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by f154hfds 1mo ago
I agree with you of course, people should be ethical. But if every human exists on a spectrum of evil <-> good, and we can't change this, then regulation/law serves a critical function. Proper legislation should at least cre
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by f154hfds 1mo ago
> Garrett: At the highest level, nothing would make me happier than if we had state-by-state regulation on this type of technology. That to me is so crystal clear, because the lack of regulation on this type of technology just shows that
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Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop(thedrive.com)
94 points by f154hfds 1mo ago|114 comments
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by f154hfds 5mo ago
> in 2014, [Graham] had recruited Altman to be his successor as president. > [Graham's] judgment was based not on Altman’s track record, which was modest, but on his will to prevail, which Graham considered almost ungovernable. O
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by f154hfds 7mo ago
As a Pittsburgh resident who exclusively used bus for 5 years, this certainly seems like a reasonable take. In Oakland and Squirrel Hill the bus almost stops every single block - which always seemed kind of crazy. It's a _very_ common
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by f154hfds 9mo ago
The post script was pretty sobering. It's kind of the first time in my life that I've been actively hoping for a technology to out right not deliver on its promise. This is a pretty depressing place to be, because most emerging te
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The ArdaCraft Map: The largest ever recreation of Middle-earth(ardacraft.me)
2 points by f154hfds 11mo ago|0 comments
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by f154hfds 2y ago
In many states private schools don't need the same certifications as public institutions [1]. I'm sure they would prefer it in applicants but beggars can't be choosers. [1] https://www.pa.gov/agencies/edu
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by f154hfds 2y ago
> Ofc teens should be kept away from this for obvious biological reasons. Why of course? Is the reason this is obvious to you unique to teenagers? When they turn 18 (or 20) do the reasons to restrict their freedoms immediately go away? I
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by f154hfds 2y ago
These are not fair analogies to wealth inequality unless you think all people who have more than you got it by cheating people. A better analogy would be the movie Moneyball, about baseball's inequality. Effectively the problem is that
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by f154hfds 2y ago
It seems to me that democratic society runs best where the distance is minimized between individuals with maximum agency vs. individuals with minimum agency. Agency is power, the ability to move other people to get things you want done, to
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New York: A city full of surveillance(bbc.com)
2 points by f154hfds 2y ago|0 comments
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by f154hfds 2y ago
So much of language opinion is based on people's progression of languages. My progression (of serious professional usage) looked like this: Java -> Python -> C++ -> Rust -> Go I have to say, given this progression going to
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by f154hfds 2y ago
Why stop there? EVERYBODY deserves healthcare and education too! I would say in a perfect world everyone should have all of these things. The problem is that the marginal cost to giving each of these things to everyone increases to infinity
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by f154hfds 2y ago
You're under representing the sadness of lost artistry. For example, there is a marked degradation in the quality of fine art between the late classical period and the early medieval period. Civilization in a large region of Europe los
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by f154hfds 2y ago
I watched the final match after seeing the memes, another thing the commentators kept saying about the guy (Yusuf Dikec) is that he is 51, an age rarely seen at the highest levels of competition in any sport.
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Ask HN: I just fell for a phishing scam – how bad is it?
1 points by f154hfds 2y ago|1 comments
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by f154hfds 2y ago
For those curious about solar powered fixed wing airplanes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Zephyr > One Zephyr can replace 250 cell phone towers. It can be used to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconn
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Rocket Test Failure – Booster Static Fire Becomes Flight Test [video](youtube.com)
2 points by f154hfds 2y ago|0 comments
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by f154hfds 2y ago
It's a 17 minute video.. that's quite the round up. Just saying because for me the difference from 15 minutes to 30 minutes tends to go from: "yeah I'll check this out" to "boy this is an investment".
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by f154hfds 2y ago
How does the author dismantle everything? He literally concludes with: > Conclusion: I Genuinely Don’t Know What These People Are Thinking Two things can be true at the same time (and are always true of 100's of aspects of modern li
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Connecting Solar to the Grid Is Harder Than You Think [video](youtube.com)
2 points by f154hfds 2y ago|0 comments
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by f154hfds 2y ago
I was tracking with you till the last sentence - why is this bad? I tend to think it's a good thing that 40% of Chinese people (580 million people) aren't starving. Britain hasn't been able to feed itself from domestic agricu
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by f154hfds 3y ago
Let's not blame the protestants of 200 years ago for our current problems - we have an inability to forgive. Punishment really has nothing to do with it. Part of the problem is that modern racism rarely causes obvious harm that can be
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Floating Point Epsilon Calculator(johannesugb.github.io)
4 points by f154hfds 3y ago|0 comments
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by f154hfds 3y ago
I have a duplo/lego question - is there a name for the combinatorics problem of how many structures can be built with N 1XM legos? I have spent a fair bit of time thinking about this problem and I'm unaware if it's been posed
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by f154hfds 3y ago
Go to the parking lot for Niagara Falls on the US side (Goat Island I think it's called?). You should see all the plates except for Alaska and Hawaii on an average day I think as well as a decent number of Canadian provinces. We were t
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by f154hfds 3y ago
I think this misses half of the purpose of 'rule of law'. Some laws are to protect interest of citizens in the state and the state itself, sure, and in that sense the importance of 'spirit of the law' could be cultural.
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by f154hfds 3y ago
As a father of two daughters, I have to say conscription of young women is a barbaric logical outcome of egalitarian ideology. Perhaps in modern militaries there are less brutal work environments where 'sexism' could still come in
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by f154hfds 3y ago
In ancient Israel it was a law that land had to be re-pooled back into its original tribal allocation every 49 years, it was called 'the year of jubilee'. Not sure there's evidence this law was really kept, though it's a

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