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by crote 7mo ago
On the other hand: imagine someone putting "by agreeing to this, you owe us $1,000,000,000 - unless you opt out in writing within 90 days" halfway down the 100-page EULA of some cookie-cutter smartphone app. It is not at all uncom
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by crote 7mo ago
That's a feature, not a bug. A human is personally responsible for a bot acting on their behalf. If your bot behaves, nothing is going to happen. If you keep handing out your personal keys to shitty misbehaving bots, then you will p
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by crote 7mo ago
Very few websites are truly static. Something like a Wordpress website still does a nontrivial amount of compute and DB calls - especially when you don't hit a cache. There's also the cost asymmetry to take into account. Running
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by crote 7mo ago
That wouldn't explain the 1000x increase in traffic for extremely obscure content, or seeing it download every single page on a classic web forum.
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by crote 7mo ago
Considering the article is talking about the UK, which recently axed a significant portion of its new high-speed railway corridor: don't count on it. Even worse: railway electrification is not at all a given in the UK. A big downside
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by crote 7mo ago
None of this is an unsolvable problem. For example, terraced housing with on-street parking can support EVs by allowing homeowners to place cable ducts[0] inside the sidewalk. With large apartment buildings you can incentivize (or even mand
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by crote 7mo ago
Quick, without doing any kind of Googling or calculation: if I asked you to count 3B grains of rice by hand, how long would that take you? How big would that pile of rice be? How long would it take you to eat it? A billion is already unfa
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by crote 7mo ago
The problem is that decisions at the olympic level tend to trickle down to lower competitions. There are plenty of sports where the gap between "college kid having fun" and "Olympics" isn't very wide.
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by crote 7mo ago
More often than you'd think! You can easily go your entire life without knowing. It is not uncommon for the first hint to be that a couple is having trouble conceiving.
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by crote 7mo ago
> Separate from that there are still measurable differences between sexes Ever seen pre-puberty kids play against each other? The girls and boys perform about the same.
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by crote 7mo ago
> For better or worse nor is our medical science sophisticated enough to swap out the systems to be true comparables The problem is that it isn't a hard binary. All the relevant metrics are going to fall on a spectrum, and there is
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by crote 7mo ago
> You still have your larger bone structure. Starting out with this: are you proposing a height limit on female athletes? If having a larger bone structure is an unfair advantage, surely tall women should be banned from competing?
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by crote 7mo ago
Look up Elizabeth Swaney, she got to the Olympics by not falling off her skis. And I mean that quite literally: Ignoring DNFs she was dead last in all the qualifying events, but by doing a massive amount of them she somehow managed to get
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by crote 7mo ago
So what about the kids who already get all of that and still say they are transgender? Should they perhaps be treated like they actually are transgender, or do you propose forced conversion therapy - like we tried in the past with gay p
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by crote 7mo ago
Puberty only lasts a couple of years. First menstruation usually happens between ages 9 and 18 - that's a spread longer than the duration of puberty! Look at any puberty-age high school class and you'll find one kid who has basi
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by crote 7mo ago
It is quite common for babies to come out of the womb with blonde hair, only for it to darken to brown later in life. The baby isn't blonde, it just looks blonde right now. Same with gender. Doctors observe a flavor of genitals,
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by crote 7mo ago
The obvious solution is to prescribe puberty blockers to 100% of children. After all, how can a 12-year-old decide that they are cis - they don't have the capacity for that yet. They can undergo the right puberty, whatever that may be,
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by crote 7mo ago
And Michael Phelps should be banned for having freakishly long arms - his genetic advantage is basically doping as well, obviously!
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by crote 7mo ago
That's cis women using doping. Considering how transphobic Russia is, the chance of them using any kind of "trans loophole" is zero.
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by crote 7mo ago
You're wrong. For example, the olympics were open to transgender women for over 20 years. Number of participants? One. And she finished dead last. There are some high-profile cases, like Riley Gaines making an entire career out of &q
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by crote 7mo ago
Have we forgotten about Caster Semenya already? Women with DSD on averave have a higher testosterone level. Testosterone generally makes you better at sports. The Olympics select for the very best athletes. In other words: the Olympics are
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by crote 7mo ago
It's more about maintainability than age. Some ancient hardware which is still actively being used and which has plenty of maintainers willing to keep it up-to-date will stick around. A driver of only a few years old with roughly zero
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by crote 7mo ago
> Centurion C-RAM How's that going to work when the drone hugs the ground, only rising a bit to hop over walls? Are you going to flatten everything a mile around every base, and shoot at head height with zero warning? > Leonida
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by crote 7mo ago
Ukraine is currently building 4.5 million drones per year. That's one drone every 30 seconds. Lockheed Martin delivered a record 191 F35s in 2025. That's less than one F35 every 1.91 days. Iran has thrice the population of Ukrai
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by crote 7mo ago
It's even worse, actually. This attack seems to be done by a regular quadcopter, so suddenly you have to be worried about your $100M aircraft being destroyed by a $500 drone if your base security isn't absolutely perfect . The US
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by crote 7mo ago
The problem is that all of those DC devices don't operate on 48V either. The vast majority of chips require a 5V or lower input, so with a 48V DC supply you're still going to need a per-device PSU to do DC-DC conversion. In othe
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by crote 7mo ago
In the EU it is quite common for houses to have three-phase power. If you squint a bit, the grounded neutral of the Y transformer isn't entirely unlike the grounded center tap in the US. The voltage is a lot higher, of course!
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by crote 7mo ago
It is! Look up "impressed current cathodic protection": you apply a small DC voltage to, say, pipelines to prevent corrosion.
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by crote 7mo ago
As seen on HN a few days ago, immersion cooling is dead: turns out the risks of getting sued to oblivion due to widespread PFAS contamination isn't worth it. [0] DC doesn't have such a killer. There are a decent bunch of benefits,
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by crote 7mo ago
Because the chassis is connected to ground (as in, a literal grounding rod hammered into the soil) and by definition your 0V reference point. The crucial difference is the direction in which the current is flowing: is it going "in to&q

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