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by xenocyon 7y ago
I didn't create the HN title; it was autogenerated from the source.
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Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black U.S. men(latimes.com)
33 points by xenocyon 7y ago|3 comments
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Yep, the argument I've heard is that it legitimizes encampments. Additionally I suspect people are outraged by the notion that homeless people could get trash pickup for free from the city when housed people have to pay for theirs - ev
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by xenocyon 7y ago
At least part of the cause of the visible squalor we see in Seattle is that the tough-on-crime crowd has consistently opposed safe injection, harm reduction, trash pickup, housing-first, and other evidence-based policies in favor of expensi
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by xenocyon 7y ago
The question is how large the dollar risk of default is.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Calling the absolute numbers re subprime loans a "garnish" is subjective at best and wrong at worst. Even if the subprime-to-prime ratio hasn't changed much, a large increase in the ballooning subprime total may still be news
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by xenocyon 7y ago
As a parent, I actually do pay attention to CDC stats. And because of this, I am worried - not because of kidnappers, but because of cars - which unlike most other dangers have only gotten deadlier (to pedestrians) over the years (source:
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by xenocyon 7y ago
A productivity tool must be judged by how the average person actually uses it, not by how an ideal user might.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Speaking more generally, I do think it is a systemic problem in the world of AI that we have to rely so much on human-labeled data, often done by low-paid workers in other countries (like Amazon's Mechanical Turk) or harvested off fr
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by xenocyon 7y ago
That's interesting. The last time I did the math it looked like the breakeven point would be well over a decade for me (approx 4000 driven miles per year). It may be that things have changed since.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Ah, that definitely changes the calculation completely.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Per your circumstances (living in Boston, already possess a car, drive occasionally), a new Tesla purchase might be non-ideal even besides the charging issue, from a climate standpoint. There is a breakeven point where your cumulative carbo
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by xenocyon 7y ago
"A reasonable person knows they can't have a fighter jet." I'm not sure I buy this argument. A reasonable person knows they can't have a billion dollars for winning a silly game. Yet, a billion dollars is indeed (so
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Your last paragraph implies that if there were fewer H1B visas given out to Indian software engineers then your brilliant musician friend would have a chance. Though this kind of zero-sum fallacy is commonplace, that's not how immigrat
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Abrupt Shutdown of BMW’s ReachNow Car-Sharing Service in Seattle and Portland(geekwire.com)
2 points by xenocyon 7y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Saying it "impedes bots" is a little generous; it impedes humans as well. Or rather: it works on a spectrum where bots are at one end (fully obstructed), easily tracked humans at the other (free entry), and humans who disable trac
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Firstly, restaurants are not allowed to pay "less than minimum wage" in any US state, though some states have two separate minimum wage rates for tipped and untipped employees. (NB: all west coast states in the US have just one mi
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Personally: having learned of their scummy practices, I will not be supporting DoorDash or Instacart ever again, regardless of whether they change policy now in response to being exposed. Why so unforgiving? Because you can't deter une
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Counterpoint: humans as a species have pretty much always been bad for this planet's biosphere, not just now but for tens of millennia. If you're looking for a species to save us, I'd recommend turning to trees instead :)
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by xenocyon 7y ago
This xkcd graphic really shows how massive this effect is: https://xkcd.com/1732/ A lot of people just don't understand why a couple of degrees is a big deal, not understanding that the rate of change we are tal
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by xenocyon 7y ago
MPAA membership dues are on the order of USD 10 million per year.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
On the bad side: the MPAA lobbies heavily for continually enlarging copyright protection (e.g. the DMCA) and aggressively pursues legal action against individuals. Netflix has deep pockets, so its membership provides the MPAA with increased
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by xenocyon 7y ago
The evidence shows that housing-first policies applied to the worst cases (chronically homeless single people with addiction) is effective and lowers costs, in fact more so than for easier clients (families who have become homeless more rec
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Your concerns are real but not germane to the issue. The main issue with air quality in Indian cities is particulate matter, which has little to do with semiconductor manufacturing or assembly.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
I do; Seattle; most everyday except when there is snow/ice on the ground.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
To put it simply, two clean flat surfaces stick together for the same reason each of the two objects is held together in the first place: weak and strong nuclear forces and electromagnetism. However the specifics of this might vary greatly
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by xenocyon 7y ago
I rather miss those early days. Web 1.0 is looked down on for its visual clutter (and definitely the hatred of image backgrounds and animated text was well-deserved), but Web 2.0 has just as much if not more clutter, and of a darker nature.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
If anything, age 8 is an overestimate rather than an underestimate. Nowadays, the preschool years are considered crucially important towards determining lifelong outcomes. It's a good idea to not be poor from age 0 to 2.
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by xenocyon 7y ago
There's also the little matter of the sheer magnitude of the threat to the species: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/15/dramatic...
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by xenocyon 7y ago
I've noticed some folks are unhappy with the term 'concentration camp' but academics and historians largely consider it historically accurate: https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentrat...

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