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Really science shouldn't operate on authority in the first place ideally - it should speak for itself. In practice however there are limits to both time and ability to understand. It should be listened to for being more right as opposed to position.

The most disturbing part isn't not trusting scientist but not trusting evidence, even that gathered by themselves.

It is one thing to say believe light has infinite speed but after playing around with a laser and a receiver noticing the reflection time varies. It is another to insist it has it even after doing research and experimentation.

I suspect Sophism is the main culprit really - arguing based on feelings as opposed to facts. Now feelings have their place but their role is to guide goals. Not wanting to take another part time job on top of a full time one for more money is fair. Denying that taking an extra job would boost total income is delusionals (the sustainability of doing so is another topic).
I guess what's surprising is if you've never cared to think about the subject, why would you come here to comment on it?
They also pay low wages, don't provide paid sick days, fire you if you're late, provide less training, and so on. There's a lot of bad stuff about being poor; I'm not convinced that the privacy angle adds a lot.

The sentence you quoted is framed to make some of those things sound worse than they are. "Listen to phone calls" - does that just refer to call centers recording calls for training/quality purposes? And "Monitor closed-circuit television" just is another way of saying "Many low-income employees work in places with security cameras." Finally, "require psychometric tests" sounds ominous, but a) college serves as a long psychometric test and b) interviews are informal psychometric tests.

The unifying thread is that employers have to invest more in supervising low-productivity workers.
Charging.
It's almost certainly due to your opening statement "This is a garbage non-article."

Over 100 people have upvoted this story, and thus it's likely that they think that this is an article worth reading and recommending. You are indirectly telling them that their judgement is similarly "garbage", and they are reacting with downvotes. The contents of your objections seem reasonable to me, but if your goal is productive discourse, the overall tone of your comment off-putting. You'd probably get a better response if you found a way to offer improvements to the article without offending those who liked it.
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We're an apex predator, so should receive all the amplification effects seen travelling up a food chain. Course having accumulated toxins, it depends what you do with them afterwards. Natural decomposition tends to spread it back to the bacteria, fungi and small animals at the very base of the food chain again.

Burn the body in a gas furnace for a few hours and release loads of ugly things. Including all the artificial fibres, coffin glues and plastics, and any fillings, implants etc. Mercury amalgam fillings can get to surrounding animals, even into fish off the coast. From memory something like 20% of uk atmospheric dioxins are from cremation.

If burying, the formaldehyde and other embalming chemicals leech into the ground along with any accumulated toxins in the body, and can prevent proper decomposition for decades or more. Embalming that's completely unnecessary for the timescale of most burials. Mostly those chemicals are ugly, and little studied when put in the ground in scale. Yet are studied when added in small amounts as fire retardants or glues in furniture etc. Then you have the US using steel coffins in concrete lined graves!

It's quite the ugly rabbit hole once you descend and start looking into burial and cremation.
Well this is terrifying. Time to call in the Space Force!
If you can hit your kid, why can't I also hit my dog?
I'm not by any means knowledgeable on the hardware design front. But I think the notch was a hardware design solution to a problem (I'm not sure what it is but probably to fit more components or save space inside the phone for something) and all the others copied it because it was a clever solution to an existing problem and it didn't appear to affect users much.
"dogmatic belief in the scientific method" is as much a religion as anything else. Particularly when you are talking about it as a precept for the general public.
The 1st generation iPad was woefully lacking RAM (256MB) even though the iPhone 4 that came out 3 months later with the same SOC had 512Mb. That led to the iPad being unusable with iOS 5 that came out 2 years later and unsupported after that. The iPhone of the same generation was supported through iOS 7.

The 3rd generation iPad was heavy, slow, and had horrible battery life and was discontinued six months later as they transistionef to a better processor and the lightning port.

So what are tablet users going to leave the iPad for? All of the great Android tablets available?
How does this compare to the 25th Anniversary Thinkpad that seemed to be produced solely to scratch this kind of enthusiast itch?
Those sound like reasonable numbers. A number of options higher than 1 within walking distance is atypical in my experience.
I recommend reading Ta-Nehisi Coates on this subject. He's done terrific work on the history of redlining, and also talks about the impact of educated, successful families moving out of historically black neighborhoods.
Before Jio, different players held monopoly at different pockets and Jio flattened it. (Think BPL in Kerala, Airtel in metros, BSNL in rural areas, Orange in tier two cities). Because of this, when a provider increase prices, others will follow suit as everyone benefitted. So I assume the prices were high before Jio, and Jio did a correction.

Jio, will soon become a monopoly and as the article says, might jack up prices when they have the bigger slice of the pie. An acquisition of the second best then would seal the low price game and everything will go up then. Thats what Airtel was doing when they were number 1 a while back.
I think it's easy for bystanders to mistake hostility towards the developer of construct as hostility towards the project or the specific implementation without knowing the full context, however this is not the case.

