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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> - Razor-thin margins so shops can't afford to pay well > - Having a shop in China machine the parts for you can be quite acceptable, especially in higher volumes Yes, in some circumstances, your idea can work. To a degree.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Meh. "The smart worm sleeps in" is an old trope.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
True. But unfortunately, through much of human history and in a wide variety of circumstances, social systems where the 0.01% are exalted as deserving of fairly unaccountable power (vs. the masses deserve only lip service and ruthless explo
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Ah... Starfall is a big hockey puck. Actual warheads - especially kinetic impactors - have much pointier shapes, so air drag won't slow them to a crawl before they reach their targets. And fins, so they can steer at their targets
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Loitering capability? > This version of Starfall is not capable of de-orbiting itself but instead relies upon its launch vehicle to guide it back into the atmosphere.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> These models use the type of battery found in some electric cars ... > On the Impulse Cooktop, that battery can also produce a whopping boost of heat by channeling 10,000 watts to a single element ... Ignoring both the fire safety i
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> Perhaps the real question isn’t: Why does H-E-B do so many nice things for the state? But: Why aren’t more companies like H-E-B? > ... in this company’s nearly 120-year history, it’s remained family-owned and operated. It has been m
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Not saying the bureaucrats are great at this - but your "left to the criteria of" sounds like a massive duplication of effort.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
What did you switch from and to? Even Tesla's Charging Calculator is far less optimistic than that: https://www.tesla.com/charging-calculator "Seattle" may be a critical bit here. The Fed thinks the "U
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Not quite that simple. "Normal" home outlets (120v, 15A) charge EV's very slowly. And even then, non-trivial driving will show up on your electric bill.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Between the article's opening "developed ... under a veil of secrecy", and closing comments about the DoD being very active in sub-orbital delivery, I'd assume that the Pentagon has paid for 'most everything so far.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Yep. The linked NYT article has this weak-sounding line - > Most other wealthy countries haven’t seen similar increases, suggesting that possible culprits like smartphones don’t tell the whole story. - but it is so focused on telling a
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Not a doctor...but wouldn't a cardiac ejection fraction of 10% show as a low and intractable blood oxygen level on the patient's first ER visit? Especially with: > For the past four days, he said, he had been coughing up blood
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Assume that saying "X is stupid" is pejorative shorthand for "I strongly disagree with the other side's criteria judging whether or not X works".
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Far more informative, overall - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_processionary - including: >The moths are widely distributed in central and southern Europe, and are occasionally found as far north as Sweden. In th
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
At one point, didn't CF talk about a "we'll feed 'em corrupted & hallucinated data" service, to help deal with strip-mining AI crawlers?
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Re-post that comment top-level, so folks can see that the Big Name is now on stage. ;)
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Yes - I was just trying to give things a "this is interesting, so upvote & discuss!" kick. In the absence of Ken popping up with good "Author here for your 8087 questions" comment.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Back when "AI" meant a midget hiding inside a supposed chess-playing machine, elected politicians had a technology called "actually care about the voters and their feelings" to do this. The human organization needed to i
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Closely related, 8 days ago, 138 points & 28 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519011 (about the 8087's adder)
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> The study reveals that lower temperatures and a slower heating process can produce an alloy double the strength of steel, three times stronger than aluminium, and around twice as strong as the same alloy produced using conventional met
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Somewhat. 99%-ish of adult humans will show far more zeal, focus, attention span, etc. on any "Issue X", if both they and their peers have a whole lotta money riding on Issue X. Then there's the problem of late-stage capital
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> Most of Manhattan apparently has <1% annual property tax, and the eclectic sometimes regressive way it's calculated in NYC is suggestive of corruption. While NYC has never lacked for rot and corruption, those really aren't
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
True. OTOH, the great majority of potential modern-day homeowners lack the necessary strength, dexterity, aptitudes, attitudes, skills, tools, time, timeframe, etc. to DIY a real fixer-upper.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Zzz. Any street food vendor understands where the hungry people are at, how to get past the various barriers to them buying from him, how to encourage repeat business, etc. Well ...maybe make that "any street food vendor who will la
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Notice how the article rates Flint absolute worse for Maintenance Affordability. Then mostly ignores that problem. And that Detroit is both #2 for Housing Affordability and second-worse for maintenance. Obvious question: Is their afforda
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Maybe HN should ban words matching "surpris" from Titles? Even if you are clueless about the international arms trade - South Korea has maintained a huge military for the past 70-ish years, as part of their endless cold war with N
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Do some reading on all the 1000X-worse abuses of police power which are sadly routine in America. Banana cars getting pulled over for selfies is a massive improvement.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> Governments should have zero control over speech and zero ability to impose consequences on speech... Perhaps you are an "absolute" free speech absolutist, but does that include: - Swatting? - Doxxing? - Yelling "Fire!&q
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
What might Barrons' position be on the United Fruit Co's 1954 "speCial Investment Action" in Guatemala? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...

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