell that to phone companies.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> You ever see those folks get fired because of what they said years ago? Yep, and I'm totally fine with people being accountable for their own words and actions. If the concern is people being fired over something that's not a
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by sellyme 6y ago
Moving up in lethality while maintaining the same "infectiousness" still results in a real-world decrease in infection rate, as more infected hosts will die (and/or infected hosts will die more quickly), preventing them from
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by sellyme 6y ago
I'm Australian, I have no interest in scoring points for Finland. It's an honest representation of the differences in how those two countries are seen by an international audience.
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by sellyme 6y ago
>Is this supposed to be an insult to the US? Yes, but it's one I hope I'll one day no longer be able to use. > The literacy rate is 99% So, there's a decent chance you Googled "US literacy rate" and copy-paste
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by sellyme 6y ago
It also pays for education, and you don't need to look at the US for long to see why it's worth investing in having literate citizens.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Because they're opposing the building of new cheap housing as it will decrease the value of their investment. Additionally, artificially raising the price in this way will increase the amount of time for which the property is not occup
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by sellyme 6y ago
> if they increase supply so much that housing prices fall, a lot of people will be upside down on their mortgages That doesn't make the house any less suitable to live in. You're still paying exactly the same price for exactly
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by sellyme 6y ago
I live in Australia, and I'm pretty certain I've never even seen a fountain pen. I would have definitely put them in the same "only used as movie props" bucket as quills were it not for your comment.
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by sellyme 6y ago
The ones here all say "No Roller-blading", which should be a good indicator as to how relevant they are.
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by sellyme 6y ago
I'm not sure that's of much comfort to the passengers on the plane.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> What's anyone supposed to do about it? Show a basic level of respect for your users' privacy whether or not it's not a legal requirement.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> this "pandemic", which by definition is not a pandemic > any thinking human being knows that masks are, at best, largely ineffective at preventing transmission, as is "social distancing" > it becomes very ques
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by sellyme 6y ago
> HN just seems to have gone the way of reddit, where downvoting is disagreement. Alternatively it might be because you're objecting to the results of a well-documented statistical process, and then when being questioned saying thin
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by sellyme 6y ago
> and of the studied compounds TDCIPP was the only one with significant odds ratio of exposure being associated with hyperthyroidism in cats (1.36, p value = 0.059). Am I correct in reading that they tested 24 different compounds (or com
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by sellyme 6y ago
Linking to doxxing is in and of itself doxxing, so you're now doxxing people on Twitter. This does not necessarily apply to all other rules (e.g., linking to someone making death threats wouldn't constitute you making death threat
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by sellyme 6y ago
The eBay ratings - despite being numerically the most egregious - are probably the most helpful. 99.6% ostensibly says that there's a 0.4% chance of you having a bad experience. Star ratings don't really convey any meaning. I&#x27
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by sellyme 6y ago
Money is fungible. Renters have skin in the game, because they paid tax (and because they live in the general society that those tax dollars are being used on). That they paid no property tax is not relevant, because it ceases to become &qu
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Dunning-Kruger's data actually demonstrated that the more confident someone is in their ability, the higher their ability, statistically. It also demonstrated that the worst-performing individuals estimated themselves to perform M
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by sellyme 6y ago
> cynicism is a way for less intelligent people to protect themselves from being taken advantage of. Basically, if you know you're not smart enough I think "know[ing] you're not smart enough" inherently excludes you f
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by sellyme 6y ago
I've found a middle ground in "free speech is still fantastic, but perhaps we should avoid handing out megaphones to the stupidest people we can find".
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by sellyme 6y ago
Eh, pretty much every other app on smartphones these days is harvesting my metadata already. I might as well get a cheeseburger out of it. I'm fine with a fast food place giving me food in exchange for me giving them anonymised data on
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by sellyme 6y ago
You're not "getting away" with anything. You're paying someone else to do a job, and that other person writes software to do the job. They're the ones responsible for the software at that stage.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> but issue different paper money while exchanging the old bills out of circulation While they're at it they could bring the notes into the 20th century by making them distinguishable from a distance and less easily damaged. If you
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by sellyme 6y ago
> It's almost like there paid PR campaigns sweeping across social media. Alternatively it's almost like Microsoft made a concerted effort to stop being the biggest scumbags in the entire industry and started doing some nice thi
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by sellyme 6y ago
And here there's no tradeoff. Saving 57 lives and having 8000 fewer births are both net positives.
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by sellyme 6y ago
If there's any company that's going to take absolutely every opportunity to continue with legal proceedings against the general populace even when they're clearly in the wrong... well, it's Disney, but Nintendo's pr
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by sellyme 6y ago
I've noticed that the content creators I watch who used to use annotations for corrections still have roughly the same number of corrections in their video, but they're being done in the edit rather than post-upload. I've got
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by sellyme 6y ago
> + subaddressing is another minefield I'm still not sure if this is because the developers are incompetent and don't understand that they can just used an established standard instead of rolling their own janky parser, or if i

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