abduhl

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by abduhl 1y ago
In this HN subthread: users slowly converge on the conversion formula for Celsius to Fahrenheit (32+9C/5) in greater and greater precision while calling it an “approximation.”
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by abduhl 1y ago
The [2016 Tesla promotional] video carries a tagline saying: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.” https://www.reuters.com/technology/tes
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xAI dropped its benefit corp status while Musk was fighting OpenAI(cnbc.com)
6 points by abduhl 1y ago|1 comments
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by abduhl 1y ago
When someone says "structural steel" they are normally talking about something similar to A572. A572 comes in multiple grades, with grade 42 being the lowest. Grade 42 has a yield strength of 42 ksi (hence grade 42) and a ruptur
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by abduhl 1y ago
I didn't choose the data set or the link, perhaps your admonishment should be levied against GP. I agree that people should look at the data before making conclusions, which is why I posted that the data directly contradicted GP's
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by abduhl 1y ago
Your link says that the 9th is the most reversed circuit both in terms of raw reversals (196) and as a rate (79.4%).
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by abduhl 1y ago
Bribery is the main way of doing business in America in 2025: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-08/trump-se... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/07&#x2
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by abduhl 1y ago
400 MPa is not better than the best structural steel. And 1000 MPa is way higher than the best structural steel (compressive strength and tensile strength are essentially equal for steel). Most structural steel has an ultimate tensile stren
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by abduhl 1y ago
It’s funny because if you delete your last sentence (or just remove the sexes) this post could be a choose your own adventure prompt for anyone to drop their own views/prejudices into.
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by abduhl 1y ago
You are, in fact, in charge of your teenager as a parent. They are, in fact, still a kid. Controlling your kid’s access to things which you deem harmful is, in fact, not abusive. Setting appropriate boundaries does not, in fact, mean you ar
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by abduhl 1y ago
I despise “articles” like this. It is an article based on a Reddit post of another article which 1) quotes a couple Reddit users and 2) links to the original article linked to in the Reddit post. It has almost zero original content and zero
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by abduhl 1y ago
>> If I'm taking multiple hard courses, I only have so much time to spend. You’re in high school. No course is hard. >> Free and competitive markets are more efficient than command economies. Arguably, this same principle h
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by abduhl 1y ago
How is your learning harmed? How have you been disallowed from discovering what works best for you?
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by abduhl 1y ago
This is as “knee deep” as his 200 deals that were “made” a month ago. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-200-trade-dea...
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by abduhl 1y ago
>> The so-called Chevron deference doctrine was simply that the Supreme Court ruled (~40 years ago in the Reagan administration) that if an agency is responsible for administering a statute that's ambiguous, that agency's in
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by abduhl 1y ago
>> The whole reason Chevron came into existence is because it's impossible for Congress to pass explicit regulations for every little thing as soon as it's needed. So agencies were instead given broad legislative mandates li
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by abduhl 1y ago
>> Trump is knee-deep in negotiating with foreign countries on trade deals using the tariffs as leverage. This statement is completely speculative. There is no evidence that substantive negotiations are happening on any trade deals. &
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by abduhl 1y ago
How do you determine scalpers? I buy 6 tickets for me and my friends and we all get sick. Are we scalpers? I buy 1 ticket and a work trip gets foisted on me the next day so I try to resell. Am I a scalper? Won’t everyone just charge the tic
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by abduhl 1y ago
This isn’t what piercing the corporate veil is. Piercing the corporate veil is when shareholders (not employees) are made liable for the corporation’s actions. It is not when an individual is charged with a crime personally when there are a
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Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule(fuelarc.com)
645 points by abduhl 1y ago|689 comments
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by abduhl 1y ago
It’s called vibe coding now.
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by abduhl 1y ago
"U.S. Born" and "U.S. Citizen" are the same number of words though, so it just seems like you're deliberately obfuscating. Maybe a better headline would be "Two Undocumented Families and Their American Childre
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Tesla whistleblower wins legal battle against Elon Musk(bbc.com)
21 points by abduhl 1y ago|0 comments
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by abduhl 2y ago
For context: this article came out around noon eastern, when the market was delusionally optimistic. TQQQ closed down 13% from its noon price. It is down 18% from its noon price in after hours trading.
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by abduhl 2y ago
Less than a month is not long enough to make the determination that your hiring process is producing better hires in my opinion (unless your old bad hires were flaming out in under a month, I guess).
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by abduhl 2y ago
When did you switch to pair programming? Your post starts by stating you just hired the unqualified dev last month, so did this unqualified dev slip through your pair programming system? And if they did, doesn’t that undermine your view tha
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by abduhl 2y ago
> The legal system, including the discovery process, and basic accounting to calculate when the selling price is lower than BoM cost. So price controls is your answer? The Costco rotisserie chicken is illegal monopolization in your world
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by abduhl 2y ago
What mechanism can the regulators use to prevent potential dumpers from entering a market? Setting price controls on the entire economy? What if the market is currently beholden to a decentralized monopoly with artificially high prices? [se
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by abduhl 2y ago
Regulators don’t have to look beyond short term consumer preference (or rather, consumer benefit) with respect to dumping actually, because only the long term aspect of dumping (when prices are raised on consumers after driving competitors
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> In fact we do know how good doctors and lawyers are at their jobs, and the answer is "not very." Medical negligence claims are a huge problem. Claims agains lawyers are harder to win - for obvious reasons - but there is p

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