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by cameldrv 3y ago
They are supposed to yield (to pedestrians or cars) on a red light. That said, I walk across a road that is the exit from a freeway every morning, and you have to make sure you have eye contact with the driver that’s turning right, even if
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I think that the point of the rebrand was to eliminate the expectation that HBO shows would be available on HBO Max. For example, Westworld is no longer available on Max.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
From that press release: > Granholm added that the unprecedented accomplishment will strengthen national security and moves the world closer to the possibility of an abundant, carbon-free energy source for the future. > “It would be l
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It’s a reasonable misunderstanding though. They pretty deliberately obscure this fact.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Not a podcast, but Durant's "The Story of Civilization" is available as audiobooks on Audible. It's something like 500 hours, but hey, a lot of stuff has happened.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I liked the article. Part of what he's touching on is actually far more general. Language translation/speaking is just one skill a human can acquire though. For him, part of what gives his life meaning is being able to write a
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It wasn't just ops though, it was also their product strategy, algorithms, and scaling approach. One of the features of Friendster was that when you viewed someone's profile, it would show you all of the ways you were connected t
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by cameldrv 3y ago
What do you suppose Einstein would do if there were a fly buzzing around in his kitchen?
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Electric cars aren’t really giving them a run for their money. Road damage goes as the 4th power of axle weight [1] A fully loaded semi is 80,000 lbs and has 5 axles so 16,000 lbs/axle. A Tesla model S weighs 4500 lbs and has 2 axles,
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Maybe. I think he’d still be reasonably famous even if the only thing he had done was Mosaic. I don’t agree with everything in his manifesto, but I think he’s achieved more than enough for people to refrain from painting all of his success
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by cameldrv 3y ago
We still need all of those things though so I’m putting out a Request for Metrics on merit, ambition, striving, achievement, and greatness.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
GDP is a gameable metric. Life expectancy is not everything we want, but it’s not bad. “The Federal Reserve announced today that life expectancy was up 0.1% this quarter. Stocks rallied on the news.” If we want to do that though we still
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by cameldrv 3y ago
He and Eric Bina also created the first web browser with the IMG tag.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I’m little skeptical. Even before most airlines started charging for checked bags, they had first class board first, and then boarding groups by status. When checked bags were free, the overheads didn’t fill up very fast. Frankly if I’m
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I think that this study was conducted a couple of years ago when this was a more common symptom. My guess is that any antiviral is going to have similar effects since they all do the same basic thing which is to inhibit viral replication. I
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Dumb light switches. The installation, software updates, re-pairing, latency, security issues, and 3-5 year obsolescence seem like way too high a price to pay just to avoid getting off the couch and flicking a switch that works 100% of the
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by cameldrv 3y ago
In the article they talk about four researchers that may have trouble getting a grant due to the changed political environment. Seven million people are confirmed to have died from COVID, and the excess worldwide mortality since the beginn
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The fundamental problem with GoF research is that the virology community has shown that it's not trustworthy enough to be working with things that are this dangerous. In China, there has been almost a complete information blackout afte
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by cameldrv 3y ago
You could also do what they do in Texas which is to allow anyone over 65 to defer any increased property tax amount (with interest) until sale or the death of the owner. The California approach is to let the owner get massive appreciation,
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I probably wouldn't cancel the booking, but I've come to expect that with a 4.8 driver, there's a pretty good chance that something won't be satisfactory. Uber doesn't kick the driver off until their rating gets be
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by cameldrv 3y ago
4.8 is not a good Uber rating these days. Giving anything less than 5 stars requires you to justify your rating now. 4.8 means roughly 1 in 5 passengers were annoyed enough to go through this.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Patients/doctors have much less incentive to pick the cheaper brand if the insurance company is forced to provide the expensive insulin for a low copay.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
LCS and Zumwalt debacles. Most of the surface ships the Navy has purchased in the past decade are essentially useless.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Airbnb was cheap when it they were renting excess space. Empty nesters. People whose roommate moved out. People on extended vacations. People who lost their job and needed some extra cash and could live without an extra bedroom. These p
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I think that’s a very fair point. I definitely wouldn’t let a friend’s kid ride on the back of an ebike without explicit permission from the parents. That said, my money is on the brakes as the culprit based on all the stories of the auth
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by cameldrv 3y ago
This was a rollercoaster for me. The first half of the article, I'm annoyed at the parents for suing the other girl's parents, the helmet manufacturer, and the bike manufacturer, when they really can't point to anything spec
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Supposedly paper filter is healthier because it filters out the cafestol
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The way the voting and political systems work create a huge advantage for the incumbent, particularly in a state like California where there's a huge Democratic majority. Primaries usually work on a plurality system, so even if the vo
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by cameldrv 3y ago
A more limited version of this is already a consumer product [1]. You can't edit the genome, but you can pick the best (for whatever your definition of best is) of the dozen or so embryos. They sequence the whole genome of all of the
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It's not that the Paleolithic environment was optimal for humans, but humans were optimized to survive in that environment. You can somewhat expect that the human body will do a decent job at surviving anything in that environment. No

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