Atheros

13 ms·

121.
by Atheros 4y ago
The plastic straws were for virtue signaling. A bar near me put up signs in the bathroom with pictures of sea turtles advertising that they no longer use plastic straws. Outside the bathroom, the AC units were running (completely on and run
122.
by Atheros 4y ago
Traditionally, the government would simply write laws making the bad things illegal. "Vacuum cleaners may not upload any information about a person's home to any server or through any network, else fines and prison." "Te
123.
by Atheros 4y ago
It's possible for an entire industry to engage in fraud. We need not assist though.
124.
by Atheros 4y ago
And that technical distinction doesn't matter right up until the moment it does, which is why we're here today. While the distinction is obvious to most HN users, I would bet that it isn't to many Discord users. When Discord
125.
by Atheros 4y ago
People like interacting with other people, not bots. If a few individuals start to feel like they're interacting with too many bots, they'll retreat into small private silos. The human-to-bot ratio on public forums then drops. The
126.
by Atheros 4y ago
Building more GPUs requires billions of dollars of investment and many years to build a new fab. Building more houses requires only several hundred thousand dollars to form a new construction company and train some workers. So it's not
127.
by Atheros 4y ago
I've found that people cannot think deeply about much of anything when it's loud. They can answer simple fact-based questions about themselves and not much else. Useless.
128.
by Atheros 4y ago
People aren't meant to talk on a dance floor and wearing earplugs is common. Bars and the quieter zones of clubs are different though: we're meant to socialize. People are opting out of the whole thing and I think it's becaus
129.
by Atheros 4y ago
I want to raise another contributor: volume. At most bars in large cities, if I'm in a group of six people, I can not hear someone talking who isn't sitting directly next to me. The parent commenter said "Take something like
130.
by Atheros 4y ago
Constant time comparisons take practically no time at all. I hardly see how it would noticeably reduce performance if software could command a CPU to lock to a low frequency for a certain period of time or when the sensitive code finishes,
131.
by Atheros 4y ago
UI/UX is a fundamentally flawed field for a number of intersecting reasons, most of which boil down to not really distinguishing between when it's doing engineering, when it's doing psychology, and when it's doing fashio
132.
by Atheros 4y ago
If everyone likes pepperoni pizza but they like one of 1000 other types of pizza slightly more, but all mutually hate each other's first choices, why should pepperoni pizza lose?
133.
by Atheros 5y ago
Parts of it definitely are including the machinery. It's obvious during certain human assembly clips- humans don't move that fast. Any clips that include a swinging tool aren't sped up because the false pendulum motion would
134.
by Atheros 5y ago
If the census, gun licenses, and voter registration were done as you suggest then you would simply move the drama to those other databases. There are powerful people who can legally attempt to increase their power by introducing errors into
135.
by Atheros 5y ago
Unrolled twitter thread for people who don't have twitter accounts: https://twtext.com/article/1501360272442896388
136.
by Atheros 5y ago
Replace the minimum wage with an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit. It has the benefits of getting people enough money to live without significantly distorting the labor market. And it's more politically expedient than guaranteed min
137.
by Atheros 5y ago
$3.33/GB. Fairly middle of the road. No sperm required. https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/
138.
by Atheros 5y ago
The real money maker here will be the heliports if they're privately owned. Because you own the bottleneck, you run the auction to determine who gets to take off and land. If the cost of the vehicles drops, more of the money that end u
139.
by Atheros 5y ago
There is no free lunch here. My empathy lands with the taxpayers who may or may not fund a bailout more than it lands with investors.
140.
by Atheros 5y ago
But the taxis and jobs aren't actually at risk of disappearing. The only thing at risk is the return on capital; the taxis and taxi drivers will remain regardless. One might say, "But the taxi drivers were sometimes the ones inves
141.
by Atheros 5y ago
Heck, we could keep social media as-is and merely ban likes and engagement-based sorting. That would be sufficient.
142.
by Atheros 5y ago
I think it was a trick question. At 1:02 you can see the bulb- it looks like a 120v candelabra bulb. I suspect that part of the test was seeing if those who could assemble the circuit correctly could also identify why it didn't light
143.
by Atheros 5y ago
You got the quote backwards, friend.
144.
by Atheros 6y ago
> idea that mass manufacturing wouldn't lower the price of something seems kinda ridiculous The "something" to be manufactured isn't nuclear power plants. If we made a few 5 MW plants at a certain price but then decid
145.
by Atheros 7y ago
What is the advantage of having one big telescope instead of 100 small "telescopes" that make one big radio interferometry telescope?
146.
by Atheros 7y ago
But our goal isn't to get to a different station- it's to get from our origin to our destination. Previous studies of how people try to navigate have shown that people make heavy use of landmarks like parks which is why the MTAs m
147.
by Atheros 7y ago
Which is why they would never tell him unless absolutely necessary.
148.
by Atheros 7y ago
The problem is that it often takes a while to look up some information and even small breaks in the conversation leave the other person sitting there twiddling their thumbs. Often when someone asks a question, they don't care that much
149.
by Atheros 7y ago
Did you disclose to your employer that you were going to ask that question on HackerNews? If not, that's securities fraud.
150.
by Atheros 7y ago
Construction is temporary. Stereos and bands are played to bring enjoyment; the sound produced is the point, not a byproduct of some other motivation so those should get more of a pass. Many cities already enforce laws against persistently

More ›