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by adolph 21d ago
Yet, our organization was hundreds of people, and the system had grown so large and complex that it had become impossible to learn how it all worked. Which is what makes Bezos' service mandate [0] a classic exposition of Conway
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by adolph 23d ago
There is a financial product known as malpractice insurance in which the outsized cost of a malpractice case is spread out over a risk pool of people with similar risk exposure. In any case, this cost is not directly part of the "hospi
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by adolph 23d ago
I remember the Econtalk episode with the co-founder, "Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care" [0] 0. https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
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by adolph 24d ago
Last I checked Takeout is a single zip file. Once you have a photo repository of a certain size, that approach becomes difficult, no?
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by adolph 24d ago
> So congestion revenues are essentially arbitrage? There are significant capital costs to moving power. As I understand it, an example within the US is the relationship between the regional transmission operator (RTO) SPP and MISO, who
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by adolph 24d ago
> the attackers had card-sniffing malware installed on every single cash register Part of the attack was physical, aka skimmers. I still remember the relatively elegant inspection tool blogged by Target Tech on HN 3 years ago: Target&#x2
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by adolph 24d ago
> give everyone an RSA keypair Effectively this allows the keypair issuing government (and thus whoever collects breach data) the ability to impersonate you. Seems like a terrible idea.
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by adolph 24d ago
Another interesting aspect to this story is the flow of value from US Treasuries to gold. Total gold held by central banks globally was valued at approximately $4tr at the start of 2026, surpassing, for the first time, the roughly $3
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by adolph 25d ago
> They didn't make their GPUs for crypto. Sure they did and still do. They did a good job of managing the bubble but participate in the market nontheless. Read the above article: Nvidia has promised that its new lineup of cryptocur
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by adolph 26d ago
Which makes it a Exempli gratia of "an organization that was primed to recognize and pounce on the next big thing." In addition, they also recognized early on some of the weaknesses of crypto-mining as an industry and limited th
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by adolph 26d ago
> an organization that was primed to recognize and pounce on the next big thing e.g.: previous crypto hype-cycle https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-cmp-graphics-card-availabilit...
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by adolph 26d ago
It seems as though Pluto's primary problem is "clearing the neighbourhood." Given Pluto's orbit travels closer and further from the sun than Neptune, does Neptune also have the neighborhood clearing problem since it has
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by adolph 26d ago
The origin of OK is disputed; however, most modern reference works hold that it originated around Boston as part of a fad in the late 1830s of abbreviating misspellings – that it is an initialism of "oll korrect" as a
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by adolph 1mo ago
The article source for the 17B gallons is a Congressional Research Service report and its source is a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report. Both are interesting reads. The 17B number is an estimate. Here are some of the inputs:
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by adolph 1mo ago
You might find the recent Theories of Everything podcast interview [0] with Peter Godfrey-Smith interesting. Godfrey-Smith is the author of "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness," which is a gre
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by adolph 1mo ago
the pissoir . . . the greatest concession most of them made to privacy was a little iron screen separating the user from the street. Look at the photos in the article, they weren't enclosed stalls. Its elegant in a way, just a coup
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by adolph 1mo ago
The article claims that "Meanwhile, as Prohibition played out, the project of constructing public bathrooms slowed to a trickle, and the few that had been built began to fall into disrepair." If that were the story, why was there
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by adolph 1mo ago
Below is some additional detail about the processor. Like the parent comment notes, ARM licenses IP of an ISA or core designs (see ARM C1-Ultra cores [0]), licensees like Qualcomm then make specific SoC for different use-cases. Xiaomi h
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by adolph 1mo ago
This is a great story. Almost wish the author had dug a little further in and discovered something like Clifford Stoll in The Cuckoo's Egg, but a nice writeup nontheless. Makes me wonder how many partly implemented but ignored protocol
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by adolph 1mo ago
Cheers. Lienhard is a Houston institution (warts and all, some people can't stand listening to his voice) and having listened to his show forever, some "don't you neg that nice John Lienhard" energy really came out.
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by adolph 1mo ago
> The author never lived in that era, and is making some of that shit up. Lienhard cites Borg [0], who is writes "Between 1903 and 1912 howls of protest arose over chauffeurs’ arrogance and insubordination and the pages of the autom
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by adolph 1mo ago
I’d like to see HIPAA-style audit log and review for surveillance products like Flock. An aspect of log reviews that I don’t have direct info about is contextual access alerts—the gist of it is that whatever record you access is evaluated f
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by adolph 1mo ago
> We need a better argument than that. I'm not arguing for or against this consumer information regulation. It would not surprise me if most tire industry folks support it since a acknowledged standard increases consumer trust in th
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by adolph 1mo ago
I agree with your point on chassis/mainboard matching but wrt "putting the old mainboard on a shelf," Framework does have some cases for bare mainboards made by coolermaster and I think the 3d printing files are available.
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by adolph 1mo ago
publicsurplus.com has everything a person might need and you are supporting local government. You can find yourself a nice laptop for cheap. "It's got a cop CPU, an i5 10th gen. It's got cop RAM, cop SSD, cop 12v power input.
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by adolph 1mo ago
> Right. If they wanted to ban things this would basically ban all knobby tires too wouldn’t it? Those will be exempt from testing/labelling.
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by adolph 1mo ago
The staff report [0] seems pretty reasonable. Essentially manufacturers measure their tires using ISO 28580:2018 [1] and self-report to a future state tire portal. I wish that test was available when I last bought tires and look forward to
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by adolph 1mo ago
Everything contributes but residential use is a much smaller share in total. Arizona water utilization by class [0]: 6% Industrial 22% Municipal 72% Agricultural 0. https://mapazdashboard.arizona.edu/article&#
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by adolph 1mo ago
> If consciousness spread virally “The nam-shub of Enki is both a story and an incantation,” the Librarian says. “A self-fulfilling fiction. Lagos believed that in its original form, which this translation only hints at, it actually did
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by adolph 1mo ago
> when people say consciousness, we usually mean the thing that goes away when we sleep or are anesthetized. How is dreaming during sleep different from consciousness when awake?

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