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by apendleton 4y ago
Was going to comment this same thing. We've been finding that the cold-start times are somewhat worse, but not disastrously so.
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by apendleton 4y ago
This, 100%. He has become very successful by showing up as an outsider to a couple of different industries and successfully challenging entrenched conventional wisdom, in ways other people had failed to do previously. It sort of seems like
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by apendleton 4y ago
Almost certainly not. Nobody can match Youtube's payout of 55% of revenue to creators, or come anywhere close to it; Tiktok's monetization model is both worse at the outset and destined to continue to get worse still over time (cr
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by apendleton 4y ago
> In-flight wifi (and otherwise all other transmissions) have pretty much always been air to ground Would be curious to see a citation. My understanding was that of the major providers of in-flight Internet, only Gogo was air-to-ground,
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by apendleton 4y ago
I assume airlines looking to outfit whole fleets aren't finding out about pricing through the website, and probably aren't paying sticker price for either the equipment or the service. I guess the Gulfstream set probably isn'
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by apendleton 4y ago
Yeah, there are steep hurdles, but the hope eventually with at least some of the smaller gen IV designs is that a design can be approved once along with any requirements for siting, etc., and that then at each site where they're to be
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by apendleton 4y ago
I suspect that this person wasn't talking about PWRs vs. BWRs, but rather, PWRs vs more-exotic gen-IV-ish designs (molten salt cooling, gaseous helium cooling, etc. etc.).
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by apendleton 4y ago
Quickwit is another project aiming at this sort of stateless search: https://quickwit.io/ . I've been keeping an eye on it for a possible project that would involve wanting to offer search over a lot of data for an app
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by apendleton 4y ago
With a vehicle, probably not. Moving form one satellite's orbit to another is extremely fuel-intensive (you'd typically need ~thousands of km/h of velocity change to do it), so it's not really practical to have a single
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by apendleton 4y ago
> that's a real thing advertisers DO want I think GP is talking about a more specific thing, and it's one I experience all the time too: that I'll visit a website briefly one time, by accident, or to satisfy some curiosity
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by apendleton 4y ago
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification!
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by apendleton 4y ago
It looks from the diagrams like the plan once the keywork is done is to have some of the keys operate what look to me to essentially be bicycle cables (Bowden cables), which for some reason I find totally delightful.
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by apendleton 4y ago
In case anyone's looking for more background, there's a great book from a couple of years ago called "Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America," by NYT reporter Conor Dougherty, that covers the history of the YIMBY
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by apendleton 4y ago
At least as of last public discussion, the plan was to use off-the-shelf GE J85s for the demonstrator.
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by apendleton 4y ago
"Turkey" is also a country, and yet through a combination of context and capitalization, we don't seem to have any trouble telling whether that or the bird was intended. This seems like a non-problem.
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by apendleton 4y ago
Obviously a very US-oriented perspective, but: yes, to the extent that the US has historically attempted at least sometimes to be a global police power, they're significantly constrained when the country they're trying to police h
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by apendleton 4y ago
They do: > For specific use cases, we support other languages, including Java, Erlang, Haskell, and Go. These languages are currently not widely supported outside of specific use cases.
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by apendleton 4y ago
48 of 50 states have a thing called a "county," but they're not all necessarily the same concept. In many states, counties are the division below the state but above cities, and have edge-to-edge coverage (all points in the s
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by apendleton 4y ago
As in the article, I think it depends to some extent on what question you're asking. "What is the population of the US?" is almost definitely intended to include Alaska and Hawaii, but if someone asks "what is the geogra
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by apendleton 4y ago
I definitely feel like there's a bit of a Gell-Mann Amnesia effect going on with Wirecutter reviews: when they review things in areas I happen to know well, I often notice errors or missteps in their thinking in the review, but for som
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by apendleton 4y ago
> The vast majority of users of music notation are amateurs I'm not sure the claims you and OP are making here are actually in tension. They said: > the most common users of music notation (experienced musicians) which is ambiguo
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by apendleton 4y ago
> rich developers will all be getting a huge property tax break These proposals would generally be revenue-neutral, so the same amount of total tax would be collected, but assessed by parcel (adjusted for demand) rather than by parcel +
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by apendleton 4y ago
... sucks to be them? No tax scheme is truly neutral, and any tax scheme is going to favor certain behaviors and disfavor others. If the behavior you wanted to undertake isn't the one a given tax system incentivizes, that's probab
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by apendleton 4y ago
> 1) Zoning laws have to change as well to actually allow development of the land being taxed toward more productive ends. This is addressed to some extent, with the argument that zoning reforms are more practical because existing proper
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by apendleton 4y ago
> and given the dollar is still on offer (the work's still gotta get done) someone else will earn it instead Maybe, maybe not. The supply of work to be done isn't static. It might well be that the work is unpleasant, and everyo
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by apendleton 4y ago
> much more strongly driven to show up because the focus is on what they lose. Character of neighborhood, traffic, safety, noise, etc. and the threat against the status quo seems more likely to trigger that visceral defense mechanism. No
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by apendleton 4y ago
Not doing the development doesn't prevent the gentrification, though. It's not like desirable places to live suddenly become not-desirable because there's not enough housing to go around. The rich people just outcompete the c
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by apendleton 4y ago
Useful follow-up thread from the CEO with more technical details: https://twitter.com/FLF_Nick/status/1511374600575365122
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by apendleton 4y ago
In fairness to them, the ultimate plan is for something at least slightly less gun-like. They're using these gunpowder charges during testing, but eventually plan to move to some kind of electromagnetic mass-driver setup to make the pr
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by apendleton 5y ago
Fission lacks commercial viability in large measure due to extreme, overly burdensome regulatory regimes that require dramatic overbuilding for safety margins, high barriers to adopting potentially-cheaper but architecturally novel designs

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