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by vmh1928 6y ago
We know the Nazis used German census data to identify Jews to round up. They also had many pseudo-scientific tests such as the size of a nose, to help them identify the Untermenschen in the general population. The next regime that pushes a
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by vmh1928 6y ago
In the early 80's, on the second floor of the memorial union building at ASU they had a number of his drawings hung in frames on the wall. These were fairly large, 20-30 inches on a side. His vision, based on the drawings, was to have
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Erdogan is probably looking at the expansionism of China in the South China Sea and the weak response from the U.S. (and others,) and thinks he can do the same thing in the Med.
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let me Google that for you. . . . working . . . . . Punjabi
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Hmm, designed for 500 people, modified several times to up the passengers to 2000+, modified again to add lifeboats and vests. Sounds a bit like the 737-Max.
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There are people in the world for whom $500 or even $1000 track pants are viewed as a status symbol and worth the price for the exclusivity alone. That's how they assign value. To be successful in negotiating it's important to un
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Enrolling others in a belief system is one way of confirming to the "enroller" the validity of their belief. People want other people to agree with them. That's the basis of the fable of The Emperor's New Clothes. Th
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by vmh1928 6y ago
This thread could just as easily been titled: "an example of how powerful cognitive biases are." People come to believe many things and believe them, in the face of contradicting evidence, even to the point where the belief kills
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Since this thread is about what happened after someone got cancer and the treatments they followed are you saying your strategy for treating cancer is just not to get it?
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The good thing about the scientific method is you can decide what you are doing isn't working and try something else.
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What's old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion... Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an early study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charl
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Foreign students are big money for the Industrial Education Complex and the loss of that revenue presented a real threat. Since the alumni of the IEC, no matter what political party, run, well, everything, the idea had no chance. At best
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by vmh1928 6y ago
HN goes to the most remote corners of the Universe to bring us pertinent information!
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Probably paying off student debt from an MFA.
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Perhaps a right-of-way issue. Two parcels adjoin but access to one is via a road across the other. Courts would probably uphold the right-of-way access by the back parcel but if not used for some period of time the front lot owner could ar
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Here's a case where it took 15 years of court action to get someone off of a parcel of land in Tempe, AZ that was part AZ State land and part City of Tempe. The man claimed his family had been occupying the land since at least 1877 and
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by vmh1928 6y ago
possibly more clear to say something like: "for African American protesters the majority, xx%, were males." If that's what they're trying to say.
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Let me add, perhaps there's a moral basis behind the regulations ("don't have machinery that chops worker arms off") but morality should have zero role to play as an implicit or explicit part of the regulation. "we
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by vmh1928 6y ago
The history of the world tells us that ethics is a very weak control. In particular where profit is concerned. Capitalists have proven time and time again that they will pass whatever costs they can to others, the users of their product, th
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by vmh1928 6y ago
In the Cloud Status History page scroll down to the 6:32 entry that says "Unable to Access IBM Cloud" https://cloud.ibm.com/status?selected=history - 2020-06-10 02:19 UTC - RESOLVED - The network operations team a
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by vmh1928 6y ago
IBM bought the technology part called the Weather Company. That's the part that gathers weather info from all over and makes it available. The cable TV channel is still independent.
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Did you read the article? It's a study by researchers at Harvard Medical School. They looked at satellite photos of Wuhan hospitals and saw an increase in parking lot utilization. They also analyzed search terms used on the Biadu se
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by vmh1928 6y ago
Don't want your work intercepted? Just keep your radio signals out of my yard. Simple.
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There's also the question of who it is that is predicting violence (or giving a dog whistle signal to his followers that violence is OK.) This is not a blue check mark living in his mom's basement predicting (or asking) for viole
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by vmh1928 6y ago
You seem to be arguing throughout this thread that the President's comment is akin to saying "red sky at morning, sailors take warning." As if he's predicting a rain storm. But he's not just some guy at the marina
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These look like pre-computer analog control rooms at large plants everywhere. There wasn't much automation then so the operators really had to know the process and how to manually start, stop and modify the behavior of whatever it wa
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by vmh1928 6y ago
I believe he's referring to when the last Holy Roman Emperor abdicated in 1806. "The empire was dissolved on 6 August 1806, when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) abdicated, followin
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by vmh1928 6y ago
And yet the Fed is able to buy back treasuries and corporate debt with funds conjured out of thin air. There's a person at the Fed who types in the amount of money they need that day. I think they're using a Node.js app feeding K
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Great. former IRIS user. I hadn't heard Lowe's open sourced the code, good for them. After the IRIS shutdown announcement I switched to the Samsung Smartthings platform since it supports the second gen IRIS sensors along with a lo
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by vmh1928 6y ago
That's not how it works. The ramblings of the president do not have any legal force.

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