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by cletus 5y ago
So the thing about the dinosaurs is they were probably always doomed. It just happened to be the meteor that (mostly) finished them off. Why? Well, in times of consistency, the natural trend is for life to get bigger. For herbivores, bigger
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by cletus 5y ago
THIS IS WHY VOTING SHOULD BE MANDATORY. Opponents argue that the uninformed will vote. The alternative however is much worse: disenfranchisement (eg why exactly can't felons vote?), active efforts to purge the wrong kind of voters from
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by cletus 5y ago
Of course this is the case. Business give better customers better treatment. Where people haven’t seemed to have learned their lesson with this is with airlines and to a lesser extent hotels. People will just buy the cheapest ticket, which
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by cletus 5y ago
This is mostly a good thing. I say "mostly" because it encourages scooter riders to use the sidewalk and pretty much anywhere I've been scooter-share riders are a public menace. One issue with these in NYC at least is the dra
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by cletus 5y ago
It really seems to me that people like to be mad, get upset about marginal things that would only affect a small percentage of users (eg inability to side load apps on non-jailbroken iOS) and generally just focus on the negative. Maybe you
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by cletus 5y ago
I hope Blue Origin works out just so we continue to have healthy competition. Bezos is, I believe, personally dumping ~$1B/year of his personal wealth into the company. Despite effectively unlimited resources I think it's fair to
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by cletus 5y ago
Normally stock splits (or, more broadly, "corporate actions") are incorporated into things like Google Finance to avoid skews from stock splits, rights issues, stock reissues and so forth skewing the historical results. So I think
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by cletus 5y ago
Sorry but not true. To get full bandwidth really limits how long the cable can be. Like I don't think you'll find 40Gbps cables longer than about 0.5m. This is more expensive too (eg there are generally chips in the plugs at eithe
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by cletus 5y ago
Rental car prices are extremely high. That’s not your imagination. This is a result of car rental companies selling a third of their fleet last year to survive so supply is way down and demand came roaring back. Tip: hire a UHaul instead. M
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by cletus 5y ago
I look forward to USB 4.1a Type C.2 Phase iii.b Gen 3E and the 482646282 different cable capability combinations that all plug in and have no distinction of those capabilities whatsoever. I also look forward to all the necessary and helpful
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by cletus 5y ago
Is there a brain defect that causes some to think that slurping of any kind or eating with your mouth open near anyone else is in any way socially acceptable? I wouldn’t say I suffer from the thing in this article but at the same time, I do
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by cletus 5y ago
> This feels so much like the Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" fiasco. So I have to pipe in here as I recall this vividly. What crystalized this for me was of all things an op-ed piece by a conservative (not neocon) writer th
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by cletus 5y ago
I literally said this at the end of my comment about coroutines being a low-level primitive.
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by cletus 5y ago
C++20 coroutines confuse me. Like it's not clear to me what problem they solve. For the last few years I've been doing Hack (Facebook's PHP fork) professionally and async-await as cooperative multitasking is pervasive. IMHO i
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by cletus 5y ago
Story time: Back before 2010 the Australian government established the Next-generation Broadband Network ("NBN") [1]. Almost all of Australia at this point had ADSL as their best Internet option. Now the ACCC (equivalent to the FT
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by cletus 5y ago
I hope this is more successful than the last attempt (3060 Ti) where the "crippling" was just software and it was quickly circumvented, partly through NVidia's own screw up (they released a beta driver that didn't have t
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by cletus 5y ago
> I don't want to doubt we will find some use for more energy but... I think I have all the energy I need to be honest. Not quite. You have more than enough energy for what you could imagine using it for. But I guarantee you that a
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by cletus 5y ago
> I liked that Ringworld addresses this Just FYI, but the Ringworld as Larry Niven envisioned it simply doesn't work because no known or theorized material is remotely strong enough. To produce gravity a Ringworld needs to orbit the
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by cletus 5y ago
Think of it this way: a cloud is just water droplets suspended in the air. The air is transparent. Water is transparent. Yet... you can't see through clouds. That's essentially what a full Dyson Swarm looks like. People have model
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by cletus 5y ago
The Milky Way is estimated to be ~100,000 light years across. We're not quite on the edge but we're closer to the edge than the center. So to colonize the galaxy you have to assume we'd need to travel almost 100,000 LY. If yo
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by cletus 5y ago
> Wait, do people actually think Dyson swarms are a thing? Yes, absolutely. The main reason is that building orbitals is largely an engineering problem. You need a material no stronger than stainless steel. If graphite is feasible, it al
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by cletus 5y ago
"Equation" is an unfortunate name because some view that like the Drake Equation is meant to produce a quantifiable number. It isn't and never was. It's a thought experiment and a way to frame the problem (the article st
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by cletus 5y ago
> You know it was once a conspiracy theory to say the Earth wasn't flat. In the 3rd century BCE, it is documented that the Egyptians calculated the circumference of the Earth to a relatively high degree of accuracy [1]. The Earth no
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by cletus 5y ago
So I generally give like zero weight to conspiracy theories. That being said, I don't believe anyone can reasonably claim with any degree certainty that Covid was a lab-leak BUT the WHO investigation simply hasn't done their due d
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by cletus 5y ago
The middle ground here is to allow multiple certified backend processors for larger and more trusted providers who appear have that infrastructure. What Apple should’ve been doing (IMHO) is by controlling the conversation and thus the outco
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by cletus 5y ago
My bad. I meant (um)gebracht.
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm no expert but I find the hypothesis that all languages are basically a wash in terms of complexity... unconvincing. Some examples: 1. Separable verbs in German. My favourite example is "Ich bringe meine Frau (um)". "
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by cletus 5y ago
Alternative title: South Korea decides to offer tax breaks for something that was going to happen anyway given the crypto frenzy and auto industry own goal.
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by cletus 5y ago
So what I like about your comment is you’re clearly more pragmatist than zealot or ideologue. So I don’t know Lisp or Haskell. I never learned in the college years when I might’ve had time and now I just don’t want to pay the years long lea
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by cletus 5y ago
Weird that people get upset by this. I wonder how anyone complaining about "copying" feel about software patents. Honestly, I didn't even know about this mission until now. Good for China. I like "monuments" that co

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