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by tivert 2y ago
> If the legislature are not experts - and they're not on many many topics - they need to either a) find those experts for advice or b) keep their hands out of it. That's why we have Congressional hearings, etc. It's not l
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by tivert 2y ago
So basically, Congress is going to have to pass more updates to previous laws to reflect what the regulatory agencies need or want. Basically, fix the bugs in the core legislation instead of patching it downstream.
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by tivert 2y ago
> For example for AirBnB (well, granted some "conciergerie" service belonging to AirBnB, in France: but even if it's top-end it's still AirBnB) they wanted me to record a video of me of 20 seconds. > They're n
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by tivert 2y ago
> Or since copyright & the arts tend to make tech discourse stupid Oh, you can say that again. Software engineers are often amazingly small-minded, and as a software engineer, it took me quite awhile to realize that. > The other p
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by tivert 2y ago
> What's with all the people that talk or even brag about how much money they make doing ridesharing, food delivery, etc? Got any examples? I can think of a few possibilities: 1. I wouldn't put it past a company like Uber to pa
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by tivert 2y ago
No, I'm pointing that that we don't let other achievements eclipse "being a rapist" anymore.
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by tivert 2y ago
> along with the end of the belief in progress as an ideology, or way to salvation somewhere during the 20th century. That 20th century belief in technological progress as a "way to salvation" killed itself with smog and rivers
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by tivert 2y ago
> I don't really get why most the discussions here about the rape case. While very important to him personally, to us the rest of the world the implications of the WikiLeaks should be way more important, or am I wrong? Why do we now
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by tivert 2y ago
> I think their space suits are not compatible/rated for that. The article says "If the Starliner is not safely operational, it’s possible Williams and Wilmore will have to catch a ride with the crew on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecra
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by tivert 2y ago
> Stuff like this is why some software engineers should have the same legal requirements that real engineers do, with personal liability for negligence and the risk of fines or jail. That would pretty much immediately put a stop to &quot
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by tivert 2y ago
> The journalist's headline is fine. After the reading the article, I think not. 1. The capsule is docked with the ISS. 2. the ISS has plenty of supplies to support both astronauts. 3. Most importantly, they can get home "with
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by tivert 2y ago
> Presumably billg is reading this thread already. I would assume he's not wasting his time with HN. He's rich enough and well-known enough that I'd think he'd be able to get superior versions of everything HN can pro
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by tivert 2y ago
> If your Mac came with System 6, 7, 8, or 9, you had HyperCard. I'm pretty sure Apple stopped development of it before System 8, and I'm certain it wasn't bundled. I'm also pretty sure (but not absolutely certain) it
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by tivert 2y ago
> We used 9 Alfazeta panels in a 3x3 grid or 84x42 discs. Each board has (2) 28x7 panels. So how much do one of those cost? The website ( https://flipdots.com/en/products-services/flip-dot-boards-xy... ) notably
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by tivert 2y ago
> What are they expecting to be different about samples from the moon's far side to those previously collected? Different bragging rights.
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by tivert 2y ago
Some embarrassingly rich person needs to give the Computer History Museum enough money to buy all of it. It's puzzling why all his stuff was organized in such a way that it could get wound down like this. Seems like it would have been
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by tivert 2y ago
> I think that qualifies. 12 years of no freedom. It absolutely does not quality. Being on the lam is obviously not the same as serving time in custody. You can only sum up to 12 by making false equivalencies and ignoring important d
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by tivert 2y ago
> Considering he served 12 or so years I’m not sure he won anything. He didn't serve 12 years. He locked himself in his room for 7, then he actually served 5.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Question is how many of these needs to be added for all the rogue cities "Rogue cities," seriously? I've seen some twisted propaganda ("PR") in my life, but that takes the cake.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Uber could certainly throw additional tech at this problem, but, realistically, the problem is the fault of NYC, not Uber. If NYC got rid of their antiquated laws, this would be a non-issue, and, rides would likely be cheaper and easie
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by tivert 2y ago
> It also sucks for the riders and I really can't imagine Uber likes the situation either. I think the question is what does Uber do when it doesn't like a situation? Does it try to create the best user experience given the con
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by tivert 2y ago
> If they were built in Iran or Russia, they would likely need to import components in any case. Why not just import the completed product? If they're cloning it and their goal is supply chain independence, that seems like first ste
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by tivert 2y ago
That's pretty close to "almost never happens" That works out the 33 a year, but there's something like 129,000 schools in the US. And when people talk about school shootings, they're typically talking about mass s
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by tivert 2y ago
> We prepare for unlikely events all the time. Impact is another metric that we respond to. I simply multiply the two together. But we don't design our lives around those unlikely events. Nuclear war is extremely serious, but extre
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by tivert 2y ago
> So, banning might be a good option but not a silver billet. Definitely, and we should not wait for a silver bullet, but make progress where we can.
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Guess the kids need a dumb phone. Nokia will rise again. > Why do kids need a phone at all? They especially shouldn't need it at school. Part of it is that almost all the infrastructure for "not having a cell phone&quo
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> It’s not the kids it’s the parents. The cause isn't some mutually exclusive binary like that. It can be both at the same time and the proportion can vary between families.
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> The explanation is simple, conservative outrage over non-issues. IMHO, that's not an explanation, that's gaslighting. One of the simplest things to do if you do not want to listen to or address someone else's concerns i
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by tivert 2y ago
> It requires physicians to read and verify the LLM output before signing it. And not just rubber stamping. Then what's the point? That's not going to provide a "more efficient system and greatly improve job satisfaction f
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> There is a strong argument to be made that paper charts were more efficient and provided better quality documentation with better user experience than modern EMR software systems. > Also, this is one place where AI can potentially p

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