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by analyte123 3y ago
It’s really about fuel economy, not emissions, unless you’re counting CO2 as an emission. Idle-off that makes it so you can’t steer while stopped at a red light, unreliable CVTs, sloppy gas pedals in eco-mode that you have to disable every
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by analyte123 3y ago
Carifree sells (expensive) hydroxyapatite toothpaste in the US.
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by analyte123 4y ago
Big O is kind of a valid question for ops in terms of response time versus load.
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by analyte123 4y ago
Do they still refuse to work if someone defends themself against an attacker?
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by analyte123 4y ago
I’ve heard this stated as “jobs that don’t exist for economic reasons aren’t going to get automated for economic reasons”.
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by analyte123 4y ago
"Kidnapping" basically allows you to legally SWAT someone as long as you're in earshot of their house. Some years back a friend of mine had a SWAT team show up because someone "heard a girl screaming"; when he refus
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by analyte123 4y ago
Kind of bizarre that the author won’t entertain the most obvious explanation given the documented problems with many generic drugs [1]. I guess the difference in this case is that the patients can tell right away. [1] https://www
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by analyte123 4y ago
Knowing who is in charge of what service is something that should be solved by a service registry, not by a flaky informal gossip network. If people believe they can't solve this problem without overhearing things in the office, they a
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by analyte123 4y ago
Many of Apple's products could be attacked by smaller companies, if it weren't for their anti-competitive practices. For example, AirPods get exclusive and superior APIs on iPhones - it doesn't matter if you make a better o
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by analyte123 4y ago
Pandemic unemployment was $2400 a month plus whatever you would normally get from your state. Combined with student loan forbearance and the stimulus checks, this could add up to a lot.
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by analyte123 4y ago
High-flow drilled-out showerhead for sure.
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by analyte123 4y ago
It isn’t - other customers are paying for their ability to have electricity when (and how much) they want it, via the net metering subsidy. If you divide their cost by the lifetime expected generation, you get 9-13 cents per kWh depending o
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by analyte123 4y ago
The global policy impact of Fukushima would have been so much less if it just didn’t have “-shima” in the name.
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by analyte123 4y ago
What if someone was stealing your property? Let’s say a week or two of income worth. You would just let them walk away with it?
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by analyte123 4y ago
It was quite short-sighted for the owners of hundreds of billions in commercial real estate to sit idly while almost all work turned into sitting in front of a personal screen. You used to have drafting rooms, map rooms, operation centers,
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by analyte123 4y ago
It seems like a decent path would be to learn enough to start integrating AI into the type of things you are already working on, for example adding recommendations, AI-based tagging or autocomplete to apps that don’t already have it. Users
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by analyte123 4y ago
I worked somewhere where almost everything was run on some kind of mainframe, but it was abstracted from 90% or more of the developers, who wrote more or less normal code in normal languages. The “mainframe programming” was basically a syst
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by analyte123 4y ago
I don't know how you can look at a graph of how many teenagers work, drive, and go out that suddenly declines after 2008 and not mention the major economic recession at the time. While I agree that there are technological changes and p
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by analyte123 4y ago
The number of housing units under construction in the US is at a record high [1] and the number of people entering their homebuying age is going to slowly decline for the next 20 years [2]. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se
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by analyte123 4y ago
He is simply referring to the fact that if you can predict either the weather or power demand better than others you will have an advantage in power markets.
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by analyte123 4y ago
w3m is a better alternative to elinks in my experience.
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by analyte123 4y ago
Google Drive's desktop sync app is the worst piece of software I have used in recent memory. It simply can not sync large amounts of small files in any reasonable amount of time (hours and hours for 20GB of files on gigabit ethernet),
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by analyte123 4y ago
Indeed participating in a power market whatsoever (even paper trading) usually has regulatory and collateral requirements to get in the door. For example, on MISO in the US: https://cdn.misoenergy.org/Minimum%20Participation
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by analyte123 4y ago
Framing is the easy part. Some 5-story apartments by me got framed in a month but took 8 months to be ready for move-in. I can’t think of an air nailer equivalent for wiring, drywall, insulation, sprinklers, flooring, trim, and so on. Pain
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by analyte123 4y ago
It’s absolute hogwash that puts the entire paper in question. Just off the top of my head: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/... (the 100% here is completely public information) htt
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by analyte123 4y ago
Anyone who has ever contributed to privacy or security technology should “have their life turned to shit” too under this logic. All the evil terorrist money launderers probably used VPNs or Tor too. Maybe they posted on HN, making you part
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by analyte123 4y ago
The US and most of Western Europe use less energy per capita than they did 20 years ago.
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by analyte123 4y ago
I never understood why online merchants wanted me to sign up for their newsletters so bad until reading this older post. It's because (so argues the post) if the customer doesn't click to your store from their email, they are like
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What Is the “Google Search Tax” and How Your Business Can Avoid Paying It (2018)(jayvas.com)
2 points by analyte123 4y ago|1 comments
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by analyte123 4y ago
If you think of the web as Google search's "content", they have let it rot. If Google had spent 1% of their AdWords payouts on encouraging people to post quality content on the web through e.g. better web authoring tools and

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