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o_1 commented on Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference   radioandnukes.substack.co... · Posted by u/c16
o_1 · 4 months ago
Very awesome. Never knew about L-band.
o_1 commented on Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores   osf.io/preprints/osf/zhm5... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers
gshulegaard · 5 months ago
You could always move to a country which doesn't fluoridate their water supply.

But I am struggling to see how this has anything to do with a white paper highlighting and examining flaws in another white paper.

o_1 · 5 months ago
i think the dissent in this thread is unqualified. Society is completely over "net-benefit" solutions. Stop perscribing 20th century one size fits all solutions. How about free flouride tablets instead of dosing everyone. Then saying "we need public policy to govern insurance rates". If this arugment saw its maxima, it would be manditory euthansia after 65. Certainly would really drop insurance rates. Btw genetics are a massive factor in oral hygine requirements, probably something your not considering. Should everyone wear the same brand/make of shoes?
o_1 commented on Show HN: Werk, a simple build tool and command runner   simonask.github.io/introd... · Posted by u/simonask
o_1 · 8 months ago
kudos bro, website palette is juicy. Seems useful!

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o_1 commented on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers   ft.com/content/b3bb80f4-4... · Posted by u/ViktorRay
pyrale · a year ago
> In case anyone replies with "well all companies are bad in some way"... scale is also a factor here.

Even disregarding scale, plenty of large companies providing critical service struggle to find good people to do their job.

Sure, they don't pay as well. But if the rebuttal is that you can't find a honest company that pays equivalent salaries, maybe we should call that wage-gap corruption money.

o_1 · a year ago
remind me, why was "do no evil" scrubbed from the mission statement?
o_1 commented on Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason   huth.me/checkbox-life/... · Posted by u/RafelMri
o_1 · a year ago
seems broken in my mobile browser
o_1 commented on Quacker News   quackernews.com/... · Posted by u/adamgordonbell
o_1 · a year ago
Wow congrats this is useless.
o_1 commented on Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play   afterbabel.com/p/why-chil... · Posted by u/paulpauper
mycologos · 2 years ago
The Economist had an interesting recent article suggesting that, at least in America, part of the problem is that car insurance is way too cheap, so owning a car and driving like a moron is too easy: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/01/18/why-car-i....

> According to the Insurance Research Council (irc), an industry data group, 29% of claims nationally (and over 50% in several states) involve people insured at the state minimums [in the tens of thousands of dollars]. Few policies go beyond a few hundred thousand dollars of liability. The cost of a serious crash “is never going to be covered by that”, says Dale Porfilio, of the irc. By contrast, in Germany drivers are required to have €7.5m ($8.2m) of bodily-injury coverage, and in Britain liability is unlimited.

I don't have a car, but I acknowledge that most Americans live in places where not having a car would make their lives much harder. Still, it seems reasonable for me to raise insurance requirements on enormous SUVs. They're 50-100% more dangerous to pedestrians, so this would reflect a higher actual cost inflicted on other people. If you don't want to pay that cost, and you still need the transportation of a personal car, buy the smaller and less dangerous vehicle.

o_1 · 2 years ago
SUVs are not the problem. it's literally what the article said, mininums are too low. Most SUVs are family's traveling. You should look up the statistics for uninsured motorists in Florida, it's staggering. People simply will not follow the law, it's an enforcement problem. The sheer miles of roadways to police is extremely vast, it's very difficult to remove dangerous uninsured drivers. Hence why most people by big SUVs to protect themselves from collisions.
o_1 commented on Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU   datatilsynet.no/aktuelt/a... · Posted by u/aleksanb
radium3d · 2 years ago
I don't think it's the ads people need to be worried about. It's pages, groups and their "users" posts manipulating people. News flash: a majority aren't even real human users.
o_1 · 2 years ago
I the term bot is interesting, I think it cbelievean be expanded to any automata predictably responding in a certain fashion. Twitter "reply" accounts even if operated by humans but acting like bots should be considered bots. Posts that don't move the discussion along but just reaffirm in one direction or the other are just pure noise and useless. Discourse is broken or the human brain is, unsure which it is.
o_1 commented on Peter Thiel was an FBI informant   businessinsider.com/peter... · Posted by u/Anon84
macNchz · 2 years ago
Palantir is like the dream tool for an authoritarian police state.
o_1 · 2 years ago
LOL look at the name of it. It's a wizard stone from Lord of the Rings. Plays wizard and king in castle. This has to be to mock us.

u/o_1

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