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bargl
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About bargl
I will try to respect everyone I meet, as best I know how. Please let me know if I don't do so, I'll try to get better at it.
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Yeah this is the part I find hard to suss out. If they said we have people who are 104 and the next oldest is 150 holy shit. That's case closed, but the link you sent makes me susp…
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Comment #30210960
I think both upvoting and downvoting are... a poor form of signal on content, but maybe the best one we have. There can be some pretty good indicators that come out of the combinat…
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Comment #29438915
The metric I use in hn is votes to comments. When I want a good non controversial read I go for a low ratio of comments to votes. When I want a more controversial topic I find the …
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Comment #28505976
When I went overseas from the USA to another country I had to get vaccinated as well. It's required. That's different. I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with either point here, I…
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Comment #26317998
They probably also expect to learn something from the failure. If this is a more modern chip that is testing it's radiation hardening, this is a good place to put it in trial run. …
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Comment #26279275
That's IT! Thank you for reminding me. I totally agree, we hear so much negativity his approach to showing how humanity in general is better off today than any time in the past is …
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Comment #26277652
Gah. I can't remember the book but it classifies the different levels of poverty. There were 4 levels. I'm going from memory but level 1 was what you describe. Level 2 is being abl…
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Comment #26245565
>% Short float is public information. And based on the discussions I've had online, it seems people are confused between %short float and %short outstanding. My understanding of th…
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Comment #26245262
No one knows. That's not public information. It doesn't take into account that at 400 shorting GME became a much more appealing idea than even at 20/share. Everyone knew 400/share …
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Comment #26245237
That's a valid argument, but they showed a ton of revenue lately and shouldn't be valued at 2/share. I think the stock is between a 10/share and 30/share stock but I'm not a profes…
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Comment #26245032
This. The stock was at around 20/share before the spike and was considered a WIN at that. It's now sitting at 40/share and is probably priced high. It was shorted to below 2/share …
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Comment #26174122
I'd argue you could have said this in a more constructive way. If this were a sports game there would be yellow and red flags all over this incident. -No talking politics -No overu…
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Comment #26174006
>If the left orthodoxy means treating people equally, sign me up. If we all understand that this is actually (under the law) what MOST people want we'll be able to get along. >What…
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Comment #26159911
Mark Rober has an awesome video on this which outlines a lot and gives a very high level bit of info on it. I can't imagine the amount of stress these engineers are feeling watchin…
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Comment #26071370
>But I am also certain that it would have made no difference in our current predicament with a third of the country thinking the election was stolen. It would have changed some peo…
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Comment #26070909
Without jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon, I'd also like to see this applied to voting software. I know it's a hot topic, and I'm honestly not trying to get political. Software t…
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Comment #26070627
As you alluded to in the other comment, these would be safety factors not regarding the structure of the car (which should be focused on decelerating the car) but instead on mechan…
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Comment #26070598
I was being brief, I completely agree this needs to be a data driven approach.
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Comment #26069020
And yet, we're static in that most of our crash tests are done the same way they have for years. They haven't started testing cars crashing at 60+ miles per hour. So while these re…
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Comment #26068600
I switched careers 4 years after I graduated college. It wasn't as much a demotion and more of a lateral move, but it is never too late to change careers. That isn't to say there i…
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Comment #26017507
There has been some solid advice from people over there, you have to filter the mania, but there are some gems over there. This morning there were two opposing top posts. 1) summar…
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Comment #26014478
This article is long and I missed the bottom half on my first read. The top section is awful without the bottom section. If you're going to do anything to make money you should mak…
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Comment #26007198
I believe he's already met the burden of proof, there have been multiple minor studies that are peer reviewed and show a lot of promise. At this point, there is a reason to believe…
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Comment #26007122
OK So I cannot find the videos in question I have no clue if they were or were not flagged by algorithm and that mistake was fixed or if they were flagged on purpose. I also believ…