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by anonytrary 5y ago
Super nitpicky, but @dang can we please update the title? "Pokemon" is both singular and plural, nobody ever says "Pokemons". It's just the Pokemon nerd in me... the title feels so wrong.
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by anonytrary 5y ago
> Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting ... the right of the people peaceably to assemble That's from the first amendment. How is Bitcoin any different than religion in this framing? Bitcoin is functionally equivalent to a peac
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Strongly disagree with this. Straws have a benefit over picking up a cup and sipping. A sip takes extra time and effort. If you have a lot of ice in the cup, it could get in the way of a sip. More importantly, straws can reduce spills, and
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by anonytrary 5y ago
> And of course horse produces manure which is useful in farming. Cars still lack that feature :) Cars shit exhaust. I think there are products/research where yo can capture the exhaust with some filter you apply, and then can send
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by anonytrary 5y ago
No, since you are forgetting to take into account the probability of an outcome/risk analysis. The probability of the local police being used against your city is so low, that the benefits are deemed to outweigh the risks. On the other
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by anonytrary 5y ago
This is very insightful. I've seen too many employees in big tech continue to shill their products and services because it helps their CEO or it helps their immediate team -- without thinking about who is being hurt (e.g. end users con
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by anonytrary 5y ago
I wish this attitude was more prevalent. The most dangerous thing we can do is turn a non-partisan issue into a partisan one. As soon as it becomes about right vs. left, you have an army of people on Twitter, etc. who are ready to mindlessl
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Makes sense. It seems like it would be best to create a fault tolerant society and have multiple forms of energy production instead of going all in on a single one. This can be done in an eco-friendly way, too. I don't think there will
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Coils have poor heat distribution and make it extremely hard to control the temperature at any given time.
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by anonytrary 5y ago
You can't successfully ban X and replace it with Y if Y does not have feature parity with X. Gas stoves are almost always better for cooking; they give you a more even heat distribution and it is easier to control the amount of heat th
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Unrelated, but Bitcoin cannot be banned without infringing on human rights. Bitcoin is a collectively enforced source of truth, like a bunch of people gathering together and engaging in this ledger protocol with pieces of paper and ink, bei
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Oh man this is extremely bad news. The highway should not get to decide which color cars are allowed through. Google et al, are only going to make the internet's underground railroad larger. Users aren't supposed to be slaves to t
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by anonytrary 5y ago
To add to the conspiracy, what if Google really does have a bin of pet products laying around and whips them out on social media at just the right time? Right now, as of me posting this comment, this[0] is one of the top posts on HN. Google
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by anonytrary 5y ago
I mean you can just put a seat on a hoverboard, while playing the pedals like a piano... I think this study is not the end of hoverboards, lol. "Standing vs. sitting" is a pretty easy problem to fix when it comes to bikes, hoverbo
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by anonytrary 5y ago
> Call, Apply, and Bind help keep our code clean. In my experience, the exact opposite is true. Modern JS is much cleaner with arrow functions and classes. If I see things like apply/call/bind now, I immediately think it's
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Innovation can take place so long as the right people are getting their deserved royalties. In this case, anyone whose code was used in the training set should get a lifetime royalty.
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by anonytrary 5y ago
This reminds me of when #DeleteFacebook was trending and some people suggested that rather than deleting all of your posts, comments, etc., you instead edit them with fake data about yourself and gibberish so that you throw off anyone minin
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by anonytrary 5y ago
How is that relevant here? We're talking about a two dimensional vector space (hence "east", "north").
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by anonytrary 5y ago
True! So I wonder how this works for above-ground pipes. If the water is sitting in some U-pipe would it not just leak out because its velocity is zero? Or are the holes so small that the σ > p even at rest?
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by anonytrary 5y ago
12m east / 3m north does not make any sense, since vector division is undefined. You might be thinking about the derivative which has no units in this case.
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Is this making use of Bernoulli's principle to avoid busted pipes? Small holes in the pipe when water is running would not leak since σ > p for high speeds and small area. When water is not running, the water leaks out due to increa
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by anonytrary 5y ago
My physics professors always just said "unit" or "unity". Never heard of "uno" before now.
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Hold on. I talk like this and I'm a free man with a good job, good friends, and a good life. Sure, it becomes even more apparent when you are in a cage. But it's true, everyone really is in a cage of their own making. Even worse,
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by anonytrary 5y ago
We should make a conscious effort to avoid this thinking. It's way too common for people to dismiss a brilliant man because of a few bad deeds or events that happened surrounding him. Genius is rarely accompanied by butterflies and rai
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Being stoic is overrated. Much prefer when we actually talk about ideas and don't just sit there mysteriously.
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Funny, because the lowercase "L" was the first thing that came to mind about Ubuntu Mono for me :)
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by anonytrary 5y ago
I think Ubuntu Mono does a great job with unmistakable characters: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono?preview.text=!...
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by anonytrary 5y ago
This font tries to increase cognitive ease by keeping the characters at the same width, but I don't think other popular monospace fonts aren't legible. I use Ubuntu Mono and have had no problems. I never understood why people use
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Personally I see this a lot and I'm not a fan: it('should work', () => { inputOutputPairs.forEach(([input, output]) => { expect(testedFunction(input)).equals(output); }) }) Tests are way more usef
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by anonytrary 5y ago
Is this accurate? This library] makes it painless to [do difficult thing]. [Complicated thing] made simple and easy. All you have to do is just [difficult thing]. Third line should read "All you have to do is [many, often co

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