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by anamax 3y ago
> undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Entrapment?
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by anamax 3y ago
"improving" can't work for everyone when there are a limited number of slots. The solutions are win, polyandry, do without, leave, and change the demographics.
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by anamax 3y ago
My bank doesn't know whether a deposit came from a long- or short-term capital gain. (You may think that you've covered that with "brokerage" but there are lots of property types where there's no third party that k
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by anamax 3y ago
It's universally acknowledged that men "in high demand" behave differently than men in low demand. Thank god that women are different.
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The power is negligible compared to the compute. (The disk isn't in stand-by mode If you're doing something that involves transient files.) Moreover, doing the writes now may let you turn the system off. (As long as we're
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by anamax 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that ASML doesn't treat people as fungible so it shouldn't be too hard to describe the relevant immigration carveouts.
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by anamax 3y ago
Not doing a write when the disk is idle doesn't save anything even if that write turns out to be unnecessary.
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by anamax 3y ago
If only the Dutch govt could reduce total immigration while increasing immigration for the folks that ASML wants. As to subsidizing those folks ...
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by anamax 3y ago
> You don't have to be a gun nerd to know that a gun that comes standard with an attached bayonet is materially different from a rifle designed with deer hunting in mind. I'll bite - what are these relevant material differences
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> But in my experience, documents count for something because of the result of violating the documents. I'll bite - what's the "result" of violating a "no first use of nuclear weapons" statement? There are t
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by anamax 3y ago
Buying access to the content doesn't imply "until we don't feel like supporting said access."
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One of work's important dimensions is "are you being paid?" which can be generalized to "I'm doing this because of some external factor" such as in "clothes don't clean themselves." "do what
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by anamax 3y ago
A corporation is, however, a collection of people. Which raises the question, should a collection of people have different rights than the members of said collection?
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by anamax 3y ago
> Texas is absurdly large -- there's 800+ miles between the Louisiana border and El Paso, at the western edge. California is 1000+ miles north-south, albeit only 560 miles east-west. And Alaska is several Texas' in size.
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> While you are doing toy schematics, maybe. How many boards have more than 100k elements? (I'm reasonably certain that they can handle more, but ....) Your assumption that Python necessarily results in an "unmaintainable mess
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> Python's performance problems are unfixable Python's performance, aka runtime, is irrelevant for this application. Getting things done is a much better goal that being modern. Python is very good for getting things done for a
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by anamax 3y ago
> because interrogations are videotaped The FBI doesn't do audio recordings, let alone video.
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> As long as defense attorneys are involved, what is the harm in this? How about because defense attorneys are very expensive?
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by anamax 3y ago
We've entered the virtue signaling part of the discussion.
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In most cases, they don't fix, they decommission in place or run as degraded and that's likely automated. (They might pull a whole rack if enough servers in it die, but that's rare.)
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"cash pile" is somewhat misleading. When an LP "invests" $100M in a VC fund, said LP only sends a small fraction of that $100M at signing. The LP keeps the remainder until the fund does a capital call. Even then, that
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by anamax 3y ago
Growing wheat on your own land for your own use all within one state is regulated as interstate commerce because you didn't buy wheat produced in another state. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/317us111 T
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by anamax 3y ago
> Musicians aren’t competing to spread their genes Says who? Eric Clapton said that he learned guitar to meet girls and that was well before the thing with George Harrison. There's probably a point of diminishing returns but ....
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by anamax 3y ago
Whether or not the panels "have to come down" depends on who pays. If the solar company has to pay, it might not bother at the end of the lease term. This can turn into a very low price to sell the panels at that time.
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Residential solar has one huge advantage over utility solar - RS lets people virtue-signal. In other words, part of the payback/value is letting people say/think "I'm a good person." We can argue about whether the a
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by anamax 3y ago
Amazing the number of people on HN take any criticism of some program as dislike for helping those less fortunate.
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A third Miller was involved in the free speech case, Miller v California in 1973, that resulted in the "Miller test" for obscenity which is pretty much the law today.
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> The classic "road trueism" is If you build them, they will fill. That's only when new roads satisfy pre-existing demand. The fact that someone can't do something doesn't imply that they don't want to do it
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> If you look at vehicle miles traveled per capita, the US is around 2x that of major Western European countries, and nearly 4x that of Japan: You do know that the population density of the US is a fraction of that of the countries that
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> A 10min walk/transit window Move those goal posts. The original claim was "easy walking distance I.e 5-10 minutes walk." > can span 20-40 city blocks 20 NYC blocks is a mile, which is 20 minutes walking. https:&#x2F

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