JacobThreeThree

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by JacobThreeThree 10mo ago
You'd get sentences full of words like: tangential, orthogonal, externalities, anecdote, anecdata, cargo cult, enshittification, grok, Hanlon's razor, Occam's razor, any other razor, Godwin's law, Murphy's law, othe
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by JacobThreeThree 10mo ago
It was a unique period of interplanetary space travel where most projects were simple flybys - the first time for each planet. Because the goal was just to flyby, the secondary benefit is that the trajectory sends it outside the solar syste
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by JacobThreeThree 10mo ago
Per Wikipedia: It has a 3.7-meter (12 ft) diameter high-gain Cassegrain antenna to send and receive radio waves via the three Deep Space Network stations on the Earth. The spacecraft normally transmits data to Earth over Deep Space Network
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by JacobThreeThree 10mo ago
Totally agree. There's no real complaints, and the coalescing around the Chrome layout engine means far less compatibility issues in general.
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by JacobThreeThree 11mo ago
No, the awarding of a prize for promises is the exceptional part.
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by JacobThreeThree 11mo ago
Obama was very explicitly promising to get out of the middle east wars. Of course it's hard, but if that's true, then why is he making those promises, or worse, why is he being given a peace award based on those promises?
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by JacobThreeThree 11mo ago
The Obama prize decision kind of made the Nobel prize a joke.
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
This does not make any sense. There's far more economic opportunity with AGI.
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
If society only consisted of the people in a given sector/industry, could it continue and flourish? If we only had engineers, how would society fare versus if we only had influencers? In this paradigm, there's no difference betwee
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
So your criticism of him is that "I assume that he called for violence even though I have no evidence that he did"?
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
>Despite the constant braying of right-leaning people, left-wing violence is a tiny fraction of domestic terrorism compared to the right. Only if you buy into the various biased studies that are conducted by those who sympathize with the
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
>why even target the poor guy There are plenty of dangerous mentally ill people out there who don't use any type of logic or reason as a basis for their decision-making.
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
Constantly fear-mongering that every event that occurs is a prelude to a repeat of history's worst atrocities is exactly the type of rhetoric we should avoid.
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
You're worried about Google hardware but your requirement for a phone is that it must have Google Pay? Bizarre.
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
>it isn’t worth working there anyways There is a potential downside, and it's this scenario because things go south.
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
Neon acquisition was ~$1B.
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
This speaks to the low quality assurance bar that most of the software industry lives by. If you're programming for a plane's avionics, as an example, the quality assurance bar is much, much higher. To the point where any time-sav
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by JacobThreeThree 1y ago
Replace "Harvard" with "Trump University" in this conversation, and I believe many HN types would have a different opinion of the policies. The argument is, if educational institutions can't be ideologically neutral
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
The US should go back to subsidizing its shipbuilding industry.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Not to mention, short term cost cutting is what ever business tends to prioritize. Companies would prefer not to pay anyone for anything, including random "researchers".
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>the rest of the record of the case Is that not available somewhere? You'd think it would be presented in detail, since this is the key reason for the default judgement.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Okay, this is a different article. Nevertheless, this one liner about this topic does not specify what the discovery requests were. If the request was about finding text messages regarding a specific topic, as the term "relevant"
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
The judgement document does not go into any detail therefore we don't know whether the Jones team responded with "these documents don't exist" or not. If that was their position, why wouldn't they have responded to
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>And then they accidentally sent all of the non-existent documents to the plaintiffs That's not what these two linked articles say. The AP articles about this state that the improper conduct was about disclosure of information the p
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
This doesn't answer the question about when this was occurring.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
Actually, the default judgement doesn't go into any specifics about what he failed to produce in discovery. The Jones lawyers argued that the discovery requests were for documents that don't exist, and that's why they were no
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>the judge simply doesn't like the guy That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the US justice system.
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
>given several chances to comply with discovery requests The Jones side claims that these discovery requests were for documents that don't exist. The linked judgement provides no detail on what the specific discovery requests were t
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
I've also never seen video of him inciting people. But supposedly he did? Does someone have the actual evidence?
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by JacobThreeThree 2y ago
For those who are curious: https://thepostmillennial.com/new-former-fbi-current-cia-say...

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