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by bdamm 4y ago
Why would luxury retail be a good harbor in a recession? Usually luxury spending goes down.
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by bdamm 4y ago
Cars of today already have this problem. If one sensor says there's a solid object right in front of you that just popped out, and another sensor says there probably isn't but is confused, what do you do? Slam on the brakes? Tesla
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by bdamm 5y ago
Yes, assertion for manufacturing source is part of WebAuthn.
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by bdamm 5y ago
I know you're joking, but, this is not how Shor's algorithm works.
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by bdamm 5y ago
That's only because they're using weak authentication. If they required users to use something like WebAuthn, the bot problems would be significantly easier to deal with.
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by bdamm 5y ago
H2 is most certainly not CO2 free. It is quite energy intensive to produce it, and currently is produced from oil & gas products. The cleaner alternative is to use clean electricity to produce it from water; but if you're going to
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by bdamm 5y ago
Russia will be one of the last to go green.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Conveniently, lithium is also abundant and can be mined from many different sources, including the ocean. So wars over lithium seem unlikely, and lithium shortages also seem unlikely since the main constraint is over scaling up efficient mi
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by bdamm 5y ago
Getting the ant to clamp onto the underside of a branch or leaf and then stay there until it dies is a bit harder to explain. However I am also inclined to believe there is a localized mechanism at play, such as locating the jaw actuation t
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by bdamm 5y ago
"Hangry" is now a widespread term. It's even in Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hangry
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by bdamm 5y ago
It would be easier to send the garbage to the moon, Mars, or even Jupiter. With enough Delta-V we could atomize garbage on impact to the moon.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Good design and getting everything right up works right up until the requirements change and the design no longer meets the ask. Unsurprisingly, teams might not even know all the requirements when building something new. Having everything o
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by bdamm 5y ago
One day I was out walking by the water. A small bird was standing on a rock, apparently unable to fly. Crows were gathering and preparing to feast. I tried to scare them off, and sat by the little bird to prevent them from eating it. Silly,
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by bdamm 5y ago
It's not the case that they could guarantee 22 flights for the same cost, time, and mass budget. We only know that this design worked after the fact, they didn't have that information in advance. Also, this design may only have ac
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by bdamm 5y ago
Sure, but where does that direction come from and why does it matter that there's majority?
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by bdamm 5y ago
Didn’t Bernie Sanders do the Rogan podcast?
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by bdamm 5y ago
There's a line I can't cross; I like being physical. The Internet and its medusa of services already takes me away from meaningful choices, why should I deepen that connection that feels so overwhelmingly oppressive already?
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by bdamm 5y ago
Would that actually mean anything in a contemporary American election? Most of the electorate has an attention span of about 30 seconds.
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by bdamm 5y ago
What does it mean to be organized? Is magnetism just a vector with an unknown source?
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by bdamm 5y ago
China is not a pariah state. Russia maybe was making a grab for the natural gas fields in Ukraine. Maybe they already saw Europe's gas business as a lost cause, and with the new pipeline to China, saw aggression towards Europe as worth
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by bdamm 5y ago
EU membership is only possible if certain economic metrics are met, IIRC, and that is impossible to achieve while under attack or even soon after in the rebuilding phase. So to me EU membership is looking pretty far out. Why does it look re
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by bdamm 5y ago
Between the marketing for children, the many "sugar holidays" (Valentines, Easter, Christmas, Halloween, etc), the widespread use of processed foods in children's diets, the fact that every single grocery store in America put
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by bdamm 5y ago
#11 did in fact happen, and to this day there are hypoxic gyres off the coast of many large rivers. The gyre that results from the Mississippi is particularly notable. Regardless, even today you can find alarmist idiocy without much difficu
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by bdamm 5y ago
Not only that, but even the idea itself has become weaponized. Corporations seem to be pushing the agenda that if consumers could <X> then our problems will be solved, where X is {recycle, reuse, reduce, sort the trash, eat less meat,
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by bdamm 5y ago
NIST was used by NSA to plant a back door into a standard on key generation. It is well established, thanks at first to the Snowden papers and after that by follow on admissions.
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by bdamm 5y ago
We must go to Mars, if only to convince people on Earth that there really is no second planet.
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by bdamm 5y ago
safe would be more a property of where it came from, and maybe what processing the string has had on it. Plenty of business strings have newlines. I like the idea but really I want the type to capture unsafe/semi-safe/safe. Now th
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by bdamm 5y ago
It's not supposed to feel good. If 9/10 people have a brief negative thought about the advertising experience and nothing else happens, but 1/10 people happen to have their friend on the phone at the time and makes a referral
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by bdamm 5y ago
There's a well known effect in advertising that advertising a product to a person that has already bought that product generally increases their satisfaction with the product and the purchase, and may cause them to recommend the produc
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by bdamm 5y ago
My point was only that the card-chip associated number, the ApplePay associated number, and the number the user hands out to web sites, are not correlated. The user could choose to change their CC number every day when they wake up if they

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