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by dpark 3mo ago
Probably something about the personal time and effort invested in a thing. I would feel much less personally invested if, for example, I created an outline of a story and then paid a ghostwriter to fill it in.
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by dpark 3mo ago
98% of HN commenters reply to the interpretation of the article they feel most capable of arguing against, which is usually the least charitable one.
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by dpark 3mo ago
If the client has that, they definitely don’t need an external party to ask Claude to do code cleanup for them.
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by dpark 3mo ago
> It's de-personalized I had an interesting conversation with a junior engineer who made this observation. She shipped a feature, we gathered data, and based on data we pivoted to a different design. She called out that she wasn’t
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by dpark 3mo ago
Apparently they were nylon instead of polyester. So less comfortable, yes. Plastic blade, maybe not.
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by dpark 3mo ago
Problem is do you trust the government to produce a proven reference design and test data? I have doubts that the best automotive engineers are working for any governments. More likely any reference design would come from a private company
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by dpark 3mo ago
Yeah. I’m not certain if the Amazon ones were actually the same as the ones I linked. But extremely similar at least. It’s been a long time. Very plausible that we did get the ones with the styrofoam sometimes and I just don’t remember. I k
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by dpark 3mo ago
Optimizing for dollar cost. Human time costs more than the extra packaging. Results would doubtless be different if they were optimizing for minimal environmental impact or produced waste.
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by dpark 3mo ago
They must have been using different crates for you (different region or perhaps era). For me they were standard plastic bins[1] with a separate “cold bag” inside for frozen stuff. No actual styrofoam I recall, although this was also over 10
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by dpark 3mo ago
I do too, but also sometimes the boxes are the correct size. With standardized bins I imagine they would rarely be reasonable.
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by dpark 3mo ago
> Go within an hour or so of opening. Hah. It’s such a PITA that Costco includes an hour earlier entry on the top tier membership.
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by dpark 3mo ago
Amazon did that with an earlier version of their grocery delivery service. I assume the cost and logistics of managing and cleaning the bins just wasn’t worth it because their grocery service delivers in paper bags now. One problem with the
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by dpark 3mo ago
I don’t know about health care but a lot of stuff in the US is set up for megacorps and individuals but nothing in between. As an individual you can easily get a self funded 401k plan. As a small business you basically can’t. Of course the
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by dpark 3mo ago
Attacking someone for leaving Google because they are no longer comfortable with Google’s actions is some combo of virtue signaling and counterproductive purity testing. You’re not influencing anyone’s behavior nor meaningfully educating an
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by dpark 3mo ago
> Google worked with NSA on PRISM Complied with legal orders. Do you have evidence that they did anything more? > CIA on Iraq war Are you talking about the Google earth data or something else? > jigsaw was 2010 What does this
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by dpark 3mo ago
That’s one possibility. Could also be “it got worse”. Could also be a combo of the two. This “holier than thou” stuff is lame. Shaming people for having a job. You working for UNICEF?
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by dpark 3mo ago
> what Google is doing today is just as morally acceptable as the things they were doing in 2017 were at the time. We just pushed the baseline down and normalized the ever worsening behaviors. You can’t hold together your premise for 2
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by dpark 3mo ago
The real problem isn’t the revocation list itself. It’s just a list of numbers. If you get a credential that has been revoked it certainly tells you that it’s been revoked, but not much else. Assuming of course that it’s actually a revocati
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by dpark 3mo ago
I did not say it should be thrown away. I said that it can’t be done while preserving privacy the way advocates claim. It’s totally plausible that the trade-off is reasonable, but I also don’t think we should pretend that the trade-off isn’
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by dpark 3mo ago
> You're now arguing about something which isn't even in the proposal from the EU Yeah. The HN link here is not to the EU proposal. It’s to this dude’s article, which is very clearly what I was responding to. > I guess to
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by dpark 3mo ago
Children drinking themselves into alcohol induced comas is fairly rare. Teenagers consuming large amounts of explicit pornography is not at all rare. I agree nothing will replace parenting. The children who do drink themselves into comas ar
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by dpark 3mo ago
It’s not my invention. It’s in the article. The physical card proposed contains nothing traceable. “They issue a card that says only one thing: "over 18". The card carries official seals, signatures, and anti-forgery features.” If
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by dpark 3mo ago
Protecting kids is well within the scope of the government. This “it’s the parents job” is also reductionist. It is, but somehow we still have made it illegal for minors to buy hard liquor and pornography from physical stores in the United
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by dpark 3mo ago
> Is it technically possible to implement the way he suggests? Yes. I actually don’t think it is. Fundamentally this kind of certificate is going to be revocable. It’s untenable politically to hand out irrevocable attestations that can
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by dpark 3mo ago
Depending on where you live this may be untrue. In Washington state I hand them my id and they scan the code on the back. There is every possibility that they store it and notify the state that I bought a bottle of rum.
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by dpark 3mo ago
The offline version proposed doesn’t even work. If the government issues untraceable “I’m an adult” cards there’s nothing stopping someone from acquiring one and immediately selling it to a minor. There’s also realistically nothing stopping
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by dpark 3mo ago
> SpaceX charges what the market will bear, and because they have no good competitor their profit margins can be very large. Is your premise that SpaceX will ship nuclear waste at or below cost? Because the 74 million is a publicly ava
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by dpark 3mo ago
It was a metaphor for how absurd the statement was. But if you try to ship a 1kg package across the country it will likely cost way more than $10. Freight cost is certainly way lower.
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by dpark 3mo ago
> A full launch on F9 (with recovered S1) is estimated to cost $15M Estimated by who? SpaceX charges 74 million for this. Nothing credible I can find indicates that SpaceX is running an amazing 80% profit margin on Falcon 9 launches. &
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by dpark 3mo ago
I think the onus is on you to explain why costs would drop by >3 orders of magnitude (>4 accounting for the 10x launch armor). It’s something like $1500/lb on a fully loaded Falcon Heavy and all indications are that SpaceX isn’t

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