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by birken 4y ago
> IMO there is no need to run any harder than that if your goal is maximising your wellbeing (unless your wellbeing comes from winning races...) Interestingly the best (or second best) bike racer in the world, Tadej Pogačar, is very big
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by birken 4y ago
I was chatting with my neighbor, who owns a Tesla + Tesla Powerwall, about the Twitter situation and he was not shy to say how he was quite upset by the direction that Twitter is going and how he had just deleted his account and moved to Ma
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by birken 4y ago
As a Comma owner (2 Commas in fact), I feel like Comma's main innovation is only releasing features (on the main branch at least) that they feel are quite battle tested, and at the same time not being afraid to lean into the fact that
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by birken 4y ago
Newest study about bivalent effectiveness is probably this one: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm715152e1.htm If you want to stay up to date on vaccine effectiveness without wading through a bunc
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by birken 4y ago
> Where was GP talking about companies? The initial comment says government has always used their influence through "newspapers", "television" and "social media", all of which have historically been non-gove
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by birken 4y ago
I'll go one further... if even 1 single person (the person who owns HN), decides that they don't like the content of that comment, then they should be free to delete/censor the comment on HN and ban the person in perpetuity f
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by birken 4y ago
If you truly believe that the stock isn't worth 50B, you are free to short the stock. In fact, lots of people out there are shorting the stock. However there is no smoke and mirrors here: they release quarterly financials, they'v
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by birken 4y ago
Uber has been a publicly traded company for ~3 years and has a market cap of ~50B. Doordash has been a publicly traded company for ~2 years and has a market cap of ~20B. You really have a generous definition of "charade," as I thi
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by birken 4y ago
I've listened to 10+ Sanderson books and all of them have have been through my local library (via Libby app). The only downside is that some have decently long wait times so you have to plan in advance.
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by birken 4y ago
Yeah, I agree completely. It also is difficult position for health agencies to be in, because they want to make clear guidelines to prevent confusion, but there are gray areas. For example, it's completely possible that: (a) The benefi
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by birken 4y ago
While I think it is certainly fair to talk about the policies of other countries, I don't think just because another country has a different policy necessarily dictates that policy is better or worse. Additionally, I think it's ve
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by birken 4y ago
I sold two cars to Carvana in the last year and in both cases the offers from Carvana (which included them picking up the car from my driveway) were multiple thousands of dollars better than Carmax or dealerships. Could I have made more sel
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by birken 4y ago
Well first of all it seems like (a) the author of the poem didn't explicitly agree to sell it at the price and (b) people are often willing to pay unfair prices for things in times of duress (IE... how much would you pay for a bottle o
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by birken 4y ago
I think it's very interesting so many people in this comment thread are so quick to point out that 20k is a fair, or even good, price for writing the end poem, but don't engage with the fact that $1800000k might be an excessive am
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by birken 4y ago
In theory the idea was that everybody should want to do a 20% time for the good of the company, and thus failure to seize the 20% opportunity would count against you in the promotion process. In practice though your promotion was really j
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by birken 4y ago
When I worked at Google in 2007 , it was a known fact among employees that 20% was not a real thing. It was 120% time even then. You could in theory work on your own thing, but you basically had to do it on your own time. And I did actual
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by birken 4y ago
I've been running a similar setup next to my litter box for about 2 years using "Vivosun" products, which seem like a cheaper knockoff version of Terrabloom. The Terrabloom stuff looks higher quality and I can't compare
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by birken 4y ago
DC Rainmaker showed what happens to the watch when you take it past the max depth in his review [1] (using a pressure chamber). I think your concerns are valid and merited for your very advanced level of diving, but at the same time the vas
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by birken 4y ago
Well in fairness when WebP support was added in Chrome over 10 years ago it was a massive, massive improvement over the existing image formats that were being commonly used on the web. JPEG XL's problem is that WebP has now existed for
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by birken 4y ago
As a person who has comma in both my cars, I disagree with this sentiment. First, I have a 2022 car and a 2020 car, and in both the stock cruise control is decent and the lane minding is terrible, and neither can do stop-and-go. So already
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by birken 4y ago
Tesla has millions of cars in service and Twitter has millions of users. Same level of complexity!
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by birken 4y ago
> dig +short gimp.monster 194.110.203.75 > whois 194.110.203.75 ... role: IT Resheniya LLC nic-hdl: ITR30-RIPE address: ul. Novoselov, d. 8A, of. 692 address: 193079 Saint Pet
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by birken 4y ago
The vast majority (>80% for men, >90% for women) of professional cyclists have gotten vaccinated, who are among the most closely monitored endurance athletes in the world, whose livelihood depends on their cardiovascular system. If th
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by birken 4y ago
From the perspective of your electrical meter, there is no difference between running 2 120V appliances on separate busses vs running a single 240V appliance assuming they consume the same overall wattage. So this would be a very difficult
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by birken 4y ago
People are voluntarily asked to reduce power consumption between 4 and 9pm on the hottest days of the year. We're out of power! California has a lot of problems, but the state government at the moment is actually operating quite effect
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by birken 4y ago
So many replies to this without a single person mentioning that cars are extremely dangerous and kill lots of people every year . However, over the past 40 years cars have gotten much safer and kill far fewer people. A lot of these safet
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by birken 4y ago
Your skepticism is fine, but you are not really educated on Comma's product at all. Comma uses a very strong adhesive for the mount, and then the Comma housing slides into that mount very securely. I don't think it is any more lik
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by birken 4y ago
> Then why do Google and DuckDuckGo return 90% garbage for most queries? If you can give me a list of 10 normal-ish queries where 9 out of the first 10 results on Google or DDG are "garbage", then I'll concede your point.
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by birken 4y ago
> SearchHut indexes from a curated set of domains. The quality of results is higher as a result, but the index covers a small subset of the web. [citation needed] The quality of the results right now are not very high, and in theory I do
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by birken 4y ago
The score from the page speed tool does not play into your rankings, only the real-world speed statistics from core web vitals. In the real-world it isn't going to make any difference.

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