matt4077

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by matt4077 7y ago
Money in your account does not in any way inconvenience you in the way that a car parked in your driveway does.
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by matt4077 7y ago
By that logic, very app should be designated “a counterintelligence threat”
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by matt4077 7y ago
There are exactly one-and-a-half points of his bio in the text (one being cut off halfway). The rest is a list of relatives. If that doesn't imply a judgement based on his relatives, it's just completely pointless.
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by matt4077 7y ago
By that logic everyone and everything is corrupt, monitored, etc. Including the hardware you might install your own VPN node on, all messenger apps, all phone lines, the mail, and so on. Your best friends are all spies. Your bedroom is bugg
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by matt4077 7y ago
As others pointed out, this is break-ins, not cars being stolen. Typical cost of a break-in is one window. I have no idea how much that costs, but let's say $1000, which is probably 10x too much. That comes out to $1000 x 0.0364 = $36&
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by matt4077 7y ago
Are you seriously judging someone by their great-great-uncle's book? And why are you including a relative being a Appeals Court judge, and an independent journalist? Is "independent journalist" a code for something?
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by matt4077 7y ago
How long do US citizen stay with a single healthcare provider (/insurance)? If, say, only 50% are still with the same provider at age 50 as they were at age 30, there is a discount on the benefits of preventative measures compared to s
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by matt4077 7y ago
The $1.1 billion isn't profit. They're selling an asset (the .org rights). That transaction should be entirely neutral in terms of profit/loss.
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by matt4077 7y ago
Sleep could also just be a low-energy mode for times that are (used to be) unproductive, i. e. darkness.
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by matt4077 7y ago
I believe they may be referring to the idea that not everything is consumed in the year it’s produced. Infrastructure, for example, is useful years or even decades after it is built (and, presumably, counted in GDP).
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by matt4077 7y ago
I do hope the “barely-human underclass” is supposed to be a characterization of the government’s beliefs, and not your own.
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by matt4077 7y ago
I’ve seen that error in just about any discussion of charitable giving, including on HN. I doubt it’s due to a lack of knowledge/skills, because these people would tend to give away all their earnings in the belief to somehow make a pr
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by matt4077 7y ago
So you left Twitter 5+ years ago expecting them to soon fail, and you feel vindicated by the very-much-still-existing Twitter of today purging some accounts?
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The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data(smithsonianmag.com)
5 points by matt4077 7y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 7y ago
Building roads, writing traffic rules or enforcing them just isn't amendable to optimisation using your preferred mechanism of free-market economics. Or, more accurately: competition only works for rather large competitive difference n
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by matt4077 7y ago
Private prisons seem to be a good counterexample here. Not only does the profit motive lead to inhumane conditions and perverse corruption, such as the Chicago(?) judge getting a kickback for every juvenile sent into the system. The outsour
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by matt4077 7y ago
I learnt far too much chess theory trying to take the king with a pawn, which was the last animation I had not seen. IIRC they grab the crown with their pike and it somehow ends up on their head.
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by matt4077 7y ago
No, the premise of Brave is that there can never be enough middlemen scalping some money off creators.
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The Jungle Prince of Delhi(nytimes.com)
4 points by matt4077 7y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 7y ago
It's commendable that the author counteracts the tendency towards cynicism with the occasional rebuttal, although to fully embrace the spirit of kindness, I would maybe skip the Dilbert reference. Remember: If everyone really were as s
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by matt4077 7y ago
> Maybe, if somehow they had no choice but their "phased roll-out It seems intuitively obvious, not "maybe, somehow", that bringing medical treatment to thousands of rural communities doesn't happen instantly.
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by matt4077 7y ago
"Vapours" actually were a major thing in medical research once, cured by bloodletting and mercury IIRC. There are all sort of models still widely believed today. Some are unassailable (evolution, germ theory), some seem right more
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by matt4077 7y ago
> Same sentiment for Saudi investors? Same for Israeli? "Yes" & "Possibly, but being open to investor' individual behaviour to supersede their country's" See: it's not that difficult. One man's
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by matt4077 7y ago
I interpreted OP to be referring to a different elephant, in another, oddly-shaped, room. ..but your feat of childish defensiveness applies either way.
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by matt4077 7y ago
That sounds like exactly the sort of statistical analysis people tend to get spectacularly wrong. I'd be surprised if more than a single-digit number of people get shot while driving even in the US. For Europe, you probably need to exp
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by matt4077 7y ago
...or Anish Kapoor.
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by matt4077 7y ago
By that logic Google, and everyone else, have been hurting themselves by offering targeting in the first place, and continue to do so by not restricting non-political advertising.
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by matt4077 7y ago
Suggestions are based on what people search on phrases that appear in text. People don't search and/or write down what everyone knows already. Those suggestions aren't there because Google believes men can get pregnant, it&#x
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by matt4077 7y ago
That's actually not what's happening in OP's search (at least when I run it): Germany is included in every single snippet I see, it just isn't relevant for most of them. "ambassador to germany" works, though.
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by matt4077 7y ago
In my attempt right now, I do get many articles about Ukraine, but every single one of them includes the word "Germany" in some form. I belief this is an effect of Google News emphasising recency in its ranking algorithm. Interest

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