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by boulos 5y ago
One distinction versus naturally caused fires (like lightning) is that power lines are often downed by high winds over dry terrain. Lightning, usually , is accompanied by a storm so there’s at least some rain. It’s not going to stop everyt
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by boulos 5y ago
I’m going to assume good faith, but Figure 41.2 only has data through 1992 (the paper is from 1995). 30-ish years of hotter, drier seasons might change that picture. In fact, Figure 1 in your first pdf says just that: the “count” of fires i
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by boulos 5y ago
I’m not a lawyer, but you should speak to attorney in California, where the original company and directors are headquartered. It sounds like maybe a transaction is occurring / has occurred though? (“the buyer in EU”). You could probabl
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PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires(npr.org)
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by boulos 5y ago
Sorry, which trade are you referring to? The Dec 22 TSLA options? Assuming yes, the disclosure report [1] says it was 25 calls with a strike price of $500 with expiration of 3/18/22 (so another long dated option). Tesla's sha
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by boulos 5y ago
Oh and looking more closely, this methodology is super poor (though I’m sympathetic to the challenge with the disclosure format). Basically, by assuming that all the trades were the maximum of the range (and per trade), it’s overweighting t
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by boulos 5y ago
The article never says this, but her husband, Paul, is a longtime investor / VC [1]. There’s obviously still a huge opportunity for leakage of information that Nancy Pelosi receives, but the trades don’t actually look suspicious nor re
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Norway’s Women's Beach Handball Team Is Fined for Not Wearing Bikini Bottoms(npr.org)
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by boulos 5y ago
Actually, IIUC people were more generous tippers “during” the pandemic [1]. Some of the reopening discussion included a note that average tipping went down. [1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Data-show-t
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by boulos 5y ago
That’s a fairly high end restaurant in NYC, San Francisco, etc (e.g., servers at Zuni did about $70k/yr including tips [1]). The person in the article though is in the back of the house. Those workers almost uniformly make minimum wage
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by boulos 5y ago
If you’re interested in the topic, I recommend the MIT living wage research [1]. They’ve got probably the most useful calculator, letting you compare multiple scenarios. [1] https://livingwage.mit.edu/
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Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140B(nytimes.com)
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Restaurant workers quit at record rate(npr.org)
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My only worry is the pagination limits. If you combine enough startups into a meet the batch, how many will reasonably stay on the first page of comments?
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Pinched ink: is it wrong to steal a tattoo?(theguardian.com)
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Self-Driving Startup Aurora in Agreement with Reinvent SPAC(bloomberg.com)
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by boulos 5y ago
And Open64 was the basis for nvcc (not sure if it still is anymore).
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by boulos 5y ago
Let me be clear: Thanks, Xavier! httrack was extremely helpful and there really was no equal. The “modern” web requires a live JS engine, but as you point out, even the “old” web had server-side logic that couldn’t be captured. In that lig
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by boulos 5y ago
Ahh, the good ole days. I used httrack nearly 20 years ago to make the CD copies of the osha.gov site (e.g., [1]). Back then, for ADA and internet access compliance, government websites had to also be made available for offline use if possi
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Biden Moves to Restrict Non-Compete Agreements, Saying They're Bad for Workers(npr.org)
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I came here to say “that sounds made up”. Then I did a Google video search for “Whitehorse airplane take off truck” and found: https://youtu.be/r5GAZC1YoCo . Must be a long runway!
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by boulos 5y ago
If folks are interested in their own custom approximations, I can highly recommend Sollya [1]. Sollya has a great Remez implementation as well as a proven supremum norm (maximum error). I combined it with more traditional “loop over all 32-
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by boulos 5y ago
I assume you’re talking about the “leg” in the left. The “rungs” would have been for reinforcement.
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Ooh, and another interesting update on his book from a week ago or so: https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldM38768041/status/1406751034...
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As I said a few months ago [1], it's mostly too bad Don has moved to Twitter. Maybe someone posted this from his recent thread at [2]? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26206335 [2] https://mobile.twi
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by boulos 5y ago
People definitely shouldn't fly if they don't need to, but I think you're overestimating the warming effect from aviation. Estimates put it in the ~3% range overall [1]. Most of that (80%) was passenger travel [2] (pre-pandem
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by boulos 5y ago
Huh, I was going to send Luke a pull request, but he actually fixed this in late May [1]. Maybe he needs to re-generate the site? [1] https://github.com/aip-dev/site-generator/commit/9fe7bdcf83c...
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by boulos 5y ago
As long as we’re being pedantic, Mandelbrot is a name.
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NVIDIA calls this GPUDirect Storage. You might find their blog post to be useful: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/
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To add to dragonwriter’s response, I raise you Sir Kensington’s [1]. They’re popular in San Francisco (used at Super Duper Burgers, for example) and available at Whole Foods and on Good Eggs. Even Heinz offers its own organic variant [2], b

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