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hoppa_liza··on Water compresses under a high gradient electric field
Would not the bottle be squished now that it is under more pressure?
hoppa_liza··on Digicert Withdraws from the CA Security Council
Was it confirmed to be GoDaddy? That is dishonest marketing to say the least.
hoppa_liza··on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially
If you boil down your statement into "I would rather have the Americans kill these people than the Chinese" you will begin to see the real meaning of what you are saying.
hoppa_liza··on Smartphone Security: You'll Never Guess Who Just Messaged You
> On Android apps just request everything

That was true up to Marshmallow (Android 6), when finer grained permissions were added.

hoppa_liza··on Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2003)
For me, the missing tactile feedback from the tablet puts me off. I need to feel the edge of the papers, and one side of the book getting thinner and the other thicker as I progress. The very act of splitting the book open is satisfying.

I say that and I am a very tech-inclined person, so to speak. But books are always a different matter.

hoppa_liza··on A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
This was discussed here on HN recently. It was deemed a result of the failing health care in the USA. (I do not live there so I do not know the exact details of how particular cases like this happen).
hoppa_liza··on KIA Dealership in Canada remotely disables car over $200 fee
Maybe she does not trust him much with the money. In which case she would pay for the car and let him drive it.
hoppa_liza··on A Muslim PhD student gets targeted as a security risk; now he wants to know why
How about if you talk to Hindu people for example and see how they answer similar questions? Would repeated attacks from Hindu people warrant prosecuting people from Indian origin?
hoppa_liza··on A Muslim PhD student gets targeted as a security risk; now he wants to know why
Muslim countries considered as allies by the same government prosecuting this guy? IIRC the USA makes billions of dollars selling weapons to those exact countries.

So, give them weapons with one hand, and prosecute citizens for some vague connection with the other hand!

hoppa_liza··on A Muslim PhD student gets targeted as a security risk; now he wants to know why
How many hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed by non-Muslim bombs? It is like comparing on ocean to a drop of water.
hoppa_liza··on Some Google managers maintain personal blacklists
In the context of hiring why is this even brought up? You have a certain skillset needed for a certain job. Some people have it, some people do not. Why is there a need for attributing this to their genes, upbringing, psychology or anything else for that matter?
hoppa_liza··on Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered
"Street Code" is euphemism for indecency and selfishness. That guy was silent because everyone around him is ready to frame him, not because of "Street Code". I do not believe it for half a second that you or any of the other assumed innocent would stay silent if you were accused.
hoppa_liza··on Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
It's a means to detect sandboxing, either for testing or to foil analysis attempts by third parties.
hoppa_liza··on 95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the World
Humidity is a killer in high temperature, you do not have to deal with that in the desert.
hoppa_liza··on Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco
Just stressing the "other reasons" part. In some countries people actually advocate for leaving stuff like this buried for fear of corrupt gov. officials handing off what they find to smugglers.
hoppa_liza··on We’re dropping Google Ads
While I generally agree with you, I do not think control is the best route, but rather guidance. Oppressing/bottling high energy individuals is destructive on the long run even if it seems otherwise at the beginning. Directing this energy into a constructive path however is more beneficial to the individuals themselves as well as the communities they live in.
hoppa_liza··on 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
I did not equate actions. I equated thoughts. Two people think the same thing; one chooses to curse, the other chooses to murder. Trump has not killed anyone himself, but his supporters have. Are you telling me there is no link between their thought processes?
hoppa_liza··on 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
Racism does not get any better when you use fancy words. Your exact line of thoughts went through the killer that shot that Indian engineer. The difference is that he was less eloquent.
hoppa_liza··on 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
A few days ago some Indian engineer was shot dead because he "looked Iranian". There is a very strong political reason why people like this killer do what they do.
hoppa_liza··on Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid crackdown (2011)
The sad thing is that they most likely would choose to continue being abused; being that the alternative is starving.
hoppa_liza··on Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006?
Removing the date criteria is significant change to the codebase and will eventually require more testing. This might not work well with budget and deadlines.
hoppa_liza··on What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
Care to elaborate on this? How you caught it, what and how are you sending back to them?
hoppa_liza··on A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees
I do not know about "we". I am not a fan of any murderer myself. This area has been marked for "free use" by several foreign forces over the years. The thing is, there is no free use, you have to pay eventually one way or another.
hoppa_liza··on A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees
It is amazing what can be achieved when people are looked at as people, not numbers. A refreshing story to break the immigrants-are-devils vs immigrants-are-angels fight.
hoppa_liza··on A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees
One might argue that the US at least is a main driver of many of the conflicts in the area, if not by direct invasions and infrastructure destruction then by support to local dictators and puppet governments.
hoppa_liza··on Reddit cracks down on abuse as CEO apologizes for trolling the trolls
> So it's fine for private organizations to discriminate against people simply based on their political beliefs? Do you really want to live in a world where this is accepted?

An employee who keeps on yelling, throwing stuff around, harassing people and disrupting the workplace should be warned and eventually kicked out. Political views have absolutely nothing to do with this.

hoppa_liza··on [dead]
I wonder how their client base is affected with such a spike in unemployment rates (them or any similarly widespread chain for that matter)
hoppa_liza··on Self-Driving Mercedes Will Prioritize Occupant Safety Over Pedestrians
> pedestrians that violated traffic rules

You might be able to make this call as a human, but can we assume the car is capable of deciding on that?

hoppa_liza··on Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers
> half of other players' offences were attributed to them due to null in Java being cast to 'null' curing concatenation

Why would half of the players have a playername of null?

hoppa_liza··on Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
I agree with you. It just seems to me that people look at events like the rise of the Nazis as diabolical plots from another world that we -as humans- got rid of, often dismissing obvious warning signs because "it is certainly not that bad".
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