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by xenocyon 6y ago
When was Buzzfeednews not decent? (Perhaps you are thinking of Buzzfeed?)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I think whether one finds this kind of newspeak shocking depends on how you view this: Lens #1: This jumping through terminology hoops is a burden one has to undergo because of living in a litigious society. Having to resort to newspeak is
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Is that really the central problem though? Or is it that there is so much cruft? Most every time I try to load a web page my sole aim is accessing a little plain text and perhaps a picture or two if clearly relevant and illustrative. But (i
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Ah, I didn't save them unfortunately.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
It gets curioser and curioser: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/president-trump-might-be-eas...
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by xenocyon 6y ago
"Multi-year" is technically correct but a little rosy: Google cuts off software updates including security updates after 3 years, by which time one can also expect the hard-to-replace battery to be degraded, and increased probab
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by xenocyon 6y ago
My neighborhood gets a lot of break-ins, and I've tried to understand whether there is a causal link showing that electronic home security lowers break-in risk. The deterrent effect makes intuitive sense, but it's surprisingly ha
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by xenocyon 6y ago
As someone who grew up in India in the 20th century: slide rules are unfamiliar, but we used log tables (calculators of any kind were prohibited through high school and standardized tests). For those unfamiliar, log tables serve to replace
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> The problem description (at least in the comic) is good. Any suggested action ... not so much. Well put. In theory, people like the idea of making science better. In practice, people don't like the idea of fewer papers, boring pap
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Master Your Relationship to Time(zenhabits.net)
2 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong(theatlantic.com)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Since this is written by a Black person in tech, my guess is that his beliefs are based on a lifetime of being treated as a second-class citizen, and this anecdote was merely a particularly obvious case. However, like you, I am way of anecd
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by xenocyon 6y ago
A lot of the comments here focus on claims made in bad faith. But the biggest value of citations is when one is trying to make or check a claim in good faith. Many times I find that my own long-held beliefs turn out to be incorrect or par
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by xenocyon 6y ago
BLM is not "black nationalist". Where are you getting your facts from?
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by xenocyon 6y ago
It's a form of logical argument: the writer is poking holes in the "right to free speech = right to a receptive platform" argument made by Sommers and Weiss by swapping the players.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
It would be interesting to see well-reasoned rebuttals to this argument from the HN crowd.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I'm not clear how your anecdote is germane to the topic.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I'm opposed to nuclear weapons, but: the principle of nuclear non-proliferation - or, in other words, the oligopolization of nuclear strike capability - is more of a subjective and self-serving value held by the US (and some other nucl
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by xenocyon 6y ago
A common thing one hears from some Americans is "I'm not opposed to immigration; I'm opposed to illegal immigration". I have come to learn that this is almost always a lie; often these same folks will jump at any chanc
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by xenocyon 6y ago
But drilling fundamentally and permanently alters the land, even if it is a lease rather than a purchase.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> How is this really different from what we already know? I actually didn't know that public land could pass into private ownership so easily. As it says in the article: "The law itself is the crime — a gift to the oil and gas
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. I'm having trouble understanding the linchpin of your argument. Government agencies don'
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Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge(aaron-demeter.itch.io)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Your comment is a little hand-wavy and strongly worded ("revolution", "immeasurable", "limitless", "all domains"). Many things have exponential growth - bacterial reproduction, compound interest, cert
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> NIH needs to prioritize funding labs that don't already have enough money So then why the focus on foreign grants? From the article: > [Of the scientists who were fired/resigned] Some 70% (133) of the researchers had fai
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Should WA's 100K cutoff be taken to imply that noncompetes are legally enforceable for people who earn more than that?
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Wheelbase is important if you're using a bike for transportation. A longer wheelbase makes for more stability and helps with carrying groceries, children, or other cargo. It does make the bike feel less nimble so may not be optimal for
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by xenocyon 6y ago
You are correct that Seattle has a tremendous amount of homelessness. The rest of your comment doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sweeps - which you seem to be advocating - do nothing to solve the problem; meanwhile you ironically crit
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Especially During COVID(propublica.org)
173 points by xenocyon 6y ago|125 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
This is extremely speculative.

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