Atheros

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by Atheros 4y ago
Here [1] is a video someone recorded of a fight that happened in a Disney park. And here [2] is a Reddit thread discussing it. Expand the comments. Numerous people talked about Disney's infamous security and the apparent lack of it in
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by Atheros 4y ago
There already is. Some cities, including the expensive cities in the U.S., make bank collecting property taxes on vacant units- units for which the city provides no schools, transit, trash collection, healthcare, water, or any other service
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by Atheros 4y ago
It would be vastly cheaper for us as a society to not do the vacancy tax at all and just build an extra X units where X equals the number of vacant units. Society would get to continue collecting the millions of dollars in annual property t
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by Atheros 4y ago
> in scenarios where a customer opts not to tip, it was actually costing money. More accurately, where a customer opts not to tip, the server isn't able to commit as much tax fraud.
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by Atheros 4y ago
If enough people have this attitude then the system collapses. Because if everyone tolerates the advertised price being 66% of actual then they'll tolerate 65% of actual. And businesses can make 1% more money by doing that. Which is a
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by Atheros 4y ago
People have run the experiment at great expense and then given up and switched back. [1] [1] https://ny.eater.com/2020/7/20/21331797/danny-meyer-ushg-no-...
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by Atheros 4y ago
GP asked two very simple yes/no questions. I think you should answer them before he answers yours.
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by Atheros 4y ago
A violence-based binary search.
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by Atheros 4y ago
Your sense of humor is quite moist.
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by Atheros 4y ago
It's impractical for everyone and impossible for some people to interpret every question through the lens of the person asking the question. The use of American euphemisms is constantly changing and it is unreasonable to expect non-nat
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by Atheros 4y ago
It can't be reconciled. Which is why there are going to be more posts about air exchangers on HN in the future.
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by Atheros 4y ago
"Politics" doesn't explain the change. Politics in corporations was just as bad in the 90s as it is today, if not worse. Separately, I didn't say anything about "careful planning", I only said "research&qu
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by Atheros 4y ago
10 is the number that a person can reasonably accurately memorize based on photos.
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Companies like Microsoft do their research. They interview the gen-Z'ers and get consistent feedback about the UIs HackerNews likes: "They're old. They're boring. They're dated. I don't like them. My grandma wo
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by Atheros 4y ago
There is no inconsistency. The programmers suing Github put their code online purposely for other people to use in their own open source software for free. They aren't suing for their protection; quite the opposite. The programmers are
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by Atheros 4y ago
If I compress a copyrighted work down to two bytes and publish that, I think that judges would declare it legal. If it can't be uncompressed to resemble the copyrighted work in any sense, no judge is going to declare it illegal.
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by Atheros 4y ago
Imagine someone invents low cost high temperature superconductors which enable fusion reactors, to much fanfare. Until everyone slowly realizes that we can use those same conductors to balance low cost electricity globally for less money.
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by Atheros 4y ago
Why couldn't countries just keep dirty coal generators and coal delivery infrastructure mothballed such that if power delivery from the other country is cut, just spin up the coal plants for a while until it gets sorted out. The cost o
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by Atheros 4y ago
I want to see a poll of how many gen-Z'ers know what an MP3 is and how to use one. I have a feeling that it's around 5%.
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Minimally noticeable Augmented Reality, like what Google Glass wanted to be. Specifically because companies like Apple say that they're working on it. AR will marginally improve the life of anyone who uses it and worsen the life of eve
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by Atheros 4y ago
Is the amount of thermal degradation a function of use? Or a function of environment (like leaving the car outside in the cold)?
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by Atheros 4y ago
I think that you are severely overestimating the number of people who believe the political bullshit. A much simpler explanation is that the vast majority are simply lying about believing it. How would American right-wing voters behave if t
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by Atheros 4y ago
"Cops called on unattended child" doesn't actually happen very often. It makes the news in the U.S. specifically because it is rare.
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by Atheros 4y ago
Given how ludicrous the rest of the article is, I have trouble trusting anything else that they wrote. Using electric vehicles and reverse chargers to stabilize the grid will never be economically viable; it will always be cheaper to buy de
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by Atheros 4y ago
Curated lists of sites is the web . A site links to a few sites that the author knows to be good and those sites do the same for a few more sites. That's the web. It's what enabled the Google page rank algorithm to work in the fi
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by Atheros 4y ago
AR will definitely marginally improve the life of anyone who uses it and worsen the life of everyone around them, including people who themselves use AR, especially as the usage rate rises. The benefits have been talked to death so let&#x27
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by Atheros 4y ago
Americans clapping for every reason and no reason is a meme unto itself. See this greentext: https://i.imgur.com/DcTBOkc.png
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The only reason people do this is to verify that the connection is working, which it often isn't, as detailed in the article. > Hello? > Hi, this is Bob calling from Bob's car repair about your 1979 Ford F-350. It appears th
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by Atheros 4y ago
> Challenging the cultural dogma [doesn't work] That is a byproduct of Reddit specifically. With 90s style forums, this kind of discussion happens just fine because it ends up being limited to a few threads. On Reddit, all community
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Why does that matter?

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