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by verteu 3y ago
Not a ton of research on this, but there are some worrying examples: "According to a recent lawsuit filed by tech giant Apple in October of 2016, roughly 90% of Apple chargers on Amazon, even when labeled as a genuine article, are fake
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by verteu 3y ago
Correct -- a "casualty, as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture or desert
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by verteu 3y ago
Good example, thanks. SEO spam like this is indeed a problem. Perhaps the underlying issue is that GSearch was originally designed to "find webpages," not "answer questions." (I'd expect that high-quality, official
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by verteu 3y ago
Would you mind providing an example or two? I hear this often on HN, but it never happens to me (perhaps because I use Adblock?)
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by verteu 3y ago
Maybe "life-hacking" or "transhumanism"?
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by verteu 3y ago
Yes, that's what GP meant.
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by verteu 3y ago
1Password does it right: Everyone's master password is augmented with a big randomly generated "Secret Key" that is stored (only) on their machine. Even if their entire database was leaked, the Secret Key guarantees a good mi
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by verteu 3y ago
I agree with this for a typical-length game. But I'd guess its worst-case is inferior due to some pathologically long games.
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by verteu 3y ago
It's more cost-efficient and effective long-term to prevent people from falling into homelessness. And affordable housing is widely viewed as a major root cause. [1] Yes, people on the streets should be helped. But if 4 people fall in
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by verteu 3y ago
Keep in mind the word "value" has several definitions [1]. Describing low-cost areas as "low-value" could be seen as insulting via definitions 1-3. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/value#Noun
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by verteu 3y ago
I disagree that the root problem is "destitution" rather than affordable housing. I haven't seen much good research on the best way to solve homelessness, but most cross-city analyses suggest that high rent (and low housing d
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by verteu 3y ago
Perhaps remote work will reduce this disparity. I'd expect it to happen in "waves" as high-paid remote workers move from cities with "tier N" CoL+culture to "tier N+1." There's already been a signific
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by verteu 3y ago
Good point. I suppose median_home_price/median_income is a decent metric? Some stats to further the debate: - https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count... - https://knoema.com/in
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by verteu 3y ago
> Some of the backing studies do, but the linked article, which is the object of discussion, absolutely does not. Have you read them? From the linked article: > Basics of global poverty measurement > Throughout this article – and i
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by verteu 3y ago
The chart says it's "adjusted for inflation and for differences in the cost of living between countries."
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by verteu 3y ago
I believe it should be parsed as: "DLNR delayed releasing water (requested by West Maui Land Co. to help prevent the spread of fire)" not "(DLNR delayed releasing water requested by West Maui Land Co.) to help prevent the spr
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by verteu 3y ago
Nobody's "panties are in a twist," as you so eloquently conjectured. Many of America's alcohol-related regulations are, literally, Puritan in origin and exist largely due to historical precedent. [1] [2] Thus, when encou
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by verteu 3y ago
Ah yes I see.
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by verteu 3y ago
What do you mean "their property"? It's not private property, the program is funded by US taxpayers (eg: me).
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by verteu 3y ago
> But I'd imagine the rule was designed from a "How do we prevent everyone else from being inconvenienced (or threatened) by an irresponsible person?" perspective. My point was: Why not ban the actual behavior that inconve
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by verteu 3y ago
Personally it strikes me as Puritanical -- rather than prohibiting disruptive or abusive behavior, the regulation bans a particular state of mind.
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by verteu 3y ago
Seems you're not allowed to be 'drunk' even if you're of legal age. From the handbook [1]: "NOTE: Students who are aged 21 or older may drink alcohol when off center and not under center supervision; however, they c
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by verteu 3y ago
> reCAPTCHA: The accuracy [for humans] of image classification was 81% and 81.7% on the easy and hard settings respectively. Surprisingly, the difficulty appeared not to impact accuracy. I'm surprised, too. My solve rate (as a human
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by verteu 3y ago
Good point -- I'm not sure if Google Maps tracks benches. (I'd guess it doesn't, but not positive.)
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by verteu 3y ago
Yes, very sympathetic IMO. Publishing parts of opposing witness Caroline's diary at his request, an act that was viewed as witness tampering [1]. Allowing him to speak at DealBook summit after he lost customer funds: "The DealBook
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by verteu 3y ago
I don't think SBF ever offered a witness a "bag of cash". The only reference to the phrase I can find is [1], where SBF's lawyer appears to be contrasting the case with another that has been submitted for reference/
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by verteu 3y ago
Still seems like a dark pattern that tic-tacs are manufactured to be 0.49g, just under the 0.5g limit that allows them to round down to zero on the label.
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by verteu 3y ago
Just tried it now and I found the experience incredibly easy: On desktop, right click on the map and choose "Add a missing place." On mobile, long-press to drop a pin, then scroll down to "Add a missing place." Does OSM
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by verteu 3y ago
I recommend reading from Page 19, it describes the heart of the issue.
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by verteu 3y ago
> Why can't a scrappy startup with 25 people not create a similar app and take a fixed 1$ a ride? Surely there's a huge network effect? Maybe it could work in one city, though.

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