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The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper(theintercept.com)
6 points by xenocyon 5y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 5y ago
You're leading with energy use but that's really not the point. The point is that plastic takes many centuries to degrade, and we go through a lot of single-use plastic. For example, a disposable diaper takes >500 years to biod
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by xenocyon 5y ago
> In many systems, the mean really does summarize the whole That's quite true, and the same statement also points to where the arithmetic mean isn't a good choice: where the goal isn't so much to summarize a whole as t
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by xenocyon 5y ago
I think it's worth remembering that this is an elected position, and this sheriff is overwhelmingly popular, to the point where he ran unopposed in the last election. Per the Tampa Bay Times: Nocco's uncontested re-election in 20
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Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan(seattletimes.com)
355 points by xenocyon 5y ago|282 comments
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OnlyFans seeks new funding and a pivot away from porn(bloomberg.com)
32 points by xenocyon 5y ago|55 comments
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Long-time Seattle resident and transit rider here. Seattle's erstwhile "Ride Free Zone" was instituted with the aim of promoting tourist activity and applied solely to rides that began and ended within a tiny part of the ci
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by xenocyon 5y ago
It's important to remember that electricity isn't an energy source, it's an energy medium. This seems trivial, but seems to be a blind spot for people who, for instance, try to set up comparison between electricity and fossil
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by xenocyon 5y ago
It may be shocking, but this is often what happens when people discover their monastic calling in adulthood. Buddha famously abandoned his wife and infant son when he decided to pursue his path. Furthermore, some people have little contact
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Your comment is interesting given that some of the strongest voices against the Keystone XL pipeline are the indigenous tribes whose lands and water would be jeopardized by it.
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Electrical engineer here. Thermal noise is the same for all resistors with a given R, regardless of their method of manufacture. You cannot have thermal noise either less or more than this, so it's not a Johnson "limit" but
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by xenocyon 5y ago
> I usually trust HN to be a bastion of free speech You must have a remarkably selective definition of free speech then. Stuff gets flagged all the time, and users are suppressed via opaque and obfuscated methods. To be clear, I'm
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by xenocyon 5y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. Brod (who it would be more accurate to characterize as Kafka's close friend than a purely professional publisher) did not promise to destroy the works; on the contrary he made clear that h
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by xenocyon 5y ago
That's certainly an interesting point. The questions have ~9K responses at this time; I wonder how many of those can be attributed to an hour of being posted on HN.
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Bizarre that this is (at this time) the top comment with numerous replies and nobody has yet pointed out that this is not a NYTimes journalism piece; it is an opinion piece by Cal Newport.
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by xenocyon 5y ago
Proving defamation is actually quite hard. You have to prove both the untruthfulness of the statement made and prove that you have sustained monetary damages from it. If you manage to win, you will still likely be on the hook for your own l
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by xenocyon 5y ago
One of the tragedies of Indian film is that (outside of the Bollywood world) many of the master reels of past films have been ignored/lost/destroyed. According to one archivist [1]: "The loss of India’s film heritage has been
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by xenocyon 5y ago
So call it a taxi then. It's still not a rideshare (except for the actual shared ride services like UberPool).
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Kim Kardashian’s Billion-Dollar Brand Defies the Pandemic(nytimes.com)
3 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
The EFF is very interested in surveillance and misuse of personal data so it seems well within its mission.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
You must have a special deal. The price I see (USA, Kindle store, current pricing) is $9.99/mo after the first month. That said, I agree that journalism deserves to be paid for, and even the price I mentioned above (about $2.30/is
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Ask HN: Individual-contributor career path for senior/principal data scientists?
1 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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Insulting a police officer could become a crime in Kentucky(courier-journal.com)
1 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I'll admit I like some aspects of the internet of 20 years ago more than today's. I don't like our current world of targeted ads, SEO, overlays, scripts, autoplay videos, and a thousand trackers. But I don't think this m
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I agree that expected value (EV) is not necessarily a good metric for personal financial decisions. In fact, this applies both to EVs greater than and less than 1. As you point out, insurance is a good example of a <1 EV; its purpose is
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by xenocyon 6y ago
1. At an individual/hobbyist level this is a fine thing to do, if one is already a cryptocurrency enthusiast. 2. At a social/planning level it is important to remember that opportunity costs matter, and this should not be recommen
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by xenocyon 6y ago
You're correct; my comment may have overstated the case. I reworded it to say "most tasks quite adequately".
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> me just being a person in the zoom era uses a combination of a windows gaming rig, an old mac for video conferencing, a new mac for xcode, and a linux laptop so I don't hate myself I'm typing this comment on a Thinkpad X230
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UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders(berkeleyside.com)
150 points by xenocyon 6y ago|56 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
That's not what the article is about at all. It's about their unethical reneging on the agreement they made, where they agreed to provide a free product in exchange for the government not providing one - but it's a free pro

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