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by VLM 5y ago
This will probably come in handy for industrial espionage type tasks. Lets say you had a nation-state enemy who eats a lot of some ethnic ingredient. Come up with a cheap artificial flavor/color or process that is optimize to give hea
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by VLM 5y ago
> hyperinflation If you actually own stock and not just sitting on the cash, you'll be fine if you own income producing assets. If you buy stock in, for example, a coal mine, and get annual dividends from operations equivalent to pe
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by VLM 5y ago
Quitting pro sports has the same effect as quitting news.
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by VLM 5y ago
There are also side effects WRT federal election and fundraising laws. Generally the wheels of justice grind very slowly, but grind very finely, and do not tolerate attempts at "hacking" the justice system by just putting a e- pre
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by VLM 5y ago
That does occasionally happen, but there must be thousands of people clicking the up or down arrows for every person willing to do chilling effect e-stalking e-blackmail type stuff to intimidate people. I'm just saying public participa
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by VLM 5y ago
That took more effort than most people will put in. Most HN participants will judge your post based on the content of your post, rather than taking the time to click thru to examine your position in the social hierarchy groupthink relative
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by VLM 5y ago
There's a natural cause and effect relationship between meaningless internet points as a status symbol and banthirsty behavior. HN is one of the few places where people can have points without the resulting anti-social behavior. I be
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by VLM 5y ago
Most of the answers are going to be products that do extensive lock in as a service. So its easy to replace quickbooks with dozens if not hundreds of old or current accounting software but only quickbooks has the integration with seemingly
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by VLM 5y ago
I've been sent to interviews by HR with a folder holding another dude's resume before. This is probably the same thing but remote instead of in person.
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by VLM 5y ago
Interrupt latency. On dos you own the machine down to bare metal for better or worse, usually worse, but software only slows things down. I suspect if you stuck a protocol analyzer on it you'll find one of three situations: Someone did
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by VLM 5y ago
Inflation is a thing but the world is also much less classist, at least economically, today. Back in my boomer parents era, my grandpa had to get a promotion for my boomer dad to afford expensive hobbies like photography or listening to 60s
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by VLM 5y ago
It actually gets worse in a way, in the 2010s there was a bit fad in compsci to redo the 70s, so we LISP'd up again. I bet in the 2050s we'll be rediscovering strong typing and lisp again, and pretending its all new again. I donno
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by VLM 5y ago
Power loss shouldn't matter. Its a chicken and egg problem. It would be trivial in 2022 at a technical level for my electric clothes dryer to "pause" for five minutes mid cycle if a cloud passes over the solar farm. Nobody
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by VLM 5y ago
It can't be clean, safe, smart (what does that mean?), or cheap because each installation must be handmade and completely custom and bespoke. Much like for better or worse we could never have had "car culture" if every car ev
555.
by VLM 5y ago
In the old days the extra after-tax $30K you'd make from a promotion like that would improve your quality of living. Not so much now. You could buy a somewhat nicer car. But now cars all look the same anyway, and are a liability if y
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by VLM 5y ago
I remember when the "Joel Test" of 12 characteristics of successful software companies came out around the turn of the century I figured it would be obsolete in mere months or at most a year or two; by 2001 or 2002 at most, who wo
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by VLM 5y ago
Around half of people with high blood pressure are salt sensitive and have higher BP when they consume salt, the other half simply pee more salt and zero effect. In the general population its much rarer only something like a quarter of peo
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by VLM 5y ago
capex vs opex. Unless they burn the laser out its pretty cheap to operate. Also its going to be very difficult to file an insurance claim with evidence that grannie or some amateur astronomer or hunter looking thru binocs got cataracts bec
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by VLM 5y ago
They could be implying its an all-aspect jammer which is effective against air to air missiles while only verbally discussing the ground threat. Civilians always think of ECM and jamming like a smooth omnidirectional output, yet it seems to
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by VLM 5y ago
They cite vague comments of short range manpads style attacks having happened in the past. Some interesting background, the A321-200 is kind of an older passenger plane and part of aging out is there's a big push to convert and sell as
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by VLM 5y ago
Given the context of the linked article AND the somewhat off topic debate, he was clearly being humorous. Or trying.
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by VLM 5y ago
Unregulated monopolies do not have to uphold constitutional rights. The phone company used to be regulated so even if you were a hated Republican they still had to provide phone service to you if you lived in their service area. Those days
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by VLM 5y ago
Google search results show their repeated response to questions like that on their forums is anyone who disagrees with them in any way or criticizes anything they've done is literally Hitler. They're apparently very hard to get a
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by VLM 5y ago
As for media creation, SaaS is where its at for weak endpoints. My ancient chromebook battery is going and it could never run CAD, office, or video editing natively, but it runs onshape which is SaaS 3-d CAD, and Google Workspace/suit
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by VLM 5y ago
> Why is that? Can't they just check the tracking number? My experience is Amazon is an enormous pain in the butt to deal with if the delivery service drops your package at the wrong address or there's a hole in the package wit
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by VLM 5y ago
Ironically I'm 18th in the queue at computershare.com right now (Its a way for even minors to do direct investment in a company other than more typical employee ownership programs or broker acct, very long story about a very old accoun
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by VLM 5y ago
"I want to ban the other guy's political speech" is business as usual for centuries even in the "free" west. Whats new is "I want to band all criticism of my religion", that aspect is new for the "fre
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by VLM 5y ago
Vaccines with far fewer negative side effects.
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by VLM 5y ago
> Greenlanders haven't existed for millennia. Greenlanders have existed for just under a millennium. I got google-y for fun and every scientific paper title implies its inuit greenlanders whom have the mutation, not the euro greenla
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by VLM 5y ago
As the article points out, super high carb diets make them very sick, but what about the effects of lower or normal (pre 1900) carb diets when they're not feeling sick? Given that its pretty well known that high levels of sugar in the

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