cletus

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901.
by cletus 5y ago
Source: https://xkcd.com/538/
902.
by cletus 5y ago
That's not the only difference. People occupy way more space in the US. For example, the population density of Paris is about 20 times that of Atlanta, a city ~3x as large (including the Greater Atlanta Area).
903.
by cletus 5y ago
The Northeast corridor in the US was opened in 1834. My point was that the rail infrastructure in Europe just isn't that old and even in the 1980s you had a huge advantage in building for speed over the 1830s.
904.
by cletus 5y ago
This is exactly right. It's not as simple as just upgrading tracks for high speed. There's only so far you can go around certain turns. There are also likely limits based on how separated the track is from the surroundings. Going
905.
by cletus 5y ago
There's a nuance here the article mentions in passing but missed the significance of (IMHO): The ARV (assessed rental value) system that produces low effective tax rates for ultra-luxury condos is state legislation that predominantly i
906.
by cletus 5y ago
Actually the wealthy (also) use debt as an alternative to realizing taxable income. Borrowing money at 1-3% is a lot cheaper than paying 40-50% tax. You can essentially defer tax liabilities forever this way.
907.
by cletus 5y ago
Focusing in tax rates is a distraction because no matter what they are the rich don’t pay them. Until you can get to a point where the rich actually pay taxes then we can talk about rates.
908.
by cletus 5y ago
So here’s several things I’m in favor of: 1. A loan is treated as repatriating any offshore foreign income that you might have; 2. We need to eliminate it at least tackle transfer pricing / profit shifting. One way to do that is to app
909.
by cletus 5y ago
This whole thing is a shit show. I’ve said for awhile that App Store monopolies won’t last forever. But it’s not clear to me what the alternative is and maybe that’s why they will last. First there are a couple of different issues. Deciding
910.
by cletus 5y ago
> I see very little friction to any of them - $10/year YT subscription disappears into the background So there are several problems with this: 1. You restated the above commenter's cost from $10/month to $10/year for
911.
by cletus 5y ago
I don't know why there's still so much speculation as to what happened on this flight because it seems clear there's really only one explanation that fits the evidence: after leaving Malaysian airspace the pilot executed a se
912.
by cletus 5y ago
10ms ping is about the best possible case. You're practically living inside the servers if that's the case. What if it's more like 50ms?
913.
by cletus 5y ago
How is this not survivor bias?
914.
by cletus 5y ago
Stadia is a project that should never gotten off the drawing board and it takes only two words to kill it. Input lag. That's not a technical problem. It's physics. In the very least it should've operated off existing launcher
915.
by cletus 5y ago
How to Lie and Distort with Statistics 101: 1. Use absolute numbers or percentages depending on whichever sounds higher; 2. Don't put absolute numbers in context. For example, is that 119k out of 500k or 500M? 3. Only mention false pos
916.
by cletus 5y ago
First let me say: I like Rust. I'm a fan. But... it did make some early decisions that are going to be hard to shake off, most notably around build times. This [1] is well worth a read. [1]: https://pingcap.com/blog&#x2
917.
by cletus 5y ago
Luckily this isn’t an issue in the UK.
918.
by cletus 6y ago
Users sideloading apps on their phones is likely to be a benefit to like 5,000 people and an attack vector for 3 billion. As for Steam, you don't have to use it as a game publisher, as in you could always sell physical media (up until
919.
by cletus 6y ago
This same idea comes up with Google search results. For example, if you search for "mortgage calculator" you get a widget you can use directly. If you click on any of the links it takes forever to load (because it's loading 1
920.
by cletus 6y ago
So Apple's ecosystem does two things: 1. it gatekeeps what's in the App Store. This is of course controversial but is a net positive for consumers (IMHO); and 2. It provides a convenient payments infrastructure. I certainly hope n
921.
by cletus 6y ago
Oh Force Touch, this was one of the biggest UX fails of the modern Apple era. It all goes back to one of Apple's Macintosh era fails: the one button mouse. This was one thing that can be reasonably argued (as I do) that Jobs was wrong
922.
by cletus 6y ago
> I had some issues with dust in the keyboard but they replaced it for free So dust kills a keyboard that is an expensive replacement and was such a fail Apple had to replace who knows how many keyboards for free. Epic fail. That's
923.
by cletus 6y ago
It's actually worse than that: it's not that the US doesn't know how to learn (from others), it's the US increasingly takes pride in its own ignorance. I remember a friend years ago telling about the rise of anti-intelle
924.
by cletus 6y ago
My personal theory is that Apple got better after Ive’s departure. Ive got worse after Steve Jobs died because he no longer had someone pushing back on his crazy ideas, making them practical. The 12” MacBook was the poster child for the sea
925.
by cletus 6y ago
There are actually a lot of theoretical applications. Black holes are likely the most efficient form of power generation that we currently know of. Black hole propulsion may well be the best form of interstellar starship propulsion. Black h
926.
by cletus 6y ago
Wasn't the issue of black hole information loss the subject of the Hawking-Thorne bet that Hawking eventually conceded (that black holes didn't destroy information)? [1] (This may be a separate issue; I'm genuinely curious).
927.
by cletus 6y ago
That depends on what size of black hole you want to make. It works for large black holes (you need sufficient mass for the gravitational forces to be sufficient) but those black holes aren’t that useful. Smaller black holes are harder to co
928.
by cletus 6y ago
Let me add some perspective here. This only became apparent to me fairly recently and it blows my mind. It's something I hadn't thought of before. Black holes are relatively "simple". I mean that you can completely defin
929.
by cletus 6y ago
> Just because the right is currently infringed doesn't mean the right doesn't exist So obviously inmates should also be allowed guns too right? Where's the NRA's "AR-15s for Inmates" campaign? Hyperbolic? S
930.
by cletus 6y ago
We're almost in the era of minority rule in the United Stated. The only bright spot here is we're in the death throes of conservative exceptionalism. But still the undue influence that group has due to gerrymandering, systemic vot

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