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by avalys 4y ago
Who made money on this “scam”? It’s quite a stretch to say that Holmes isn’t “ruined” at this point .
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by avalys 4y ago
Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted a
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by avalys 4y ago
Holy crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!
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by avalys 4y ago
Borg nanoprobes, anyone?
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by avalys 4y ago
I ran into this report from Mckinsey a few weeks ago, and stopped reading after the opening sentence. "Large semiconductor fabs use as much as 100 megawatt-hours of power each hour..." https://www.mckinsey.com/~&#x
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by avalys 4y ago
Ok, what’s the easy solution for this ad-supported, free website for a local newspaper to stop “abusing” everyone?
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by avalys 4y ago
A friend demoed his FSD-enabled Model 3 to me the other day. In a 5-minute midday drive on the quiet, well-kept streets in his ordinary suburban neighborhood, it tried to pull in front of an oncoming car while making a right turn onto a roa
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by avalys 4y ago
I meet new people fairly often, and if I just ignored these messages, the chance I'm actually being rude to someone I know in real life is fairly high. Now that I know the pattern I will probably be more circumspect about it.
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by avalys 4y ago
Wow, how interesting. I started getting these a few months ago, right after starting a new job in a somewhat high-profile area. I have been getting 1-2 per month but found them quite unusual because none of them ever progressed to an actual
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by avalys 4y ago
I was relieved.
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by avalys 4y ago
The US Federal constitution contains a right to bear arms, which supersedes the NYC law which stated ordinary citizens could not "bear arms" in public without justifying an exceptional need. There is no analogous constitutional ri
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by avalys 4y ago
What are we supposed to do, burn his books? The man is dead.
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by avalys 4y ago
Yeah, it’s being lazy - just like using a dishwasher, a vacuum cleaner, a microwave, a blender, a calculator. What’s your point?
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by avalys 4y ago
I found it useful in a variety of circumstances. Someone parked too close to your driver's door? Just back the car out remotely and get in. Parallel parked, then walked away from your car and noticed you didn't leave the car behin
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by avalys 4y ago
No kidding! The ability to use the phone or remote to move the car forward or back in a straight line is super useful and a cool, novel feature by itself. It’s also a buggy piece of shit that a few engineers could probably greatly improve i
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by avalys 4y ago
I got stuck overnight in LA last year. Booked a hotel near the airport. Woke up early the next morning and walked a few blocks to a Starbucks. An old homeless man wandered in, wearing filthy clothing but brand new white sneakers that someon
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by avalys 4y ago
Statistics are not reality. Crime stats fell because the DA was so tolerant of crime, people stopped bothering to report anything but the most serious ones.
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by avalys 4y ago
A friend pointed this out to me a few weeks ago. I found it was nearly impossible to enjoy because a single numerical distance metric provides almost no help in figuring out what direction to move to improve your guess, and any change in th
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by avalys 4y ago
Hah, a valid point, I guess I’m questioning what the absolute danger level is in both situations in the first place.
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by avalys 4y ago
What's the evidence that bacteria smeared around on an otherwise visibly "clean" kitchen counter, or dust kicked up from your carpet (which is largely human skin cells anyway) is actually harmful or "unsafe"? A rela
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by avalys 4y ago
Is it our obligation to ensure adequate quality of life for every human on the entire planet? Why stop at improving their lives by reducing our CO2 emissions? Why not institute a 10% income tax on all Americans and send that money and resou
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by avalys 4y ago
How many people need to live in a house with more than 1,200 square feet? How many people need to set the A/C below 80F or the heat above 60F? How many people need to fly to Hawaii for a vacation? Drive to the beach. How many peo
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by avalys 4y ago
Whatever. They're going to make 88 of them (hah hah). This isn't a Taycan rival, it's a novelty project.
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by avalys 4y ago
The $212 million is over 10 years, so there is your order of magnitude.
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by avalys 4y ago
How many people can you feed with one share of Amazon stock? Is it even edible?
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by avalys 4y ago
Amazon has 950,000 of those warehouse workers. If you completely zeroed out Jassey’s stock $212 million stock award and instead distributed it among those workers, their hourly rate would change from $15 / hour to $15.01 per hour.
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by avalys 4y ago
The article I'm responding to is about Australia confiscating (and banning) guns. That is hardly a "nuanced" policy and (I claim) is equivalent to banning alcohol to stop drunk driving deaths.
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by avalys 4y ago
Aren't sales of Bitcoin for Tether taxable anyway?
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by avalys 4y ago
Ever watch Modern Marvels on the History Channel? The only point of those is “look at this cool shit!”
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by avalys 4y ago
This is why it's ridiculous that the US Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) "caps" profit for health insurers as a fraction of premiums collected. It provides a direct incentive for them to increase healthcare costs, absolutely t

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