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by csense 4y ago
I've never understood real estate investing... - You have to do a bunch of physical maintenance of the property and be on-call to unclog toilets - You have to know landlord-tenant law inside and out, there are a lot of hidden gotchas t
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Ken Silverman's Official Homepage(advsys.net)
3 points by csense 4y ago|0 comments
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If you want to draw a line, say, from (0, 0) to (13, 5) by setting values in a pixel buffer (with no anti-aliasing) you have the same problem. The classical solution (Bresenham's algorithm) is basically to draw pixels in the direction
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by csense 4y ago
This article claims population growth increases on shorter and shorter timescales, leading to infinite population growth. If this is true, we should have had baby boom, bigger echo boom, giant boom. Instead, we had baby boom, smaller echo b
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> Assuming the costs of a user paying for the cheapest Ubuntu CI runner to perform the same computation, this would be a use of approximately $103,000 of GitHub’s resources. $103k at retail price != $103k of costs. Github's owned b
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We once had a world where we didn't have to think very hard, and could use most cables with most devices. How do we get back to that world?
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> if you anticipate your electric bill will exceed last year’s electric bill, you can request a waiver I suspect this was intended to be utilized by poor people who struggle to afford to power their homes. The US Military is certainly w
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My personal inclination makes me a natural devil's advocate and skeptic of political movements across the spectrum. To me, the average supporter of the green agenda sounds like this: We Americans / Europeans are sinful and wastef
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I wish there was a Missing Semester of Linear Algebra course to help people go from "Okay I have a course or two in linear algebra, I know what span, vectors, basis and dimension mean, the formal definition of an inner product space, a
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by csense 4y ago
For the "unconscious patient in the emergency room without a working phone" situations, put an RFID tag or a printed QR code in the hospital admission armband, then the doctor / nurse can scan it to enter records from their o
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by csense 4y ago
I think the idea is to magnetically pull the car down so hard it's pinned in place on the driveway. Not really practical.
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- Early access. Back in the day the dev would pay you with a free copy of the game for helping with the beta. Now you pay the dev for the privilege of helping with the beta. - Cosmetics. Tons of games have stuff you can buy (equipment, s
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by csense 4y ago
I'm surprised Duke Nukem Forever [1] didn't make the list. Background for younger readers whose gaming years didn't include the mid-1990's: The first two Duke Nukem games were fairly nondescript 2D platformers, but the
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by csense 4y ago
Doesn't the law say that the government can't own copyrightable stuff like source code, so the source code of those voting machines ought to be in the public domain? Even if the law doesn't say that, shouldn't the govern
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OTOH, having a poorly paid job in a rich country can be better than being rich in a poor country.. Read one of the Reddit threads about "What did you notice most when you moved from a poor country to a rich country?" It's pr
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Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change causes chaos
199 points by csense 4y ago|170 comments
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Once your nation gets big enough, you can't supply frontier armies from the capital. You need to draw food from local sources. In territory you control, the peasants pay some of their food to the local fortress in taxes, and the fort
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by csense 4y ago
I can't believe someone made a talk about PAM filled with memes and anime references and didn't include Obake PAM, the CEO vtuber [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/ObakePAMCh
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by csense 4y ago
If climate change is an existential threat, we should be engineering a rise in gas prices, and cheering when peoples' lifestyles take a hit. If you truly believe climate change is super serious, then logically government ought to put
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What is the upper limit of value? (2021)(philpapers.org)
1 points by csense 4y ago|0 comments
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How could this possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways: - You pay the hacker to hack you, the hacker takes the payment and disappears. - The hacker hacks you, steals all the money for themselves and disappears. - The hacker turns you in a
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by csense 4y ago
Headline says "online", but the description sounds like they're on the same LAN. This matters because the latency between the systems (LAN latency ~ 1ms, corresponding to frequency of ~1000 Hz) is faster than the phenomena t
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I skimmed the paper. It does mention 6 bar of pressure and 250 degrees C, so that's a pretty straightforward answer to one question. It says 5% or less of CO2 converted at 15-25% of input, the rest of which is H2. The number seems to
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by csense 4y ago
So... How exactly does a website tell if someone's a kid or not? What immediately springs to mind is a dialog that says "Are you X years old? If you click [Yes] you won't be able to use this website. [Yes] [No]". That
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> An uncoated catalyst works just fine, he said, but only produces methane Given that Putin's about to turn off natural gas to Europe, there's no need to go all the way to gasoline. Being able to produce methane from CO2 would
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Suppose we all agree that "One citizen, one vote" is better and ought to be implemented. "One coin, one vote" is relatively easy to implement, since the blockchain intrinsically knows how many coins each address has. To
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Sonic Colors: Ultimate [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Colors#Sonic_Colors:_Ult...
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What the heck about GPU development costs $2 billion? That seems obscenely expensive. Anyone who has detailed knowledge of the industry care to weigh in on what they might actually spending that money on?
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According to Wikipedia, CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. This code shouldn't be called CAPTCHA as it makes no attempt to tell humans from machines. (If anything, SHA256 pr
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The linked Implementation Note says $60B / month of Treasury and $17.5B / month of MBS, with the latter doubling to $35B / month in September. The Implementation Note says it only applies as principal is paid, so this is an u

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