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721.
by alwa 2y ago
For what purpose do people on the street want to shoot into the ground to elicit a police response while not unduly inconveniencing the neighbors? Is this a way to jump the queue on the emergency service phone line or something?
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by alwa 2y ago
I wonder if it would be feasible, with modern techniques and sufficient motivation, to map where the “background” diodes ended up setting in the concrete; then to measure newer sweeps against that baseline.
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by alwa 2y ago
Doesn’t this mainly go to wildfire suppression, and in fact as wildfires have multiplied over that decade, hasn’t the service regularly raided its normal accounts in order to cover its bills for fire prevention and control?
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by alwa 2y ago
Subhead: The city’s unique pay formula created a perverse incentive for Uber and Lyft to prevent drivers from logging on, even during periods of high demand. The Goodhart’s Law runs strong in this one: the local law attempted to compensat
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Uber and Lyft Locked Out New York's Driver Wage Law(bloomberg.com)
2 points by alwa 2y ago|1 comments
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by alwa 2y ago
Wait. From TFA I’m to understand that this Matt person, posting as Wordpress.org, tweeted: > We’re still getting lots of questions about this [checkbox]. What if an agency is part of your affiliate program[…]? …addressing the WP Engine
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by alwa 2y ago
Can be science! Doesn’t have to be science! Science folks do exploratory studies all the time to get a sense of whether the tree is worth barking up before they do the hard work of proving it. Psychedelic studies might not suit themselves t
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by alwa 2y ago
Oh man. I felt that way before I jumped into drywall work in a family member’s house—it’s making something white, how hard could it be? MAN did my repair job come out streaky and cracked. And it took me about 2 weeks to get through one wall
729.
by alwa 2y ago
I suspect it was exactly a function of improper storage (and that it would last forever in a cool dry place). My broader point, I guess, is that the appropriate date to sell something by depends so heavily on factors unknowable at productio
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by alwa 2y ago
Your correction is incorrect; the gp commenter cited TFA correctly. Perhaps it’s worth a closer read: > All told, they estimate tropical storms since 1930 have contributed to between 3.6 million and 5.2 million deaths in the U.S. – more
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by alwa 2y ago
When people’s lives are uprooted, they eventually (up to 15 years later, in this study’s counting) die earlier than they would have if their lives hadn’t been uprooted. And people who are barely holding on before the storm do worse than peo
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by alwa 2y ago
> “more than all deaths nationwide from motor vehicle accidents, infectious diseases, or battle deaths in wars during the same period.” The researchers put big numbers on the indirect impact but they were precise about what they meant.
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by alwa 2y ago
Have you ever bought an old cardboard tube of salt? The last time I did was in a tropical location. Somehow over the years it had acquired the scent of wet rot, and the relentless cycles of humidity had effectively recrystalized the content
734.
by alwa 2y ago
To me it doesn’t seem to speak at all to “how good” anybody is, just to the nature of the work the job demands. A fine artist will paint a better portrait, but they might not be the right hire to get a housing development painted and shippe
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by alwa 2y ago
And I mean… one was a profit-making monopoly, and the other is a hacker-flavored charity doing a public service on a shoestring budget of donations.
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by alwa 2y ago
It might be worth reading the article! Although a sibling comment up the page linked to a clearer description of WaHo’s disaster operations [0]. Since the chain’s operations are radically standardized, they assemble “jump teams” of repair w
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by alwa 2y ago
Agreed on that aspect, too: the basic idea seems more than reasonable (use my work, just be a good neighbor, remember your roots and give a bit back if our work helps you succeed). And I agree with the author that this is something that’s b
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by alwa 2y ago
It seems that it doesn’t so much “have a very clear definition” as a small faction are attempting to create a definition. What is clear about “with minimal restrictions to protect the producer’s business model”? Don’t business models change
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by alwa 2y ago
Even if the destination device were to write something to said discs, the optical media are cheap enough that it makes sense to destroy them (or archive them in case they become useful for forensic purposes) rather than reusing them. Plus,
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by alwa 2y ago
Is there really nobody in the Wordpress.org organization who can provide a check on this kind of behavior? Or do they really collectively share this Matt character’s attitude toward professionalism?
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by alwa 2y ago
> But what if I need to send data two-ways? Some systems cannot operate one-way, so they require a two-way solution. For these use cases, Owl has a unique bidirectional data diode solution – ReCon – that operates on two parallel one-way
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by alwa 2y ago
https://archive.is/nGaiU
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by alwa 2y ago
There were some balloons coincidentally in the background of a colleague's camera view. The Carter volunteered "and can I just say, we need more positivity in the world, the balloons behind you give a good vibe." My colleague
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m having trouble understanding what CVI means here. Is it the firm Computer Vision Inc. ( https://www.cvi.ai/ )? The firm in the post seems to be called Tavus, and their products either “digital twins” or “Carter.” Not mean
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by alwa 2y ago
You also may not fly over populated areas, and you require a nontrivial amount of open space to take off and land. And the weather needs to be clear and calm. But if you can pull that off…
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by alwa 2y ago
Also, if you’re more visual, algorithm inventor Avery Wang delivered an accessible and detailed lecture at DAFx several years back: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YVTnj3OIhwI I found it especially insightful because he start
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by alwa 2y ago
The interesting thing to me is the way natural rat populations self-regulate once they reach their equilibrium density. Maybe some of it is the benefit of hindsight, but why would it follow that human populations, any more than rats, would
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by alwa 2y ago
Subhead: “His new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.” > Sher: This could sound geeky, but what is the distinguishing quality of making art? It is to partic
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Ayad Akhtar isn't afraid of AI [theater review](theatlantic.com)
1 points by alwa 2y ago|1 comments
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by alwa 2y ago
Is there anything to the notion that in Go, success and failure are concrete, objective, and more or less easy to measure (or at least measured along the same kind of rules)? While it is computationally intractable to iterate through future

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