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by apendleton 3y ago
We all paid for the roads too ("we" includes cyclists), and we paid for them to accommodate any vehicles that are legal to operate on them, which in most jurisdictions includes bikes.
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by apendleton 3y ago
I think the space-elevator concept is sort of silly, but this doesn't seem like the most pertinent criticism to me. Presumably in a hypothetical future in which a space elevator is under serious consideration, vastly greater resources
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by apendleton 3y ago
All the more reason to shift to a pay-per-use model rather than the high-fixed-cost model of car ownership, which incentivizes uses your car for as many trips as possible once you've made the initial expenditure to buy the thing. If th
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by apendleton 3y ago
Depends on the reaction. Most efforts are around deuterium-tritium fusion (that's the pair that's easiest to make fuse), which emits most of its energy as high-energy neutrons. So for these, yes, like the peer comment said, the ne
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by apendleton 3y ago
There probably _is_ a similar, relevant distinction between mass-manufactured cars like Ford's and hand-built high-end cars like, I dunno, a McLaren F1, though. We don't use this exact terminology, but I think SpaceX is trying to
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by apendleton 3y ago
No, you definitely can. You generally can't mutate things that would cause the iterator itself to be invalidated (like, you can't delete items from a vector while you're iterating over it), but you can get an iterator over a
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by apendleton 3y ago
Metrics-driven policing often gets the blame here: shifts in policing policy that hold individual precincts, officers, etc., directly responsible for crime statistics under their watch were initially successful in more efficiently allocatin
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by apendleton 4y ago
As I understand it, it's not a copyright issue, it's a terms-of-service issue. You're only authorized to use GPT in accordance with their terms, which prohibit using the service to develop a competitor. Doing so anyway is una
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by apendleton 4y ago
> RP-1 leaves behind a soot-like residue all over the inside of the engines. This process has a name that I can't recall. "coking"
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by apendleton 4y ago
Most methane cows emit is through belching: https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/33/which-is-a-bigger-methane-so...
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by apendleton 4y ago
I dunno, I live in Washington, DC, which has many of those properties (snow, freezing temperatures, heavy thunderstorms in the summer), and knowing which ten-minute window in the next hour was the least likely to get me soaked if I wanted t
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by apendleton 4y ago
> if you think this is an objective standard for reliable evidence, you're in over your head I don't, and I'm well aware of Gell-Mann amnesia, but I'm also not going to personally interview every witness of every even
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by apendleton 4y ago
The vast, vast majority of yesterday's conspiracy theories remain just conspiracy theories, and the vast majority of today's likely will as well. I'd be perfectly comfortable having anything that looks like a conspiracy theor
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by apendleton 4y ago
Who are the kids in this analogy? It seems like what's at issue is whether or not depositors are protected (executives, shareholders, and creditors are all getting the shaft). Do you think depositors should have made different choices,
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by apendleton 4y ago
I often do too! But I certainly also had some professors in college who were frankly just really bad at conveying their expertise in a way that was accessible to people who were not also already experts. Some SMEs happen to have good commun
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by apendleton 4y ago
With respect, you and your company of people who are already subject matter experts are not his audience; his audience is people who are not experts and want to learn about this subject matter. Most people on HN are also not subject matter
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by apendleton 4y ago
Minor nit: an "ordinance" is a rule or law; "ordnance" is the stuff that blows up.
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by apendleton 4y ago
I experimented with them (also with capnproto) at my last job for a usecase involving dense numerical data where being able to randomly seek within a dataset would have been really helpful for speed reasons, but found that as compared to pr
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by apendleton 4y ago
Seems to be matching against one particular typeface, and is very sensitive to how similar what you write is to that typeface. The first thing I tried was a lowercase "a," which, in my handwriting, is a one-story "a," an
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by apendleton 4y ago
Roosevelt Island (which is a part of the Manhattan borough) actually has an underground, pneumatic trash collection system: https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/09/inside-roosevelt-islan... . I think it would b
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by apendleton 4y ago
A lot of these properties apparently are bought by wealthy foreigners purely speculatively, and sit vacant. If they were buying them to rent them out, I'd agree with you, but as it is, they end up reducing the housing stock that's
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by apendleton 4y ago
The injunction against removing it wouldn't compel them to update it, though, right? In this one they promise to post a new one every month, so even if you're forbidden from removing the current one, unless they force you to creat
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by apendleton 4y ago
Probably worth stating the obvious that this only includes shows that originate on linear TV, though. Their estimate for linear-TV entertainment shows is that 30-40% of them watch via streaming, but when you add that to all the shows that g
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by apendleton 4y ago
There are variants of this approach where, rather than having the needles be coated, they're made of a dissolvable sugar with the vaccine incorporated into them (so they are the vaccine in some sense). You'd apply them like a ba
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by apendleton 4y ago
Atom and VS Code are literally owned by the same corporation, though, since Microsoft bought GitHub.
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by apendleton 4y ago
Per unit of panel surface area, not per unit of land area. If the sun is coming in at an angle, you'd be able to collect all that's available with less panel area than total land area by angling them (or equivalently, in this new
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by apendleton 4y ago
I think we're suffering from some fuzziness about what bounds checks we're referring to. Even in your example, you only need to check the size of the Vec<T> when you instantiate the iterator, not each time the iterator acces
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by apendleton 4y ago
In Rust at least, once you instantiate the iterator, the array it's iterating over can't be mutated until the iterator is dropped, and that can be statically guaranteed at compile time. So you don't need to bounds-check at ev
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by apendleton 4y ago
I don't think what he's proposing is to replace any ad revenue -- he's trying to grow revenue and take a company currently in the red into the black. I think he means to keep all the ad revenue, and then add that much again i
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by apendleton 4y ago
In general I'm inclined to agree, but in this particular case given Jacobin's ideological lean, I imagine they see their audience as being mostly either in the first camp or agnostic as to this issue, with vanishingly few people i

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