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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
No part of that comment made sense. I don't think the problem was that multiple comments merged.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
If the police were able to close the bridge just in time, that's a pretty spectacular response. There were only ~5 minutes between the ship loosing power initially and the impact. The police saved lives, and it's only a shame that
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Cost/benefit analyses are just a fact of life. I see your point, but without really considering the question we don't know what the proper response is. It is not obvious to me that we need to mandate backup power systems, there ar
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Are you opposing the divestment law? If so, and you think TikTok is a real security threat, what is the alternative measure? I don't agree that this is security theater. Divestment will put the entity which controls TikTok under the ju
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Yes, and Americans will continue to have access to propaganda of foreign adversaries after this bill passes. The ownership restrictions on broadcast media that OP mentions don't stop Americans from going to the Chinese state news agenc
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
ByteDance is a Chinese corporation. The US federal government does not govern it and has no responsibility to allow a Chinese corporation to express itself in the US by publishing propaganda.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Here is a study which compares the prevalence of topics on Instagram with the prevalence of topics on TikTok, and shows that topics which are sensitive to the CCP (Tibet, Hong Kong) occur 5-10x less frequently than comparable topics which a
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
That's only true if those 10 additional reservoirs are capturing water that the original 10 were not capturing. You could also end up with 20 1/4 full reservoirs. The underlying problem in California is that not enough rain is fal
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
The Bureau of Labor Statistics literally publishes six different unemployment rates, each of which includes different combinations of unemployed, discouraged people who are not job searching, "marginally attached workers", and peo
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
If you live in San Francisco you're closer to LEO than you are to Los Angeles. Probably also helps that 17,000 mph is really freaking fast.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Just installed this on windows 10. First time I tried to open it the window hung for 3 minutes until I killed it. The second time, I couldn't reposition the window by clicking and dragging. Third time I loaded it, it hung again. It&#x2
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
The point of the game is to illustrate this behavior. That is why they use a real-world example, to produce different results when different people are asked the same question. It's not a math problem.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Well, this sort of illustrates the point, because to me an object that would be a vehicle if it was functioning is clearly still a vehicle. A broken-down vehicle vehicle is still a vehicle, even if it's non-functioning. A car doesn&#x2
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
I went down a Kaiju rabbithole. Here are the monsters I created - Dragon + Lazer = Dragonzord - Dragonzord + Sandpunk = Sandzord - Dragon-Rex + Hippopotamus = Hippodragon - Mega Dragonzord (didn't see recipe) - Hippodragon + Mega Drago
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
- Dragon + Lazer = Dragonzord I got Mega Dragonzord! First discovery. But I didn't see how. Here is a list of new kaiju I first discovered: - Dragonzord + Sandpunk = Sandzord - Dragon-Rex + Hippopotamus = Hippodragon - Hippodragon + Me
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
These aren't AI generated, FYI. I thought so too at first but someone just put in a crapload of work collecting fake movies or TV shows which were in real movies or TV shows.
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Fair enough, they didn't block his testimony in the suit. In general though I think the legal system worked pretty well here. I don't think the board's initial position was crazy. The dispute was escalated to federal court, a
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
The headline isn't accurate. The suit was about whether the retired engineer could offer testimony as an expert witness in a lawsuit without a professional engineering license. Notably, the dude had worked as a chemical engineer for de
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
The platforms are large enough now that there is a public interest in the moderation decisions that they make. Like a utility or a mail carrier or an internet service provider, if you reach a certain size in an industry that tends towards a
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
This post was flagged, but I don't think it should have been and I hope it stays up. I have been grateful that HN hasn't had the same level of animosity about the conflict in Gaza as other places on the internet. But this news art
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
> Frankly, given that there have been actual genocides in the recent past that have gone largely ignored, the over representation of Palestinian views in today’s media is likely the work of bad faith actors ... This argument is made ofte
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
I think the parent comments are saying that it's unreasonable to refuse to return license plates as part of a mail strike. If the postal workers find they have possession of Tesla's plates, they should release them if Tesla shows
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Real estate development is very localized. For sure agree that local governments on the coasts obstruct development, though Texas or Florida don't. My point was more that you implied that the U.S. also selectively blocks certain compan
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
From that link: > "The owners of PostNord Group are the state of Sweden (60 percent) and the state of Denmark (40 percent)" So no, it's a state-owned company. And most national postal services have some sort of equal-servi
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
The government has the obligation to deliver services to residents and businesses. If some government workers refuse to do the work, the government's obligation is unchanged, and they need to find another way to fulfill it
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
> were the same conditions ripe in America, we'd see registration delays and special fees, safety investigations and public hearings. I don't think we would. America is a big country, and certainly governments can be obstructio
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
I'm broadly in favor of organized labor, but it seems very odd to me for a labor action to stop the state-run postal service from delivering to one customer in particular. The postal workers aren't Tesla employees. In the U.S., at
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
There are signs that policy is not going well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru... The state has a legitimate interest in limiting the number of people taking opioids in publi
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
Some people use meth and opioids responsibly, but they very much are not the same as alcohol. Alcohol is a much safer recreational drug. Some people become alcoholics, but a higher percentage of people who try opioids get addicted, and addi
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by whats_a_quasar 3y ago
You're getting downvoted for this, but you're right. I used to believe that recreational use of hard drugs was victimless, but I don't anymore. If you take opiates, meth, or crack-cocaine, there is some probability that you w

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