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by debacle 5y ago
This is quite possibly the most one-sided, emphatic, and fact-free editorial that I have ever seen on the HN front page. Coupled with threats of violence: "Businesses that want to avoid chaos between now and 2022 and prevent system bre
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by debacle 5y ago
"A pound of steak requires 4000 to 6000 gallons of water." This statistic is incredibly inaccurate and has been weaponized. Where do you think the water goes when all is said and done? Rangeland leases are another discussion. I wo
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by debacle 5y ago
Americans want to live in 2500+ sqft homes with long driveways, no sidewalks, etc. Like it or not, that's the modern American dream.
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by debacle 5y ago
If the population is increasing, then land and, to a lesser extent, housing are investments.
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by debacle 5y ago
There are aftermarket solutions for that as well. Deere is for people who want a deluxe brand that is all encompassing vs users who don't mind fiddling with their hardware.
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by debacle 5y ago
Deere does not have a monopoly on quality. Yes, if you compare them to Kioti (a discount brand), they are superior, but there are other manufacturers (NH, Mahindra, Kubota, etc) where they stand up just as well.
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by debacle 5y ago
Talent or not, having the passion to put together a crazy project like this that has no real practical use but is very interesting - I would want to hire that person over someone with a bit more skill.
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by debacle 5y ago
The only question that matters is "Did you sign something saying you agreed not to name something like this when you interned for Repl.it, and is it enforceable in your jurisdiction?" I think this makes Amjad look a bit like an as
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by debacle 5y ago
In a world of renewable energy, the battery technology that wins will not be based on charge time, density, or longevity but on cost and the ability to be efficiently recycled.
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by debacle 5y ago
It seems like there is an implied command buffer, which probably made the implementation much more simple to code and I think makes the scripting language more simple once you get the hang of it.
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by debacle 5y ago
Google needs trust to be pay-to-view. These anti-user practices will further erode their trust, not increase it.
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by debacle 5y ago
Agreed. Those people want reach more than anything else. The utility for some tweeters is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The utility for tweetees isn't likely 10/yr.
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by debacle 5y ago
NFTs, Crypto (or what Crypto has become), and a few other current Internet phenomena give me an overwhelming sense of rot. Everything is rotting. I'm not sure if it's too much capital, capital on the wrong places, capital and not
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by debacle 5y ago
I was using a WebRTC feature just yesterday that is listed as supported by Safari in modern versions of iOS all over the web. I can tell you for certain that it is 100% not.
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by debacle 5y ago
As an outside observer, I really didn't believe that IRC could cause this level of drama.
826.
by debacle 5y ago
Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was an interesting socio-political experiment.
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by debacle 5y ago
Pencil used to by my go-to tool, but over time it has slowly grown more complex and less useful. More recently, I am using Google Slides for quick GUI prototypes - if I need something more robust, I hire a designer, but my necessity for sol
828.
by debacle 5y ago
If you are paying market rates for slightly above the competence you need, you are "leaving money on the table." If you are getting slightly below the competence you need to be effective, and can push the cost of the friction onto
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by debacle 5y ago
With AOL and Yahoo and all the pieces, there was definitely a value play here. Verizon may just not have been the right company to execute that.
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by debacle 5y ago
> I would also argue that Basecamp's "internal disputes" very much reflect the current broader political climate. In that a large contingent on either side of any discussion feels that they can do anything they like out of
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by debacle 5y ago
It's the same thing with Twitch - for a long time you could still get Twitch on Roku, but it was unsupported. AFAIK you can still install it, but it doesn't work.
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by debacle 6y ago
Amazon (Twitch), Epic, and Valve are all targeting gaming verticals. Each of them are integrating the other's features as also-rans: streaming, marketplace, reviews, community, platform. Most people would probably be surprized to know
833.
by debacle 6y ago
"Not as bad as Windows" is such a low, low bar. Mozilla would be far more effective if they would just properly align their incentives.
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by debacle 6y ago
Well said. It's going to cause us to re-think the capital/labor relationship. UBI will almost certainly be a necessity, but then the question is who will mop the floors and what is the impetus of progress.
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by debacle 6y ago
We have too many smart people for capitalism in its current form to support. If you look for them, you will see artificial barriers erected throughout society to stymie real meritocracy.
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by debacle 6y ago
It also seems like your brain is doing most of the work here: https://nvlabs.github.io/GANcraft/images/vox2img.png The renderer seems to be adding some resolution, smoothing, and mipmapping. Shaders can do the sam
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by debacle 6y ago
The neural net part of this seems somewhat trivial and also misapplied. This is not a realtime renderer, and I would hazard that if you gave someone who knows GLSL the task, they would produce something far and away more compelling than thi
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by debacle 6y ago
It's 100% the nutrients + minerals. When you get right down to it, you're just trading one growing medium for another. That said, hydroponics allows for a level of control in nutrients that soil does not, generally leading to weig
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by debacle 6y ago
Those implements of death have been tools of liberty, stability, and safety in the hands of hundreds of millions of people across the world in the last several hundred years. The world, under its thin, patchy veneer of peace and prosperity,
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by debacle 6y ago
Hydroponically grown vegetables tend to be nutrientless sponges. Hydroponically grown celery tastes like water. Fresh, dirt-grown celery is nearly inedible because of how sharp and metallic the flavor is. Industrial and lab-grown meat will

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