CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 3y ago
It's crypto. If you don't act in time the money is just gone . If they wait until Binance actually pulls the Ponzi it will be way too late.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
There are many other factors that go into the changing cost of a plane ticket over decades. It's not just average passenger weight!
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Planes can experience shocking accelerations in the sky. People have died from head injuries sustained while being thrown around during extreme turbulence miles away from the nearest solid object.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
VR headsets get pretty grody (I've seen how this goes at a VR cafe). I'm not sure widely shared headsets are really a business class experience.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I don't know if watching movies is a great use case for VR though? Unless it's gonna be a fully immersive 3D experience, I'd rather just watch it on a normal screen and give my eyes and head a rest.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
All the most enjoyable stuff I've done in VR has involved, at a minimum, lots of arm movement, and typically also leg movement as well. Think Beat Saber, or Half-Life: Alyx. I don't really see this working in a seated plane envi
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
A strong contender. Also, backyard pools kill a lot of kids :(
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I can see the appeal of that, as my last name ends in *in, but .in is a registry notoriously unfriendly to foreigners (as are many ccTLDs), and it just doesn't make sense to build any kind of online presence around a domain name that c
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Yup. Can anyone point to even any injuries caused by this kit? Meanwhile, kids were actually killed by lawn darts, and plenty of kids have died on bicycles (though the ultimate fault there typically lies with cars).
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Why go through all this trouble vs just using a normal domain name on a gTLD? (Or your own country's ccTLD if widely used?) I've owned domains on .com, .net, and .org starting over two decades ago, and then more recently on new gT
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
The holy grail was always someone at a university with a 100 Mbps connection. That was godlike back in the day when most people still had 56k dial-up and the lucky people had ADSL which was, iirc, 768 Kbps.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
None of this stuff actually matters though. The main use case for crypto is speculation, store of value, and money-sending, and that's been working from the very beginning.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
People significantly overestimate how expensive shipping by sea costs. Much less valuable goods than batteries get shipped across the entire Pacific Ocean. Think of all those cheap junk toys from China, for example. If those can be shipped
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
That's my take on it too. Companies aren't abandoning relatively new factories that are still close to cutting edge. What they are abandoning are obsolete ones that they already got a lot of use out of that would require massive c
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Interestingly, the largest abandoned factory in the world, the Packard Auto Plant in Detroit, was opened in 1903 and shut down in 1958, long before Detroit's fortunes actually turned. And the factory was in use for five and a half deca
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I don't think it's true that the tech is in its infancy. I'd say it's pretty mature by now, reaching a mostly steady state.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Crypto absolutely can still do that. There's nothing in the Bitcoin protocol itself that enforces KYC, so you can send whatever you want to whoever you want using a basic Bitcoin client. Meanwhile, good luck sending a wire from your
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Masters of Doom has plenty of interpersonal drama in it as well. Hell, John Carmack and John Romero are the two main characters, and most of the other id Software early employees end up getting fired. I suggest you re-read Masters of Doom
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
This is how the publishing industry works. Authors get a guaranteed up-front advance and then also a backend residual dependent on performance. In fact this is how many industries work; as an engineer I get an up-front guaranteed salary, bu
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Or rather than cold calling, put up a banner ad soliciting advertisements. (Or both.)
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
All of those anecdotes are about Facebook though. Does Google have this bug? The two software stacks are completely different.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Fwiw I read it for a work book club and liked it, though it did feel pretty similar to Masters of Doom and Soul of a New Machine, both of which I've also read recently. Those two were cited as influences in this book, are non-fiction,
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Well if you read past the headline you'll see that the book has sold over a million copies worldwide, which is very good in the literary world. This is certainly not a participation trophy.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
The guy you're replying to knows when those issues pop up and has relevant experience here. I'd listen to him. I too have experienced hardware failure at 100% load for months straight, and have resorted to underclocking for power
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Read the entire article. This is her ninth published novel, and some of her previous novels have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. And I've heard of at least one of them, Elsewhere. She's not unknown in literary circles.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I don't think your hypothetical scenario is possible.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
And yet their self-driving still sucks compared to what a person can do.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Which Waymo and possibly Cruise are on track to make cars for. Tesla though, nope. Their approach is fundamentally unsound and unworkable (just like Uber's internal effort was).
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Many people don't want to use their car as a robotic rideshare for hire. The inside is gonna get pretty not nice in a hurry. At least when there's a human driver in a car, they can tell misbehaving people to knock it off. Not so w
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Yes, that's why I said "only in the immediate aftermath of a landing". The problem is, your orbiter is necessarily in orbit at the same time that your lander is making its landing. And the lander kicks up debris that can the

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