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by cameldrv 3y ago
Cool tech, but IMO this is long-term useless for many areas. In a lot of the West, including California, the problem is that there is a buildup of fuel that, due to the dry climate, doesn't really rot. Eventually this fuel has to bur
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yep. For me it was flying gliders. Most important things I think are that the activity is challenging, involves learning, and does not involve the use of a computer.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I don't think it's just subjective in this case. The theoretical signal processing approach assumes that the signal is band-limited to frequencies less than two pixels wide, and it's not. There are lots of sharp edges that
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by cameldrv 3y ago
You tell the operator to cut off the spammers, and if they don't do it in a reasonable time you cut off the operator.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I don't believe this. I think that the real reason that cab drivers don't want to accept credit cards is because they don't want to pay taxes on the money like everyone else has to. Sorry buddy, your inability to evade taxe
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by cameldrv 3y ago
No. It's 2023. You're expected to take credit cards like it says on the little logo on the window. If your credit card machine is broken, your Taxi is broken and you can't pick up fares unless YOU tell them ahead of time t
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Where I live there are a lot of combination pedestrian/cycle paths, and the speed limit is 15 mph and even lower in busy sections. More than that seems like a recipe for nasty accidents.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Frankly, for all of the hand wringing over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it pales in comparison to Japanese atrocities in China and many other places. In stark contrast to Germany where every school kid learns about the millions killed in the Hol
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The budget tab from a known manufacturer is the Amazon Fire 7 for $59.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Having no contact with anyone except convicted criminals and prison guards for a long time has to change a person.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Interesting article, but it's missing the true dynamics. One of the interesting things in the past few years we've seen is evolution and population dynamics on a very fast and very relevant scale with COVID. You'd see case
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by cameldrv 3y ago
On the Amazon thing, get the tracking number and track it with the carrier. I’ve found Amazon will say something has shipped when only the label has been created. You can see the truth if you track it through the actual carrier. There see
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by cameldrv 3y ago
It's perfectly possible, it would just take will. We'd need about 5000-10000 GW. Even if you take the very high cost of the newest U.S. reactor at 11.6 Billion for 1.12 GW, you get about 50-100 trillion. Gross World Product is
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by cameldrv 3y ago
SpaceX and Tesla certainly involve luck, but it's way more than that. A huge element of the success of both companies is Elon managing to hire extremely bright and extremely hard working people for both companies. A huge element of t
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I grew up in fairly similar circumstances to the author, and only one of my childhood friends has died, from a motorcycle accident. I think that the author's experience is pretty uncommon.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Clear makes a big deal about their biometric auth, but the point of clear is cutting the security line.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I find the non-US model weird... What are you supposed to do if 3 years into owning a house the rate goes way up? At that point you will have almost no equity and extending the term isn't going to help much. People actually do refinan
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by cameldrv 3y ago
But everything is A/B tested. What starts out as a bug can end up organizationally unfixable if it has a positive impact on conversion.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Personally I think that legalizing online gambling will prove to be a huge mistake. 30-40 years ago the national strategy was basically to confine it to Vegas and Atlantic City, and most people live far enough from those places that the in
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There are plenty of people in these countries that have very difficult lives that might be prone to drug addiction if drugs were available, but they're not, so they aren't.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Your friend's death is a tragedy. Preventing as many deaths like this as possible is what I hope for the future. Suppose your friend were in a country like Singapore, where drug punishments are extremely harsh. When his prescription
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by cameldrv 3y ago
IMO this will not work. Serious drugs are absolutely a public health issue, and some public health issues have to be solved through civil and criminal laws. Drugs have to be approved by the FDA to be allowed to be sold, and the ultimate e
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I don't see how this is much different than the current situation. The Fed already processes ACH transactions (basically all bill-pay, most transfers to/from Paypal/Venmo etc), and all wire transfers (most high dollar money
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Her site is: https://scienceintegritydigest.com/about/ https://scienceintegritydigest.com/ She wrote an op-ed in the NYT last year: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Underplayed here is the role of Elisabeth Bik (@microbiomdigest on Twitter). She’s spent years doggedly finding photoshopped images in published research papers, including these ones.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
One other thing not mentioned is latency. Zoom does a good job with this, but there are fundamental limits. This makes it more cognitively demanding to find the right moment to jump in, and if two people jump in at the same time, they have
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Owners with locked-in rates have little incentive to trade to anything else. You can't take the mortgage with you, so selling and then even buying a smaller house is going to lead to a higher payment in most cases. What you will see i
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by cameldrv 3y ago
That chart is wrong. You can’t give a single number for RCS as it depends on angle, radar wavelength, and aircraft condition. Generally though the RCS for the B-2 is believed to be the best, followed by the F-22, then the F-35, then the F
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Because the F-117 is not all that stealthy, and a good strategy for defeating it became known. In 1999 over Serbia, one F-117 was shot down and supposedly another one was damaged. It was shot down by a Russian S-125, which is a missile sys
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There are only a few miles of freeway in the entire city of San Francisco, so I doubt too many of the accidents in SF are from them. Yes, driving 25mph in a modern car with crumple zones and 10 airbags is generally very safe. If you look

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