The developer is without doubt a brilliant individual, however also extremely toxic. Not in the Linus sense, but in the Terry A Davis sense.

If anything, I think the matrix team has been too reasonable with him. He actually agreed with that himself, making fun of the team for not having the integrity to ban him out of sympathy for his situation and wanting to avoid the optics of banning a developer of an alternative server.

I have a lot of sympathy him as it sounds like he has a very serious substance abuse issue. I really really hope that he can beat the problems he faces, and I'm sure he will be accepted by the community again if he does. I understand that he is not fully under control of his situation but until he is, I don't think he should be tolerated when his presence is so hurtful to his victims and the community as a whole.

Here's some fun highlights I've experience first hand for context:

- spamming rooms with BSDM porn

- spamming rooms with links to his implementation

- hurling sexist abuse at a female matrix team member

- hurling sexually abusive language and rape threats at people

- numerous other drug-fueled breakdowns and caps locks tirades

- sockpuppeting and circumventing bans

- attempting to blackmail the team with his exploits

- deliberately bricking rooms
What you cite about this case and what the article says all sounds pretty circumstantial to me as far as your larger theory. To you these look "like" a situation, but there's nothing to indicate it is, or if any of what you feel resembles something else even is that.
Also: "Imagine what might have happened if this meteor had exploded not over the Bering Sea but over nuclear-armed North Korea, India, or Pakistan during a time of increased tensions or actual conflict."

https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1107660418967916545
> “I can’t cross-examine an algorithm.”

You should be able to!
* If I don't have a large house with garage,

* If I don't have a car,

* If I have harsh restrictions on when or how much electricity I can use,

* If I can't move around at night for fear of disturbing housemates or neighbours,

it can be difficult to start certain kinds of ventures.

Getting rich or starting a successful business is really what I'm living for. If I had to be a wage slave forever I'd off myself right now so that my corporate paymasters would no longer benefit from my labour.

Is having as many people existing as possible, really what we want to optimise for? What about optimising for freedom or quality of life?
Counter point: I am also 24 but in academia. A lot of people in our age group (and professors) use tablets (especially with styluses, iPad Pro and Surface). I guess it is field dependent. It is a blessing for managing stacks of research papers and taking notes. I got the new iPad Pro and installed some latex and jupyter apps, and with a decent terminal app, I can start working on my iPad. YMMV ofcourse.
Serious question, are you saying trucks have more lenient CAFE regulations than cars?
There are at least 6 supermarkets within a mile of my apartment (in Dresden, not an incredibly dense city). That's plenty of competition in practice. And many other services like child care or health care are not an issue either since those are (mostly) paid for by the state.
A dogmatic belief in anything is detrimental. It takes wisdom to understand this. Many followers of science lack this. Scientific method is a great tool - for the type of questions that it is designed to deal with - and a disaster waiting to happen if used for other areas of inquiry.
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There are two dangers. One is the rejection of the power of science and the understanding it gives us of various kinds of natural phenomena. The other the over-extension of science into areas outside of its domain, the belief that science itself can single-handedly guide politics, history, and the self.
I live in Tanzania (moved from the US) and mobile data prices are also relatively cheap. I could get 4gb for 75 cents for 24 hours 11pm-5pm. Or I could get 1gb for 50 cents for 2 hours. The one I usually go for is 10gb for 7 USD for 7 days.

But because 4G is the only way to get internet, it actually becomes more expensive very quickly. I route all of my internet traffic through my phone or through my 4G mobile hotspot.

So I think the real reason that the data is cheaper is because 4G is the only way to get data, if your a consumer or a business. So the pricing reflects that.

Because in the first world we have fiber optics, this allows mobile companies to charge a ton of money per Gb, since no one is downloading large files with it anyways.
If you haven't worked low-end jobs it may be a surprise, but if you are a clerk in certain chain stores, you are searched by a supervisor every time you leave the building (to make sure you aren't stealing anything).
Located in Beijing.

Besides the usual usage of the mask, I have noticed something different.

Since last year, I have seen more and more people wearing non-surgical masks in public, esp the young ones. The strangest thing is that the mask is pulled down to the chin and totally defeats the purpose of the mask.

I have seen too many and started wondering what the heck was going on. after some searching I found that it's more of fashion reason.

You see, with the mask covering your chin, your face looks smaller. I remember watching a video that a girl showing the difference between with and without the mask. She def looks cuter without the mask.
You're never eating "a lot" of MSG, though. Even the most abusive chef is adding it at the level of well under half a gram per serving, whereas you're eating minimum 5x that in salt and likely 10-20x that in sugar if you're not optimizing for minimal sugar intake.
3GB per day for 90 days for around 1,000 Rupees with Airtel. As a tourist Jio isn't an option, have to go pre-paid.

