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> moral responsibility

America doesn’t run on morals. I don’t think any country runs on morals. Largely because nobody has the same set of morals. What are the laws you’d enact.

If a city claims “moral responsibility” for 100 homeless and 100 more move in, do they get a one way bus ticket out of town? Locked up?

I had to look up “Now Valley” because I wondered if it’s where arrested development got “Sudden Valley,” but alas I assume it was a typo of an area named Noe Valley

Austin was described to me as four quadrants, divided by a giant highway system east-west and north-south. You could walk in a quadrant, but have to take a car to cross into a different one as it is all non-contiguous

> All explorers & conquistadors were, for the most part, pretty brutal bounty hunters.

It seems like you’re continually answering your own question about why we should no longer hold these people up on pedestals.

And revisiting horrible actions of historical figures that has taken the shine off them is hardly confined to Columbus, or even focused on him. I’d say the increased visibility of owning, raping, and murdering slaves by the American founding fathers has been more prominent.

I had never heard of the two errors in Eratosthenes calculations I’ll have to look that up! Also farther down someone pointed out that coastal dwellers would all see the hull disappear before the mast over the horizon, suggesting a sphere

Thanks for the podcast link, how deeply astronomy is intertwined with history is fascinating, subscribed!

It was always going to go the way it did, because of sugarcane. Columbus introduced “white gold” in 1493 on his second voyage even. By 1515-1520 there were sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and the Portuguese had them in Brazil.

Sometimes well, things aren’t balanced. The job of historians isn’t to create balance at the expense of facts. A great example would be the actual Holocaust, where a “balanced” history would be completely disingenuous.

Weeeellll you hand waived a lot away there with ‘colonialism or not’. “I don’t know what the hate-boner for Bill Cosby is, why is lauding comedians a bad thing”

I’ve seen better.

> Electrek reported that vehicles only cruised at 35 miles per hour, instead of the roaring 150 miles per hour that the company has touted

Residential neighborhood speeds for 21st century mass transit, dream big.

Man, all these companies and engineers that wasted billions over a decade trying to crack self-driving cars are gonna have egg on their face after reading this

Crazy on the low side? As I’ve seen quite a bit higher for just fast food line workers. Shift managers were advertising $25.50/hr

Yoshikawa maybe? It does look fun

https://japanesetaste.com/products/yoshikawa-ea-to-co-nulu-s...

Then why does pink salt taste so much better in my de-ionized water and colloidal silver smoothies?

Kinda like all these “doctors” who just swaggered in and labeled brain surgery as science, we’ve been trepanning for thousands of years!

Before that it was 20 years of BBS content that is sadly mostly lost.

It feels like so many convos, especially here on HN, start from the false equivalence that homeless == mentally ill. It’s an issue sure, but not even a primary cause.

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/0...

Hey at first blush I’m really liking the idea of taxing copyrights and patents, just like land. If you want to maintain them over the duration allowed you pay yearly tax, just like property. Wether it is valuable or not, wether you monetize it or not, the tax is the tax. You want the ongoing protections the legal system affords your copyright? Pay the tax. to avoid payment you can sell or renounce the copyright/patent.

For random “copyrighted” content like say my blog scrawlings, it would by default be under a CC attribution license unless I paid copyright tax on the content. Ie: default open not default closed.

Curious if any country does this?

And I said nothing because I went paperless. Unfortunately that decision left me with > 5mil digital files

> Of the 147 predictions, Kurzweil claimed that 115 were "entirely correct", 12 were "essentially correct", 17 were "partially correct", and only 3 were "wrong". Combining the "entirely" and "essentially" correct, Kurzweil's claimed accuracy rate comes to 86%.

Lol I mean, those are the numbers Ray himself has decreed correct…

I don’t see India mentioned in the postmortem. Would a random offshore team even have/need access to this ssh private key?

> We aren’t interchangeable cogs

Turns out we largely are, just like in most other industries. Probably like to think we’re irreplaceable snowflakes. But we’re not.

> people who do better than average should not be held down

Ah yes that old chestnut, that unions mandate No Employee May Achieve Above Average

You’re not the kind of person who can figure that out?

Oh wow thanks, this is definitely sending me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole; the Ellipsoid method was improved upon via Karmarkar’s algorithm in 1984. Also nicely illustrates that a problem which moves from NP to P can still be moved even further into P-territory

_also_ Karmarkar’s algo appears to be an important law case on whether math can be copyrighted for people interested in that angle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmarkar%27s_algorithm

> Every decade or so we come across an algorithm that takes a problem from the NP domain to the P domain

Wish they’d given/linked a few examples there, anyone happen to know some off the top of their head?

I agree with all that. But I still think if they move the free passenger bar from 2y to 0y it will be an undetectable change in the number of flights booked

that analysis they did sounds kind of silly, since at 2 years and 1 day you’re paying full boat anyway.

The logical conclusion of their assessment: at 2y1d people can afford the fare so fly but 2 days before that they couldn’t so would drive instead? The argument doesn’t actually bear weight.

Well poodles can be decently large, though I’m impressed with the sheer consistency of breed popularity there, no ebb and flow of top breed’s compared to the other countries

I notice the editorialized headline still stands as of now, when usually it is reverted to the actual article title. Is there a reason this case?

> Worth noting the Treasury made a profit on the last bailout to the tune of ~$10 billion.

Absolutely untrue. the return on TARP funds was wildly below market returns so unadjusted numbers on paper look like “oh great a $10bil profit!”

That’s like saying your savings account grew because the bank payed you 0.01% interest, while inflation ate 9% of your real value