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by akozak 4y ago
I assume it happened once and became NASA lore.
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by akozak 4y ago
I've wanted an HRV/ERV system for a long time, but have been wondering about best practices with the intakes. One in each room? In the ceiling, if our furnace outputs are in the floor? The new ducting network seems like the hardes
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by akozak 4y ago
Important downside of replicator technology that it's not likely to be physically possible outside of TV. Otherwise I agree it's superior to microwaves (though curious about its techno-economics).
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by akozak 4y ago
Oh yea, but funny enough a lot of the critiques were shared via the internal version of Google+ since people actually took the time to write things and it had a pretty good UX. I don't think it's a great comparison to Meta ... thi
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by akozak 4y ago
It's an apt comparison, and obviously there has been movement (eg the EU) to push them onto usb, but I think cars are a slightly different context than laptops/phones where there us much more of a social incentive to standardize e
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by akozak 4y ago
Yes there is - because their proprietary (until today) plug is not the industry standard.
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by akozak 4y ago
Doesn't really matter even if it's slightly technically better. We are WAY too late in the game here (US is already deploying federal funds!), and they should have engaged with open standards a decade ago.
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by akozak 4y ago
Tesla is at least 5 years late here, maybe more like 10. All of the US federal funds will likely go to CCS now because they stuck to the proprietary network strategy, despite the OBVIOUS and natural social utility from an open industry-wide
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by akozak 4y ago
That's an extremely bad way to decide what to believe.
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by akozak 4y ago
He's in that movie.
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by akozak 4y ago
THIS is the hacker mindset.
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by akozak 4y ago
The view that we don't fight confirmation bias very much comports with my priors.
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by akozak 4y ago
Ask anyone deep in the wind or RE development industry! It does matter, because policymakers (at least in the US) have decided it matters though law, regulation, and treaty. It doesn't ultimately matter (practically) if policy doesn&#x
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by akozak 4y ago
For more context about my 'metadata' comment, there is the PNG metadata (should be easy to check) but there is also the watermark in the bottom right. Here is a reddit thread (one of many) investigating the watermark, seems to con
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by akozak 4y ago
I had this exact idea, so glad it exists :) Adding model provenance would be a good idea so you can support multiple. I was wondering if DALLE 2 embeds any metadata in the images but haven't had a chance to investigate. I also think yo
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by akozak 4y ago
There is the dystopian version of always connected, but it'd be nice to get firmware updates (supposing those updates mainly fix bugs, add features, improve performance).
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by akozak 4y ago
Totally - not all nuanced arguments are emotive at root. I think HN is at it's best when the discussion is evidence-oriented.
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by akozak 4y ago
That's fair. It's definitely fashionable to be hyperbolic. But it might also be wrong to interpret those statements literally or at face-value. See Emotivism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotivism That is t
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by akozak 4y ago
I think I'd rather see short, strident statements of opinion than multi-paragraphed 'reasoned' arguments that are essentially the same thing but with different aesthetics. Much quicker to process!
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by akozak 4y ago
Setting aside the high cost of growing the constellation, I'm not sure they can just add more satellites even in theory. As I understand it Starlink has performance tradeoffs wrt to density of ground stations. Others on HN would probab
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by akozak 4y ago
It sort of is in the complaint. It sounds like the FTC imposed requirements on MoneyGram separately years ago, and MoneyGram tried but failed to impose those obligations on Walmart's retail locations. (It also seems that Walmart is i
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by akozak 4y ago
No one is arguing for that. Supporting public transportation for others will help you maintain your luxury driving experience.
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by akozak 4y ago
This is really important to understand. Someone explained to me once how small changes (low single digit reduction) to cars on the road leads to huge congestion benefits. I'm sure someone on HN will have a good citation. Public transpo
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by akozak 4y ago
It's just as shallow (unless you're a Fidelity insider) to assume they went through a rational process and have a strong legal argument that they're upholding their fiduciary duty to account holders. Big companies make dumb d
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by akozak 4y ago
I would agree if there were no externalities, but those nerds are paying celebs to advertise crypto to the masses as an investment (soon Fidelity will help people put 20% of their 401k into bitcoin - seems bad) and we are adding GW to the g
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by akozak 5y ago
I revisit his "Are Index Funds Communist?" piece from 2016 often, definitely what got me hooked. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-24/are-in...
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by akozak 5y ago
Given their metrics (reportedly ~2M daily actives & growing) it struck me as cheap.
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by akozak 5y ago
Feels like a story half-told without looking past the war to the failure of reconstruction policy post-Lincoln.
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by akozak 5y ago
Isn't that easily verifiable? One expert told us that the chance of catching illicit actors is “magnitudes greater” using blockchain than in the traditional banking sector. Another went so far as to say that “if all criminals used blo
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by akozak 5y ago
Eccentric Orbits is a really great book about their history, especially the near de-orbit with lots of fun tidbits about their fundraising and US gov response. https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Iridium-John-Bloom/

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