jhowell

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by jhowell 6y ago
> And I am still waiting for "celebrities" cry about this bad behavior. They are. Google Colin Kaepernick.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> this poor adult chose suicide... if he had just waited a few days or talked to his parents. Independent dependent?
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by jhowell 6y ago
> "HeY xxx group we have a problem, a long standing problem. We need to change our culture and start shaming people who does X or Z. We can't Protect anyone just because they are "our" tribe. Neither we can blame it f
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by jhowell 6y ago
Lenient policies around supporting people or incarcerating people?
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by jhowell 6y ago
Anyone know how obsolescence won't create space debris in this emerging competition.
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by jhowell 6y ago
Maybe the GP threw the wrong buzzword and meant AI instead of ML.
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by jhowell 6y ago
Earlier detection. Is this new tech, or just a sharper hammer?
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by jhowell 6y ago
> There is already a lot of real value in ubiquitous computing, automated warehouses, supply chain optimizations, digital entertainment, digital government services in many countries, I could go on for couple of pages now. Is technology
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by jhowell 6y ago
Perhaps using satellite imagery to count the number of 737 MAX airplanes sitting on the runways of major airports, in addition to traditionally available data.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> Not saying we should do that though, because if Boeing goes out of business, we would be left with just one major manufacturer of passenger jets, and that's never a good thing. This is a strong argument to work with Boeing to corr
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by jhowell 6y ago
I do, often, unfortunately. It gets poured down the drain.
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by jhowell 6y ago
If I recall correctly the same is not true for professional cyclists [1], a sport with a rich doping history. They seem to live longer than the general population. I believe this is related to the impact on the body versus steroids. 1. htt
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by jhowell 6y ago
Seems a false equivalent to compare the events that caused these recent terminations to the past, or "magic." What about that should be protected?
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by jhowell 6y ago
> I have now watched two Twitter clones and one Patreon clone be shutdown by magical sudden decisions made in lockstep. Magical?
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by jhowell 6y ago
> If you are unwilling to do that, then you need to make sure you diversify your cloud. It's much less likely that two competing cloud vendors would shut you off at exactly the same time. Isn't that what happened, they lost all
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by jhowell 6y ago
> My wife took no position on the issue but politely replied saying the post felt off-topic and she didn't want to hear about politics in her favorite gardening group. > Several people attacked her on the post, calling her white
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by jhowell 6y ago
> It’s not that what you said is untrue, but those posts are just screenshots of moderation and reward tools, not necessarily ideological conformity tools. What do ideological conformity tools look like to you?
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by jhowell 6y ago
> The fact that they're now trying to control how people think is just an extra reason. I thought they were controlling what people could post on the platforms whose terms require consent, not controlling the thinking of those peopl
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by jhowell 6y ago
It was probably a good idea to rebrand from Riot to Element after this week's deadly violence at the US Capitol. It's difficult for me to imagine endeavoring to protect tribal, potential violent rhetoric given recent historical ev
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by jhowell 6y ago
No, but they do take cellphones.
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by jhowell 6y ago
I wonder how people will feel about the federal and state governments working with cell phone service providers to generate a list of "attendees." Seems like the conviction rate would be pretty high.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> In fact, it's far from clear Seems clear from my perspective. Two doses are recommend by manufacturers. Anything more or less is pure speculation at best. Why speculate in absence of a way to test your hypothesis?
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by jhowell 6y ago
> Side note, DCRainMaker is an incredible resource... Agreed. His thorough reveivews have allowed me to make technical purchases with confidence. Most recently in a new power meter for my bicycle.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> I do think there's a gray area between immigration generating diversity and immigration serving the same ultimate purpose as invasion. At what point did you stop being the invader and become the invaded? Conceivably, someone could
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by jhowell 6y ago
I wonder if I am an outlier here (physically the US) and think society is not collapsing, but diversifying. Also, given the state of the environment, national debt, employment prospects for many in the generations proceding me, and civic un
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by jhowell 6y ago
The tweet referenced in the article. Anyone come across technical insight into the limitation? https://mobile.twitter.com/robleathern/status/13266401782414...
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by jhowell 6y ago
Every endeavor has low hanging fruit. I assume the GP is referring to The Great Stagnation.
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by jhowell 6y ago
You can use taxes as a sword, but Texas has no personal income tax. A higher minimum wage would also help, but that has to go through the same people who don't want a personal income tax.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> Sometimes simply having the same employee in a different working environment or role will allow them to do great things. This doesn't sound like a feature to me.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> Your theory is that if other large companies do something, it must be morally acceptable You left something out, "as long as it doesn't effect me (yet), and large companies do it, it must be morally acceptable." I don&#x

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