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by blagie 2y ago
It doesn't. Passive income usually requires a burst of highly-productive time at the beginning. If you invent a machine which does farming with no human labor, and I invent a factory which makes your machines with no human labor, and s
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by blagie 2y ago
Investing is passive income, but most passive income isn't investing. * A way to generate passive income, for example, are royalties on a book you wrote. * Semi-passive income might be $50k speaking gigs after e.g. being the PotUS. In
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by blagie 2y ago
It is and it isn't. I'll give another example of how it might not be: Google is intentionally screwing around with customers who signed up for an email account with their own domain. This gradually evolved into GSuite/free, G
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by blagie 2y ago
The reason this is more of a scam is that many people are glad to initially pay more in return for a lifetime price lock. Many of us stuck it out with T-Mobile plans despite better options at the time because we're okay paying more now
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by blagie 2y ago
> Except that we know that it doesn't work like that. Train drivers are ridden with extreme guilt every time "their" train runs over someone, even though they know that logically there was absolutely nothing they could hav
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by blagie 2y ago
This is very much what I would like to see. The price of insurance is baked into the price of a car. If the car is as safe as I am, I pay the same price in the end. If it's safer, I pay less. From my perspective: 1) I would *much* rath
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by blagie 2y ago
For me: * Rapid prototyping and trying new technologies. * Editing text for typos, flipped words, and missing words
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by blagie 2y ago
Peanuts were plentiful 100 years ago, and certainly 50 years ago when allergy rates were much lower. There are also striking geographic differences in allergy rates as well between the US and less developed countries (even within geneticall
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by blagie 2y ago
In this case, the conclusion doesn't even quite support the hypothesis. The level of increase in prevalence from a generation ago is greater than the level of claimed reduction from early exposure today. It's very possible that ea
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by blagie 2y ago
I've gotten that feedback before. When it came with specific book recommendations, it was extremely helpful in some cases (and in a few others, I didn't have time to read the books, so I shut up until such time will come). It&#x27
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by blagie 2y ago
Interesting. Where I live, the stops are too long for a flywheel to make any sense. The postal worker will usually deliver to a mailbox serving several houses, and will often have packages. Perhaps in the suburbs, where there are individual
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by blagie 2y ago
It is. https://www.linns.com/news/postal-updates/taxpayer-funds-com... For my perspective, supporting USPS in this way is among the very best uses of my taxpayer dollars.
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by blagie 2y ago
The emissions standards make zero sense here. USPS trucks don't spend hardly any time on normal driving. They move 10 feet, stop, move 10 feet, stop, etc. Emissions standards aren't set up around that, and I would not expect them
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by blagie 2y ago
FWIW: Regen breaking has a lot less wear than normal breaking. Normal breaking needs to convert the energy into heat through friction, which wears things down. Storing that energy means nothing has to be worn down. For an application like t
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by blagie 2y ago
> On the occasion he made a very poor analysis of political and social situation of an African country Cultural sidenote: I do the same (although in personal conversation; I would obviously never do that on Youtube). I am very happy to e
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by blagie 2y ago
It'd be pretty fair without the false advertising. With the false advertising, it's pretty darned unfair.
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by blagie 2y ago
... or volunteers from your followers. Accuracy doesn't generate clicks. Thank you for the pointer to integza. I have not watched the videos yet, but from the high-level, that's exactly what I was looking for (albeit for slightly
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by blagie 2y ago
I don't know whether creators are victims (although I suspect they are), but I do know people who pay for altruistic reasons are victims. It's not billing itself as Disney Plus but specifically as a way to support creators and sup
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by blagie 2y ago
I find Real Engineering to be pretty good for aerospace, and horrible for everything else. There are errors, but no more so than any other resources I've seen on aerospace. The problem I have is that it's trying to do electronic e
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by blagie 2y ago
Nebula advertises itself: "Nebula is creator-owned and operated" (implying the creators who publish). A lot of people subscribe in order to support creators, as a sort of alternative to Patreon. This is not the case. It is owned a
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by blagie 2y ago
This is approximately what I figured. Whenever I do deeper due diligence, this sort of scam comes up. Literally "whenever." For the record, Nebula is primarily owned and operated by creators. Those creators are: * Dave Wiskus *
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by blagie 2y ago
I don't think it's pedantry. To what extent 4o is a new model or a refinement depends on: a) technology b) thresholds for what it means for a model to be "new" Not naming. We have no clue about what happens within the su
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by blagie 2y ago
You realize GPT-4o was released in May? And the new Facebook models within the past week? New models are coming fast too.
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by blagie 2y ago
What leaps in ISO? A7S went ISO 50 - 409,600. That's early 2015. MSRP was $2500. That's the same as $6300 EOS R1, double the $5400 Nikon X6III, 8x the $1500 Lumix S9, 8x the $4300 R5 Mark II, and 8x the $6000 Sony S9. Those are th
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by blagie 2y ago
My hypothesis: There was a period from roughly the industrial revolution (you can pick which one) to roughly 2000 where we were rich enough that significant parts of the population lived in environments rich enough where nudity was not comm
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by blagie 2y ago
> There were many attempts, some listed in other comments[1][2]. No, these were not such attempts. A touchscreen camera is NOT what I want. The point isn't to make it phone-friendly or phone-like, but to make it open. Knobs and butt
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by blagie 2y ago
"The market" didn't decide. There are maybe five major camera companies (Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus, and Panasonic), and a few minor ones (Fuji, Pentax, Casio, Sigma). No one tried. Everyone wants proprietary lock-in. No one
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by blagie 2y ago
From my perspective, this is entirely a case of Simpson's Paradox. * Worldwide, wealth gaps are closing. * Within most countries, wealth gaps are widening. Here's how globalization works: 1. As capital, I target 8 billion instead
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by blagie 2y ago
Secret of this book: The physics is interesting, but SCMUTILS is more interesting. You can: (1) Write a function (2) Symbolically compute it's derivative (3) Render the derivative with LaTeX (4) Compile the derivative into native code
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by blagie 2y ago
For some meanings of "well." Setting fan speed to max would also do a "fantastic job of keeping my GPU at reasonable temps." Linear scaling means your fan is not going fast enough at high temps, and is going too fast at

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