NickM

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by NickM 2y ago
Great, good for you, but what's your point? Lots of folks do enjoy takeout, and it's absurd to blame the individual when the fault is clearly with the plastic manufacturers secretly poisoning people.
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by NickM 2y ago
You're ignoring the fact that lots of people really like getting takeout. There's nothing inherently wrong with wanting to pay someone else to cook a nice meal for you. The answer shouldn't be "nobody who likes takeout
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by NickM 2y ago
The article also cites plastic takeout trays as a problem though, which is harder to avoid unless you're willing to simply never order takeout from a large percentage of restaurants.
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by NickM 2y ago
The answer is an acre of solar panels produces 25-50 times more energy than corn. This. It's widely underappreciated how much more efficient solar panels are than plants at harvesting sunlight. Forget amino acids, those are hard; if
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by NickM 2y ago
Yeah, stuff like this just should not ever be changed in this way, IMO. It shouldn't have been changed in the first place, but two wrongs don't make a right either, it just makes the problem even worse. If we have older communicat
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by NickM 2y ago
There are some tests where you’re right, but often the tricky part is shrinking failing cases. If you only want to generate sequences of state transitions that are considered “valid” then you typically have to have some sort of model state
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by NickM 2y ago
The headline thesis seems reasonable, but they lost me as soon as they started comparing USD to gold. Gold is just such a weird special-case thing in economics that it seems very hard to draw interesting conclusions about anything else when
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by NickM 2y ago
pretty trivial It doesn't matter how trivial it is to override a stuck pedal, it's still a serious hazard, because even if you have the option to shift into neutral a driver may not think of that or may not react in time. It&#x2
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by NickM 2y ago
There was a great short story by Ted Chiang about the biases that surround physical attractiveness. In the story, people could have a brain implant to suppress the brain’s ability to judge other's beauty (or lack thereof). It was prett
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by NickM 2y ago
Maybe RO becoming part of the standard set of things you buy (washing machine, vacuum cleaner etc.) is the way. It just seems really sad that society is moving away from "let's fix it for everyone" toward just giving up and
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by NickM 3y ago
you're saying this is a good thing I don't think the parent comment said that. They just said that the rules were set this way deliberately, and that it's not just a loophole, which is an interesting and informative thing t
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by NickM 3y ago
Yeah, I think that's a great idea, I would love to see that happen.
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by NickM 3y ago
Couldn't help noticing the app size is ~150MB - not sure if this is something you can avoid, or if maybe all AVP apps automatically include a lot of extra cruft, but it feels like surely an app this simple shouldn't have to be tha
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by NickM 3y ago
Yeah, I mean sure, maybe that's all there is to it, but he's been a high-profile asshole for years now. He's definitely changed, but that change happened years ago, it's not a new problem. I guess it's possible that
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by NickM 3y ago
Right, of course, $40k is not cheap in absolute terms. But for a luxury long-range AWD electric crossover, it's significantly cheaper than the competition (at least here in the US), and also much cheaper than the same car cost a year a
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by NickM 3y ago
FWIW they had some insane discounts toward the end of March, to the extent that I'm not sure high prices is the problem. I bought a new long-range AWD Model Y myself a couple weeks ago because between the discounts and tax credits I en
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by NickM 3y ago
Cells mutate and become cancerous all the time, but the immune system is usually able to recognize this and shut down the errant cells before it becomes a problem. It's only when the cancer gets lucky with the right site of mutations t
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by NickM 3y ago
So you're saying that there cannot possibly be any other purpose in our lives outside of biology because we have a lot of DNA in common with monkeys? I just don't see how that follows. It's like saying "computers are use
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by NickM 3y ago
This seems like a pretty controversial statement to be making with no additional context or justification. Why do you believe this?
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by NickM 3y ago
We all die eventually, but if you dedicate your life to something bigger than yourself, then you can feel like your life was for something and that a part of you will live on. Historically, many people have gotten this sense of "some
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by NickM 3y ago
It is really scary that peoples' perceptions of reality seem to be getting less accurate over time, especially in regards to important issues like crime levels and the health of the economy. The success of democracy depends on people b
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by NickM 3y ago
Okay, let's try for a more concrete example. Suppose you're writing a new feature, and the bulk of your PR is a one-off 1,000-line function that does ten different things in sequence. If you can factor out that big long function i
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by NickM 3y ago
Lots of commenters seem to be arguing against straw men. The article doesn't say "you need to follow this exact rule on all your PRs"; it doesn't frame any of this as a hard limit or a "best practice", it'
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by NickM 3y ago
The article addresses this exact question.
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by NickM 3y ago
This all sounds great as a “just so” story but then you have species like Bonobos that are one of humanity’s closest relatives and they are pretty much the opposite of monogamous. So clearly it’s not naturally inevitable that intelligent sp
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by NickM 3y ago
Is there actually anything special about 1.5°C specifically ? Sure, if there's more warming it will be bad, and if there's less it will be less bad. But is there some magical threshold at 1.5 or is that just something people came
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by NickM 3y ago
I've definitely wondered about doing similar things with renewable methane generation, which has the advantage of being able to also reuse existing natural gas infrastructure (and therefore lets people keep their precious gas stoves, a
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by NickM 3y ago
Most of the country is not as dense as NYC, and the less dense the area, the less public transit makes sense. This is true from both an economic and an environmental standpoint: not only is it expensive to run public transit when fewer peop
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by NickM 3y ago
Yeah that’s also a great point, I hadn’t thought of that, but it does blow a pretty big hole in the argument.
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by NickM 3y ago
Right but the part of the argument I quoted had nothing to do with repair costs: they were making the point that changes in FMV due to EV prices going down in general were forcing them to recognize bigger losses in salvage situations, since

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