GhostVII

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by GhostVII 7y ago
As a society we generally seem to be OK with allowing a few people to be hurt or killed in exchange for a type of entertainment. For example if you are a race car driver, you are certainly increasing your risk of dying, and increasing the r
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I mean they obviously aren't doing this with the intention of having people actually take advantage of this speed on the road. The whole point is to build a vehicle which can go these kinds of speeds with the added constraint that you
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by GhostVII 7y ago
The first example is nice because you don't have to change all of the numbers around every time you add/remove an entry from the list. But I don't like having to put the ".Ordered" before every ordered list, and in
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Did you factor in depreciation as well? I would imagine that the additional miles on the vehicle would cause pretty significant depreciation, and would shorten the life of the vehicle, requiring you to buy a new one sooner if you are planni
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by GhostVII 7y ago
There is a fair bit of overhead that comes with being an Uber driver (gas, maintenance, the cost of the car, additional taxes). So if you are being paid $21 an hour your take home will still be a lot lower than someone being paid $21 an hou
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by GhostVII 7y ago
At least in my program (University of Waterloo Computer Science), there is barely any emphasis on practical things like modern tooling, different roles of a software engineer, etc., with the exception of some of the upper year courses. Inst
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I prefer my Hamilton Khaki. Never needs a new battery, and looks nice and clean. About the same price as an Apple watch for almost none of the functionality, but I really like the idea of a mechanism keeping almost perfect time, just powere
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by GhostVII 7y ago
What's your main problem with cash? Is it that it is fairly untraceable? Because for me that is the main benefit. If it is possible to access my purchase history with a warrant, it is also possible to access that history without one if
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I largely agree with the post, but using "Baba is you" as an example I think actually goes against the authors point. The art in "Baba is you" is very simple, and would likely not take much money to create, yet the game
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by GhostVII 7y ago
What is the alternative to having a government? If the current government was completely defunded, it wouldn't prevent governance entirely - we would just be governed by some private company or organization instead. How long are you ex
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Hopefully we move towards a future where advertising is being targeted based on the location of the ad, rather than the person viewing it. If I am watching a car review, I have no problem watching an ad for a car (someone has to pay for the
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by GhostVII 7y ago
From the pictures, it seems like this ban lead to people removing signage from buildings entirely, which I think is pretty inconvenient. When I'm walking down the street, it is helpful to know what stores I am walking past, and have so
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Cracks don't cause a regular road to fail entirely, while if a solar panel cracks in half, it will most likely stop working. Also I don't see how solar roads make any sense when there is so much unused roof space and parking lots.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I would disagree with that. There are thousands of significant issues facing the US, and the world in general, you can't be vocal about them all. Just because I don't talk with people about what is happening in Hong Kong, or Yemen
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by GhostVII 7y ago
And lessening car crashes would help with injuries far more than pre-safe sound. Unfortunately both are innevitable.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Who pays for the hosting costs then? It is very expensive for YouTube to host all of the videos that they do, and they way they pay for that is taking a portion of advertising revenue. Small YouTubers are subsidized by larger ones, since la
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Maybe it's just me, but there is nothing I hate more than LibreOffice. I use it because it seems to be the best option for things like spreadsheets on Linux, but I would rather use 10 year old Microsoft Office than LibreOffice. It work
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by GhostVII 7y ago
That's why you build on top of a layer which ensures the OS has the required components. If you build on top of GTK, you know your application will run on any OS with that GTK version installed. Or if you build on top of Android, you k
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by GhostVII 7y ago
That's really not a hard problem to solve though, as an application developer you can just have a default theme for your app, and have some checkbox somewhere letting the user use their OS theme instead of the app default. Or you can j
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I like the application to be tightly coupled to the OS, because then my applications have a consistent UI. All of my GTK apps look great, because I can change the theme for all of them with a single command. With one script, I can switch my
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I do the same thing, and I make sure that the install.sh file can be re-run without breaking things. Then if I want to make a permanent change, or add a new package that I will want to keep, I just updated install.sh and re-run it so I know
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by GhostVII 7y ago
> But if you ride a pedal-assist e-bike, which is pretty much the only type of e-bike that is legal across Europe, then you can take comfort in knowing that you’re likely getting just as much exercise than if you were on a pedal bike Pre
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I think the simpler explanation is that the most common way people get access to an ebike is through things like Jump bike, and people who use those bike sharing services are often using it to commute places. They will probably end up spend
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I just don't really see any similarity between the model 3 and the Taycan other than them both being electric, they are completely different classes of cars. They have the same layout because that is the most obvious layout for a 4 doo
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I mean it's a copy of the Model 3 in the same sense that a Porsche 911 is a copy of a BMW 3 series.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Seems like a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641424
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by GhostVII 7y ago
To be clear, you can replace the battery with whatever battery you want, it will just show a message saying it can't be verified as an Apple battery. The only user impact is being unable to see battery health. I don't even think I
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Sure, so I suppose it can noticeably extend your time between charges if you rarely use your car, leave it outside in the sun for long periods of time, and don't have access to charging anywhere you regularly park your car. Seems like
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by GhostVII 7y ago
It would be a lot more useful to just put up solar panels wherever the car is being charged - it's not like the car is going to be able to gain any reasonable amount of range from the roof-based solar between charges anyways, so there
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I think the big difference is that with airlines, it is realistic to have a zero-tolerance approach to deaths, since the default expectation is that a plane will not crash. With hospitals, deaths are innevitable, so you can't just have

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