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by creato 5y ago
35 trillion is almost double the entire GDP of the US, and almost 10x the entire federal budget. I don't know where you are getting that number.
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by creato 5y ago
Capturing bigger differences between highlights and shadows (i.e. dynamic range) is one of the primary goals of camera manufacturers. It's one of the most critical aspects of camera performance, and they're competing to deliver
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by creato 5y ago
> M2 has also skyrocketed over the same period Over the long term on a log scale, it looks like M1 would still be pretty dramatic in the last few years, while M2 wouldn't look that weird, just a bit of a blip in 2020.
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by creato 5y ago
Yes, there's lots of garbage on YouTube, but it's still "passive garbage" for most people. It's the equivalent of parents limiting cartoons for their kids when TV was the popular medium. This article isn't abou
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by creato 5y ago
The full context: > His real concern were platforms that are specifically engineered to “keep the child’s eyes glued to the screen for as long as possible in a never-ending stream of social comparison and validation-seeking from strange
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by creato 5y ago
HSBC was fined $1.9 billion for processing (not profiting) $881 million + $660 million. Their profit was probably only a few percent of that. But even if they simply took all $1.5b as profit, they still were fined more than that. You migh
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by creato 5y ago
> but theoretically it has a lot of promise as a cheap and open source alternative to PayPal and a lot of banks’ services Even theoretically, how can they do this? I don't see it happening, even setting aside the much rehashed minin
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by creato 5y ago
I think the only way to handle the possibility of failure of a 2FA system is to have multiple options configured. They all can fail somehow: loss, damage, hardware failure, etc. On my Google account I have two security keys, an OTP app, and
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by creato 5y ago
Because more people can afford to buy them...
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by creato 5y ago
$11 -> $17 in 4-5 years is ~9%/year. High, but not 20%, like the parent post claims. CPI actually claims meat and poultry inflation is 10.5% ( https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ , click Food -> Food at home -> Meat a
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by creato 5y ago
I agree low interest rates inflate housing prices, but I don't think that has much to do with food prices. I think food prices are being inflated simply by more people having more money to spend (pandemic unemployment/stimulus, hi
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by creato 5y ago
Are there any small (i.e. vulnerable to DDoS) service providers that aren't privacy and security centric?
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by creato 5y ago
Nuclear power plants can load follow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#Nuc... This idea that they can't is a weird meme in internet forums. The reason they don't is primarily economic,
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by creato 5y ago
Did you have older coworkers in your physical labor job? I did. Those people were not happy or healthy. I think you are looking back through tinted glasses. I also liked my physical labor job when I was young, but I also know it would be te
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by creato 5y ago
> There's something about cyclists taking over the road that really provokes some drivers. Every critical mass ride I've ever seen blatantly ignores traffic laws, particularly running red lights. I say this as an avid cyclist a
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by creato 5y ago
For how many topics and spoken words does this not happen for? You probably can't count them. I don't think this happens because I don't think it's technically feasible. The hotword detection stuff that is always on (&
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by creato 5y ago
Has anything ever actually replaced VS? I've only ever used VS for hobby/side projects, and even 10 years ago it was leaps and bounds better than what I have to use for my professional day to day work now (code completion, debugge
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by creato 5y ago
It really depends on what exactly you're talking about. If you want to be unavailable for an hour every day during the standard "work day", that goes well beyond reasonable protectiveness of work-life balance in my opinion.
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by creato 5y ago
> This was all financed with government money. Moderna existed for 10 years and raised 3.2 billion before 2019 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderna ). The only government funding mentioned before then was $25 milli
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by creato 5y ago
> Not being facetious, I literally don't get it and assume I'm missing something. Moderna existed for 10 years and burned through billion(s?) of dollars before they earned any significant revenue. It doesn't matter how muc
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by creato 5y ago
How many Modernas and Pfizers tried this and failed? The expected value of work like this should be greater than one on average , not just close to one among the successful attempts.
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by creato 5y ago
I think nuclear energy is the solution to climate change, but this post is trivializing the issue. Yes, the steps to make the first atomic bombs are simple in concept, but in practice requires an enormous amount of resources (money and time
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by creato 5y ago
> The union’s president, Casey Murray, told CBS News that the pilot sick rate over the weekend was consistent with what the company experienced over the summer. This seems like a simple easily verifiable fact that would disprove the vacc
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by creato 5y ago
How else would the information come to light? I don’t expect the FBI to periodically dig up old data to publicize without a reason.
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by creato 5y ago
The leet code thing is overstated. I’ve rarely seen “hard” questions asked and when they are asked, often the maximally efficient solution is not required to do well in the interview.
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by creato 5y ago
People are taught to use turn signals, and are reminded "keep right except to pass" every 2 miles. Unless there are a lot of blatantly illiterate people driving around, they just don't care about the conventions of the road,
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by creato 5y ago
Why is the president of the US involved in something like this? How is the port not economically motivated to do this by itself?
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by creato 5y ago
Like pretty much everyone in this thread, who are at the very least failing to acknowledge the fact that this is a feedback loop. I'd be a lot more willing to acknowledge the notion that the media and government are so terrible if the
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by creato 5y ago
If the cause is the military, why is southwest so disproportionately affected, and being affected in so many cities? > “The problems weren’t concentrated in just one particular region. The cancelations affected the entire Southwest netwo
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by creato 5y ago
They're not even banning the content, they're just not showing ads on it.

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