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by akiselev 4y ago
English is a stress-timed language whereas Spanish is a syllable-timed language [1] - there's just no way to square that circle pronunciation wise. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrony
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> I am sure there were US equivalents documenting the condition of housing in Chicago, New York and surrounds. A famous example is photography of the Five Points slums in New York [1] that led to significant changes in the city. [1] h
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by akiselev 4y ago
Economically mass producing microchips is only possible because they are 100s of square millimeters in size and very valuable per square mm. Any bigger than that and error rates in the fab process start to destroy the yield. These fibers ar
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by akiselev 4y ago
An eight pound bag of pinto beans costs $6.88 at my local Walmart and contains over 12,000 calories - that's six days of the 2k calorie diet! Lots of healthy grains like buckwheat and brown rice are available at similar price per cal
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by akiselev 4y ago
It's not a question of criminal behavior but the bank's interpretation of the law versus the government's. As long as banks don't draw attention to themselves and don't get sued, they can operate largely in gray are
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This was written by the "Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies" at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which is a think thank that describes itself thusly: > Founded in 1976, the Ethics and Public Policy Center is Wa
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IANAL but my layman’s understanding is no, there is no law preventing them from halting withdrawals and a temporary suspension can on rare occasions stop a bank run. Problem is, clients can sue to get their withdrawals and the judge in char
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by akiselev 4y ago
Thankfully, worshipping at the altar of the US Dollar is the only unshakably bipartisan activity in US politics.
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You'd walk face first right into Moravec's Paradox [1] which observes that higher order intelligence is far easier than basic locomotion & cognition. Probably because the former has only been evolving for millions of years in
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> Eventually, I took a biro to the tape, sorry dad, and scribbled across it, which seemed to break it. Finally we were free. How did he react? This sounds like the beginning to a Netflix true crime miniseries
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by akiselev 4y ago
I’m from FTX and I’m here to make you money.
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I think it's a two sided chicken and egg type problem: we can only buy what's on our shelves but - having personally come from a country that's hardly famous for its cuisine - I think American food culture ranges from poor to
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> The last time we found something that was predicted by the Standard Model was 1983, wasn't it? That's 40 years. IANAPhysicist so correct me if I'm wrong but the last time we found something predicted [1] by the Standar
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To save everyone the click his feed is equal parts misogyny [1], 3 AM shit posting [2], and tantalizing flashes of self awareness [3]. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632574090216103937 [2] https:/&
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by akiselev 4y ago
Lobster was considered a low class food because it goes bad extremely fast once dead, i.e. within 24 hours even if properly refrigerated, and so it'd only be fed to people like prisoners who had no other choice. The popularity of lobst
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by akiselev 4y ago
Tidal heating [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_heating
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A good rule of thumb is that truly compostable bags are almost completely useless as bags in the real world. They're just barely good enough to carry the scraps from the kitchen to the compost bin but they won't work as a liner fo
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by akiselev 4y ago
It would be prohibitively expensive to recapture it because the buildings meant to store whiskey for as cheap as possible while it ages. They're little more than sheds made of corrugated sheet metal.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> The cost to build electronic prototypes has decreased only marginally, mechatronics, robotics and most types of actuation are still a big boys club etc. I strongly disagree. Not only have the non-recurring expenses in EE cratered t
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by akiselev 4y ago
Someone would first have to prove you used an LLM, no?
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Geography is destiny.
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There are giant CNCs [1] that can cut marble and other stone so between the machine and transportation to Easter island, in the ballpark of a few hundred thousand dollars. Most of that is setup cost for the first one though, since a block o
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by akiselev 4y ago
The 90/10 number is definitely biased towards California, but the national numbers really aren't that better. The 75th percentile for electricians is $77,350 [1] and the 25th percentile for developers is $90,870 [2] so the overall
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by akiselev 4y ago
That really depends on what you mean by "tech worker" but moving from knowledge work to trade work rarely works out unless you're already a master craftsman and just switching to an artisan business full time. The salaries ar
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Teams is the projection of a fourth dimension ancient Eldritch horror onto the mortal plane. AI had nothing to do with it.
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The 21st century in a nutshell: too long; didn't read.
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Except 2x4 framing, which is often a loss leader to get contractors in the door.
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Then skip all that and start a main street store selling desorption column smoothies/shakes/cold pressed juices. ??? Profit.
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That’s too much fuss too. I’m happy with my $15 hand grinder and a $10 Turkish coffee pot. The hand grinder is both aerodynamic and cheap enough to throw at the kids on my lawn. Liability insurance not included.
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There were. Lots of them. So much so that both Herbalife and Amway have been under numerous consent decrees with the US government for decades [1][2]. [1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/20

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