bnralt

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by bnralt 1y ago
> Maybe people in America like a "service heavy" experience, and the only way to get it is tips? Interestingly enough, I find the service worse in the U.S. Part of the reason is that the tip system leads to waiters wasting time
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by bnralt 1y ago
That belief has reached prominent political leaders as well. I listened to a bit of the Ocasio-Cortez/Tim Walz Madden livestream on Twitch, and they were talking about how something needed to be done about the greedy developers who wer
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by bnralt 1y ago
> We're often so down on journalism on HN, and I believe a big part of that is we tend to read so much opinion and analysis and so little basic reporting. I think a large part of it is that major news organizations too often don&#x2
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by bnralt 1y ago
Right, Reddit banned any sub that disagreed with the progressive positions on Transgender issues, any mainstream subs would ban users for disagreeing with those positions, and heterodox subs were warned not to discuss them or else they coul
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by bnralt 2y ago
The fundamental contradiction is here: "someone who is clearly not capable of making Right Choices" yet is "even a more genuine human being than your garden-variety obedient nine-to-fiver with a bullshit job and toxic family
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by bnralt 2y ago
I see this argument a lot, but it's contradictory. You're simultaneously arguing that people don't understand statistics because they're treating a 25% chance as no chance to win, but then you're doing the same by s
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by bnralt 2y ago
Like the Rationalist's "Bayesian priors," the election models were a remnant of the "big data" hype from a decade and a half ago. This article is a decent overview for anyone who forgot about it[1]. Like with many h
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by bnralt 2y ago
There seems to be a coordinated effort to control the narrative. Grok3's release is pretty important, no matter what you think of it, and initially this story quickly fell off the front page, likely from malicious mass flagging. One th
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by bnralt 2y ago
My "specific version" is the version used by government agencies, which specifically states that the government is giving people free permanent housing without requiring prerequisites. HUD[1]: "Housing First is an approach to
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by bnralt 2y ago
> I’m not sure what the right answer is, but asking people who are used to rough and tumble life outside to then behave civilly indoors with zero tolerance seems…set for failure? This is true, and that's why housing first is a terri
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by bnralt 2y ago
> edit: I should mention that I've seen fairly convincing cross-sectional evidence that homelessness is more related to the housing market than mental illness: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/homelessness-is-a-hou
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by bnralt 2y ago
I've seen this argument brought up a lot, but I've never seen someone attempt to answer the counterfactual. If LIDAR was added to Tesla's now, how much would FSD improve? I've seen people here who have used it say that w
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by bnralt 2y ago
> I imagine A blog should do something like press releases and describe and progress made on the actual website or plans for- A lot of older websites actually used to do this with a “what’s new” section or page. With blogging, “what’s ne
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by bnralt 2y ago
> We started by putting advertisements on existing content, then moved to social networking and social media, which was essentially an engine for crowdsourcing the production of greater amounts of content against which to show advertisem
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by bnralt 2y ago
KA-52 helicopters were considered to be a one of the big obstacles that Ukraine faced during their 2023 counteroffensive. "Military briefing: Russian ‘Alligators’ menace Ukraine’s counteroffensive"[1]: > Justin Bronk, senior re
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by bnralt 2y ago
It's set up like this - busy avenue with lanes (left to right) 1, 2, and 3 enter into roundabout with circles (inner to outer) A, B, and C. The problem is that half way around the circle, where the avenue continues, A, B, and C then ha
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by bnralt 2y ago
> Just because you drove wrong does not make the roundabout bad. You seem to have misread my post. Everyone drove wrong. I seemed to be the only one to notice it, and started avoiding that roundabout, because driving with the correct rig
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by bnralt 2y ago
I don't think most of the ones here could be easily reversed, for what it's worth. The streets were designed with them in mind, so they're usually at the exact spot where 3-5 different roads intersect. The number of bad round
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by bnralt 2y ago
> The worst roundabout beats the best 4-way stop any day of the week. Sometimes there really are easy answers. Maybe you haven't seen the worst ones, then. For instance, one by my house had traffic lines which gave people the wrong
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by bnralt 2y ago
Online I see this mentality that roundabouts are great no matter what and it seems really strange to me. It really depends on the design of the roundabout and the traffic conditions. Where I grew up there are a lot of roundabouts, but many
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by bnralt 2y ago
Maybe this is better: Cruise line A and cruise line B drop their passengers off at a remote island for 5 days, and then come to pick them up and take them home. After cruise line B drops theirs off, the cruise ships breaks down, and the pas
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by bnralt 2y ago
> it fed a crime wave, something a number of US cities are suing Kia over A large part of the crime wave stems from the policies these cities implemented. Many times from the same leaders who are suing Kia now. For instance, a friend go
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by bnralt 2y ago
But why did they decide that? It seems to be a pretty clear example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. 1. Better bacteria is found in the wild, it might be able to significantly reduce cavities. People could be randomly passing it
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by bnralt 2y ago
The safety concerns sound circular in an almost Kafkaesque manner. From what I can tell, a strain of the bacteria was found in the wild that created less acid and seemed to lead to less carries. So people thought it needed to be safer, so t
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by bnralt 2y ago
True, but there's a difference between being open to revisionism and actively trying to spin things in a revisionistic manner because novelty brings more clout.
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by bnralt 2y ago
Depends on the historian. The overly theatrical way some historians react to the term "dark age" is a bit revisionistic (and perpetual revisionism seems extremely popular among academic historians). And many get similarly spun up
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by bnralt 2y ago
> Like, the part about making your co-workers feel like they're bottlenecking you; can't imagine working in an environment where everyone tries that number on everyone else. It's extremely adversarial. Is that really stand
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by bnralt 2y ago
> If anything we need to go slower and gentler (environmentally, socially, economically), not "faster" Do you think we should move slower when it comes to saving the planet? From what I can tell your main issue is with the goal
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by bnralt 2y ago
That's the same impression I got. It's odd seeing the discussion veer off into morality, because most of it seems to be standard and non-problematic advice (IE, understanding what your product is and don't get distracted by f
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by bnralt 2y ago
One of the reasons why this happens is because repeat violent offenders get away with a surprising amount. For instance, the lead criminal in this case had been charged with attempted murder in a separate case just a couple years before sta

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