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by awhitby 5y ago
The horn thing doesn't seem like that big a deal actually. I've never used the horn in a potential accident situation because there's always something better I could be focusing on to avoid the accident. As pilot say: aviate,
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by awhitby 5y ago
It's notable that after hundreds of years of experience in writing contracts, real world legal systems still rely on courts to interpret them in a reasonable and equitable manner because we cannot possibly anticipate every edge case an
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by awhitby 5y ago
At least compared with a few other fairly big cities I've lived in this is a distinctively New York and even Manhattan phenomenon. I drive rarely here but my assumption is that drivers would often never get to turn the corner if they g
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by awhitby 5y ago
My guess is the kind of careless people who don't check for cyclists tend to be the kind that throw their doors wide open in one movement, so while this doesn't hurt, it gives cyclists a split-second's warning at best.
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by awhitby 5y ago
Not a biologist, so this is just a guess, but I imagine their simplicity is their weakness. Viruses rely on the machinery of nucleic acids to replicate. That machinery is complex and robust and the result of some long period of continuous e
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by awhitby 5y ago
This was my initial reaction too: it doesn't seem to pass basic conservation of mass. But actually how much mass must you necessarily lose to stay alive each day? Most of it is probably water, so if we allow "four pills plus as
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by awhitby 5y ago
It's obviously possible that this is a bad nowcast (as argued in Edit2 of the parent), but there are other possibilities. I suspect the % of tests that are of asymptomatic people is much higher than a few weeks ago, because of travel p
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by awhitby 5y ago
Quality of life is pretty subjective but US life expectancy rose from about 70 to 79 between 1970 and today.
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by awhitby 5y ago
Impressive that TBL wrote all the code for the WWW in 30:25.
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by awhitby 5y ago
At least. NYC is more than double that: $120-130 a month.
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by awhitby 5y ago
I agree this feels pretty questionable, but if you take that view, you should ask yourself how you feel about the Garmin inReach Mini [1] (and possibly other devices in that family). It's an emergency satellite SOS device for outdoor r
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by awhitby 6y ago
There's no reason to do this. Shipping cost is disproportionately affected by loading/unloading, and every other type of transport is more expensive (per mile travelled). So what you actually want to do is take the ship as close a
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by awhitby 6y ago
From http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html 4. Naughtiness Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally
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by awhitby 6y ago
This is interesting but unless I missed it the author doesn't really explain why they believe they observe all A/B tests. They kind of assume that the randomization is over time (so every reader within a window sees the same headl
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by awhitby 6y ago
Presumably if the data were to be archived or processed multiple times it could simply be duplicated onto regular punch cards.
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by awhitby 6y ago
Also "high tension power lines," which being heavy catenaries presumably are in high mechanical tension, but must surely have gotten that name from the voltage = tension thing. German has this too: voltage = Spannung = tension. Th
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by awhitby 6y ago
This made me nostalgic for a 1990s Sony shortwave radio that I had as a kid. It replaced a much larger probably 1980s era radio that my grandfather passed on to me. By comparison this 1990s one was magically miniature - and very similar des
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by awhitby 6y ago
I have no connection to and don't know Wikimedia Foundation, and the context for these references is not totally clear. (Maybe it was related to these https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Events .) Reg
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by awhitby 6y ago
It's off topic but there may indeed be a need to say 3.0 rather than 3 for median - the use of a median is orthogonal to the choice of precision. Consider the median of: 2.9, 3.0, 3.1 years.
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by awhitby 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. Isn't it odd though that of the four product photos on the Home Fitness page two focus on the screen (sure - your selling point) and two show non-rowing workouts. None of them really show rowing. Not everyone can or
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by awhitby 6y ago
Indeed. > People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter X.
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by awhitby 6y ago
Google's dominance creates a monoculture, so that any weakness in their ranking is immediately exploited by SEO folks. If there were multiple real search engines using different ranking algos, it would be harder to game them all at onc
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Police raid home of Florida Covid data whistleblower(miamiherald.com)
16 points by awhitby 6y ago|0 comments
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by awhitby 6y ago
I haven't been to the Hudson Yards stop, but many NY subway platforms are very cramped by modern transit standards (compared with even, say the DC metro). I'm sure they're not accessible and hard to make so, and some sections
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by awhitby 6y ago
This is the labor force, as it says: "the sum of employed and unemployed persons." So it only includes people who are working or looking for work. This kind of distinction is the key to the OP. So thankfully the dip is mostly not
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by awhitby 6y ago
Specific Orwell reference: "He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
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by awhitby 6y ago
I wonder if it is possible - if not practical - to extract color information from processed black and white film negatives. It seems plausible that there are trace chemical imperfections in the film medium, and these might react differently
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by awhitby 6y ago
Aren't opinions something an employer should want in developers? And not just opinions on tech stack but all the way up to requirements etc. If I hire a developer "to build X," I would rather work with the developer who expla
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by awhitby 6y ago
It's an interesting idea but I don't think it holds up. The earliest tabulators didn't use punch cards to store "programs" but to encode data, and the mechanical work of punching data into cards, then processing tho
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by awhitby 6y ago
Assume that future kinds of Bisquick can have negative amounts of flour, salt or baking powder. Now recipes in the dystopian future just require a simple change of basis.

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