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by dmoy 2y ago
I don't know much about lease structures - why December? Is that unrelated to the lease, and just to get end of year sales numbers up?
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by dmoy 2y ago
> Why would the police keep the money? It doesn't get to keep other confiscated money, does it? Wouldn't the state be the "default" recipient? That really depends on the jurisdiction. Many police departments in the U
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I did a bunch of stuff with PID back in the day, but honestly this is the first time I'm forcing my brain to look at the word "absement" to describe the integral portion. Looking back, I must have encountered the word many
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by dmoy 2y ago
At first glance I'm not sure what raw number of bridges has to do with having a higher or lower percentage of structurally deficient bridges.
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by dmoy 2y ago
I guess it's possible Maybe I'm just jaded from being in Seattle too long where "200k over asking despite already high prices" has been a regular thing for like... 10+ years?
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You may also be able to attribute it to a lack of supply, in that specific case
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I have an EE degree. Trigger bounce is a real thing. But it's not an EE thing, it has to do with a firearm malfunctioning in a way such that a normally semi-automatic firearm fires more than once per trigger press, due to some interna
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by dmoy 2y ago
Yea, seems like a continuation of the same fundamental problem? I don't know. As a commenter there put it - """The actual summary of the article is "The design of Postgres means that updating existing rows is ineff
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by dmoy 2y ago
That was a pretty cool read, thanks for posting. It always sends prickly/danger signals to my brain when I see "reads also write stuff", but this was laid out pretty clearly. Dissolved that prickly feeling pretty quickly ha
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What's the justification for rifling through someone's pockets because they were in a yelling match though? That seems like a 4th amendment violation. Not quite stop-and-frisk, but should any slightly abnormal behavior give just
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by dmoy 2y ago
The hn thread for the article referenced in the very beginning of this article is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033 (1mo ago, 900+ comments)
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Yup exactly this. If you go to "normal" bonds, there's many articles describing the idea, e.g. https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/what-happens-to-bonds-whe... But basically: Say a bond was original
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It really depends on what you do / discover with the SBIR grant See e.g. https://www.jamesoncpa.com/learning-center/irs-finally-issue... Caveat, I've been out of the small lab SBIR world for 13-14 years
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Oh wow, that's almost as light as a Scatt (totally different domain, but also a very customized/specialized camera).
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Yea sorry, wrong word
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Semi related to this exercise, I really forgot how far north most of Northern Europe is. Not even talking Scandinavia... mentally in my head I didn't have France and Germany on the same-ish latitude as WA. All of England is north of t
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by dmoy 2y ago
There's a quora answer over here from an astronaut who had diarrhea in space: https://www.quora.com/Has-an-astronaut-ever-had-diarrhea-whi... Unfortunately it looks like most of the answer is behind a paywall, because
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by dmoy 2y ago
Do you remember those autogenerated websites that were just giant lists of all words? Those disappeared many years ago, but if you made search ranking random, they'd come right back.
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If you're regularly doing ensemble stuff, you can get hearing damage from the consistent loud volume. Thus, earplugs. It's maybe less significant for choir compared to e.g. rock band with amps or wind band with tons of brass, but
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My recollection is that glass has drastically higher dialetric constant than air, but more creep (still very little creep, but more than the ~0 of air). If you're arcing kilvolts, you want that higher dialectric constant, and probably
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by dmoy 2y ago
Small Air is like 50V per mil. Cheap plastic is like double that? If the voltage of a given supercapacitor isn't high, then air could work fine I suppose. At least on those two dimensions, I haven't considered anything else. Air
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by dmoy 2y ago
"Twice"? After the first time my car tries to autosteer into a train, I am no longer using that function of the car. But then again I'm also not driving that fast around turns in the fog (assuming it isn't just a bad ca
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Yea but for routine consumption, drinking exclusively hot (boiled previously) water wasn't as much of a thing, especially in Northern China, prior to like mid 1800s. It was after a particular outbreak (cholera?) somewhere in the 19th c
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> the person killed in such a manner would surely generate a human-sized pile of Ice 9, which would pose a much greater threat to humanity than any AGI. Oh okay, I didn't really grok that implication from my brief scan of the wiki p
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Phases of Ice(en.wikipedia.org)
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Presumably others here dove into this upon reading https://xkcd.com/1561/ .
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For anyone else like me who hasn't read Kurt Vonnegut, but does know about different ice states (e.g. Ice IX): "Ice Nine" is a fictional assassination device that makes you turn into ice after consuming ice (?) https:/&
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I guess you'd have to clarify which taxes then. US federal tax nonpayment penalty is like 0.5% (of the owed tax) per month.
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> Guess what happens when I'm late on a mortgage payment! It depends on how late. If it's not too late, generally nothing. If it's a little late, a penalty of a few % > And it's even worse if I'm late filing
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Original article is from NPR: https://text.npr.org/1251789724

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