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by supernova87a 2y ago
Oh, I thought the article was going to talk about the fiasco with the FAFSA application redesign. In which case my observation was going to be, people in charge of things at the top lately seem to have almost zero idea of what actually ne
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by supernova87a 2y ago
Yet they are not unhappy to the point that they refuse the money coming from this.
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by supernova87a 2y ago
Let's however not get too caught up in feel-goodism that somehow breaking up Ticketmaster is ridding the live entertainment industry of some external leech that everyone hated. You should realize that venues and artists are equally ben
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by supernova87a 2y ago
Could the loss function be any better??
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by supernova87a 2y ago
State insurance regulators do have a legitimate purpose -- to prevent totally free-market (read, "lawless") behavior by insurance sales companies which happens when people can promise something in the future, take money for it now
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by supernova87a 2y ago
It will be interesting some day if the line becomes blurred between "what you know" and "what you are" and you could be compelled to turn over something against your will. Because that boundary is if anything getting l
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by supernova87a 3y ago
If they really did save lives, you would think the highway patrol officers who rely on their bikes for their safety and entire professional existence would be equipped with them. No, this is just obnoxious leisure bikers wanting to justif
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I know people here will always say "you have no idea the amount of work that goes into <xyz>" straightforward seeming function. But I still have to ask it: The Reddit UI/app/experience hasn't changed in years
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by supernova87a 3y ago
But that's just the $ value. Has the incidence of innocent people been growing with that number?
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Just to provide a contrary (or tempering?) opinion about the broader context -- Civil asset forfeiture seems to be loved so much on Reddit as some kind of evil boogeyman that's coming for each of us, by corrupt police forces stopping y
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Maybe I missed a point in the article, but I feel a broader shift that produced this situation is simply that the US is no longer building huge numbers of new factories and industrial processes that need lots of new machine tools. We have
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by supernova87a 3y ago
"... Flight 1182 was en route to Toyama airport but headed back to the Sapporo-New Chitose airport after the crack was found on the outermost of four layers of windows surrounding the cockpit, the spokesperson said ..." Hopefully
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by supernova87a 3y ago
It really took me a surprising amount of time to notice the difference between his channel (and similar other actual content creators like Veritasium) and the many many other channels where some guy pretty much regurgitates information he d
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I dare say / guess that 2 combined factors will have helped the successful evacuation effort (especially given that these aircraft for Japan internal flights are some of the densest passenger configurations): 1. Domestic flight, with p
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I remember asking at some point what seemed to make Tom Scott so successful compared to the thousands of others who have probably tried to make it big on Youtube/social media. Was it the format/length/style, the topics, th
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Please tell that to Github, where I first created my most simple/straightforward named account (very similar to my real name) using my company's email address. Company folded. Now I can never get my simple named Github name ba
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by supernova87a 3y ago
If there's one thing that quantum made me understand (and this was after 3 tries, which seems to be how many times it takes me for some things to become intuitive), it was continuous probability distributions (applicable to other parts
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I propose that the fines be per piece of information leaked, and combinations of information: $1 for name $2 for address $3 for email $4 for phone number $5 for social security number -------- and multiply for combinations thereof .
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by supernova87a 3y ago
> " The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish ..." If there was a good argument against the arrogance of
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by supernova87a 3y ago
To entertain an actual technical discussion for a moment on this (and assuming air security is a legitimate goal), I wonder what kind of pen testing certain people might try on this, given that now there is not someone so actively watching
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by supernova87a 3y ago
What would the system be as an alternative? You are born stateless and have the ability to declare (or in harsher terms, need to audition for) citizenship to a country of your choosing? At what age? The notion of having no state is kind
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by supernova87a 3y ago
People who jump ship don't get severance.
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Possibly. But personally, I don't think the generosity of any severance package is a deal-breaking factor in most people's decisions to work for a company or not. Or for most people getting a job offer, that the company has re
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by supernova87a 3y ago
What's the logic, that if a company has cash available then it should just go to the employees? If the money is all borrowed and meant to keep the company running, why would employees get more than is a reasonable severance package? A
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by supernova87a 3y ago
It seems to me that people will believe the US is good for its debts until we behave like it isn't. Japan, of course you know, has debt like 300% of GDP so clearly some kinds of countries are able to manage even ridiculous amounts. T
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Maybe I missed it, but is there maybe a side-by-side comparison of the footage that usually comes out of an iPhone camera versus how it can look (with light, simple controls) out of this Blackmagic app? And question for others, while I&#x27
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Why is the article's title phrased with the word "problematic" rather than "duplicated" or outright "fraudulent"? Are we trying not to offend someone's sensibilities, or not leap to conclusions (whe
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I think the analogy here is that after graduation, the kids are going to be asked to play a song from sheet music, but the school doesn't want them to be forced to (or feel bad if they have trouble to) learn the terribly constraining r
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by supernova87a 3y ago
What's interesting to me is that one particular station came in clearly, given how the difference in broadcast FM allocated frequencies translates into millimeters of antenna length. (e.g. 98.3 vs 98.7 MHz = 3051mm vs. 3039mm) Just so
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by supernova87a 3y ago
The problem isn't so much that Google has a hard time old phones on their OS maintenance team books, and even just phoning in the effort to keep them working (hah). It's that they actively don't want to do any work that is

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