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by amalcon 8y ago
Presumably grandparent means downhill. Twenty years ago, you basically couldn't buy an adult-sized helmet for alpine skiing even if you wanted to. These days, it's weird not to have one. I think the change was due to some high
902.
by amalcon 8y ago
In addition to the confounding variables others have mentioned, I think the most important factor is when autopilot is enabled. If you don't (or can't) use autopilot at night, in inclement weather, or in construction zones, then
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by amalcon 8y ago
It may not be what you're looking for, but there's nothing stopping you using any IMAP client you like. I like K9 Mail myself.
904.
by amalcon 8y ago
Being able to assign the blame elsewhere is cold comfort when you've been in an auto accident.
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by amalcon 8y ago
> If you asked people what type of store they want to shop in, very few would describe a walmart, and yet walmart seems to gain plenty of customers. I think a lot of people would say "a store that has what I want for a low price&qu
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by amalcon 8y ago
It's a little weird to count a markup language, a presentation language, and a query language on the same axis as Turing-complete programming languages. If we go by that metric, the average sysadmin knows dozens of languages all at on
907.
by amalcon 8y ago
That type exists, yes. There is also the variety that is simply impossible to unlock from one side.
908.
by amalcon 8y ago
There are plenty of locks that do not use keys, e.g. a keyless deadbolt.
909.
by amalcon 8y ago
How is that mechanism not, itself, a lock? It's an unusual (and well suited) kind of lock, sure, but still a lock.
910.
by amalcon 8y ago
My name has an unusual spelling, so I always have to spell it on the phone. I've had issues every time I try to use the NATO alphabet for this, because several of the phonetics are names. E.g. someone named Matt might say: "Ma
911.
by amalcon 8y ago
Hence the expression "to fly by the seat of one's pants".
912.
by amalcon 8y ago
The BOS-NYC Amtrak route costs a significant multiple of the buses (2-3x fares of the reputable bus companies, depending on day+time). On average, it takes about the same amount of time -- the bus is just higher variance. The train that mn
913.
by amalcon 8y ago
Does that actually exist? It was vaporware for a pretty long time (though admittedly, I haven't checked in more than a year).
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by amalcon 9y ago
The tenth amendment obviously did add nothing substantive to the Constitution. The Constitution explicitly enumerates the things the various branches of government can do. Explicitly stating that they can't do other things is no mo
915.
by amalcon 9y ago
People make this mistake a lot (anti-gun people make it, too). The point was never that the American people would be able to repel an oppressive force using only their personal weaponry. That was ludicrous even back in the 1700's. Th
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by amalcon 9y ago
I haven't really followed those developments too closely. Do folks think that OpenSSL gets enough attention these days to overcome the structural deficiencies relative to NSS?
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by amalcon 9y ago
If you don't indent, then HN does not respect single line breaks. > quote markers only work at the beginning of a line. I've implemented another suggestion for how to avoid the need for them, though. Thanks!
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by amalcon 9y ago
I never thought about using one greater-than sign to signal that it is a quote, and italics to denote the end of the quote. Thanks, updated.
919.
by amalcon 9y ago
If there were any sensible way to quote on HN, I'd surely use that instead. Could you suggest an alternative?
920.
by amalcon 9y ago
It is the case in the place that the study was done, though.
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by amalcon 9y ago
> This sudden loss could have caused stress, inflammation and/or high blood pressure, any of which could make serious cardiovascular problems more likely, the study authors noted. In addition, a financial blow of this scale may we
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by amalcon 9y ago
The baseball thing is actually an interesting point. One of the most interesting things that occasionally happens in baseball is when a position player has to pitch, because the game has drawn on so long. It's interesting because thes
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by amalcon 9y ago
Most streetlamps had been HID lamps for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_discharge_lamp Efficiency was one reason for this, but the bigger reason was just that (for the duty cycle of a streetla
924.
by amalcon 9y ago
The vacuum of space is actually a terrible heatsink, because it does not provide conduction or convection. Actually, even low-powered Earth-orbit satellites often have cooling problems. They need large heatsinks to radiate the heat from t
925.
by amalcon 9y ago
Your own link says it's less absolute than you're making it out to be: > A comparison of congestion data from 1982 to 2011 by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute clearly demonstrated that additional roadways reduced the
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by amalcon 9y ago
"Ordered" is accurate, as they mean it in the thermodynamic sense. It's not that precise because of the other meaning, though.
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by amalcon 9y ago
So, dredmorbius has quite a list there, but those are things that would be outside the purview of an election judge. I was mainly referring to things like intimidation at the polling places (I know people who've experienced this) or r
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by amalcon 9y ago
He could plausibly mean "progressive causes" like making sure that people are not unlawfully prevented from voting. I'd surely ask him if I lived there, though.
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by amalcon 9y ago
> Score voting doesn't violate Arrow's Theorem (because it's not a ranked-choice system). This is very much like the idea that radix-sort can run in linear time worst-case, because it's not a comparison sort. While a
930.
by amalcon 9y ago
This has always seemed like a really silly argument. You're already trusting the US government, VeriSign, and a multitude of other organizations that control CAs, so DANE doesn't make this worse. It's kind of a moot point, t

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