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glitcher commented on "None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill   bookriot.com/penguin-rand... · Posted by u/healsdata
guywithahat · 11 days ago
> Let educators rather than politicians decide which books should be in a school library

We already don't do this though, between state laws, federal laws, and the department of education. I am fine getting rid of the department of education though since it seems you're opposed to it too.

And it was 20 years ago, you'd have to look up the specific policies. The point is acting like this is the first time people have tried banning books from young children in school is ignorant of all recent history

glitcher · 11 days ago
Making a claim and supporting it by effectively saying "go look it up yourself" is hardly compelling. It might be accurate, or perhaps not incorrect but misleading.

This smells a lot like the old "both sides do bad stuff" argument, which often gets over applied to pretend there is no difference in magnitude of the egregiousness when two sides do similar bad stuff.

glitcher commented on US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms   ft.com/content/c5f20c78-7... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
nradov · a month ago
Grandma's AC doesn't run 24×7. Most utility districts have some sort of subsidy or rate limit program for low income customers.

Ultimately the only way to supply the constant power consumption demanded by data centers and keep consumer prices reasonable will be to build more fission power plants. This approach has several serious cost and safety issues but it's the only thing we're certain will work.

glitcher · a month ago
> Grandma's AC doesn't run 24×7

Except in this example she lives in Phoenix, so yes sometimes it absolutely does. At times the overnight low temp in the summer doesn't go below 90 degrees.

glitcher commented on The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil   washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/benbreen
mritchie712 · 5 months ago
This was a surprising one for me:

During Isaac Newton's time, several contemporaries were making similar scientific discoveries:

- *Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz*: Both Newton and Leibniz developed calculus independently. Newton formulated his version in the 1660s but didn't publish it immediately. Leibniz began his work on calculus in the 1670s and published his findings in the late 17th century. This led to a prolonged dispute over who first invented calculus.

- *Robert Hooke*: Hooke proposed ideas about planetary motion and gravitation. In the 1670s, he suggested that planets are attracted to the Sun by a force inversely proportional to the square of their distance. This concept influenced Newton's formulation of the law of universal gravitation, though the two scientists had intense arguments over the credit for this discovery.

- *James Gregory*: A Scottish mathematician, Gregory made significant contributions to calculus and series expansions. He discovered the series expansion for the inverse tangent function, known as Gregory's series, and worked on methods of calculating areas under curves, which are fundamental aspects of calculus.

These instances highlight the phenomenon of multiple discovery, where different scientists independently arrive at similar conclusions around the same time.

glitcher · 5 months ago
I'm reading "The Secret Lives of Numbers" which has some fascinating deep dives into lesser taught math history (at least in western culture), including the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in India where significant contributions to calculus were made in the 1500's well before Newton and Leibniz!
glitcher commented on Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser   github.com/LadybirdBrowse... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
glitcher · 6 months ago
Good timing with these other HN entries on the front page:

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Looks like it will be an alternate browser kinda day in the top stories...

glitcher commented on App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)   rogueengine.io/blog/your-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
jbombadil · 8 months ago
As a consumer, I understand the need of a native app for something that is performance intensive or that requires a level of OS access that the website doesn’t provide.

OTOH, in tired of everyone pushing apps that could easily be a website.

I had an xfinity technician aggressively pushing me to install their xfi app when they came to install the service. They told me it was the only good way to configure the WiFi (!) and that they had to check a task in their technician to do list that they “walked the consumer through installing the app”.

Horrible consumer experience. Between the borderline lies and the nefarious push for the app, if I had had any other choice I would have rejected the installation on the spot. But alas xfinity was literally the only provider that could offer service with any decent speed.

glitcher · 8 months ago
This reminds me of aggressive technicians trying to convince me to install their bloatware on my computer in order to complete setting up internet connectivity 20+ years ago. One was completely baffled by my insistence that he was not going to be touching my computer, makes me laugh now.
glitcher commented on How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day   phys.org/news/2024-11-gop... · Posted by u/pseudolus
mhb · 9 months ago
How did they catch the gophers after a day?
glitcher · 9 months ago
I had the same question. The linked paper says they used gopher enclosures:

> In 1982, an individual pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides [Richardson]) from a nearby clearcut was placed in a 1m2 enclosure around a single L. lepidus individual for 24 hours

glitcher commented on Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)   eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10... · Posted by u/hn_acker
pipes · 10 months ago
I don't get this. If it was a person they were claiming was associated with their fictious programme surely that person could sue for defamation?
glitcher · 10 months ago
From my understanding parody is not defamation.
glitcher commented on Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]   ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/deci... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
superkuh · 10 months ago
It's crazy that the most dangerous people one regularly encounters can do anything they want as long as they believe they can do it. The good faith exemption has to be one of the most fascist laws on the books today.

> "the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule supports denial of Maher’s suppression motion because, at the time authorities opened his uploaded file, they had a good faith basis to believe that no warrant was required."

In no other context or career can you do anything you want and get away with it just as long as you say you thought you could. You'd think police offiers would be held to a higher standard, not no standard.

glitcher · 10 months ago
And specifically with respect to the law, breaking a law and claiming you didn't know you did anything wrong as an individual is not considered a valid defense in our justice system. This same type of standard should apply even more to trained law enforcement, not less, otherwise it becomes a double standard.

u/glitcher

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