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by ars 2y ago
I feel like he's limiting himself to just 2 positioning methods. There are so many other methods that the lander can use to know where the tower is.
512.
by ars 2y ago
Do that and all support for the environment goes completely out the window. Do this and that's pretty much the end for any kind of green transition.
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by ars 2y ago
> In order to count as knowledge, it has to be justified in the right way, which, alas, nobody has been able to specify exactly what that way should be. First of all you have to be able to test your knowledge, you would test that the clo
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by ars 2y ago
I don't understand the Gettier problem. The example of the cow for example: You do not have a justified belief there is a cow there, all you can justify is that there is the likeness of a cow there. To be able to claim there is a c
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by ars 2y ago
I assume it's because it's (it was) a startup, and HN likes reading about those, and what they did different to ensure success.
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by ars 2y ago
Sapphire is Aluminum Oxide. Transparent Aluminum basically. It's an amazing material that is not used as much as it should be.
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by ars 2y ago
There's no such thing as downvoting a post on HN, only a comment. There's flagging a post, but that would show up next to the post - do you have any examples?
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by ars 2y ago
He's not being blocked from repairing it, and he doesn't need to hack it. He just needs a part. (They did eventually send it to him.) If they had not, he doesn't need the right to repair it, rather would need someone to man
519.
by ars 2y ago
I'm not claiming you will get nutrition from it, I'm saying these thing are not toxic to the body because it has the necessary biological mechanisms to handle it. It's the same way that, even though you shouldn't drink i
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by ars 2y ago
At least by me you have to be more than 1.5miles from the school to get a bus - that's a half hour walk! Doable certainly, but not fun, especially in the winter - or worse, when it's hot! And teens need to live even farther from t
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by ars 2y ago
Can you explain what's different about Glasses vs Tavern, where it's allowed in one and not the other?
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by ars 2y ago
The underground feeder to your house is likely to be HDPE actually - which is chemically similar to PEX. Both are made from Polyethylene, which is the exact same stuff oil (including food), gas, wax, natural gas, etc is made off. i.e. you b
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by ars 2y ago
Are you on municipal water? If you are call the water company, they will often test it for free. They are required by law to test a certain number of houses each year - yours can be one of them. If you are on well water, call your county de
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by ars 2y ago
That's absolutely something homeowners notice, and a house with a lead pipe has a lower market value than one without. It's normally called out on the home inspection report. The hard part comes after: The person bought a cheaper
525.
by ars 2y ago
That still exists, they just call them pre-prints and put them on the arxiv.
526.
by ars 2y ago
So Google, which already allows competing App stores is a monopoly, and needs to change it, but Apple which doesn't can stay as it is? Am I missing something?
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by ars 2y ago
They'll also pay you $30/hour to go out and get people to register and turn out to vote.
528.
by ars 2y ago
Are those really worth $47? Especially someone who is willing to sign the petition doesn't seem like they really need to be advertised to.
529.
by ars 2y ago
> because Google doesn't allow you to create an account with age less than 13 Actually you can - you create the account under FamilyLink. See here: https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103338
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by ars 2y ago
This isn't really something new - it's been known for a long time that fluoride needs to be on the surface of the teeth to work. In jested fluoride doesn't do anywhere near as much. So fluoride toothpaste, or even better fluo
531.
by ars 2y ago
Dietary fluoride has a minimal impact, you need fluoride on the surface of the tooth. A fluoride rinse is much more effective that tablets or in the water.
532.
by ars 2y ago
Exploding means it was keeping its integrity for longer (i.e. not compressing), and then releasing it when it couldn't anywhere. Crumbling means it was falling apart. A paper book will explode in a press because it does not have any wa
533.
by ars 2y ago
Carbon filter is a lot cheaper/easier and works just fine for this.
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by ars 2y ago
You absolutely should be able to do that. If you know how to program another language, then a couple weeks of using the new language should get you the point of employment, and a couple months should put you close to where you were with the
535.
by ars 2y ago
The type of work they were doing translates really well into construction, trucking, and warehouse work. Any retraining is pretty minimal, and all of those fields are desperate for workers. Also, what's your alternative plan? Just free
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by ars 2y ago
No, it means shifted jobs. There's enormous demand for construction employment right now, they would have no trouble finding other employment. In the entire history of the world automation has never caused employment reduction, only
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by ars 2y ago
Going on strike to keep your job from being replaced by automation does not seem like a winning strategy. Not only does your job not need to exist, you actually want more money for doing something no one needs you to do? If you want a payme
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by ars 2y ago
How do you decide who "them" is, that should pay more? Usually you do the opposite: In exchange for a lower rate you will be the first disconnected in an emergency.
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by ars 2y ago
And how do you plan to measure their benefit to society without using money as a signal?
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by ars 2y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I don't get how he planted info for someone else, rather than just messing up his own account.

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