SnorkelTan

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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Some stats I found with chat gpt: global oil production: 103.5 mbd (million barrels of oil) percentage not combusted: 15-20% natural gas: 4,400 bcm (billion cubic meters) percentage not combusted: 20-30% not combusted meaning used as an inp
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
I think a prerequisite is Micropayments being ubiquitously available by using your existing preferred payment instrument. Content business models can’t really develop until this happens since the ad-supported business model has lowered the
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Surprised a 3 letter username is still available on hn…
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Captcha solving services are pretty cheap and reliable. The main draw for captchas is to keep out the low effort bots that will ddos your site. Determined bot authors that can solve a captcha usually respect rate limits.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
our robot overlords have solved that problem too: https://github.com/JoonasVali/NaturalMouseMotion For text input you can measure the time between key down and key up events when typing a long sentence and then generat
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
“Over the last eight years, traffic citations are down by 97% in San Francisco” I doubt traffic violations have decreased by this percentage. In San Jose it feels similar. Police just seem to be doing less.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
It originally started in china as short video sharing and is quite successful there. TikTok came after their home market success. I’m spacing on the name.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
OT, but Got banned from hinge after buying a 6 month subscription. I was reporting profiles that seemed too attractive to be real that I would match with instantly and they would immediately ask me to text over google voice and other text f
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Anyone know if crypto proof of work solving is being lumped in with “AI”?
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I think that the increasing role of physician assistants could could make health care more affordable and thus reduce friction. There's a lot of common ailments that people seek treatment for that have a prescribed treatment protocol t
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Nonviolent offenders don’t rub elbows with convicted murderers. It’s still prison time but I doubt his life will be in jeopardy. None of the people in that security level would risk the privileges.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I tried pointing this out in an ev thread and got downvoted. The expense of driving is really maintaining the roads. Sounds like you’ve actually looked at the price components of gas and understand why they’re so outrageous. My personal pre
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I don’t think twitter is a really good example considering its equity value has fallen precipitously under his reign.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
China seems to be building next gen reactors in reasonable amounts of time.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
AFIAK, preferred shares (the ones investors buy) typically aren't subject to a lockup once they convert to common stock. They usually don't dump right away since they don't want to tank the market unless the company is actual
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
There's been academic studies on this. The average hourly productivity as measured in lines of code for professional developers is very low. Along to order of 1 to 2 lines of code per hour. This is because of all the other communicatio
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I think that it's pretty hard to argue that refusing to draw images of white people due to racial sensitivities is an honest and unintentional mistake.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
> Even if I wanted to move out I would keep renting so that I could let family use it or something Example of why price controls on goods always seem to produce shortages of that good. Solving issues on the supply side is generally a be
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Legislation like the Jones act also screws our territories. Guam pays higher prices for almost everything because of this, even though shipping from their Asian neighbors would be significantly cheaper.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
As a man, there's enough poly people to notice, but not so much it becomes an inconvenience. Is it way worse for women on these apps? Not a woman so idk what the # of poly guys is on dating apps.
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
50% of marriages end in divorce. I think of that statistic as a probability of failure for a life long monogamous relationship. I don't think there's any argument that can convince me that increasing the number of partners reduces
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Do you mean we’ve become to lenient or too strict? I feel like image outside of work has always been something that employers have concerned themselves with and anything legal but untoward has been perilous for anyone in a highly paid caree
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Article text covered by obnoxious banner in firefox. Anyone got a link to the text?
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
At least in the case of children I don't think one should be able to since the cost of caring for them is transferred to society. It's also pretty shitty for the children to lose their parent. Is the death of a parent worse for th
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
I'm curious if this person has a partner or is sexually active. It seems like the biggest sacrifice required for this lifestyle, more than material, would be being undesirable to the vast majority of people they're sexually attrac
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
People with dependents are one case that comes to mind when considering why this might not be a great idea. Elderly people with no dependents are one example I can think of why this might not be the worst thing in the world. But in general
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
For those who missed the incredible journey reference: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
AT&T fought tooth and nail to prevent telephones manufactured by third parties from connecting to their network, and eventually lost. Why should the major digital communication platforms fare any differently?
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Are you sure they got gastric bypass and not lap band? All the people I know that got the bypass has lost significant quantities of weight. The bypass surgery essentially greatly reduces/removes the stomach from the digestion equation
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by SnorkelTan 3y ago
Gastric bypass? Has the benefit of being a onetime payment instead of in perpetuity.

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