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by csense 3y ago
> nobody will make the effort afterwards to make good standards That's not true. If 3000 people a year would have paid you $100 for access over the next 20 years, that's $300,000, which as a future income stream has some PV X.
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by csense 3y ago
I figure this should be a straightforward case of eminent domain. Say you own a house. The government needs to take your house to demolish it to build a road. The government is within its rights to just take it (after due process and fa
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by csense 3y ago
You seem to be...confused. Docker guest processes run on the host kernel, Docker just uses cgroups to request the host kernel isolate or instance various components (filesystems, UID/GID spaces, networking...maybe other things). The
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by csense 3y ago
Protip: You can compile the Linux kernel with User-mode Linux, ARCH=um to produce a kernel that runs as a regular binary on a host Linux OS. User-mode Linux is super helpful for diagnosing any pure software kernel bug like this. You don&#
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by csense 3y ago
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's this arcane knowledge, hidden from ordinary people, mastery of which allows the universe to be one's plaything. Math, programming, science, economics: These things seem to
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by csense 3y ago
They tried price controls in the 1970's. It led to lines at gas stations, shortages, and rationing. Price controls are always either a no-op (if supply meets demand below the mandated price), or lead to shortages. For the good and sim
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by csense 3y ago
I don't really have much understanding of chemistry. So possibly the most helpful part for me is the diagram with little trucks, the cost chart, and the paragraph below that says: "The electrochemical regeneration is not optimize
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by csense 3y ago
> crew or passengers being taken hostage Russia has been known to imprison Western civilians on trumped-up drug charges, then exchange them for hardcore criminals imprisoned in the US or elsewhere (the recent exchange of Brittney Griner,
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by csense 3y ago
The headline leaves out a lot of details that are specified in the article: - The guy works as a researcher for a state university, is paid $800k a year (how is this not a gross waste of taxpayer money!?) - He sues the NYT and some other gu
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by csense 3y ago
I've always been confused about how ageism, racism, sexism etc. are even compatible with capitalism. If there's a vast under-employed pool of people of the "wrong" age, race, sex, etc. because "bad" companies
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by csense 3y ago
River
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by csense 3y ago
When I was in my teens and early twenties, seriously grappling with establishing my positions on fundamental moral issues for the first time, I thought carefully about abortion, because I didn't want to mindlessly adopt any side's
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by csense 3y ago
The author actually used "soda pop." I've heard plenty of people say "soda" or "pop." But I usually associate "soda pop" with the way people talked in the 1920's - 1940's. Wikipedia h
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by csense 3y ago
To be fair, I used Stewart's calculus textbook and it was pretty good.
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by csense 3y ago
I wonder why we didn't try the same thing in the War on Terror? Capture high-ranking Islamic clerics, give them a choice: "Go on TV and explain to everyone that Allah's will is for all good Muslims to throw down their weapons
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by csense 3y ago
Not surprising in the least. - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity - Kids have higher-degree more-connected physical proximity graphs than adults, they're usually in classes with a group of 20-30-ish
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by csense 3y ago
> As far as I know, there are no serious competitors yet. Anyone reading this want to build one? :)
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by csense 3y ago
The author claims in 1994, Saudi Arabia didn't handle 7-segment displays. This sounds fishy to me, were there really places as recently as the 1990's where a significant numerate population didn't use the same number symbols
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by csense 3y ago
> Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members How exactly is mobile service "free" if Prime is a product you have to pay for?
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by csense 3y ago
> detecting in the software when ChatGPT might be making something up Grammatically speaking, is this statement an assertion of fact? If so, annotate it. It's probably not that hard to implement this (we've had grammar checke
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by csense 3y ago
Sprint converted their telephone network from analog to digital in the 1980's and 1990's. They heavily advertised this, as "being able to hear a pin drop over the phone." A quick Youtube search gives this commercial [1]
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by csense 3y ago
TIL "district heating" (a heat distribution system) is a thing. It does make sense to use waste heat from industrial processes to heat homes. I'm not a thermodynamics expert, but I think you probably need some density of hea
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by csense 3y ago
The government should be increasing the size of bills to keep up with inflation. In 1934 gold was $35 per ounce, and a $100 bill could buy 2.86 ounces of gold. In 2023 you'd need about $5000 for 2.86 ounces of gold. There "should
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by csense 3y ago
Article says "Math.log(new Random().nextDouble()) generates a random number between -1 (exclusive) and 0", this seems a mistake. Actually this gives you any negative number. If you negate the output (i.e. -log(rand())) you get a
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by csense 3y ago
Investing in China seems terribly risky to me. China's been telegraphing it will attack Taiwan pretty soon. When that happens, good luck not having your investments either destroyed or nationalized.
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The energy source is "charged droplets" but what happens when they're used up? Does the device create its own cloud of "used-up" un-charged droplets? How quickly do they become re-charged, and by what process? Or
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by csense 3y ago
I respect Geohot's reputation and this company looks amazing. I might be in the market to work there... except "No Remote." For such a smart guy, locking yourself out of a ton of talent by requiring software developers to be
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by csense 3y ago
Very cool project. But Sound Blaster is conspicuously missing from this list.
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How is this enforced? Electricity goes into your computer and comes out as heat, but how does the government know what that computer is actually computing?
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by csense 3y ago
My (US middle/high school) history classes mostly talked about the free speech implications of the Sedition part. I was far more interested in the "alien" part, thinking it was much more historically significant that we had U

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