horrified

6 ms·

1.
by horrified 5y ago
Sorry, WaPo.
2.
by horrified 5y ago
I guess he was certain that anybody so well versed in the 80ies cult products would have to be a good person.
3.
by horrified 5y ago
A better comparison would be to say "the hottest 10 days were all this July. There seems to be a trend here". Then it would be obvious that it was simply the hottest July, so of course all days were comparatively hot. Just saying
4.
by horrified 5y ago
Are years the appropriate units for such comparisons, though? Anyway I give them their record, my main gripe is really the talk about averages. It's just plain misleading or at least not as informative as it could be.
5.
by horrified 5y ago
Somehow there is little reaction when white people are being shot, though (or killed in general, like the white guy who died in the same way as Georg Floyd sometime before). I think there is more to it than just accessibility.
6.
by horrified 5y ago
Is Apple's approach even likely to catch any pedophiles? Seems to me at most it would succeed in keeping such photos from Apple devices, which is perhaps good for their public image, but does nothing to catch predators? It is very publ
7.
by horrified 5y ago
Do Indians also count as Asians in those statistics (like 40% of Google)?
8.
by horrified 5y ago
I guess one problem with the virtual world in RPO is that it is centralized, and therefore people are fighting each other to control it.
9.
by horrified 5y ago
Seems I misremebered it, thanks. I found two different estimates right now, too, one for ~1.6%, one for ~0.4%. Sometimes real estate the owners live in themselves is not counted? With 1.6% the odds of having a millionaire neighbor would sti
10.
by horrified 5y ago
Why shouldn't the house count, though?
11.
by horrified 5y ago
MSCI world hat positive returns in all but three years since 2007: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/178e6643-6ae6-47b9-82be... Granted the -40% in 2008 were brutal, but even that would have been compensated in
12.
by horrified 5y ago
In my country (Germany) afaik a little over 10% of the population are at least millionaires. So I think the likelihood to have a millionaire living next door is quite high.
13.
by horrified 5y ago
"If Read suffered from poor health during his working years or required long-term care, his estate would be a fraction of what it was." So don't bother saving or trying to get rich, because you might become ill and have to
14.
by horrified 5y ago
I would imagine most Ethereum miners are pretty well off by now, so the "working class" analogy is really off. Also "the ruling class" can not really force their rules on others. Everybody participating in cryptocoins ri
15.
by horrified 5y ago
There was not that much context to the story to begin with, so it is unclear how awful he really was.
16.
by horrified 5y ago
They seemed very keen to communicate high risk things, though.
17.
by horrified 5y ago
NYT is paywalled, but all articles about it that I have read are a mix of scary anecdotes without statistics ("Johnny was unable to remember his biology lessons" - how often does that happen" and statistics about "x% exp
18.
by horrified 5y ago
Thanks!
19.
by horrified 5y ago
I said they felt he is awful. Maybe he felt they are awful, too. It is a thing that happens in human relationships, that people end up disliking each other. We have only heard one side of the story here. It is a pretty normal thing that peo
20.
by horrified 5y ago
No "drinking for the planet" then? Disappointing.
21.
by horrified 5y ago
I trust that the people felt his behaviour was awful. If they don't like working with him, they can switch jobs. Or even complain to higher ups and what not. What is not OK imo is this appeal to some imaginary "societal moral cour
22.
by horrified 5y ago
Exactly - tell him to fuck off. Don't start a media campaign against his career. Tell him to fuck off directly. The "snowflake" aspect here is people not standing up for themselves, but calling on "society" to provi
23.
by horrified 5y ago
Except it didn't because Tesla reimbursed them with no fuss.
24.
by horrified 5y ago
Thanks!
25.
by horrified 5y ago
Just turn off the news. They feed on fear.
26.
by horrified 5y ago
Can you explain to me then why China is still building new coal based power plants? If solar is cheaper, why would anybody build something else?
27.
by horrified 5y ago
Also switching to alternative energy has a huge upfront cost in CO2 - producing all those windmills and solar panels costs a lot of energy. If the time to turn things around is really so short, maybe that upfront CO2 explosion is not the ri
28.
by horrified 5y ago
Which one do you use?
29.
by horrified 5y ago
I feel like I have read about a similar YC startup before. Search brings up afrostream.tv - how did they fare, and what is different? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/afrostream Not that there can't be more t
30.
by horrified 5y ago
Also it will die when the organism it is part of dies because of cancer.

More ›