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by beloch 2y ago
Bitcoin's advantage is that it's value has continued climbing, aside from some fairly big blips, irrespective of its design or utility. That's why people buy it and hold it. It's a magic piggy bank. If a truly stable c
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by beloch 2y ago
Canada has the same problem with building icebreakers. The problem with icebreakers capable of dealing with multi-year ice is that they're a very expensive and specialized kind of ship that's hard to construct, but also the sort o
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If you made a completely faithful and realistic medieval role-playing game, only sociopaths would play it. Even if such a game started players off in positions of enviable social status, the things they'd be required to do to maintain
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by beloch 2y ago
Some random observations: 1. Relatively few people were on the internet before midway through the 90's. BBS's were probably of greater interest in the early 90's. If you had a specific interest, there might just nothing
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by beloch 2y ago
>Cyber criminals purchase advertisements that appear within internet search results using a domain that is similar to an actual business or service. When a user searches for that business or service, these advertisements appear at the ve
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by beloch 2y ago
"We are conducting an extensive investigation, working closely with the USDA and government regulatory agencies, as well as with the industry’s leading food safety experts, to determine how our liverwurst produced at our Jarratt, Virgi
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They scrape the floors at places like this to make blood meal (i.e. organic fertlizer).
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Being able to import a few percent when you need it and export a few when you don't without having to spin something down is pretty important to having a stable power grid. The reality is that there is no dividing line between Canada a
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https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/ma...
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"Modern" has several wibbly wobbly definitions in various contexts, but with regards to languages it is actually quite specific: "denoting the form of a language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form. e.g. &q
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Any war between the U.S. and Canada would play out in strange, unpredictable ways just due to how closely intertwined pretty much every critical capacity of our two nations are. Both the West and East coasts would immediately have their pow
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GoDaddy has advertised, on TV, generative AI for social media comment creation as a part of their website services. Faking your reviews with AI is not a good idea. The makers of Megalopolis got caught, and you could too. Their efforts t
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by beloch 2y ago
Stray gusts of wind, slight irregularities in the track's surface, other tiny inequalities between lanes or starting positions are probably going to nudge runner performance enough to overwhelm the precision of even a fairly unremarkab
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Archaeology does not take place in a vacuum. It has always been a product of political human beings. Archaeologists are keenly aware of this. Mussolini excavated Pompeii with bulldozers to reveal the past greatness of Italy on a schedule
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It's hard to control conditions for a Marathon, but what's to stop some future Olympic host from intentionally creating the fastest pool possible that wouldn't be objected to, just so they could watch "their" Olympi
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If this is a "slow" pool, then should we toss world records from "fast" pools? There are a lot of other events where factors affecting performance aren't completely controlled. Perhaps comparing records across dif
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Star Trek Online is an aging MMO that still receives regular updates and generates regular income thanks to a built-in fanbase. Obviously, it's not wildly profitable but Cryptic, the studio running it, has been getting by. They'
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by beloch 2y ago
Give this a try: (Kill sticky) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998091 It's a javascript snippet that you stick in a bookmark and click on when you encounter a site like this. Results vary, but it did a great jo
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by beloch 2y ago
It's no secret that implementing AI usually involves far more investment into training and teaching than actual code. You can know how a neural net or other ML model works. You can have all the code before you. It's still a
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by beloch 2y ago
Biden was never the quickest guy (or tongue) in the room. During Obama's term, he was legendary for putting rooms to sleep with plodding, off-topic monologues where he set up irrelevant straw-men and then knocked them down. Obama was
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by beloch 2y ago
If you go to the public latrine at Ephesus today, it looks pretty awesome. It's out in the air. Nice views in all directions. If you can get over the communal nature of it, it seems like a fantastic spot to do your business. In Roman
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If it confers an advantage, even a small one, and it's allowed, everyone will be compelled to do it in order to remain competitive. That's the crazy thing about high level sports. Either it's banned or everyone does it. The
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"Of course, one big concern is that everybody is trying to standardize cryptosystems that are relatively young. What if the industry (or NIST) picks something that’s not secure? What if they pick something that will break tomorrow?&quo
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The delivery service in my area has no competition. You order from their version of restaurant menus on which the prices have been jacked up. Then you pay a delivery fee. Then you pay a service fee. Then you have to deal with drivers making
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Speaking as a Canadian, U.S. trade protectionism is nothing new. It happens all the time and frequently targets allies like Canada rather than rivals like China. What U.S. citizens should watch out for is when U.S. protectionism winds up h
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Having insurance is gambling, but not having insurance is also gambling. This is because life itself is a gamble. We don't know what the future holds and we have the choice to insure or gamble on just about any aspect of our lives. In
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They have an IP that still has a lot of fans and users. They have giant heaps of money. It's almost as if these two things could be put together somehow... perhaps by hiring another studio to update TF2 or create TF3? Valve's re
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Take a look at what young people entering the voter rolls for the first time care about: Education. Housing. Food. The cost of these have climbed astronomically compared to salaries in the last few decades while wealth disparity has inc
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Google thinks they're untouchable. That's why they serve up so many ads that most adblockers can't keep up. That's why they've done very little to combat bad actors who manipulate google search results. That&#x
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Further muddying the waters (with an ethics quagmire) were health officials who intentionally misled the public in an attempt to protect supplies of masks for medical workers during the PPE shortages that characterized the first months of t

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