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by acchow 3y ago
Protip: You can actually walk through Jurassic Park at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park about 5.5 hours’ drive north of SF. Park at Fern Canyon and walk through Fern Canyon to Fern Canyon Trail, James Irvine Trail, and Clintonia and Miner’
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by acchow 3y ago
It's not just extrapolation. It's also prediction based on well-understood chemical/physical processes in the atmosphere and glaciers and oceans.
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by acchow 3y ago
Please keep in mind that infrastructure projects for cars also go late and over budget. There's no need to excessively bash HSR. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
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by acchow 3y ago
Vietnam is wildly humid tho. 112F in Fresno would feel like about 90F in Ho Chi Minh The National Weather Service actually provides a handy calculator https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_heatindex
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by acchow 3y ago
How will you catch them?
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by acchow 3y ago
> They might just replace their phone a lot. Some people do that. I actually don't like to replace my phone a lot. The issue was, with each Android phone, despite great recommendations from others and lots of research I was left wan
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by acchow 3y ago
People will find insecure workarounds which add vulnerabilities.
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by acchow 3y ago
> Again... this level of ignorance and short-sightedness is surprising coming from someone in such a position of authority He was making a joke, playing into the Android vs iPhone eternal war. But as someone who spent years on iPhone, th
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by acchow 4y ago
It should be renamed "minifund" given how small the fund is today and how few sites they actually clean up The reinstatement of the excise tax in 2022 may actually be harmful to its own environment. It's an import tax on crud
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by acchow 4y ago
Would love to see more of the type system described. If each scrap carries its own versions of its dependencies, then even the "same type" could actually be a "different type" because of version mismatches?
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by acchow 4y ago
(Rewriting the other comment in an easily digestible format) 23.8C (78.8F) - 10C (50F) = 13.8C (78.8F - 50F = 28.8F)
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by acchow 4y ago
Transmitting with the power required to reach a satellite would surely drain my iPhone battery quickly, right?
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by acchow 4y ago
There isn't really much "science" to back up these claims. It is fun to think about tho.
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by acchow 4y ago
If the goal is to teach them basic statistics to be useful and not to do science with it, then just make them watch a few YouTube videos on the topic as part of their 9th grade math class?
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by acchow 4y ago
Apple lost the battle in the linked article
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by acchow 4y ago
#1 is Apple, #2 Microsoft, #4 Amazon (most of their profits are from AWS), #5 Berkshire, #6 Nvidia, #8 Tesla, #9 Johnson & Johnson, #10 Visa. Of the top 10, only #3 Google and #7 Meta could be called "advertising agencies", an
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by acchow 4y ago
You're focusing on Amazon's retail side while most of Amazon's profits are from AWS. AWS is not an advertising business
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by acchow 4y ago
Are unlock attempt limits not built into the security chip?
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by acchow 4y ago
Very interested in seeing shots of this extra paw
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by acchow 4y ago
Try the ProRAW mode on the iPhone 14 Pro. It has much less processing.
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by acchow 4y ago
I agree that store closures are not due to shoplifting. But merchandise being closed off behind locked doors? That is definitely due to shoplifting.
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by acchow 4y ago
No, in Canada there is no limit to the tax exemption for primary residence. > the US where mortgate payments are sheltered Not sure what you mean by this. In the US, the interest on your mortgage is tax deductible up to a certain amount
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by acchow 4y ago
The tax-advantaged status of your primary residence is also a major driver of the housing bubble in Canada as well.
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by acchow 4y ago
Is this how pilots are taught to operate it? Or how the engines automatically operate when the pilot is throttling "smoothly".
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by acchow 4y ago
> it would still take you 4 x 10^37 centuries. This calculation is for exhausting the entire search space, right? Not guessing at random (which would invoke the birthday paradox?). For block solving on Bitcoin, clients don't search
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by acchow 4y ago
Most of the headcount is to maintain an advantage over competitors in a competitive market, thus ensuring future revenues. It's mostly not for this year's revenue. Related to this, the government now requires accounting Software D
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by acchow 4y ago
My thought was the first sentence in my comment - that snarky responses are common in many subjects (not particular to theoretical physics). The Google results were absolutely useless (top result was "22 Screenshots Of Hilarious Intern
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by acchow 4y ago
In Canadian telecom, when you call Rogers or Bell to cancel your cell phone plan they transfer you to a retentions' department who will offer you a special rate to retain your business. I wonder if banks will do the same. From a profit
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by acchow 4y ago
Someone could also bring in a USB charger and mount it onto a table to make it look like it was installed by the airport.
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by acchow 4y ago
One of the reasons it feels unsafe to people is the trash scattered across the streets and sidewalks, the rundown condition of those same streets and sidewalks, and just generally rundown feel of many buildings. It's a look that remi

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