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by cheald 7y ago
Phoenix is the 5th most populous city in the US and spans 517 square miles. The Phoenix Metro area spans over 14,000 square miles. Good luck navigating that on your scooter - especially with kids or cargo. "Cities" don't nece
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by cheald 7y ago
FWIW, the Tesla nav is traffic-aware. I believe it's based on Google Maps.
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by cheald 7y ago
Phoenix seems like an odd choice of example here. It's hot here. We're used to it, we have a lot of systems in place to deal with it, and we're one of the best places in the country to weather temperature increases because of
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by cheald 7y ago
Modern insulation is really good - much better than you get with rammed earth. Rammed earth isn't a particularly good insulator, it just has really high thermal mass, so once it heats up (and out here, it will heat up), it will continu
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by cheald 7y ago
"Over the last decade" is a critical qualification, I think. This phenomenon emerged in the early 2010s, by my best reckoning. This sounds an awful lot like nostalgic pining for the good old days, but there was a time not too lo
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by cheald 7y ago
I'd be willing to guess that the vast majority of increase in overnight temps is due to sprawl and concrete/asphalt acting as heat batteries. Overnight temps are still reliably in the 80s, though. I was curious, so I went and chec
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by cheald 7y ago
Absolutely! My point is that it's ill-suited to be a currency because we know now that stable currencies need to be able to match supply to demand. Because of crypto's fixed supply, it behaves more like an asset (though it certain
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by cheald 7y ago
Crypto like bitcoin is necessarily an appreciating asset because it is deflationary by its very nature. Over a long enough time period, if BTC were in fact behaving like a currency (that is, as a medium for the exchange of value, rather tha
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by cheald 7y ago
I understand what the GDPR _says_, but I'm saying that there's a vast difference between "what it asserts it can enforce" and "what can actually be enforced". A law that can't be enforced doesn't mean
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by cheald 7y ago
The GDPR might assert that they're bound, but an Oklahoma-based business with no business presence or assets inside the EU isn't bound by EU law. This is pretty much the foundation of national sovereignty. How would an EU enforcer
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by cheald 7y ago
> Does this kind of action actually absolve them of GDPR responsibilities? All the rest of our laws travel with jurisdictions, not with individuals' citizenship status. The GDPR doesn't really have any standing to impose obliga
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by cheald 7y ago
It does seems like an artifact that after-tax premiums aren't always deductible. We already have a model for how to do that in the homeowner's mortgage interest deduction: insurers (banks) report the total of your premiums (mortga
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by cheald 7y ago
The nominal price of Lasik is trending slightly down at the same time that the technology and procedure is getting better. It's a pretty stark contrast to most of the rest of the medical industry, IMO.
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by cheald 7y ago
If healthcare is perfectly inelastic and inelasticity is the dominant factor in pricing, shouldn't we expect all procedures cost $LIFE_SAVINGS each already? I'm not trying to be glib; my point is that a) healthcare is _not_ perfec
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by cheald 7y ago
You're describing inelasticity of demand, which has nothing to do with whether or not a market is free in the economic sense (that is, whether supplier competition and consumer substitution are possible). It's also incorrect to p
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by cheald 7y ago
> I can think of two. First, so they can spend the money on other things they want (military, social security, education, etc.). Second, is so they can get re-elected by those same citizens. Respectfully, is there any reason to think tha
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by cheald 7y ago
It's actually not exactly that inconceivable if the you're using the traditional 5 fl oz cup size for tea/coffee. I've just finished my morning coffee - a 34fl oz French press's worth, black. That's almost 7 &q
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by cheald 7y ago
> Are you f ing kidding? Sponsored articles are ads. Kinda, but not necessarily in a way that subverts the quality of the article. I used to work in media (and I'm thankfully out of it now), so I do have some inside perspective on
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by cheald 7y ago
The Unitarian Universalists, are, as I understand it, pretty close to a "religionless church". There's a general sense of "search for the truth", but there's no specific confessed creed.
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by cheald 7y ago
I love modern KDE. I've been running Kubuntu for the last year or so and just adore it.
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by cheald 8y ago
I use a Macbook and a Linux (Kubuntu 19.10) desktop, and I vastly prefer the Linux desktop for UX. There are more knobs to fiddle with, naturally, but the desktop Linux experience has vastly improved over the last few years, and I'm
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by cheald 8y ago
Searchguard is a plugin for ES which gives you TLS + auth. They offer a paid version with more features (ActiveDirectory integration, HIPAA-compliant auditing, etc - actual enterprise features), but if you just need auth/ACLs/tran
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by cheald 8y ago
And how would breaking them up prevent any of that? Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on data collection, Google doesn't have a monopoly on display advertising, and Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on peer pressure.
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by cheald 8y ago
FWIW, we use Gitlab to help protect against this: we use its CI scheduling to rebuild our base images on a regular basis. Our Docker image builds are managed via CI, and we have a schedule set up to rebuild them with --no-cache. This keeps
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by cheald 8y ago
On Android 9, you can do this even more easily: Settings -> Network & Internet -> Advanced -> Private DNS -> set provider hostname to "dns.adguard.com" Adguard functionally operates similar to a Pihole install - it
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by cheald 8y ago
If you already have the DBs in S3, it seems obvious that you could bring up EC2 instance(s) with gigantic EBS drives attached, restore a DB to it, and run verification measures on it. Parallelize as your budget allows.
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by cheald 8y ago
We already do it with military UAVs. Assist-by-wire for vehicles seems like it's not too far-fetched.
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by cheald 8y ago
It's all fun and games until the Loonies figure out they can use the payload delivery mechanism to start launching rocks at us.
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by cheald 8y ago
Android kind of does this (at least on my Pixel). It rings, but I have a "screen call" button that says "this person's using a screening service, tell us who you are and why you're calling". It answers the call
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by cheald 8y ago
Just FYI, a few years ago, I went through the due diligence process for an acquisition. The AGPL on MongoDB (at the time) was the single biggest sticking point for the lawyers. I had to do a lot of work to demonstrate that we had sufficie

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