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by 205guy 6y ago
It's standard US military terminology and part of US culture and language. Just imagine all the idioms they have to account for in these voice algorithms. I know in German they also handle "halb neun" correctly as 8:30.
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by 205guy 6y ago
Great idea! We could also add some AI and then connect it to the power grid, and people could earn something while watching virtual worlds on their screens and providing baseload generation to power all the machines. What could go wrong?
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by 205guy 6y ago
I believe that the "direct" path of one color and "alternating" path are just a choice of the graphing and not dictated by the data. If you make different node selections, you could make the reverse. Same for the layout
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by 205guy 6y ago
But the electors of the electoral college are still not aligned with equal representation because of the various state populations. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would turn the mechanism of the electoral college into a result
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by 205guy 6y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_Canal "a navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, built by king Xerxes I of Persia in the 5th century BCE. [...]
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by 205guy 6y ago
Yup, I have seen on forums that you can even hook a trailer up to a Nissan Leaf. That would get you light and local towing (no big loads, no big hills).
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by 205guy 6y ago
Exactly, this number is conspicuously absent from any stories about this. Googling for this information ("hummer preorders") only finds a bunch of similar articles about being sold-out, or reserved-out, with no numbers either. The
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by 205guy 6y ago
I think the subsidies helped in the beginning for the non-Tesla buying segment. The Leaf and the Volt/Bolt are overpriced for their size, and the subsidies made them reasonable. I totally agree with utilities incentivizing EVs for grid
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by 205guy 6y ago
Which is why, in retrospect, Tesla building a luxury sedan that was the fastest production car for a while was the right way to start the business.
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by 205guy 6y ago
Not to pick on you, but this statement shows what hurdles of habit and misconception that electric vehicles have to overcome. But it cuts both ways: I think the EV community could do a much better job of communicating and normalizing the EV
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by 205guy 6y ago
Previously (or perhaps in an alternate timeline): https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_... The original article is more like a pneumatic cargo wagon. Pneumatic posts of much smaller diameter
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by 205guy 6y ago
Keeping the hands on the keyboard would really increase productivity and reduce repetitive motion injuries. I know that editors like vim and emacs let you keep your hands on the keyboard, but interacting with anything else requires the mous
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by 205guy 6y ago
Clearly, I was mimicking the TV network model in my proposal, but the "Utube" naming was meant to imply they all follow the YouTube model (free video hosting website) not become broadcast media with all the elitism that entails. T
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by 205guy 6y ago
I love the fact that the Youtube ideal has let independent creators make so much good content for the world. And after some haggling, Youtube has let the creators retain full ownership. But the various de-monetization and search algorithm c
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by 205guy 6y ago
One of the other comments mentioned how Tom Lehrer's song have remained relevant. This song is a gem, but I'd forgotten the last lines (from the video in sibling comment): "In German oder Englisch, I know how to count down A
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by 205guy 6y ago
Hate to say it, but iPad: I have a non-internet cell phone (still have a small data plan, just pretend I don’t) so during the day, it’s just calls and text messages (SMS or iMessage) and useful stuff like camera, music (offline) and calcula
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by 205guy 6y ago
Ditto, I discovered this a few years ago, and 90% of the time I don’t need my wallet. I just take my driver’s license (ID in the US), ATM card, transit card, and a $20 bill.
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by 205guy 6y ago
Seconded. It’s not as common in the US to have a trailer with a car (as opposed to a pickup truck), but you can do so much (and replace an expensive truck with a cheap car). Dump runs, green waste, buying appliances or bulky items, cleanups
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by 205guy 6y ago
In the SF Bay Area, we found a company selling natural latex mattresses, no flame retardants added. The showroom was on University Avenue in Palo Alto, so the price was high (at least $3K for a queen). But the factory was in Marin, so they
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by 205guy 6y ago
Ummm, IMAP? Reading the article, this was my first thought: email applications like IMAP clients that work offline are the perfect example of this philosophy. If you can't access your mail provider, you still have all the data from the
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by 205guy 6y ago
Closest "outdoor place" to SFBA is Tahoe, and indeed it has been flooded with transplants, driving up prices everywhere, and displacing residents: https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/bay-area-transie
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by 205guy 6y ago
I've been following the situation in Hawaii too. It seems like it is a different situation from continental travel, since like many island nations, they shut down visitor arrivals and thus airline travel with the 14-day quarantine you
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by 205guy 6y ago
I’ve been reading strongtowns off and on for a few years. You’re correct that they try to have a left-leaning approach (densification) based on right-leaning principles (fiscal responsibility). But I haven’t seen them “asking for a big pile
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by 205guy 6y ago
The TED talk that is linked in other comments debunks this too. All the CO2 exhaled by humans is short-term carbon that was recently taken out of the atmosphere by a plant. All plants and animals are short-term carbon sinks. The damage is c
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by 205guy 6y ago
Obviously, they are different, and the length of sentences reflect that. A murderer is in prison for 10-20 years and a really bad racist joke makes you unemployable for a year or 2. There's also a problem with the verb "to rehabil
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by 205guy 6y ago
> people perceived as racist are permanently marked as being ideologically dangerous. I don't think this is necessarily true. We just haven't seen many racist people make amends and ask for forgiveness. I believe people can cha
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by 205guy 6y ago
I liked the technical content of both articles, but wow, those are a lot of words to cover their respective content. I get it that it is like long-form journalism, it adds personality and humor, but I also find that (for me) it takes away f
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by 205guy 6y ago
I wanted to say the same. I will add that because "prêt-à-porter" is a fashion term, it would be somewhat familiar to London city office workers, especially the upscale demographic they target with their prices and marketing.
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by 205guy 6y ago
I've noticed several articles about Ada and Rust here on HN recently. Summarizing one comment I saw: Ada has a subset that is provable and certified as such, and Rust is close but not provable nor certified.
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by 205guy 6y ago
Thank you for posting this. At this level of organizations, it is enlightening to see how different countries handle similar situations. Surprisingly, they also have lines that are 80-100 years old. I hadn't been following this story b

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