drtillberg
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Comment · 5 years ago
That doesn't work. Now and always an independent investigator of truth will be a lone voice in a wilderness targeted by all warring dogmatic factions. Witness NYT seeking to draw HN to the fray with Saturday's piece about SSC.
Comment · 5 years ago
Unfortunately, sophisticated threat actors are still very hard to defend against in aviation like in software.
Comment · 5 years ago
Maybe the NYT is jealous that Scott is so obviously a better and more thoughtful writer?
Comment · 5 years ago
This. Slippery slope to denying credit based on a consumer's decision to avoid using Facebook or to search using DuckDuckGo.
Comment · 5 years ago
Eh, not sure how the word "Russian" ended up in that comment. It was an American design before it was a Russian one.[1] Plus, there was an added feature in some American plans I've read about (but can't immediately locate) of long-term loitering over adversarial territory and discharge of radioactive material.
What would it matter if it were hypersonic?
Comment · 5 years ago
If chartered banks charge for ... holding cash ... don't people next create a new industry of unchartered financial institutions to hold money without charging so much? Like, safe deposit? Or insurance?
This seems like an ivory tower exercise that has not yet met the messy realities of the world.
Comment · 5 years ago
WSB is a game ppl lose simply by playing, IMO. When I read these stories I think of Jesse Livermore-- arguably the greatest trader of all times -- who went bankrupt 3 times on the way (including the end)[1]. The only way to win is not to play.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lauriston_Livermore
Comment · 5 years ago
Strange the study might have used a placebo group of people infected with parasites. I guess they needed to test if their process actually was effective in generating hookworm infections?
Comment · 5 years ago
So when does censorship of or manipulating user ratings make an app store responsible to its users for failing to prevent harm to them (or wasted time) from bad apps, mismanaged services, scams and frauds? Ppl see the 4 stars, download the app, wire RH a part of their nest egg, RH predictably fails to honor commitments in ways explained by the deleted app reviews, and RH damages app users. At what point is Google responsible for that mess? Never?
Comment · 5 years ago
At first read it sounded like cold temps below 40C were problematic, but then the author recommends keeping the SSDs at temps below 40C. So then, if you leave the SSD powered off in an environment above 40C (104F), what then?
Comment · 5 years ago
The extent to which my browser configuration breaks the websites on your list is my yardstick for success.
Comment · 5 years ago
Perhaps there is a new profile.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Remember that some people thought that government borrowing ... facilitated by quantitative easing (Fed bond-buying) ... was going to lead to substantial inflation. But it didn’t.
Every time someone says "but where's the inflation" I sigh. Look at literally any financial asset, SP500, stocks, real estate, even bond values (the inverse of interest rates). There is your inflation.
Maybe we like asset inflation, maybe we don't, but that's where it is. When the author claimed to be unable to find it, I stopped reading.