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by cletus 5y ago
Since I've seen this many times before, I would be willing to pet you were buying "cheap" inkjet printers. By "cheap" I mean they take ink cartridges. Never ever ever buy a cartridge inkjet printer. instead buy a ta
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by cletus 5y ago
This feels like Schrodinger's Cake to me (you know, having it and eating it too). > ... the first of which is called "biased reference counts" ... With this scheme, the reference count in each object is split in two, with
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by cletus 5y ago
We can only see the abstract, sadly, so it's hard to say what it's actually found. But, I disagree with the headline, for several reasons. 1. Requiring ID to vote requires definition. The various laws hastily passed in the wake of
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by cletus 5y ago
I don't disagree with the spirit of what you're saying. This is a burden for expat US citizens. A few notes and corrections though: > Moreover, it makes expats ineligible for certain retirement savings in their country of domic
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by cletus 5y ago
> I believe that people should have a basic knowledge of the tools they are using. I strongly disagree with this. Does anyone remember what connecting to Wifi looked like? I'm talking 15+ years ago. Here's how it would go: 1. C
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by cletus 5y ago
This is a good example of making the mistake of conflating implementation details and user interface design. Firefox always had two boxes: URL bar and search. One of the big changes Chrome made when it was born was to have the Omnibar, bein
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by cletus 5y ago
This isn't a high-level gameplay problem. I'm not sure what you play but in (CoD) Warzone, for example, just based on Twitch streams at least, almost every lobby has one or more cheaters/hackers in it now. This is a bad enoug
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by cletus 5y ago
It's a milder position than Tucker Carlson but Hannity also pushed hydrochloroquine.
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by cletus 5y ago
I understand what you're saying but skepticism is also a tool for manipulation. We now have a significant number of people who are rejecting the Covid vaccine because they're "skeptical" or "waiting for the evidence
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by cletus 5y ago
This is nothing new. For example, supermarkets have been in the generic brands business for decades. They contract out making some generic version a name brand product and sell it a lower price, giving it preferential space (both size and p
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by cletus 5y ago
This is a swing and a miss. While I agree insulin prices are way too high and the government allows Big Pharma to profit off death and the taxpayer, this is really nothing to do with science and all to do with the legislation around intelle
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by cletus 5y ago
Here's the problem: 1. Science is a process. If you've ever seen the typical graph explaining the scientific method it's important to note that it's a loop. Science is iterative; 2. I'm not sure I agree with the cha
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by cletus 5y ago
It actually sounds more like what I'd expect: microservices don't scale. I've never been a fan of microservices for this simple reason: every boundary, every interface, every connection is friction and a potential source of b
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by cletus 5y ago
> SHA-1 will still work fine for the purpose of git. So why are they changing it? That's pretty strong evidence it's not fine. I found this Stackoverflow question, "Why does Git use a cryptographic hash function?" [1]
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by cletus 5y ago
Git was created 16 years ago. The impending breakage of SHA-1 was known even at that time, just like how MD5 had been broken before it. I'm honestly still shocked that updating the hashing algorithm wasn't built into Git from day
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by cletus 5y ago
So during the Space Shuttle (and earlier) era I believe the cost of getting payloads to LEO was $20-50k/kg. Currently with Falcon 9 it's gone down to ~$1000/kg. I imagine this will continue to get cheaper with further reuse a
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by cletus 5y ago
Oh for sure. To be clear, I meant the amortized cost, not the initial cost of, say, ITER. I could've stated that better.
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by cletus 5y ago
So this is based on mathematical modeling. Here's one reference I found [1] that estimates 5,000 years. I know I've heard 30,000 too, which is really within the same order of magnitude. [1]: https://sciencing.com/f
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by cletus 5y ago
> How is fusion different? It's not but people don't seem to realize this or maybe just don't want to think about it. Spending $100B to produce 1GW of power (made up numbers) is not an economical source of power. So hydrog
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by cletus 5y ago
So if we can process nuclear waste in fast reactors like this, why haven't we done so with existing nuclear waste? Scale? Cost? Something else?
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by cletus 5y ago
Thorium is complicated. I'd suggest [1] [2] as a good primer on this issue. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqcRl849R0 [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQelfQAH54
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by cletus 5y ago
I, for one, welcome newer and better reactor designs. This doesn't solve the significant issues of fuel enrichment and waste storage and disposal however and we need a much better story for those before fission power has any kind of fu
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by cletus 5y ago
This seems to be an unpopular opinion on HN but I just don't trust humans to manage fission power in the long term at scale. First, there are the issues of storage and disposal of enrichment byproducts, specifically depleted Uranium He
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by cletus 5y ago
They certainly can decide where not to work based on this. Many years ago I had a conversation with IMDB and ran for the hills when I found out the used Perl.
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by cletus 5y ago
Does Amazon still insist on that draconian vesting schedule? They always had 5/15/40/40% for years 1/2/3/4. I ask because I’m curious how far employee pressure goes as that’s so much worse than other FAANG comp
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by cletus 5y ago
> ... where you criticize those who would maintain bans on drug purchases, you end up finding your own reasons why to maintain a ban on a different vice. Well done on missing my point entirely, possibly intentionally. I'm fine with
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by cletus 5y ago
To get something else they wanted. Veto power doesn't mean you can simply veto anything you don't like. Well, you can but then everybody else does the same thing and the net result is nothing. So in reality, you just give up somet
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by cletus 5y ago
This is organizational rot in action. The former CEO of Honeywell is not the right guy to be at the helm. To be fair, this problem predated him. But it's just exacerbated BO becoming just another Corporate America drone factory of usel
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by cletus 5y ago
I don't think they're that reluctant, honestly. But it goes beyond credit card companies too. It applies to the whole banking system. It will soon be the case where the majority of Americans live in states where recreational canna
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by cletus 5y ago
I didn't see this mentioned: when interest rates are at or near zero the tax burden on the rich almost entirely disappears. Why? Because you can borrow money for essentially nothing instead of realizing a gain or repatriating money fro

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