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by dheera 5mo ago
> two outlets with opposite phases This is actually THE standard in the US, which is actually fundamentally a 240V power grid but with an electrode stuck halfway down the secondary winding on every pole transformer, which becomes your &q
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by dheera 5mo ago
There is only so much real money in the world, and that is determined by the Treasuries and Feds of the world. There are only so many dollars that were ever created, so many Japanese yen that were ever created, and so many Turkish lira that
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by dheera 5mo ago
Not really. Not all players in prediction markets are rational players. A good chunk of it are there for entertainment, and analyze things incorrectly; you can take the other side of those trades, and you won't need to predict the futu
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by dheera 5mo ago
The stock market is arguably zero sum as well, just that directionally betting on the US has generally worked during the golden years of the US economy. The stock markets of the world aren't a money printer.
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by dheera 5mo ago
I was forced to use their shitty desktop version inside a Windows VM because I don't have any Windows or Mac machines, and the web version doesn't support married filing federal jointly and state separately. Their desktop version
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by dheera 5mo ago
When I click on a link, I expect information. When I get blasted with this: https://i.imgur.com/oeGU3qd.png I really don't know what to do. I can't read so much. Bounce.
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by dheera 5mo ago
As an example, most of Boston's public street parking meters use a collection of various parking apps. A large number have broken quarter slots and broken card readers but you're still expected to make payment via app or you can g
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by dheera 5mo ago
I'm also of the opinion that at lot of T&C are basically signing under duress and I consider them invalid. Like if I have to sign a T&C with Google Play and a T&C with your city's sanctioned parking app in order to par
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by dheera 5mo ago
> and the camera output is fed into snip snip ?
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by dheera 5mo ago
I'm dead sure they aren't using them for anything. This is SF. If they were really used for anything, a random dude in a black hoodie and white SUV can just smash the glass and take down the internet, and the SF police wouldn&#x27
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by dheera 5mo ago
They'll invoice you but don't actually pay. They aren't going to take you to court over a $50/month subscription; the easier route for them is to just disable your account, which is what you wanted anyway. Never give the
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by dheera 5mo ago
My employer's background check app required it. Multiple financial institutions' KYC required it.
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by dheera 5mo ago
Browser is great until it tells you that you need to use a mobile device. This happens all the time on multiple KYC platforms in the US. My laptop is an equally mobile device, they just don't recognize that.
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by dheera 5mo ago
> The stock market keeps going up in the face of the indefinite closure of Hormuz. Why wouldn't it? The value of the USD is decreasing, the value of the companies to the world stays the same => stock price in USD increases. The r
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by dheera 5mo ago
I drive an electric. It doesn't save money because the car itself is more expensive by exactly as much as you would save over the life of the car. And then the $700/year registration fees because you don't pay the fuel tax. A
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by dheera 5mo ago
I'm just saying what needs to happen in order for people to be lining up for solar in hordes and convert the country to renewable overnight. The IRS needs to say: "We value clean energy in our country, we can live without nickel-a
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by dheera 5mo ago
> less than 15 years But can it pay itself in a month or two? That's the bar. I cannot financially plan for even one year later. Too many unknowns. A really good coffee machine that can do lattes costs maybe $200. If lattes at coffe
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by dheera 5mo ago
The problem with renewables I have is that "what's good for the earth" and capitalism simply don't mix. Solar was fundamentally supposed to be almost-free electricity. You put a bunch of panels up and free energy from th
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by dheera 5mo ago
Everyone in tech is uncertain about the future of software, engineering, and science jobs. I'm deep in the weeds and literally everyone around me has a "make as much money as you can while it lasts and maybe you'll have enoug
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by dheera 5mo ago
> wonder what is future like Probably "don't do anything to upset AI companies or you will effectively become a handicapped person" Not that different from life in China: "don't do anything to upset Tencent and A
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by dheera 5mo ago
HTML is super human readable if you stick to a subset of it. It's arguable even more readable. bold italic underline I can never remember how many stars and ticks
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by dheera 5mo ago
The lava lamps are just for show. You can get entropy just by plugging an oscilloscope into a pile of dirt and cranking the gain up.
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by dheera 5mo ago
> Google didn’t demand iPhone users install Google software to pass the test. Can de-Googled Android phones present themselves as iPhones?
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by dheera 5mo ago
It is market failure when normal people can't afford technology that they used to be able to afford.
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by dheera 5mo ago
You can also just redefine the battery capacity so that 100% = former 80% and then add a paid subscription feature to "occasionally overcharge it by 25%" /s
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by dheera 5mo ago
Just use Unifi Airfiber for 6 miles at gigabit speeds. If you're relying on line of sight then 2.4GHz is nonsense. And if you don't have line of sight then no you're not getting 6 miles
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by dheera 6mo ago
Honest question: Why do we need physical graphing calculators anymore? Can't this just be a phone app? That screen resolution for one is horrible for 2026.
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by dheera 6mo ago
I've used a Dahon Speed P8 extensively in Asia. In China you can just put a folding bike inside a large tarp bag and just get on any high speed train and then bike away when you reach your destination. It's awesome. The only &quot
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by dheera 6mo ago
Claude Code now has an official telegram plugin and cron jobs and can do 80% of the things people used OpenClaw for if you just give it access to tools and run it with --dangerously-skip-permissions.
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by dheera 6mo ago
> not because AI is doing the work they used to do No, it's absolutely happening that way. I work in tech in a senior IC role. I'm now expected to single-handedly do the work that I would previously have led a team of 5-10 peop

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