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by throw20102010 7y ago
I think we're looking at Mr. Iacocca with some rose-tinted glasses. He sought government bailouts, fought against requiring seatbelts in cars (because a few dollars worth of nylon would "ruin" his margins), and also fought a
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by throw20102010 7y ago
It’s written in the modern clickbait style- they tell you that you’ll never believe something, then they string you along as long as they can. It’s frustrating to read and usually ends up being mundane info. Usually by the second paragraph
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by throw20102010 7y ago
This varies on the region. 70cm here in the midwest and mountains is nearly empty, and 2m isn’t completely full. If you combined both you would have an exciting band. The downside is that there won’t be a whole lot of space to expand in
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Not really. The space over Europe isn’t governed by Europe, they’ll just have to tolerate the transmissions. But lots of ham satellites are repeaters, so they’ll probably get a lot less activity over Europe, and nearby hams will probably
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by throw20102010 7y ago
The loss of this band would really hurt ham radio. The cheap Baofeng VHF radios that use this band are probably second only to the RTL-SDR for enticing people into the radio hobby. It would be pretty easy to move all the current VHF activi
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by throw20102010 7y ago
You might be right about Zuck being idealistic now, but we have a (much younger) Zuck on record calling his users idiots for trusting him with all their information. He may have matured, but people are justified in being wary. He’s shown
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by throw20102010 7y ago
This is basically the same argument that southern right-wingers use to defend keeping their confederate statues, but oddly enough many internet commenters seem to have no problems with ripping down those pieces of art since they represented
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by throw20102010 7y ago
I looked through all the comments but still haven't seen an answer to an obvious limitation(that is posed near the end of the article): Where are they getting their library of heartbeats from? I'm sure the CIA is collecting, but
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Hams are continuously fighting to keep their spectrum (and slowly losing it to commercial interests). It is a commonly held belief that unlicensed hackers or hams breaking the law hurts the community’s arguments for keeping their spectrum.
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by throw20102010 7y ago
I know lots of people on HN aren’t a fan of patents- either because of patent trolls or because they believe that patents harm FOSS. So knowing that, I expect a few people to disagree with what I say. This is exactly what patents are suppo
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Spotify's recommendation system is dealing mostly with artists that have recording contracts and professional production- their problem shouldn't be compared to YouTube's which has to deal with a mix of professional, semi-pro
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by throw20102010 7y ago
There are two distinct types of lying mentioned in the article, and each should be handled differently: 1. The non-issue "lie" that was the subject of the original question. Sometimes I get a little annoyed at people that take a
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by throw20102010 7y ago
You should use Julia over Python because of the JIT compilation makes it faster, as long as you aren’t constantly writing code and running it a single time. Also as long as you are able to keep your REPL open for days at a time. It takes
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by throw20102010 7y ago
I think you’re a little confused. Yes, you can fly IFR in class E airspace. The majority of piston airplanes flying IFR do so in class E (the portion below 18,000 ft). Class E is not uncontrolled. I’m not sure about what you mean with “w
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Not doing something about national security because the US might look hypocritical is not a concern to those making the decision. Countries spy on each other while complaining about the other spies. The US tried to stop North Korea from g
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Every American company is at the beck and call of the US government at all times, with their existence in peril if they disobey. The US government has been regulating trade like this since before we were born, and most of the time we don&#
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by throw20102010 7y ago
While we don't have any real evidence (from the sources that I read) that Huawei stole 5G tech, it's plausible. They've stolen tech in other areas and then iterated the design so fast that they beat the competition to market
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Unemployment is very low right now. However, the most accurate statement is always, "shortage of people that have the qualifications we want that are willing to work for the payment we're offering."
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Just because it's publicly available doesn't mean the US government won't try to embargo it. The government does silly things all the time. The book "No Easy Day" became a New York Times best seller as soon as it w
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Lots of lower middle class families have been deep in debt at some point. They know how tough it can be trying to pay off debt, especially with an entry level job right out of college. Since they know how tough that is, they want to sacri
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by throw20102010 7y ago
I think GP has a point that needs to be addressed if we ever want to do a debt forgiveness on a large scale without alienating a bunch of hard working people. It's not about keeping people from getting goodies, it's about rewardi
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Android has cryptography in it for app signing and secure logins and such. Crypto is a real sensitive subject for export, even fairly standard implementations like what Android has. I'll bet that once the question is raised with gove
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Most Chinese versions of Android are completely de-Googled[1]- no Play store, no Maps, no GMail, etc. They have their own app store, web browser, and everything else. They are still based on Android, but it's not a stretch to think t
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Deep fake videos already exist, and will fool most people for short videos. You might start to suspect something if you deep faked a feature length movie though. Combine a deep fake with Faux Rogan and we can expect 2020 to have a video o
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Not likely helping with the training- unless I'm underestimating the scale of people visiting the site. Also unlikely because they had to have a well trained model to launch the site and make the YouTube video that everyone has seen.
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by throw20102010 7y ago
You're not eating meat even if you eat McNuggets /s.
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by throw20102010 7y ago
At least a public deposition would allow people to come to their own conclusion. If Chelsea felt that public questioning was one sided and a smear campaign then she could release a statement afterwards filling in the context and pointing o
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Snarky, but poignant. However, note that there are many government funded programs to help people quit smoking if they want. The government doesn't ban smoking, but it does tax it to encourage healthier behavior. There is no such fu
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by throw20102010 7y ago
Also yep. Facebook is valued at $158 per user. There is absolutely no way that the average user will click on $158 worth of ads in their entire time on the platform, nor will their children, nor will their grandchildren. At some point, a
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by throw20102010 7y ago
While we can't point to any direct causation right now, it also took a long time for us to have proof that smoking was harmful. In the following hypothetical scenario, think about how much blame you would be willing to assign Facebook.

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