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by WJW 2y ago
Imagine if the Russians managed to do something like this in the US...
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by WJW 2y ago
This article was written by someone who has never heard of ad blockers ever.
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by WJW 2y ago
Pro tip: install an ad blocker and don't be bothered by any of this ever again.
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by WJW 2y ago
"Men seem to have an innate tallness ability that is superior to womens'?" What is wrong with that? You seem to be trying to make some sort of American culture war argument out of something completely uncontroversial.
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by WJW 2y ago
Keeping a factory alive is not free. If you have committed to delivering a certain product for the next 30-50 years, you need to be able to deliver that product even in year 49. Even if it's only three parts and the factory is only pro
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by WJW 2y ago
Makes sense. It has been well documented by linguists for decades that women both communicate more than men and also on average use a bigger vocabulary to communicate more precisely. Teenage girls in particular spend more time together than
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by WJW 2y ago
Don't forget it's not just the welds on the outside, but also the welds on all decks and walls on the inside. The resilience of modern vessels mainly comes from the internal structure rather than the hull. The hull is just the ski
578.
by WJW 2y ago
I assume that they mean batteries are not a net "source" of electricity, they only store electricity that has been produced in another way earlier. Like a farmer scoffing at someone who says they get their eggs from the supermarke
579.
by WJW 2y ago
That's what you want to read. All the paper says is that interest rates and corporate tax rates have fallen over the past three decades. There were a variety of reasons for that, only some of which had anything to do with capitalis
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by WJW 2y ago
Pretty interesting to hear that there are no less than 14 other gates and barriers between Ijmuiden and Amsterdam that all got closed as soon as the problem was discovered.
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by WJW 2y ago
Why though? Eindhoven is about 17 meters above sea level, and the Dommel seems hardly big enough to pose a serious flood risk. (It obviously does flood every once in a while, but usually not near the university area)
582.
by WJW 2y ago
It's not really all that desirable to have explosives detonate at unpredictable moments. Not all these bombs are in rural areas, many of them are in the middle of cities or otherwise in locations where it would be really really nice to
583.
by WJW 2y ago
Machining is fine, but in the context of the article the problem is that it usually starts off from plates or otherwise block-shaped materials. That means that if you have a weirdly shaped part full of holes and/or with many protrusion
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by WJW 2y ago
Well yes but the squares are the same. The king starts on E1 by definition, even if the board is turned around so that the markings would indicate it starts on D8. It might be confusing to the person reading out the move to the blindfolde
585.
by WJW 2y ago
Surely when playing blindfolded it doesn't really matter how the boards are turned?
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by WJW 2y ago
Sure it would be possible with "enough" funding, almost by definition. If you can't, then the amount of funding clearly wasn't enough. I doubt you (or anyone btw) could get "enough" funding though. The amount o
587.
by WJW 2y ago
I think Aristotle would be of the opinion that most people's lives could in fact be quite simple, but many choose to complicate because it makes them feel important, because they are confused about what they want out of life, or both.
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by WJW 2y ago
Clearly some types of history lend themselves very well to oral preservation. Religious texts and certain types of history come to mind. I very much doubt though that ALL types of history would be good for that, let alone other types of inf
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by WJW 2y ago
I think you missed the point of the GP: Venkatesh Rao has written so much posts around this idea that he's now positioned himself as an authority on the topic of workplace power dynamics, regardless of if what he wrote is actually accu
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by WJW 2y ago
Why would the government need or want to own a producer that is not capable of producing things profitably while competitors that can do so exist in the market?
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by WJW 2y ago
It depends a lot on if you have any competitors that do want to dominate the market and could undercut you on price or overclass you with features. It's fine not to want a castle but you should have a plan for when the enemy army com
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by WJW 2y ago
At every cloud provider there's probably a tier below "spot" (or whatever the equivalent is called at AWS's competitors) that is used for the low-priority jobs of the cloud provider itself.
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by WJW 2y ago
Same reason as why we're not developing starships to go to the other side of the Milky way at the moment: We don't know how to and the leap from "what we can do right now" (ie we struggle to get people to the moon perman
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by WJW 2y ago
Focusing on the possible upsides tends to ignore the possible downsides. Worker ownership is only great when the company does well. If the company does not do well, the workers don't just lose their job but their nest egg at the same t
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by WJW 2y ago
Many countries also have treaties to accommodate this process across borders.
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by WJW 2y ago
Which costs even more dev time (and thus more money) to build, especially if you want the automation to be dependable enough that it can run without constant monitoring. Again, fine if you are doing it as a hobby and your time is free but a
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by WJW 2y ago
Why would you waste hundreds of hours migrating to a setup that takes at most 10 to create? And if your team is indeed incompetent enough that it takes them hundreds of hours to migrate away from Vercel, what makes you think they can succes
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by WJW 2y ago
Not scaling up until needed is a fine strategy. Most products fail, so they don't ever need to scale up and spending the engineering hours to make it bulletproof is literally wasted effort. Wasting time and money at the start of a comp
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by WJW 2y ago
Ansible and Hetzner may cost 3$ a month, but it also costs several hours of dev time to set up and probably a few hours per year to keep up with certificate renewal, domain name renewal, maybe doing some package upgrades in response to newl
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by WJW 2y ago
It doesn't relate to Zig at all, but Walter Bright is the creator of D and tremendously proud of it.

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