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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
I think the unease many people feel here is that this strict bureaucracy taken to its extreme conclusion would become something akin to a tragicomical farce: "No posts about the controversial nukes raining over Europe allowed, such fla
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
> FWIW, here's a short version: users flag things for various reasons; we turn off flags on a few such stories, but not more; that's because HN isn't a political or current affairs site; I think you have misunderstood the
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
It seems you are purposefully removing all the specific context to be willfully indifferent. You would need to actually grapple with the specific context to be convincing. Otherwise you could just as well respond to a police officer smuggli
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
I have sent an email linking to this discussion, but I think it would be more constructive if the helpful and forthcoming answers happened in public rather than in sent in private email threads to everyone wondering. Calling discussing some
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
> "flagged" always means that users flagged it, not moderator action. And there are a lot of readers who will flag all submissions about US politics, no matter the polarity of the article. The thing is that dang has generally n
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
I second this question, @dang. I would like some explanation of the moderation policy here to at least understand the reasoning. With posts such as "Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S." and "Trump wins presidency
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
> That said, you're totally right nobody can truly know except him and who he spoke to. Let me be clear about this, I would definitely assume it did not happen without really strong evidence of the contrary. Based on my assessment o
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
What makes his story unbelievable is that it happened in corporate America in the 1980s (that you have a different experience in 2020s Sweden is not really a counterexample to what makes his story hard to believe) combined with the fact tha
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
> Ideally her relatives could then SUE Ideally a lawsuit? The only sane outcome of this in a civilized society is that the perpetrator stands trial for murder. If that does not happen the already slim distinction between US law enforceme
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by i_cannot_hack 9mo ago
If you want more freedom to design medical devices for people where there is an actual need, it would easily be done by expanding the exception for medical devices that already exists in the law. If you think people to be able to sell unsus
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by i_cannot_hack 10mo ago
> If i understand that correctly the "energy required to grow" would be bigger than the "enthalpy of formation"? They are almost completely unrelated concepts. The enthalpy of formation from the paper is the free usea
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by i_cannot_hack 10mo ago
> Initially i asked a AI for standard values Don't do this, and don't then share the resulting numbers as fact publicly without disclosing you just asked a chatbot to make up something reasonable sounding. If the chatbot refers
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by i_cannot_hack 1y ago
> I can tell you down to the day how many bitcoin there will be decades from now. As this story itself demonstrates, you clearly can't, and it already has the potiential to affect markets: "18.04 million bitcoin sits in dormant
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by i_cannot_hack 1y ago
It's an example showing that institutions elsewhere are actually responding to this (a question asked by the parent post), and Norway will very likely not be alone here.
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by i_cannot_hack 1y ago
Not really true. Kiwi birds are very furry (unless you define furry as having mammalian hair, which sort of defeats the point) and are more related to lizards than to mammals.
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by i_cannot_hack 2y ago
> If accurate, I still prefer ChatGPT. It looks like you are using ChatGPT too much and feeding yourself untrustworthy information for no reason. Internet search still exists, there is no need to use ChatGPT for this. Simply typing &quot
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by i_cannot_hack 2y ago
I can't really follow your arguments. Wether the actions have been approved by a democratic majority seems orthogonal to whether human rights have been violated (if a government performs torture on some humans it would still be a human
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by i_cannot_hack 3y ago
Your analysis is contradicted by the evidence presented in the article. > One study took 1,600 men with low-risk prostate cancer in the U.K. and randomly assigned them to get surgery, radiation or active surveillance. Fifteen years later
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by i_cannot_hack 3y ago
Worth noting here is that "proton flash therapy" is a new therapy, but "proton therapy" is not. Proton therapy is a lot more recent than x-ray therapy, but still a conventional therapy. Flash therapy is the part is which
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by i_cannot_hack 3y ago
That anecdote is not necessarily true. The combination world be very rare even if blindness offers no protection, and it seems to simply not have been studied enough to be confident those rare individuals have been identified as such and pu
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by i_cannot_hack 3y ago
> The review was triggered by the Icelandic medicines agency following reports of suicidal thoughts and self-injury in people using liraglutide and semaglutide medicines. So far authorities have retrieved and are analysing about 150 repo
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by i_cannot_hack 3y ago
Lead is already a commonly used material in the sheath for medium and high voltage cables[1]. It is not considered a problem for industrial applications, where proper disposal of the cable at end of life is regulated, as far as I know. [1]
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by i_cannot_hack 3y ago
A good reason to want self-absorbed bullies to publicly fail rather than publicly succeed is to discourage others from adopting similar attitude and methods.
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by i_cannot_hack 3y ago
Every even item is the corresponding digit, every odd item is a word that rhymes with the corresponding digit. A continuation could be "6, heaven, 8"
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by i_cannot_hack 4y ago
I'm not a domain expert either, but to me the results seem to be entirety what you would expect from a model trained to pattern match very well on existing content. That is, the ideas, strengths and limitations of the current well-know
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by i_cannot_hack 4y ago
Clarification for those only reading the comments: This is in laboratory mice, not humans.
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by i_cannot_hack 4y ago
I agree it would be user error, but it seems to be a particularly easy mistake to make compared to the REST example, where you explicitly create REST endpoint to send a value to the client. If you accidentally move filtering of a list of us
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by i_cannot_hack 4y ago
I don't know much about this kind of architecture, but wouldn't it be problematic from an infosec standpoint? It seems like it would be very easy to accidentally leak information from the server to the client in a subtle manner if
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by i_cannot_hack 4y ago
You can use one less calculation 50/25=2 2*6=12 100+75=175 175+12=187
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by i_cannot_hack 4y ago
Then they chose a poor example to illustrate their point, since anyone is free to book a cancer screening even if they are younger than the recommended age, if they so prefer.

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