Not bad at all, blazing fast compared to most WiFi connections here in northern India (Himachal Pradesh).

Now if the power would stop cutting out... maybe in a few more years :)
I would argue that your threat-model is wrong in this scenario. EKM isn't there to protect you from the company that you're using, it's to protect both you and the company from legal overreach.

I work at a company that does EKM for its customers. It doesn't force us to secure our customers' accounts, it allows us to secure them. We get to say things like "I'm sorry, we are unable to pull this data" rather than having to convincingly argue why we shouldn't. This makes us very happy. Maybe we can be forced to break things in such a way as to eventually get any future data you submit, but that's a whole lot more difficult / expensive for the government than the typical "all ur data are belong to us plz" requests.

Yes, if the service provider is malicious, EKM isn't going to save you from them. But if the service provider is not malicious, it can save both you and your service provider.
What's controversial are biological men competing (and of course dominating) in women's sports.

But don't you criticize these people, they're the next frontier of civil rights of course.
As the Z80 doesn't use dynamic registers (I think basically the only "modern" CPU to make this decision) it doesn't need a minimum clock signal speed to refresh the registers as every other CPU does.

This means you can rig up a push button switch and manually advanced the clock one button press at a time.

To me that's super cool. It also makes them really easy to debug.
How do you explain that cargo bikes are very popular with parents in Copenhagen? It's a wet windy city.
Democracy Earth actually started as a political party and then moved to working with blockchain technology due to the censorhip-resistance and incorruptibility properties. I recommend you research the organization. The article argues that many of the problems you mentioned can ultimately can be traced back to AI and the centralized internet architecture underlying it. If all you could get from it is that fake AI people will be walking into voting booths than clearly you did not give it the serious consideration these ideas deserve.
When Jio was launched in 2016, Mukesh Ambani (Managing Director of Reliance Industries, parent company of Jio) quoted saying “Data is the new oil and we don’t need to import it”

Jio comes bundled with value added free services like JioTV, JioCinema, JioMagazine, JioMusic(JioSaavn now) and bunch of other apps.

India is a price sensitive market and hence Jio would keep prices lower for as long as possible to keep other players out. Jio is already posting profits.

They are in it for the long game. The bottomline is that prices may not go up anytime soon.
I live in Berlin. It’s been raining for a week and cold. Bikes both have a canopy, I have suitable clothing. Granted, it’s less comfortable than sitting in a car, but OTOH I don’t have to go jogging after returning from work. Worst case there’s still Bus and Subway.

Cities like Oslo and Copenhagen aren’t exactly known for good weather either, but have substantial policies around clearing bikeways from snow first, before all other roads. It’s more of an infrastructure problem than anything else: good cycling infrastructure begets cyclists. Walkable cities conjur pedestrians. Look at the Dutch, living in the land of eternal sunshine and mild temperatures.
Science is just systematic problem solving. It is a very unremarkable thing. When people build it up to something more than that, then it takes on aspects of religion.

A scientist doing science isn't religion. A non-scientist believing everything someone says "because science" is.
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That is true, here's a source https://qz.com/1574441/a-warning-signal-that-could-have-prev...

A pet peeve is people not sourcing corrections
Spanking a child is absolutely violence. It's just been a socially acceptable form of violence for millennia, just like some killing (either in wars or e.g. with a death penalty) has been socially acceptable for as long.

The question isn't, "is spanking violence?"

It's "are norms changing around whether spanking is socially acceptable?"

And now, for a lot of people, no, it isn't. Hitting a child to punish them is no longer "the basics" for a lot of people, even if it's how a lot of the older generation grew up and took for granted.

I have no kids, but most of my peers do now, and spanking is sooooo much off the table, it's on par with overt racism (saying the n-word, saying discrimination is okay, etc). Absolute social taboo, and absolutely no question that it's "physical violence".
As a scientist here's my take:
1) in the ultimate abstraction, science is a religion. It depends on the precept that the rules are more or less or measurably the same from today to yesterday to tomorrow. You can't bootstrap empiricism without begging the question, so, there is at least one item of faith at the core.

2) excepting this, science in the ideal is indeed a wholly different beast. So you could say it is this the weakest form of religion, or, at least, the religion with the fewest dependencies.

