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by Apes 4y ago
Efficiency isn't a silver bullet. There's a limit to free gains from efficiency - you can't go past 100% efficiency, and even at 100% efficiency, you still need to spend energy to do things. It will always take at least 4190
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by Apes 4y ago
In theory, but not in practice. Inflation is up over 8% YoY, but short term TIPS are down over 2% - for a realized loss against inflation of over 10% on what should be a "safe" asset class: https://www.google.com/f
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by Apes 5y ago
What's interesting to me is that the three big criteria tests are rated on don't take this into account at all. In a population of 1,000,000: TP=99 TN=989901 FP=9999 FN=1 Accuracy = TN + TP / (TP+TN+FP+FN) = 99% Sensitivity =
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by Apes 5y ago
It's fine for you to live in whatever fantasy world that allows you to never have to make any hard life choices, but you shouldn't go out of your way to try to make others feel guilty for having the unfortunate fate of having to l
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by Apes 5y ago
I'm not sure why you went on this massively pedantic rant, or why you chose Russia as the hill to die on. Russia is actually a fairly good example of a Nation State. It has a largely homogeneous population of Russian speaking Rus peo
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by Apes 5y ago
"Engineers aren’t allowed “one small fuckup” when building bridges and buildings. Doctors aren’t allowed “one small fuckup” in the OR or when calculating dosages. These mistakes are grave and should be costly. Pilots aren’t allowed sma
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by Apes 5y ago
17. Avoid kustomize even more than Helm.
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by Apes 5y ago
My understanding is it would be "safe", in that you're very unlikely to die, but would - with almost 100% certainty - be uninhabitable after a significant earthquake.
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by Apes 5y ago
There are many children where you have a choice: * Subsidize them with 15 years of child care for a relatively small amount now, and they will become productive members of society. * Do nothing now, and in 15 years be forced to subsidize th
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by Apes 5y ago
Change it to 50% cover that must be paid via claw-backs from Administrative bloat salaries/bonuses, and it would make sense.
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by Apes 5y ago
You mean 24-hour private meth dens? San Francisco built a bunch of 24-hour public restrooms in the early 2000s downtown, and today they're horrendous. The problem is cyclical: people shit on the streets because there's no public r
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by Apes 5y ago
Amazon does leverage their position as market maker to undercut competition with anti-competitive practices though. They run data analytics to figure out what goods are the most profitable, then launch competing products and promote their o
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by Apes 5y ago
Sure, he said that, but only one of the complications are actually IN his social circle, the rest are two or more steps removed. "My dad's coworker" - 2 steps "my wife's brothers" - 2 steps "My daughter&#x
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by Apes 5y ago
No. > My daughter's bf's friends mom
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by Apes 5y ago
I'm pro vaccine, and am convinced that the benefits of the vaccine absolutely eclipse the risks, but your math is so horrendously wrong here. Delete this. Edit, here's some corrections: This isn't 5 people in a row who had is
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by Apes 5y ago
It's the "unlimited PTO" scam - tech companies figured out a loophole that lets them give their employees zero days of guaranteed PTO, doesn't require them to pay out for unused PTO days when an employee leaves, and is t
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by Apes 5y ago
Are you suggesting the average American got fat off environmentally friendly low-carbon-impact food products? Because I suspect they got fat off Oreos and Coca-Cola.
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by Apes 5y ago
A monopoly becomes illegal when it negatively impacts consumers. If a company is able to lower costs to better compete with another company taking market share, wouldn't that imply that: 1. They had a defacto monopoly in the sector tha
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by Apes 5y ago
I may be mistaken, but I believe in Japan the standard is "build to remain habitable." as a result, skyscraper building techniques there are very different to the US.
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by Apes 5y ago
If not by price, then by privilege. We already have a landed gentry in California, so why not just go all the way back to a nobility class at this point, right?
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by Apes 5y ago
Ah, the ol' "a perfect world is one where I pull everyone down to my level" logic.
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by Apes 5y ago
I don't agree with the idea that climate change science is shaky, but this is a bad line of argument to go down. Here's an example of why it's a bad line to go down: > There's no conclusive evidence God exists or not,
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by Apes 5y ago
Let me be crystal clear then -- there are large groups of people in San Francisco who use intolerance and fear of newcomers as a defense against competition. They use regulatory capture to prevent people from moving here, and from opening b
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by Apes 5y ago
Big businesses are banned too, so really it's just about making sure those who were here first are sheltered from any newcomers. It's like Trumpism for liberals. edit because hacker news won't let me reply: Big Businesses are
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by Apes 6y ago
Even saying the "AI" beats the curling competitors at throwing accuracy isn't correct. The AI has access to a highly precise mechanisms for controlling the power it throws with. Would the AI actually be any better than the pl
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by Apes 6y ago
> Almost everyone here is down with killing animals for minutes of taste bud pleasure I don't really care about your argument against eating meat. Let's just say you win. But who talks like this? How many minutes of brain power
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by Apes 6y ago
Don't panic! Don't worry! China is more than willing to pick up the ocean destroying slack from these 14 nations! They're already doing around 80% of the damage, how could they not just do a bit more?
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by Apes 6y ago
There are so many men who employ a strategy of just bombarding every single woman on the platform. This results in women getting dozens to hundreds of extremely low quality matches for every quality match. If this somehow doesn't cause
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by Apes 6y ago
> employee shoplifting ... is in fact a much larger amount Could you share your numbers on this, please?
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by Apes 6y ago
"Poor" implies that it exists at all. For sys admins, most MacOS components are completely undocumented, or are documented with sparse copies of BSD documents from 20+ years ago.

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