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by acyou 3y ago
Apply this sort of thinking to every facet of modern life, and we will have death by a thousand safety-conscious cuts. This article is based on eliciting an emotional response and by a statistical argument. Of course if we adopt the safety
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by acyou 3y ago
Couple caveats that I think should be included: Use this for your own files where no one else has to find anything. Avoid reorganizing other people's files. If you do the organizing, it may make sense to you, but may not for other peop
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by acyou 3y ago
I would also like to add that the dark side of this protest seems to be the "walled garden"-ization of Reddit. It's entirely possible that post-protest, the website or particular sections of the site and users will continue o
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by acyou 3y ago
If we think we don't care about Reddit because we don't use the site, we should probably care. The future of Reddit may have a wide-ranging impact on the future of the Internet as a whole. Will content be created and consumed in w
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by acyou 3y ago
If you hope Reddit dies, you are also indirectly hoping for HN to become more like Reddit, because that will be one of the consequences.
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by acyou 3y ago
We should re-consider this again with the following framework: right and wrong are not objective truths. They are also moral judgements. However right something may seem, it is only truth as far as it's accepted truth. AI doesn't
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by acyou 3y ago
Speaking as someone who doesn't have any skin in the game. Just because to the best of our knowledge, Binance is fully solvent and can make all US depositors whole, doesn't mean that they won't declare bankruptcy imminently.
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by acyou 3y ago
One aspect of real estate investing is the utility of being able to control local property values. Investors looking to build generational wealth, with deep pockets, are able to drive down property values of seemingly entire cities, buy up
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by acyou 3y ago
I will wait until the plants are built, operating, and running profitably, without ongoing per kWh subsidies, paid back the debts to taxpayers, and the cells have been operating for a few years without major recalls, fires, etc. Then I hope
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by acyou 3y ago
That's right. But the time, isopropyl alcohol was expensive and unavailable enough that people were getting into that business too. And the fastest movers, and most successful, would have been the hustlers. Awhile back, I noticed that
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by acyou 3y ago
It's tough to explain. It's something to do with not standing on any particular side, but attempting to cast blame and start arguments. If you read through the HN comments, and think about the bigger picture and what will result f
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by acyou 3y ago
I think that the source of the benzene and methanol might have been from hand sanitizer manufacturers buying raw input feedstocks (ethanol and glycerol) containing methanol and benzene from dubious sources. If that's the case, then mak
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by acyou 3y ago
This is a little bit of an over-simplification. These particular 21700 and 4680 Panasonic cells are not off-the-shelf or catalog. As far as I know, they were designed specifically with the EV application and Tesla pack in mind. And to my kn
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by acyou 3y ago
Interestingly, the shapes are not standard. The lengths and diameters vary a little from cell to cell, and quite significantly from cell type to cell type (Yes, I'm talking 21700 from one manufacturer vs 21700 from another manufacturer
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by acyou 3y ago
Yes. Contrary to popular belief, cells with 18650 and 21700 cylindrical form factors, despite being approximately the same size and shape as other 18650/21700 cells, are not particularly "general purpose" as you or I would th
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by acyou 3y ago
This issue is a wrecking ball being swung first this way, then the other way, to create division, hatred, polarization, radicalization and the feeling of being marginalized on all sides. Who benefits from consuming this article? Was it not
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by acyou 3y ago
Where I live, fuel, food, housing and other commodity prices are heavily controlled by a few central distributors. Those distributors are in turn controlled by, well, a few key corporations, including several levels of civil government. New
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by acyou 3y ago
There is a tendency towards a knee-jerk response by people who have little broader industry experience, saying "I have to pay for that? It's so easy. Why can't it be open source and free?" Well, because this and this and
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by acyou 3y ago
Cheap, good, no major issues, everyone knows it, tons of integrations.
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by acyou 3y ago
How much time does it take to plug and unplug the car every day, vs. the gas station fill time?
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by acyou 3y ago
We cannot, and should not come to terms with the prospect that the universe's complexities may be totally out of our reach. Best to keep trying in one way or another. Unfortunately, my comments are not constructive, I don't have a
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by acyou 3y ago
I don't think most physicists in this area think the Standard Model is "correct" in the sense of actually describing what makes the universe tick. They mostly recognize it as a set of curves that are extremely well fitted to
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by acyou 3y ago
I'm not too current. Last time I looked at this was 2016. My take is: Many experiments are conducted on "unique" equipment which is inaccessible to outsiders. This makes experiments irreproducible in the classical sense. For
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by acyou 3y ago
To the outside observer, modern particle physics looks like a cross between religion and Emperor Has No Clothes. Much of what constitutes a successful researcher and institution is not practical result (or even tangible or reproducible), bu
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by acyou 3y ago
1. I thought Vice declared bankruptcy? 2. This appears to be a wall. Why do we think this is an animal pen? Usually, you would build walls to keep out other people. I suspect the Neolithic people were more than capable of hunting and catchi
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by acyou 3y ago
Haven't noticed that. Could you please provide some actual prompts/responses?
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by acyou 3y ago
It is often said that we have two (or more) decision making centers in the human body. Mainly, one is in the head and one is in the stomach, in the gut. There is a good case to be made that many of our decisions happen instinctively, intuit
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by acyou 3y ago
Does anyone host their own git repos in an enterprise environment? How do you do it and what are some good resources for learning how to do this?
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by acyou 3y ago
I'm a little confused that people think they are free to use the software of their choice and that there is some built in right to use the software of your preference on a given hardware. Sure, if you're so smart, you can do it an
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by acyou 3y ago
I think regulation is a little more complicated than that. There is a vast system of interests, but I don't agree that overall incentives are to make US companies get as big as possible. They lose competitiveness at some point. Middle

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