3) in practice, the edifice of science is quite full of people who are hypocritical and flagrantly breaking the rules which you expect would be necessary to maintain the high standard that marks the difference between religion and science. These violations are often swept under the rug quietly and even when they get really big the organization is incredibly good at closing its ranks. I'd say there are a lot of parallels between the science industrial complex and, highly organized religions (such as megachurches and hierarchical institutions like the Southern Baptist or Catholic Church) than most people who see science as a source of power ought to be comfortable with.
IMHO Homebrew is much better than apt on Ubuntu. E.g. when I read in the news that a new version of my favorite tool is released, i know that’s normally only a brew upgrade away to have it. And i mean now and not until the next OS release happens. With brew it’s also very easy to go back in versions of individual packages in case the current release is buggy or breaks something. You can have this with 3rd party repos in debian, but that’s usually more hazzle from my experience.
+1 Apple doesn't need HN to recite their flambouyant and misleading headline. Look that it's a device in an old chasis, with an old charger and only compatible with an old pencil.
India's mobile data may be cheap, but it's also pretty poor. It may be 4G technology, but speeds are far below what's common in the UK / Europe. Last week in Delhi I was getting anywhere between a few kbps and ~2-3Mbps on Vodafone 4G.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_segregation_in_the_U...
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> The space rock exploded with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb

Well, that's fun.
interesting to see "low end disruption" in action a la Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma.
Exactly. Lower income = lower labor cost = lower consumer cost.

Who knows if that accounts for all of the difference, but excluding that factor makes the whole thing useless.
I don't think how to deal with an adult is a good guide for what's an acceptable way to deal with children. For instance if someone were to put their wife in timeout or take away her allowance that would make them an abusive a-hole, but these are perfectly acceptable punishments for a child. Likewise leaving one's wife is an acceptable option for an adult but not for a child.
I agree. Believing in science seems to imply "dogmatism for the 4 or 5 highly politicized scientific talking points in the mainstream narrative."
I connect my tablet because wifi is too slow when transferring large files.
> or think that abstinence-only sex education is effective.

How did we prove that it doesn't work? I agree that it doesn't work, but I have a very hard time imagining how to make a study to prove it.
He should donate himself to science, and should also avoid... most food.
Wow. Why have this much critical infrastructure near flood zones? Given that climate change is increasing the frequency of major floods, why hadn’t they hardened their protections?
Except wisdom in large complex systems is impossible. Like for instance take any piece of technology you are going to introduce into the system. How can anyone be wise about how that technology will effect the system before hand? After the fact how can you get rid of the technology when millions or people depend on it for their existence?

The same is true of pure knowledge. You introduce a new paradigm. You don't know how it will effect all the other knowledge that depends on it. Once it's adopted careers of many scientists depend on it... it's only after those scientists die and a new paradigm is found that the next generation can build its career on that old knowledge dies.

None of this is due to wisdom. It's just the way the political economy works. Wisdom only applies to individual action about things that have a small enough scope to have some idea about their impact on decisions. For anything bigger than that, it's political... and I highly doubt the crowds have wisdom especially about untested things.
Sounds like he's making too much money as a surgeon so there isn't a need for him to focus on the startup.

One thought is he could invest money in to the company instead of working on it to retain his 50% equity. So he could be the CEO, provide direction/advice but instead of hustling sales calls and demos he funds the company ($60k per year) to pay someone to do that.
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TinEye reverse image search is fairly useful in this scenario. Go to https://tineye.com/ , upload an image (or paste in a URL), and it'll show you other copies of that image all over the internet.

This doesn't always help you get to the bottom of things, but it is a next step to take.
People on the coast get flooded by violent weather systems such as hurricanes, while people inland tend to get flooded because they chose to live in a floodplain and there was a bit more snow melt this year than usual.

Justly or not, the former tends to be seen as a "random natural disaster", and therefore newsworthy, while the later tends to be seen as "idiots reaping what they sowed", and therefore less newsworthy.

Edit: To be clear, I personally find the bias to be unwarranted since storm surge zones are generally equivalent to floodplains; anybody living there should know about it and has made their choice. However, it should be noted that a hurricane becomes more newsworthy the further up the coast it strikes, particularly if it's north of Virginia. This increase in newsworthiness reflects the decreasing attitude of "they should have anticipated that. People in Florida being hit by a hurricane is more expected than people living in New Jersey or New York. That's why a hurricanes, which are generally newsworthy, become even more newsworthy the further from Florida it hits the coast.
How is the common man supposed to know that there isn't anything strange in the vaccine? Governments have forcibly sterilised segments of their population before.
Do you have a citation for "incorporated because the plane...has a chance of facing a stall at lower speeds than earlier 737 variations".

I think you may have misread something. Normally stalling at a lower speed is a good thing.
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Wikidata is built mostly on RDF ideas. For example, there's SPARQL query interface for it: https://query.wikidata.org/

Schema.org is heavily used by search engines and metadata in its format is found on many websites. It's an RDF-based format.