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by stametseater 3y ago
> People return their shopping carts because its the right thing to do, but also there is minimal cost. Apparently in some communities (such as Germany) it is believed that people cannot be counted on to return the shopping cart proper
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by stametseater 3y ago
> The problem with all of these sites is they start to service the lowest common denominator in the name of next quarters profits. [...] It seems so clear to me that billionaires mean we can't have nice things" The pressure t
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by stametseater 3y ago
> You're asking questions and then declaring the answers impossible to determine If you mean to say that I've asked whether machines can know or believe, you're wrong. I have not asked whether it's possible for mac
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by stametseater 3y ago
One of the reasons I keep coming back to HN is because the comment search actually works, so it's easy to figure out what sort of things, if anything, has been said here about some topic. It's easy to search a project's name
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by stametseater 3y ago
I don't see a transcript and I'm not going to listen to a podcast so I'll just ask here: does he discuss how they seeded their site with fraudulent accounts/posts?
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by stametseater 3y ago
Seaweed in a cows diet either: increases the CO2 the cow emits, increases the mass of carbon the cow shits, or increases the mass of the cow. The carbon has to go somewhere. I don't know where it goes, but regardless of where it goe
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by stametseater 3y ago
1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/knowledge 2. "Belief" isn't any less of a quagmire than "awareness." Materialists and dualists will never agree on whether machines can have 'belief&#x27
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by stametseater 3y ago
From the author's bio > Robert Kerbeck’s true crime memoir, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street is the story of how a wannabe actor became the world’s greatest corporate spy. Frank Abagnale, author of Catch
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by stametseater 3y ago
Knowledge is awareness of information. "Awareness" is a quagmire because a lot of people believe that 'true' awareness requires possessing a sort of soul which machines can't possess. I think the important part is
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by stametseater 3y ago
Net tuition is calculated by subtracting the grants and financial assistance, which I assure you, really do exist and most students qualify for at least some. Maybe you personally didn't qualify, but that doesn't mean they didn&
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by stametseater 3y ago
Specifically with respect to the methane cow farts, yes. That carbon comes from their plant diet (be it grass in a field or grain in a feeding lot), and the carbon in those plants came from the atmosphere. This isn't counting the fos
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by stametseater 3y ago
In principle I guess, but not in practice. Linux is distributed under the GPLv2 without the "or later" clause, so you couldn't simply convince the FSF to release a GPLv4 that allowed this. Nor do contributors sign away the
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by stametseater 3y ago
I'm not sure if it's a good analogy, but I think of boost converters like hydraulic ram pumps, which convert high flow low pressure water into low flow, high pressure.
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by stametseater 3y ago
VT is certainly more expensive than the national average, but that $32k figure is the sticker price, not net tuition. Net tuition is what actually counts when you're talking about how much debt students will incur. Everybody is mad
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by stametseater 3y ago
I've only heard of BTRFS corrupting data in RAID configurations, but for a single disk laptop setup it seems perfect to me. Automatic snapshotting has already saved my ass several times.
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by stametseater 3y ago
I haven't heard of him objecting to the Sun origins of ZFS, but he has warned people away from ZFS on the grounds of Oracle's litigious reputation: > And honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I g
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by stametseater 3y ago
May they choke on it.
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by stametseater 3y ago
See: > The average net tuition and fees paid by first-time, full-time in-state students at public four-year institutions was estimated to be $2,640, the lowest it’s been since 2006-07, down more than a $1,000 from a peak in 2012-13 of $
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by stametseater 3y ago
> they had to [take a huge loan] in order to study. This isn't true. If you go to a state school and work part time to cover your living expenses, you can get an undergrad degree very cheap. And the most prestigious of private s
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by stametseater 3y ago
That's widely understood, but I hope nobody is boiling their salads in response to that statistic. Maybe tomorrow I'll trip on my shoelace and crack my skull open on the sidewalk, but I'm not going to wear a helmet just i
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by stametseater 3y ago
The unique culture, history and geography of Russia produces a different sort of dynamic: Strong men create bad times. Bad times create strong men.
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by stametseater 3y ago
America has affordable higher education; state schools and community colleges are generally very affordable. The problem is when naive highschool students get lured into taking on huge amounts of debt by expensive private schools that hav
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by stametseater 3y ago
All foodstuffs are contaminated with germs, unless you go to extraordinary effort to prevent it (e.g. intense gamma radiation.) Unless there is some particular reason to care (you're a hospital feeding people who had their bone marr
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by stametseater 3y ago
Bureaucracies bloat because they gradually fill up with the sort of bureaucrats who seek foremost to expand their own dominion. From the individual perspective of such a bureaucrat, the more people they have working under them, the more i
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by stametseater 3y ago
> Your friends don't like you No u.
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by stametseater 3y ago
Considering the number of near-poverty retail workers trying to pay off college debt, I think it's a good idea for the government to focus more on improving the quality of teaching, even if that comes at the cost of diminished research
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by stametseater 3y ago
Have somebody on the team [e]mail out the schedule like has always been done. It's not hard. If you feel the need to explain yourself, just tell them Facebook facilitates genocides in Asia or something like that. If you actually try
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by stametseater 3y ago
Decades ago, the American media colluded to hide FDR's physical condition from the American public. Many doubtlessly think this was good, because a physical disability shouldn't reflect poorly on his leadership abilities. But the
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by stametseater 3y ago
How hard is to to simply not install the Facebook app? I've been choosing to not use facebook for nearly 20 years. If somebody tries to socially pressure you, just say no. If they press, explain your reasoning and reassert the &quo
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by stametseater 3y ago
Just don't do that. Advise your family to not do that. Accept that some of them may choose to anyway, and that's their choice to make. "Think of my elderly mother!" is the apple fanboy's version of "think

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