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echlebek··on Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs?
Hahahahaha. No.
echlebek··on The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare
> In fact, the official stance of the SSL team at CloudFlare is that they won’t revoke unless the team has “determined the private key was compromised.”

Sounds like you should email the private key to the Cloudflare security team as plain text

echlebek··on Walking just 15,000 steps a week could add three years to your life claims study
Look at it this way: if you don't walk at least 15,000 steps a week, you can expect your lifespan to shorten by 3 years on average. 15,000 steps is in the realm of bare minimums.
echlebek··on In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)
So what are you arguing here, that there's a generation of children that can't recognize facial expressions? Seems unlikely to me.
echlebek··on No A/C? No problem, if buildings copy networked tunnels of termite mounds
It was substantially cooler on average in 1870.
echlebek··on Filial Piety in Chinese Culture (2016)
This site got flagged by noscript for a possible XSS attack, seems like it might just be sloppily embedded tumblr content though
echlebek··on Tesla CEO 'The laptop class is living in la-la land'
Big words for a guy who just wasted 40 billion dollars. Anyone want to exchange a Tesla Model 3 for an Ioniq?
echlebek··on Psychoactive substance use by professional programmers
I was also under the impression that PIP was a way to slow-roast firing someone, not something that would be temporary.
echlebek··on GPT-3 is much better at math than it should be
Given that ChatGPT can't correctly answer questions like "What weighs more, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers", I can't say I agree.
echlebek··on Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup?
I have to say, the only feeling I experience during standups like these is an incredible sense of boredom.
echlebek··on Running everyday to escape stresses may lead to dependence not mental wellbeing
I don't understand the point of this study. Someone might become dependent on exercise to escape things in their life they don't want to or can't deal with. So then what? Are you going to tell someone to stop exercising? Maybe take some SSRIs? Doesn't seem likely to lead to a better outcome to me.
echlebek··on Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients
What if they weren't sad? What if they were depressed, but the cause of their depression was situational rather than a chemical imbalance? Isn't that possible?
echlebek··on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow
The reality is that most other major cities have garbage collection figured out in a better way. For instance in my city, garbage is kept in a dedicated garage area in each apartment building, and on a scheduled day, it's picked up either right in the building or in the alley after the caretaker moves the dumpsters there. The fact that this is considered politically untenable in New York is frankly insane, glad I don't live there.
echlebek··on Tobacco companies to be billed for cleaning up cigarette butts in Spain
It might incentivize cigarette companies to make biodegradeable butts, something they should have been forced to do decades ago.
echlebek··on Tobacco companies to be billed for cleaning up cigarette butts in Spain
Were you doing satire? Let me know and I'll un-downvote you.
echlebek··on US Scientists Achieve Net Gain Fusion Reaction
This isn't an optimistic article, it's a landmark scientific result that people all over the world have been trying to achieve for 70 years.
echlebek··on What to Do When a Direct Report Is Bullying You
Let me just make something up and claim it's interesting, I have no ulterior motives for doing this
echlebek··on Why do new cars look like wet putty?
Every visible angle of a car has multiple lights on it so I don't think that's actually a double edged sword???
echlebek··on Speed far above the limit and we'll take your car, Austria says
Seems odd that this obvious and uncontroversial consequence would be news, tbh.
echlebek··on KFC 'sorry' for Germany's Reichspogromnacht promotion
I don't believe it. It seems much more likely to me that this was the intent of some individual at KFC and they are blaming it on the automation. I'm sure they have automation, but this reeks of intentional sabotage to me.
echlebek··on No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go
The standard library can't ever remove anything because of the Go compatibility promise, and a certain percentage of it is mistakes. Once some functionality is later realized to be poor or incorrect, and the design prevents fixing it, there is not much that can be done other than telling people not to use it anymore. What you refer to as the worst of both worlds is unfortunately inevitable, but at least it's in service of a greater goal.

edit: clarity

echlebek··on Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty
Comments like this are why I love the internet, cheers!
echlebek··on It is time to legalise cocaine: The costs of prohibition outweigh the benefits
So you're in support of it as long as it's only done by people who aren't poor, since they almost certainly don't have a private space where they can use it without running afoul of building rules. And things that are a nuisance to you are a crime. I'm not sure this is the support the legalization movement was looking for.
echlebek··on It is time to legalise cocaine: The costs of prohibition outweigh the benefits
The CIA has a history of getting funding for black ops by trafficking in narcotics, which is what the parent is probably talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...

The creation of this very large black market has created opportunities for clandestine funding sources for organizations that don't mind acting in extra-legal ways.

echlebek··on What is a Stave Church? (2019)
Wow, incredibly foreboding. Looks like a place that people would organize witch hunts from, or maybe other occult rituals. If I saw one of these in the woods I would run in the other direction.
echlebek··on ‘Return to the office’ rhetoric needs to end
People already have plenty of chances to slack off at offices. This is a complete non-argument.
echlebek··on FTC proposes rule to ban junk fees, bait-and-switch tactics plaguing car buyers
They are literally a vegetable
echlebek··on Silicon Valley is wrong about the future of transportation
The New York subway has a ridership of 2-3 million per day.

https://new.mta.info/coronavirus/ridership

echlebek··on Marc Andreessen slams new multi-family affordable housing
Guess you aren't a people person after all.
echlebek··on Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home
No, it works without that.
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