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6 years ago
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on: Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
marme
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6 years ago
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on: Police fine pedestrian for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face
In the US you would just get charged with resisting arrest. This is what happens when they ask for your ID and you refuse to give it to them. You wont be convicted but the fact that you can be arrested for resisting arrest without committing any crime is a problem
marme
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6 years ago
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on: Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
the important thing everyone misses is that these platforms claim protection from liability on what is post because they claim they dont control what users post. So they user the 1st amendment and claim to just be a platform for everyone to speak but then they choose who gets to speak. If the new york times posts a libelous article written by a freelancer they still get sued because they choose to run the article. How is it different with facebook if they are choosing who can be members?
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6 years ago
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on: A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k
the argument they made is the money is temporary. After a few years the federal money goes away and the state has to foot the entire bill so they would rather just refuse the program entirely. This is their public reasoning but the reality is more that it is program proposed by Obama so they just want to refuse it on political principle
marme
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7 years ago
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on: Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
If you buy equipment you can only deduct its depreciation costs every year. If you pay for services you can deduct the full cost from your taxes.
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7 years ago
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on: How Puerto Rico Became a Tax Haven for the Super Rich
when you price cap what you are doing is telling shop keepers and warehouse owners that there is no purpose to risk your safety and open back up until things return to normal because you cant make extra profit so they just stay home and no one gets the needed supplies. When you let them profit at least those with money get supplies. The choices really are either no one gets supplies with price caps or only those with money get supplies when gouging is allowed. If supply was capable of reaching everyone then prices would quickly return to normal. There is no fair system of delivering limited supply and high demand without raising prices. If you come up with one please claim your noble prize as you would have the solution to world hunger and poverty
marme
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7 years ago
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on: Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'
how to define fair?
marme
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7 years ago
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on: Blocked by JSConf.eu Twitter account
marme
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7 years ago
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on: U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
It was all ideas and plans. They built machines that performed significantly worse than standard tests. Their idea was one machine to run virtually all blood tests with a few drops of blood, their final machine only ran a handful of tests and was so inaccurate that only reason the FDA did not shut them down instantly is they used a loophole to claim it was not a testing machine but just in house lab equipment to assist with testing or some nonsense that meant they did not need FDA to sign off on the machine. Holmes was just a smooth talker and convinced everyone, it also helped that she had major players on her board and even Bill Clinton was supporting her.
The one really weird thing i noticed about her is she never blinks. Watch her give talks and it is like a robot never blinking
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7 years ago
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on: Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? Stockton, CA Is First in US to Try
That is not how any market works. Just because your customers have more money does not change the supply or demand for your product. A luxury apartment fetches a high price because there is demand from tenants willing to pay the luxury price. No one is going to pay more for the same apartment unless there is more demand for apartments than there is supply like you have in NYC and SF. More income causes prices to rise because people start outbidding each other for everything. Why sell your house for 100k when someone else is offering 120k
marme
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7 years ago
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on: Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Headquarters
The change of address form at USPS is laughably unsecure. All it takes is $1 and anyone can write any address and forward all the mail for 1 year to any other address. There is no verification of ID and the only warning you get is a post card at the original address telling you the mail is being forwarded but by then it is already too late as mail is already being routed to the new address. Even if you called immediately to stop it some of your mail would end up at the new address
marme
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7 years ago
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on: The world split into 7 equal areas of population
they are 3 different colors that are not colorblind friendly
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8 years ago
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on: Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
china did this and it just caused every major service to be recreated for chinese users on their side of the internet
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech workforce?
no because the actual damage is just your lost income at that job. The reason you will never work again is no one wants to hire someone who sues their employer which is not caused by them firing you. It is the same with renting, if you sue your landlord no other landlord will touch you, many places maintain blacklists of tenants who have sued their landlords
marme
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8 years ago
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on: NHL stunner: A 36-year-old accountant who has never played pro stars in win
They get signed to a one day try out contract. If they are college players they cant accept any money to retain their amateur status but otherwise they get a small amount of money, around 100 bucks
marme
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8 years ago
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on: One year of cycling to work
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8 years ago
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on: The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
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8 years ago
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on: Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home
in china nothing is private, not even your medical info. Your employer can see your medical records if they want and often force employees to get yearly medical checks that are forwarded to HR and it is often used to figure out which female employees are pregnant and they will try to get rid of them rather than pay maternity leave. There are laws against all this but not enforced
marme
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8 years ago
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on: Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
this noise is commonly referred to as coil whine and is made by any high voltage electrical component. The sound comes from the electron gun which has very high voltage passing through it. If you cant hear it you have hearing damage because most crts make the noise just on the edge of human hearing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_excited_ac...
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8 years ago
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on: E Pur Si Muove
this is exactly the case. Try saying "taiwan is an independent country" in beijing and see how well that statement is received
