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by ardy42 6y ago
> But, you forgo the (often hidden) benefits of past mistakes and standard techniques that have all the kinks ironed out. > The problem with houses is that iteration is expensive. A lot of architectural innovations are actually a vers
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> but construction was considered an essential business country-wide and never baked meaning you still had minimum wage day laborers (and unionized construction workers making well over that) working in environments N95 masks were design
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> I was able to buy 20 KN95 masks for $50 through an online retailer advertising through my local business journal. > KN95 masks are the Chinese regulatory standard vs N95 which is the NIOSH standard, but KN95 sales in the US still n
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Quotas are hard to enforce meaningfully. They work well when people are already disposed to be helpful - but even then they still have issues. That's not true, you just have to design them properly. For instance: 3M knows its cus
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>> Building a massive production line with complex equipment and training only to be bankrupt in 6 months is a fools errand. > Not if they can make all of their money back in 6 months via extreme prices. However we are past the &qu
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> Because 'anti price gouging' laws prevent the price going high enough to make it worth someone going to extreme efforts to upscale production. While theoretically price gauging is an incentive to increase production, if tha
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> I mean, this was the story from the guy in America who was selling the masks. Here's the link: > This is a cycle familiar to Bowen. During what he calls "peacetime," when there are no outbreaks, there are few buyers
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Why are there >3 rows of Fn keys ? Are they all different? Or Are they placed so to quickly access ? It looks like the creator just used whatever random keycaps he had. There are also duplicate arrow keys and duplicates from the na
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Even Latin, if you use enough languages with enough diacriticals. Or want to code in APL. Or use Greek letters when typing math. I've always wanted something like the space cadet keyboard with a couple of extra modifier keys vs. w
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All of the images are now offline (some google drive traffic limit?), but the internet archive managed to capture one : https://web.archive.org/web/20200916174120/https://relivesig... The image itself:
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Personal face / body tents > Personal face / body pods Are they talking about these things? https://utwpods.com/collections/bleacher-stadium-seating
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There are a lot of people known as "shy Trump supporters" who won't publicly admit it. A recent survey found that 70% of Republicans lie to pollsters: That's not what that survey said: > About two in three voter
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> Somehow a lot of people choose to believe interpretation #2 is true, and spend a lot of time debating whether this or that company is a "monopoly" as if it is somehow more important than the substantive issues Not to accuse a
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> How can you 'unintentionally' pull out a phone? Probably more like "absent mindedly" pull out a phone.
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> That "unnatural amount of vigilance" is just sitting in a comfy seat and looking at the road ahead of you go by. There is nothing unnatural about that. Statements like this seem to indicate a failure to understand what the di
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Yo, what? IIRC, most amphetamines are either illegal in the US or like FDA Class 1 substances or something like that, and you just want to throw them at people operating > 1 ton machinery? That seems like it could have an even highe
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> Looking at the road when sitting in the drivers seat without being absorbed by your phone is not, in any way, a hard task. Truck drivers, train drivers, pilots and other equipment operators exist. Millions of people do it every day. Th
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Guy was using his phone not paying attention to the road when testing experimental equipment on a public road. He was there specifically to mitigate potential malfunctions of said experimental equipment, but he was reading reddit or wh
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How Liberals Opened the Door to Libertarian Economics(nytimes.com)
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> Why? I personally don't believe this is a mistake, but the only problematic thing I can think of is that this might encourage Trumpers and Trumpworld to view science as a Democratic constituency, and thus withdraw their support fo
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> Looks like they're just trying to capitalize on his crazy by getting new subscribers. Who would pay money for a magazine subscription because of a political endorsement? Maybe the editors just thought this was the right thing to d
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> Not political at all? Do we really think the USA is running something close to a Experimental Concentration Camp? Exactly what are they experimenting on, what don't we know about hysterectomies? I think is 1) this story is probabl
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> If the cofounder of ARM wanted it to stay a British owned company, why did they let it go public in the first place? It's possible they just didn't have the foresight. It's not unusual to take and action an not understa
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> ... and which will never succeed again. That seems a little...overconfident. While some of the TSA stuff is definitely security theater that adds little value, not all of it is. > "Arbitrarily-prohibited" was a jab at eve
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> The TSA is responsible for creating the roadblock, and therefore should be responsible for keeping travelers whole. "read the rules" is not a justification for their policies, as it's common to have an arbitrarily-prohib
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> I for one, cannot get over this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tsa+lot+of&_trksid=p233 ... > Pretty much theft and resale. Why? It's common knowledge and well signed [1] that knives aren't
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> Seized the adapters. That would have been enough for me to be more careful about adapters in the future. Seizing the whole shipment hurts me, but not the supplier. Where the adapters packaged separately to make that possible? Or are y
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The end tags are implied by the start tag. Why do you need an end tag? It's just another way to mess up. It helps with legibility and error-checking of hand-authored documents (at least in documents with varied tags). It doesn&#x
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by ardy42 6y ago
I wonder if sorting could be made feasible by mandating color-coding of different types of plastic? Like PET has to be clear, HDPE white, PP green, etc.? Marketers and package designers may not like it, but whatever. The tiny little recyc
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Here's one thing that stood out to me in particular: you could encode formatted text in a way that was pretty easy to read even without formatting: > (Here is a sentence with (i some words) (b emphasized) in (i (b different)) w

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