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by VLM 4y ago
For many, social media has become a form of prayer. Public ritualistic sayings and actions to create a better world, although no one is listening. Instead of 5 hail marys, post a 30 parter.
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by VLM 4y ago
People do not buy houses based on price but upon payment of a mortgage that fits their relatively fixed income. People who can afford to pay $2K mortgage to live in a X percentile house will continue to pay exactly $2K to live in the same X
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by VLM 4y ago
Most marketplaces are like that including food, lumber, fasteners (screws and nails and stuff) and clothing. Cheap junk at cheap prices, cheap junk at medium prices for the aspirational shopper, good stuff at luxury brand prices, nothing el
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by VLM 4y ago
There are no up-down movements in full size cars and trucks, some kids toys maybe. Everything bigger moves an arm along a radius, which is "close" to up and down but not up and down. Tire friction usually works on a vector-like s
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by VLM 4y ago
Around $1500 for a family of four.
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by VLM 4y ago
Obesity has a large effect on heat wave damage but the tornado will kill you just as effectively thin or fat, so its no surprise there's been an intense coordinated media push on the dangers of heat as obesity rises death rates will ri
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by VLM 4y ago
Classic scalability issue, those engines were HUGE compared to general aviation so all the rules about shock cooling and surface area to volume ratios don't apply unchanged to engines a thirtieth the size.
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by VLM 4y ago
In the usual submarine fashion the actual text of the bill includes "privacy, safety, and well-being". So its rather unlikely that political censorship will be enforced via the privacy clause, but everyone wants to "save the
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by VLM 4y ago
Unfortunately your list of benefits is not in the bill, and the bill uses language like "safety, and well-being" in section 1798.99.29 I suspect this will be used for selective political censorship.
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by VLM 4y ago
I'm not sure how to provide a non-tracking link to Amazon's help page, and I'm not saying they're the authority, but they put a lot of work into "Help Topics" "Amazon Community" "Customer Reviews
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by VLM 4y ago
Some alternative ways to look at "Dead Internet Theory", perspectives different from analysis of individual bot numbers in the article. 1) Historical analogy. Email for socialization in the 90s was popular and still has corporate
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by VLM 4y ago
There don't seem to be subsidies for Pork. There was a "Small Hog Operation Payment" last century that paid $10 per hog for the first 500 hogs sold by a farm, according to wikipedia, but they got rid of that a long time ago.
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by VLM 4y ago
To non-technical people, polished stainless, aluminum, and chrome are indistinguishable, and chrome was utterly dominant in the automotive field before the 1980s.
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by VLM 4y ago
Should be linked to this previous HN story "Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year" from 52 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957210 I noticed in that previous story that the author spent almost the
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by VLM 4y ago
With healthy kidneys the half life of salt in the body is about half a day, maybe less. Even with destroyed kidneys, excess will be emitted in sweat, assuming the patient exercises enough to sweat... The chronic high blood pressure proble
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by VLM 4y ago
lipid hypothesis was disproven a long time ago.
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by VLM 4y ago
If it doesn't work they can blame the victim. Same as accidents with self driving cars.
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by VLM 4y ago
Suggests using a yubikey, OK, then suggests shutting off host key checking, sigh.
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by VLM 4y ago
Its not just employee vs employer but at large enough corporations most effort is spent on infighting between departments.
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by VLM 4y ago
There is a self heating failure mode for capacitors that would depend a little bit on current drawn, but the voltage across a cap would be constant regardless of current drawn so safety and fire related failures are primary based on time. &
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by VLM 4y ago
Technical users will have no problem, but for non-technical users email it is easier to do permanent record keeping and documented CYA. Non-technical users puzzle over how to document a text message in writing or how to permanently store a
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by VLM 4y ago
If it has a working remote control or a soft start power switch its never "off". Most cheap hardware does not have X or Y safety class capacitors so if there's any exposed conductor you're probably marginally safer on an
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by VLM 4y ago
The firmware issue is probably very individual device dependent. I remember the old USG plus an old cloud key (both no longer sold for a long time) had some stability issues maybe two or three years ago if you enabled every possible monito
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by VLM 4y ago
The problem with a secret sauce is the market needs more than sauce. So even if they could proactively leverage their synergies using mobile apps or whatever their secret sauce was, activities like, I donno, collections maybe, still scales
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by VLM 4y ago
A classic argument is future sales are equivalent enough to be an asset. So as long as your balance sheet including future sales is growing faster than your income sheet is shrinking, its "OK". There's a lot of assuming sphe
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by VLM 4y ago
I skimmed the first five articles Google found, they seem to disagree. All five were less than 40 years old All of them showed "somewhat less than 10%" longer lives for the rats and spun that same number in varying ways from &quot
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by VLM 4y ago
Generally life extension runs up against three non-technical problems: Addicts will fight VERY hard in support of their addiction. Try telling a life long sugar addict to fix their T2 diabetes by eating fewer carbs; they'll completely
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by VLM 4y ago
The term to google for is cogeneration. Sometimes all people need is the correct search term. The problem with cogeneration is its usually incredibly heavy and there aren't many uses for very low temperature process heat in most real-
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by VLM 4y ago
Motors are no monolith, and the various scaling factors WRT bearing quality and air gap (among other construction tolerance issues) mean the smaller the motor is, generally the less efficient it is. What is motor efficiency is very much a
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by VLM 4y ago
Ironically Minecraft would be good training for this level of dedication

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