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by blululu 4y ago
The simulator under the hood is cool - someone even got a component to smoke. But the post leads with a pretty condescending title that focuses on aesthetic motivations by dumping (superficially) on everything else. Naturally people are goi
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by blululu 4y ago
Honest question: are low income users viable for an ad supported platform? As it is I think only North American online ads actually make decent money, though perhaps European and Asian ad markets also deliver value close to break even. It i
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by blululu 4y ago
This post from ~4 days ago seems like it has been vindicated ahead of schedule: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908577#33909017
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by blululu 4y ago
I think you might be coming from a different socioeconomic perspective. The legions of C and B students would suggest that most kids do not have the means to buy someone else’s work. As for the viability of an ai detector, if a human can’t
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Photograph a Tree(photographatree.com)
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by blululu 4y ago
ICANN allows anyone to create a domain. You need to pay a bunch of fees to register it and service it but it is not that much. In this case I believe Google created these domains for internal tools and they have owned them ever since.
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by blululu 4y ago
“Everything not saved will be lost forever” - Nintendo Cartridge. Somehow we block out poetry in our own language, but translation it can pass through as a translation.
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by blululu 4y ago
People have food. There is more than enough food for everyone in the US. The US produces a large surplus. The federal government intervenes with generous subsidies, to guarantee over production.
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by blululu 4y ago
Taking this comment seriously I would actually really support a more walking centered park system. You are correct that a lot of most parks are situated very far from roads, but in a lot of parks the best places are close to the roads. Pers
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by blululu 4y ago
If you are trying to root out corruption and waste in the Federal Government I would suggest looking beyond the Park Service. They are asked to do a lot (more each year) with a very small budget (that does not keep pace with inflation or th
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by blululu 4y ago
Community colleges deliver a reasonably good quality of education at a very modest price point. They do accept basically anyone who shows up and unfortunately a lot of people are just not that motivated or are not adequately prepared for co
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by blululu 4y ago
This would be a more reasonable critique if the Democrats had not been the minority party in the US Senate from 2012-2020. For the last 2 years they only have 51-50 tie breaking lead in the Senate which give a very slim margin to get anythi
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by blululu 4y ago
In the case of Apple I think if you look at the mobile phone usage of people in the top 25% of incomes in America you would find that they are well over 80% market share. While this is a somewhat contrived segmentation, it is also most impo
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by blululu 4y ago
FWIW, this exploration does not require a CT scanner. A simple 2d x-ray would suffice.
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by blululu 4y ago
Age discrimination yes, but unions have a long history of establishing and protecting nepotism.
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by blululu 4y ago
There are more Forrests in the US now than there were in 1922. Technically, yes we have more trees now than the historic minimum... As per the Wikipedia[1]: The US reached its historic minimal forrest coverage around 1920 with ~720 M acres.
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by blululu 4y ago
Scuba diving is a fundamentally dangerous and expensive hobby. I don't know if this will make a big dent in the cost of a dive. FWIW a snorkel and a pair of fins are pretty cheap. For ~$50 you can have a lot of fun swimming around expl
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by blululu 4y ago
What? Any port in Africa would suggest otherwise. The Belt and Road initiative is not done for charity. When a Chinese state owned enterprise wins a mining contract in a country that is heavily indebted to the CCP you think is is mutual aid
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by blululu 4y ago
It was high. America is historically one of the more educated countries. During the civil war literacy among native born whites was over 90%. By WWI I believe it was over 95%, and by WWII it was nearly universal among native born adults.
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by blululu 4y ago
Not even. The pamphlet in question opposed the draft by peaceful and legal means and further asserted that conscription is in violation of the 13th amendment. He was simply telling people that the law is unfair and unconstitutional. He didn
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by blululu 4y ago
I never realized that the crowded theater of the idiom refers to WWI and shouting fire means opposing the draft. The metaphorical argument is much less compelling when the crowded theater is actually on fire!
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by blululu 4y ago
For a large operation it is complicated. The profit maximizing strategy starts to become more entwined with interest rates and taking out loans with properties as collateral. The price of your rent can be higher than the market rates on hou
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by blululu 4y ago
Nope. In most states (CA for example) it is a felony to sell stolen goods when the amount exceeds a pretty modest threshold. If, as alleged in the parent comment, they are committing a crime on a large scale then the blame is very well plac
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by blululu 4y ago
Consumption goes up when things are more spaced out. Electricity needs to travel farther on lossy lines. Water needs to be pumped over longer distances. Deliveries need to be sent to farther and farther points. Heating needs to cover a wide
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by blululu 4y ago
You are reading a lot into the OP's statement. A dense city has a much smaller environmental footprint than a sprawling suburb. The statement is just about the relative environmental impact of the two options nothing more.
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by blululu 4y ago
It would be equally simple for a few citizens of [insert targeted country] to contest the claims that it is linked with [insert pejorative Y]. The open nature of the encyclopedia means that there is at the very least a record of the controv
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by blululu 4y ago
The encyclopedia is giant and highly decentralized. It will elude any simple characterization like this. Wikipedia's vast and distributed community of editors maintains a policy that it is not a place for original research. Thus, in ge
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by blululu 4y ago
Ironic too since Galois was a devoted Republican while these folks are clearly in the Orleanist camp.
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by blululu 4y ago
I’m not sure how you’re trying to define planned obsolescence in order to say it doesn’t happen. Maintenance has costs and it has benefits and a corporation tries the weigh those according to its best guess. But the biggest cost for mainten
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by blululu 4y ago
This seems like a pretty strong claim given that 4 billion Android phones are made each year with <2 years of kernel support. Where are you even getting this from?

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