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New comment by qtplatypus in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

qtplatypus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:18:34 +0000

Also Iran can drop the price of the Taxes whenever they want to in order to drive the alternatives into a loss.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery"

qtplatypus — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:39:31 +0000

If I recall the precision is limited to by the wavelength of the light being used. If they are using X-Rays in the 0.01 nm to 10 nm range wouldn't that give them more precision then optical light in the 380 nm to 700 nm range?

New comment by qtplatypus in "Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?"

qtplatypus — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:32:23 +0000

The left don't think that trauma can be inherited. They think that wealth and social standing can. If your parents have money they can use their wealth to make it easier for you to have money

If your parents are poor (perhaps due to racism) then you will live in a poor area with worse schools, possibly contaminated with pollution, subject to higher insurance and basic costs.

This doesn't require magic ancestral memories it just requires ecomonics.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Truck safty system incorrectly fines people due to daylight savings"

qtplatypus — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 06:50:53 +0000

The safe-t-cam system calculates average speed between key points by recording trucks licence plates as they go past. However the system made use of the local time (rather then some sort of epoc time) in its time calculations so gave results showing trucks taking 3 hours to travel a distance that it would normally take 4 hours to go.

Truck safty system incorrectly fines people due to daylight savings

qtplatypus — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 06:50:53 +0000

Article URL: https://bigrigs.com.au/2024/03/11/safe-t-cam-daylight-saving-glitch-proves-costly-for-truckie/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753484

Points: 13

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New comment by qtplatypus in "Why people do not use their real name in HN?"

qtplatypus — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:20:11 +0000

There are a two main of reasons.

* People are worried about reprisals from their employer. * Lots of people have a greater connection to the name that they have decided for themselves over one that was assigned to them at birth.

This is very common with tech people. Hence why Google+ had the nymwars when it tried to enforce a wallet name policy.

Love the Hash Array Mapped Trie

qtplatypus — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:49:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz0Vh5BbBic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33747729

Points: 2

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New comment by qtplatypus in "[dead]"

qtplatypus — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 02:00:22 +0000

This explains the nature of fixed point type theory and its application to trans rights.

How Map Reduce Works

qtplatypus — Mon, 23 May 2022 23:22:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZT41IePBV8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31486089

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by qtplatypus in "Tyler Cowen: Why Does the Tech Workforce Lean Left?"

qtplatypus — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:48:03 +0000

I think it started to lean left when the conservatives started to become anti science.

Why courier companies deliberately misroute packages

qtplatypus — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:46:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ifT-oIltk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31216040

Points: 1

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New comment by qtplatypus in "Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge"

qtplatypus — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:47:05 +0000

Jury trial is more expensive.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge"

qtplatypus — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:43:10 +0000

Also consoles are general purpose computing devices in tech terms.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons"

qtplatypus — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 15:52:22 +0000

I note that dailymotion, liveleak And niconico all have apps on android. So I don’t think they are deliberately blocking all competitors to YouTube.

New comment by qtplatypus in "They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]"

qtplatypus — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 05:36:23 +0000

The accepting false DMCA claims is something that the DMCA system sort of requires them to do. However they have in the past sued people who have issued false DMCA claims.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it"

qtplatypus — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:46:23 +0000

I experimented with testing with this line of Japanese.

フクロネコの仲間の中でもっともふ地いことで知られています

DeepL: It is known to be the most ground-breaking of all the bovine cats

Google: Known for being the most remote of all quolls

New comment by qtplatypus in "Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it"

qtplatypus — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 01:06:30 +0000

I don't think pre-filtering vs post filtering effects the decision. Basically the pre-CDA law was "If you apply any form of content based moderation then you are a publisher and therefor you can be sued for the libel people have posted". I was active in the anti-spam community at this point in time and one of the large concerns at that time was to build spam detection methods that where not content based in order to avoid the danger of losing the common-carrier status.

You said "Also, weren't those cases about certain types of content (defamatory or libelous claims)? Don't you think AI technology could be developed to help moderators detect that type of content?"

I do not think that you could build AI technology that would be able to do that. In US law (IANAL this is not legal advice) one of the things that separate libel from non libel is the truth of the statement. We are no where near the sophistication of AI to be able to determine the truth of statements. For example how would an AI be able to permit "Jeffrey Epstein is a child molester" but block the same statement made about another person?

Then you said "isn't there something wrong with the expectation that businesses feeling threatened by the public they serve can run to Congress for protection?"

I am of the view that one of the roles of a government is to provide a way when the rights and privileges of different groups come into conflict to resolve those conflicts. In a democratic republic the political process is entirely the correct place for businesses and other stakeholders to establish that balance.

I think that it is the correct balance that the actual author of the content should be the one who is held responsible for the content that they produce.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Country This Week"

qtplatypus — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:46:51 +0000

Given the amount of abuse ICE has done to children they are most likely a net contributor to child abuse.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it"

qtplatypus — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 01:40:40 +0000

Given both Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. and Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. we know that courts would have held moderated environments as publishers.

New comment by qtplatypus in "Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it"

qtplatypus — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 01:46:19 +0000

Before the CDA came around there was real fear that Internet forums getting sued for libel as a publisher. This was before the internet was a mainstream thing. Any comment on HN could be libel and ycombinator would risk being sued over it.