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by cameldrv 3y ago
Metros are pretty slow. 20mph/30kph is about par, less if the stops are spaced closely, more if they're further apart. If you factor in time to walk to and from the metro, and time waiting for your train, you can almost always b
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes sensitivity. False positives are fairly rare.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
No the performance is worse with newer variants. One factor seems to be that newer variants tend to replicate a lot in the throat at first and only later move to the nose, but there is probably more than one reason for the change. In 2021
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by cameldrv 3y ago
You can get home tests that are similar to PCR. They are more expensive but the performance of the antigen tests since about 2022 is so bad that they’re almost useless.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This is the fundamental problem with AirBnb as a business instead of a side gig. The hotel has massive economies of scale in cleaning and other things, because they have dozens of rooms on site. If one room gets totally trashed, they just
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Do not like this, but it is still better than Apple or most other phone manufacturers that won't let you unlock the bootloader at all.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Israel does not allow the U.S. basing in Israel. We do have troops in Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia though.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
On the guidance side, "Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance" is awesome.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
They're trying to be a site that makes a lot of money from ads. To do that they need to get people to spend a lot of time there. To do that they need an infinitely scrolling feed that has addictive characteristics. What else are peo
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It's a very clever piece of engineering. I didn't quite get it until I saw this webpage with a little visual simulator of how it works, which is really great! http://eahart.com/prius/psd/
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This thing is a slow motion train wreck that's already half over. A lot is already baked in. Even if you could convince young people to start having a lot more babies overnight, there are three times as many 50 year olds as 1 year ol
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The U.S. solution mostly is just not to have that level of population density. Most larger cities in Europe for example are old, laid out and built before the invention of the car. Before motorized transport, people mostly got places by w
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yeah and if those cars are self-driving, it's fairly easy to have an Uber type service that puts together shared rides on the fly. Such a service would: 1. Cost less 2. Be faster 3. More convenient 4. Door to door I think trains are f
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yeah but it's more like the prisoner's dilemma vs. the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Some people think that what makes the modern world work is hyper-optimization, but what really makes the modern world work is reliability.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I predict this won't end well. People will pull up to the drive-thru, find that the prices are much higher than usual, and get mad, because they may not be able to back up out of the drive-thru or pull forward to exit. They'll e
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This makes a lot of sense in one way, but the weird thing is that it's not just the astronaut's own lives that we have to consider. Personally, I've had some risky hobbies. I accepted the risk, and if I'd died doing th
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yep. One thing about manufacturing is that there are economies of scale everywhere. If we had to build a Saturn V from plans, we'd run into tons of problems. For one, the plans don't actually have everything you need to know.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I started doing Turing Tumble with my kids. It gets to be quite a bit more advanced than something like the Xylophone Maze, but also zero screens. It's been fun.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Part of it is cost: In the mid sixties, NASA was about five percent of the federal budget. Another part is safety: Apollo was extremely dangerous. There were a lot of single points of failure, three astronauts died on the ground, three m
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I'd summarize Chesterton's Fence as "do not destroy that which you do not understand." Human things that have been around a while almost always have some sort of purpose. That purpose could be something noble and impor
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by cameldrv 3y ago
One underappreciated aspect of falls is the cognitive dimension. A huge number of falls happen at night when someone wakes up, often to go to the bathroom. If you have poor balance and you're not very strong, it takes planning and be
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Or option 4, which is the Federal Reserve buying government debt with printed money. This raises the price of government bonds, which is the same as reducing interest rates, helping make the debt service more affordable. Also, when the Fed
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by cameldrv 3y ago
My guess is that Waymo does do this internally. One difference with this situation in terms of the public perception/discussion though is that, say in the 1960s, air safety wasn't very good compared to today, but still there was n
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by cameldrv 3y ago
To me the concept of punitive damages is very suspect. Civil cases are supposed to have a lower burden of proof because they’re just compensation, not punishment, but then they throw in punitive damages. Maybe there should be a separate v
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The only problem is that then their heirs will sue PG&E and before long I'll have a $3000 electric bill.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This is very true, but also the Native Americans didn't build their houses in the forest (for this reason). The white man likes to have his cabin in the woods. This is perfectly fine in northern Europe and the NE U.S., because due to
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by cameldrv 3y ago
> It’s worth acknowledging a crucial part of this story. Dartmouth admits disadvantaged students who have scores that are lower on average than those of privileged students. They may have a higher bar for "privileged" students,
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I wonder if this is allowed under Medicare or private insurance. It doesn't seem like the insurer should be willing to pay as high a fee if the doctor effectively isn't taking liability like they normally would.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
My understanding is that even though you view it as your property, according to the patriot act, it’s a “business record” of the provider and subject to disclosure without a warrant.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
You can still get something like a 90s F-150, but it's now called a midsize truck. The main difference is that the bed will be smaller and the interior will be larger. There are even some smaller unibody trucks like the Maverick comi

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