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by leaflets2 4y ago
Probably the instructor knew about that, and something went wrong anyway? I wonder, then, what that might have been
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by leaflets2 4y ago
> can't normally survive swimming in What about with life jackets?
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by leaflets2 4y ago
What about trees?
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by leaflets2 4y ago
I read the Fantastic manual
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by leaflets2 4y ago
> A long phrase requires the user to keep the entire meaning in their head You could say that about books as well? I mean, if you forget what it is about when you're about to read the end ... Eumerations can be long and still easy t
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Height above the ground matters too: high cars hit pedestrians more on the chest, lower cars hit the legs. And high cars can roll over lower cars, making the deformation zone have no effect. Interesting anyway about weight. I'm thinkin
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Thanks, interesting diagrams. > co-opt the language of the displaced, and take on the mantle of those who can no longer afford rent Oh this is too abstract for me (I don't understand)
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Why would you judge in a vacuum? There's statistics, and traffic fatalities is (one of) the most dangerous thing (for young people). That's cars. There's 112 and ambulanses if you need to a hospital urgently. Everyone doesn&#
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Not from SF and clueless, I wonder: > NIMBY neighbors that have been displacing so many people in my community Who are the people getting displaced? The Not In My Backyard people, are they ... rich and affluent who don't want low in
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by leaflets2 4y ago
You believe the people, the women, in Afghanistan want to be slaves under the Talibans? I guess your never met anyone from Afghanistan. That's the same as believing the African Americans wanted to get captured by slave traders and ship
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Also, Akka is rare technology -- there aren't many well functioning actors and transactional memory implementations in the world. The number of people who can continue maintaining this, is small, and such people are mostly making lots
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by leaflets2 4y ago
And we others here too? :-)
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Interesting about lahars, thanks for the link
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by leaflets2 4y ago
(I like that you (re)read and quoted his longer quote :-))
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Is that a pretty primitive mindset by those reviewers? No nuances, either or. Still so common ... Why don't they use the median instead (or maybe they do?)
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Desire for widening one's views? For understanding the world?
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by leaflets2 4y ago
I love my job :-) and HN makes me better at it (new tech, psychology, understanding organizations, society...)
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Interesting, anywhere to read about that?
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by leaflets2 4y ago
The larger the group, the more corrupted power seekers will climb close to the top, and do the more damage (since they affect more people). Maybe we can say that the human brain partly isn't well suited for living in large societies, f
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by leaflets2 4y ago
> where Popper drew the line. When a side replies with fists or guns No, here's his line: > we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal That's before fists and guns, at an earlier stage. It&#x2
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by leaflets2 4y ago
You meant "cannot" right: > which simple test coverage cannot find.
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by leaflets2 4y ago
I'd think that's not the main problem -- it's instead fewer new users? Impacting future paying customers
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Personally, I both agree and disagree. I think with more intelligent humans, harder for want-to-be dictators to manipulate, we could have different cultures and countries, and everyone friends, just enjoying the differences, as tourists and
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by leaflets2 4y ago
> less unity Angrier and angrier narcissist dictators with nukes? -- less unity yes. Does it increase safety? Yes beautiful text
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by leaflets2 4y ago
What don't you like about it? How is it any lazy I found especially the Fermi paradox interesting (throwawayacc2 thanks for mentioning)
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by leaflets2 4y ago
And it's in YCs self interest to make their startups safer? Wouldn't this be in all venture capitalists self interest? (Not only YC) Maybe they could join (or start their own)
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by leaflets2 4y ago
> just starts higher up the food chain How do you make those people interested in it though? (If they weren't, originally when you hired them.) Adding the right KPI? What'd those be What if they aren't any bright, just hav
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by leaflets2 4y ago
14%, even just 4%, is a lot, can be enough to decide an election. Often the parties are close to 50% each. In addition to that, the manipulators / nation states don't attack only via Twitter, and, everything combined ...
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by leaflets2 4y ago
Would Agrawal get cash bonuses? If ... Under what conditions? (Anywhere to read about that?) Aha, eg: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10258453/Twitters-n... So his performance bonuses is more than 10x his
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by leaflets2 4y ago
> Say Twitter is completely overrun by foreign state actors who delete everything. That's not what's dangerous. Instead, dangerous things include manipulating the algorithms so that "news" of ones choice get lots of v

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