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by swores 3y ago
I have no knowledge in this area, this is purely a guess and so I am sharing it not to inform anyone but in the hope someone who does know can tell me if I'm wrong: When I thought about this in the past, I assumed they evolved in sea c
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by swores 3y ago
Or, rather than worry about draining it to 0 before charging every day like you would a few years later once you wanted your phone to be on all day, you could only turn it on to return beeper messages, thus allowing many days of use before
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by swores 3y ago
Pretty sure they're talking a few years earlier than mid-90s. Think brick-like phones, not phones that fit in your pockets.
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by swores 3y ago
No but there's also no guarantee that anyone you pay a salary to will continue to do a good job, in both cases it's a judgement call of whether the risk is worth it. I personally think anyone earning that much is obscene, and that
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by swores 3y ago
Not that I agree with the justification, but I believe it is this: because Musk is involved in multiple companies, their choice is give him the amount he wants or accept that he'll be less motivated/interested in spending time on
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by swores 3y ago
I guess different people have different definitions, but to me I'd think of a racial bias that make you think someone different to you is superior wouldn't be considered racism. For example, if a <skin colour 1> person thing
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by swores 3y ago
Yes, alcohol is indeed much more dangerous than heroin. Not just when considering a single dose, though. Not necessarily than street heroin, ie the heroin that people use, because that can contain any number of other drugs or substances, an
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by swores 3y ago
Wow, TIL, thanks! Any idea if the logic I wrote about is also true? Or is it the same as how many doctors will talk about SSRIs working because depressed people "have too little serotonin", a myth that remains commonly believed de
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by swores 3y ago
> When they trialed Prozac on people with no history of mental illness, someone committed suicide out of the blue. I hadn't heard about this before, and while I'm sure it is possible for any drug that messes with brain chemic
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by swores 3y ago
But my point is that's not the only way people find it hard to stop. If you're addicted because your life was roughly fine, but you discovered that a drug make you feel amazing, keep taking it too much, and get to the point where
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by swores 3y ago
That's definitely one way people get addicted, but I suspect not the most common. A huge proportion of drug addicts (and I suspect addicts of sex, gambling etc I'm just less familiar with those addictions) started taking their dru
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by swores 3y ago
I appreciate that a lot of people successfully get round the issue of learning English, but isn't this submission a direct example that there are still cases where language is barrier? And it's not like it's a one off case,
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by swores 3y ago
Companies like Facebook are global now, and we call them American because of where they were founded / where they are still HQ'd. Linux doesn't have a HQ or a stock market it's listed on, so isn't the place it was f
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by swores 3y ago
Their point is that if you "waste" $1B as many as nine times with exploding rockets and it leads to working, good rockets, then its economically better than spending $10B to get it right the first time with no explosions. Of cours
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by swores 3y ago
I don't think they were complaining that the world didn't read the Italian research, just that it's a shame that people from non-English speaking countries have to either be good enough at a second language to write their res
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by swores 3y ago
> People have been fired from their jobs, harassed by trans activists You could say the exact same thing about people being fired for racism or homophobia and being "harassed" (I wouldn't use that word for fighting bigot
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by swores 3y ago
40 years ago you'd have been telling me that seeing homosexual couples hold hands and kiss is unnatural and requires the whole of society to believe an unnatural lie that they aren't just horrible perverts. In both cases, a minori
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by swores 3y ago
The BMI (Body Mass Index), while far from perfect - mainly because it can't tell the difference between relatively heavy muscle and relatively light (density wise) fat, so a very fit and very strong person can wrongly be classified (an
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by swores 3y ago
I'm not looking to have an argument about this bigotry, just needed to leave the actual common sense statement so yours didn't stand alone. Maybe consider that if other people are flagging you it's because your views are obje
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by swores 3y ago
The anti-trans arguments are the same as the anti-gay arguments from 40 years ago. High suicide numbers in a group of people constantly harassed in the media and in real life doesn't prove that their healthcare caused it. It's jus
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by swores 3y ago
Is it maybe legal to jam wifi signals if either a) your jamming is restricted to inside your private building, with absolutely no leakage outside, or b) the same except regarding property lines rather than physical walls (e.g. if you had a
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by swores 3y ago
Interesting comment, thanks! Adding a couple of thoughts I had while reading it: - If the criminals' jamming only needs to protect their identity when people look at footage in the future (as opposed to taking offline a large facility&
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by swores 3y ago
No not to do with the length. They were responding to someone asking how wifi jammers work, and they didn't address the question at all they just criticised anyone who puts themselves in a situation where wifi jamming affects their sec
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by swores 3y ago
> " Please don't post shallow dismissals " - HN Guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) Or if you're going to post a shallow dismissal, at least say something interesting about w
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by swores 3y ago
Minor pedantic FYI - although your comment was clear (I think, or maybe I did misunderstand it), there's a linguistic difference between "Few reasons" (meaning "there aren't many reasons) and "A few reasons&quo
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by swores 3y ago
Even bluetooth now days is often fine if not buying bargain basement products. I use pretty much exclusively bluetooth for audio between PCs/phone/TV and both earphones and speakers, and my car's stereo is the only bluetooth
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by swores 3y ago
They seem to have got the correct impression that it's been "around for some time" as "some time" does not mean "a very long time" and you just confirmed that it indeed isn't a just-published article
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by swores 3y ago
Legend has it that these strange-looking numbers date to even older than the NFL and Squre Enix! :O https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
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by swores 3y ago
To me it sounds like someone who speaks English as a second language, writing well and clearly and in a formal style. It's just unlucky for them that that's the style GPT is so good at too. I'm a native English speaker, and t
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by swores 3y ago
Feedback on the example gif: at the moment it's almost comically useless. First you're bored watching the beginning 90% while commands are slowly being typed, and then the bit that's actually interesting and worth reading scr

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