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by brudgers 3mo ago
I've been nerd-sniped into google fueled napkin math. 18kw/100 m = 180kw/km The most powerful Swiss electric locomotive [1] maxes out at 7900kw. That's 44km of track. The most common Swiss electric (4/4) typi
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by brudgers 3mo ago
Instagram is part of Meta. Typically, Instagram accounts are linked with a Facebook presence. That’s the trust model. Anyway, whether the Instagram juice is worth the squeeze, depends on why you want the juice and how much you want it.
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Why are you building?
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Why not create a new profile on your existing account? That’s the more standard practice with Instagram and Facebook. Separate accounts almost certainly correlates with problematic behavior and your existing account is a basis for trust. In
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by brudgers 4mo ago
State agricultural agents. For economics, university agriculture departments.
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by brudgers 4mo ago
recent comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747407
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by brudgers 4mo ago
dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710770
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Telharmonium: First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897(openculture.com)
1 points by brudgers 4mo ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Some comments on Loko Scheme earlier this year, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500422
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Related (possibly) David Graeber’s Debt: the first 5000 years https://youtu.be/CZIINXhGDcs
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by brudgers 4mo ago
What angers me personally about Le Corbusier is that he should have known better. He not only saw but studied the Parthenon and went to many other places to study and learn when he was young. I have to conclude, therefore, that he either d
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by brudgers 4mo ago
That explains the Joey's ocarina in the movie Stalag 17 .
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by brudgers 4mo ago
that's the only card I can use That gives me a "there's probably more to this story" feeling. Though I understand that there are people without multiple credit cards, getting a second credit card and/or debit card
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by brudgers 4mo ago
To me, the degree of emphasis on developing a unique visual style should probably be commensurate with the norms of those professions. But that’s just my opinion.
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by brudgers 4mo ago
But it’s difficult for me to reach out to other customers. What makes it difficult? What else is more important?
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by brudgers 4mo ago
I don’t have meaningful product feedback because it is not a product for me…it is not in a category of software I am likely to use.
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by brudgers 4mo ago
I'm unsure if the juice is worth the squeeze. Either-hell-yes-or-no is among the useful mental constructs I have read on HN over the years. Time-to-learn-or-time-to-earn? Is another. To me this smells a more lot like learning than ea
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by brudgers 4mo ago
even merging on to the highway from an onramp Onramps with traffic lights are a thing in the US. They operate during rush hour.
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Recent comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513920
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Please don't change my mouse cursor. It is unexpected; disorienting; it is unnecessary; there were probably more pressing areas to focus attention; if the project is successful at some point, you will wind up having to work on it again
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by brudgers 4mo ago
I'm curious about where your best idea(s) came Ideas multiply execution. https://sive.rs/multiply Doing is more important than thinking and sometimes doing means you not only empty the trash can, but carry it to the
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Wolfram is $4000/seat for a perpetual commercial license with support. [1] $4000 will only buy a middling Mac Tool tool chest…and not the tools to put in it. [1] a personal perpetual license is only $400.
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by brudgers 4mo ago
The US has been building roundabouts for about 30 years. It has a lot of intersections. Reconfiguring intersections is expensive and disruptive. Stop signs and traffic lights take less space and are often the simplest thing that might work
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by brudgers 4mo ago
They can and do build them. The problem is that at intersections the normative behavior of American drivers is to queue and wait for your turn. Roundabouts assume a different behavior based on jumping the line. Thus there is a lot of unpred
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by brudgers 4mo ago
It is typical for urban planning departments to conduct studies concluding paid parking is the answer when free parking is the dominant form of public parking and later conduct studies concluding that free parking is the answer a generation
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Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars
12 points by brudgers 4mo ago|21 comments
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Ask HN: If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do?
4 points by brudgers 4mo ago|3 comments
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Even with aggressive content moderation to reject CSAM-related materials, report to authorities, block users, and include it in the ToS If you cannot afford lawyers, you cannot afford even minimal moderation. You are simply going to be ou
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Yes, I mean there is basically one road to Alaska and from the nearest major US city (Seattle) it is 3600km to Anchorage…about the same distance as Barcelona to Moscow but entirely through sparsely or unpopulated wilderness. And Seattle is
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by brudgers 4mo ago
Rural Alaska is by and large very very remote. Often small plane is the only practical access and then only in favorable weather. Recruiting teachers to remote villages with extreme weather is hard and if you are at US university training t

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