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by telchar 9y ago
The huge growth of fake news/misinformation and punditry-as-news in the last couple years, which really has been on the rise for decades, seems analogous to trolling. It's very difficult to have a good discussion with nuance and m
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by telchar 9y ago
Is there a particulate size where a respirator becomes necessary in woodworking vs a dust mask? Like, above 120 grit you should really have a respirator on? I'm probably not as concerned about wood dust as I should be, so this is inter
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by telchar 9y ago
Worse than having it forced on you from fifty small poorly calibrated TV's in the seat-backs of fellow airplane passengers who are too lazy, ignorant or oblivious to turn them off while you're trying to sleep on the first of two r
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by telchar 9y ago
This thread has been worth is just to learn about explainshell. I'm so happy that exists.
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by telchar 9y ago
Yep. I got to say to my boss recently "you know those 2-4 servers I requested? You can forgot about that now, I optimized some things and we have plenty of capacity now on the one machine we've been using." That's an eas
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by telchar 9y ago
The anti-vax crowd is pretty well split actually, political extremism seems to influence those belief more than left vs right[0]. But those on the right are more likely to resist vaccination efforts. A quote from the article: "As to wh
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by telchar 9y ago
Missed Connections remains. All the solicitation will move there in a thinly veiled manner, most likely.
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by telchar 9y ago
That was a failure of fact-checking, not fake news as it's typically understood. It has happened occasionally in otherwise-respectable publications. The network fired a number of people involved including Dan Rather not because they in
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by telchar 9y ago
Atreides battle-language, better yet. The signal is encoded in subtle gestures to generate adversarial examples for the language detector.
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by telchar 9y ago
I've been joking for at least a year that Uber's motto is "move fast and break people". I'm saddened that this has come to pass but not surprised.
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by telchar 9y ago
You're suggesting that self-driving cars may have to drive slowly and carefully in cities. I don't really see a problem with that. Pedestrians aren't frequently in the immediate vicinity of roads with limits higher than 35mph
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by telchar 9y ago
What tax advantages? I'm going to get exactly zero benefit this year for all the mortgage interest I've paid; I'm probably going to take the newly increased standard deduction whereas last year I saved thousands by itemizing.
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by telchar 9y ago
You really think drivers have carte blanche to run down people in the road as long as they have right of way? That drivers have no responsibility to avoid killing people as long as those people aren't on crosswalks? That's what yo
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by telchar 9y ago
Well net neutrality was repealed. Without title 2 there is really no net neutrality until some other law or regulation puts it back into place.
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by telchar 9y ago
OTOH if they're just trying to get from California to Florida they don't need full orbital velocity.
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by telchar 9y ago
This is OT, but perhaps you could join a structured exercise or sports group, like an ultimate Frisbee team or CrossFit. Having a regular group you can meet up with is usually pretty feasible without Facebook. It's good for you (don&#x
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by telchar 9y ago
Misleading comment. You're talking about murder but this only involved embryos. Many/most people don't consider that murder any more than the spilling of seed is. If you want to push a political view don't couch it as a
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by telchar 9y ago
What about the other sensor data? Did the police watch the LIDAR pointclouds and the RADAR maps too? Or are they basing their judgement on only one sense input? Seems to be the latter which means they're spouting off without knowing wh
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by telchar 9y ago
True. But if there was no crosswalk within 100m (per the article) and it wasn't a highway (only 35mph limit) it's reasonable to cross without a crosswalk. Still a pedestrian shouldn't put themselves in harm's way, but I
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by telchar 9y ago
I've seen people charged with a misdemeanor for going 5 over the limit where noone was harmed. If a human can be held to that standard I think a self-driving car should in the case of a fatal collision.
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by telchar 9y ago
If someone saves you a billion, what's $100m?
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by telchar 9y ago
With Uber's reputation, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to write an app to falsify black box telemetry in the event of a crash to put the liability on the victim. Maybe they'll call it "grey box" or "black
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by telchar 9y ago
You're taking the mean consensus prediction as gospel. There is a smaller but still very much possible chance of much more catastrophic consequences than that. It would be irresponsible for the IPCC to present only the most dire predic
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by telchar 9y ago
That's an obscene amount of polystyrene. Ugh. OT but I wish the stuff were never used.
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by telchar 9y ago
IMHO utilities need to realize that their business model of the future is to provide load balancing services and backup power to customers as much as it is to sell electricity. If they wait too long to start acting and keep fighting decentr
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by telchar 9y ago
I disagree completely. Psychopaths are as psychopaths do. If anything I expect we'll get better at diagnosing/detecting them and perhaps discovering sub-classes of them, of which perhaps some are problematic and some are not. We&#
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by telchar 9y ago
Well, consider the counterfactual of what would have happened to the astronaut's DNA if he hadn't gone to space. We don't know how it would have changed, so we can't compare it directly. Since we needed to do the experim
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by telchar 9y ago
Yes but maybe larger and angle to present an oblique surface to earth based and perhaps orbital radar and telescopes. Although I suspect this world be harder than it sounds due to the number of such radars likely in orbit.
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by telchar 9y ago
One could perhaps build a large flat reflector to shield it from the sun's rays and angle it in such a way to not reflect sunlight or radar signals back to earth-based receivers. But I don't know the extent of space radar systems,
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by telchar 9y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you take colistin regularly?

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