SirSourdough

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by SirSourdough 6mo ago
It doesn't seem like it's strictly true that they don't charge trading fees. From their docs, it looks like they charge fees to bet "takers" (as opposed to makers), but exclude the geopolitical and world-events mark
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by SirSourdough 2y ago
For those of you who are put off from trying the game by the category for today’s puzzle being sports, note there are other puzzles from prior days with more general topics. Click the calendar icon at top of page for the archive.
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by SirSourdough 2y ago
I don’t think the implication was that everyone can be a billionaire with luck - rather that virtually nobody becomes a self-made billionaire without some (and often a lot of) luck.
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by SirSourdough 2y ago
I think this makes the economic circumstances which allow for a billion dollar company to be created sound rarer than they are. There have been numerous technologies that have emerged or hit the mainstream in my adult life that have spawned
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by SirSourdough 2y ago
Yes and no. If consuming the lanes as much as possible was the goal, we’d be parked bumper to bumper with no available space to move at all. We want the throughput of the road to be as high as possible. Broadly, that means maintaining the o
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by SirSourdough 2y ago
As others mention it really depends on your use case. If you can charge at home (ideally at 240v), and you don’t drive more than the range of your vehicle in a day regularly, it’s gas that has an inconvenience to overcome. I don’t have a ga
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by SirSourdough 2y ago
Deep integration with the car is the most difficult piece of the Supercharger system to achieve for any other charging network. They have the best in-car and in-app charging experience, with the best routing to chargers and scheduling tools
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
If the drones could meter their own consumption from the line using a utility-approved meter, anyone with a drone with said meter should be able to just tap onto lines at will and get a bill at the end of the month. Not sure how that plays
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
Hypothetically, sure, assuming the parent comment that these meshes are sufficient for modelling is correct and that you can find any teens who want a non-digital toy. I think a good hobbyist application for this would be something like mod
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
My dad handed me down our 2001 4Runner when I got my license and it was a great first car as a high school and college kid. Not enough performance to be that tempting to do anything dumb, tons of space for friends and stuff, go anywhere, sl
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
I don’t think the argument being made is that the cost should be proportionate to wealth, but proportionate to impact or alternatives. If flying private incurs 10x or 100x the externality costs of flying coach, it should be priced (taxed re
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
I believe it’s both really. My understanding is the end caps are bolted to a titanium flange, not the carbon fibre hull directly. The titanium flange the caps are bolted to is epoxied to the hull.
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
I’m sure it’s not the case that any random person can get a quote for something like this, but in the case of Titan the people who can afford the $250k ticket probably can.
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
I saw a bit of video where they showed the construction- it’s a few inch wide band of carbon fibre wrapped around an inner tube like a spool of thread until it reaches 5” thickness.
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
I don't really understand this assessment. Half as much is $1,750. That's really not much compared to what people are willing to pay for Apple devices. Basically the price point of an iPad Pro, and I think the potential of the Vis
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
This is also done in auto racing, particularly endurance racing where you might pick up 4+ hours of bugs and debris on the windshield over a driver stint. The windshield has a stack of huge stickers on it that get torn away by the pit crew
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
I believe this is more than speculation. Pretty sure that someone from Reddit basically said as much in one of the transcripts or conversations shared by Apollo’s dev. Reddit feels they are getting burned by letting their data be used to tr
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
Is this supposed to be some kind of takedown? Why would I care that one of the moderators of a subreddit has a normal, common occupation? That article is so petty it deserves no one’s time.
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
If one of Reddits big goals in all this is to sell actually useful information on a broad variety of topics for training LLMs (I think they’ve basically said as much), then I’m not sure that only being able to prop up a few meme and cute an
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by SirSourdough 3y ago
Reddit forcing open the subreddits would result in massive backlash from moderators, who are often the main people providing content and enforcing content quality. It would crank the degree to which Reddit is tarnishing its reputation to 11
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
All of that can be accomplished with one-time purchases. What’s the value-add of a subscription? It’s great that future buyers can upgrade, I think that’s cool. But now sellers can’t recoup any of the money they spend on these features, a
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
I wouldn’t complain if it was a one-time purchase. Different spec levels have always cost different amounts for basically every product. But what ongoing value do I get for my subscription? Will I get free acceleration upgrades over time be
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
Sure, as long as your emotions are driven only by the contracts you sign. People sign a waiver accepting the risk when they go whitewater rafting, but that doesn’t stop it from being a potentially life-altering traumatic experience for a ra
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
If this money was distributed among the wealthiest 10% it would be far more distributed than it is now. Most of the people driving the 399x compensation figure are in the top fraction of a percent for wealth, and even small-time CEOs are
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
I don’t think there’s all that much concern about incentive packages tied to performance. The question in my mind is: how much compensation is required to provide that incentive? And is it reasonable for that to result in a small portion of
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
Although I think it’s always kind to be polite and constructive with feedback, I totally disagree that you have to be as capable a cook as the chef to critique their food. You don’t have to be a culinary wizard to tell when many foods are o
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
“Improving your lie” is a common way, meaning altering the environment around the player, swing path, ball, or shot path in a way that yields some advantage. This would include things like breaking off a twig in your way, removing leaves or
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
“Sell to the highest bidder” and “fair” rarely belong in the same thought.
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
I'd say it's a pretty rare luxury to be able to commute less than 20 mins for your entire career. There are tons of jobs that happen in major cities that don't pay enough to live within 20 minutes. Many don't pay enough
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by SirSourdough 4y ago
My impression is that car manufacturers have just been slow to roll it out, and that the implementations aren’t that standardized so there’s another layer of adoption by the charging networks that has to happen. Agreed about the apps. Have

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