Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
dsfyu404ed
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
11 ms
·
91.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
3y ago
If SF's contractor got caught killing a dude over bootleg smokes or kneeling on a guy until he died you can bet your ass they'd either be out or they'd be doing everything in their power to make people happy with them going f
92.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
3y ago
> Which only tells you that the issues with TSA are not politicized (in general). Which is a good thing. Do you consider "fundamental to the system" better? I don't.
93.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
3y ago
>A big problem is that it often isn't a free market. Joe The Sandwich Guy can't just randomly decide to open up a store inside the airport. There's a limited amount of space, a lease can easily last a decade, and any that
94.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
3y ago
Regulatory capture in one of the most literal senses.
95.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
>I mean, what would go into it is race, and after that, adherence to cultural norms (Christianity, conservatism, cisgender heterosexuality, immigrant status) and then gerrymandering. Even if that isn't what happens on paper, that&#x
96.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
Electric generated elsewhere with gas not necessarily more efficient than burning gas in a situation in which the house the stove is in needs to be heated. Same goes for gas water heaters and tank water heaters in general. From there it&#x
97.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
>That's how it is in lower income areas, whatever country This. If you really wanna overhear some casual racism in the US learn to speak Spanish. And for the most part the people of all races that say these things aren't racis
98.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
"Morals" in any organization large enough for responsibility to be sufficiently diffuse is a virtue statement. Every large organization will sociopathically and amorally advance its KPIs. It just so happens that some organizatio
99.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
>That's a very odd example. You don't understand. I specifically chose an example of a part for which there's a generic answer (all old school pair of tapered bearings on a spindle are changed about the same way) that wil
100.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
>Distrusts the government, but also works for it? I'd call that a mole. I'd call that a reaction to knowing how the sausage is made.
101.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
The uhaul insurance doesn't cover tire/rim/axle and other "overloading" damage nor does it cover can-opening a truck on a low structure. The best insurance is to pay with a prepaid visa gift card so they can't
102.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
If this wasn't normal-ish people wouldn't be going out in it. Like don't you think the lazy southerner the white collar internet loves to stereotype would call out of work at the drop of a hat? Floods (usually flash floods or
103.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
That's exactly what it is. White collar upper middle class types are more exposed to it relatively (not necessarily absolutely) in SF than in other cities. Even if the actual odds of being victim of a violent crime are lower overall
104.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
Taco Bell chubacabra tacos.
105.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
Regardless, tax is their business. It's not my place to all but make the decision for them.
106.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
People also hated lobster back then.
107.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
>My understanding is that the Espionage Act literally continues not to allow other parties to possess or distribute classified documents, even if they weren't involved in the original leak. However, some observers have doubted that
108.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
Everyone's first time with each of those subjects is prefaced by "a few hours of video" (or equivalent). Nobody goes from doing nothing to doing everything in one go. It's the sum of many iterations of education then ex
109.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
This. Asking GPT is basically like asking Reddit or some other "non expert" commentary system that's basically a pool of existing high level information. It works fine if you want to know how to change a generic wheel bearin
110.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
These are two different kinds of bad behavior. Robots are not failing in a way that emulates some teenager in his 90s shitbox doing donuts in the street. They are failing in a way that emulates some middle aged middle manager in her $50k S
111.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
Would you rather wear a toga and sandals in Bangor, Maine or Bangor, Wales?
112.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
> I think OP means like blogspam news scam shit. The bad-faith commenters, YouTube, journalists and other types who have an axe to grind already happily cite garbage sources without verifying (or perhaps caring) when making their motivat
113.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
>Yes it can. Democracy means everyone gets a vote. We can't say it's not democracy when people don't vote the way we want them to. That's the first step down an even darker path.. If the way people are voting preclude
114.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
Massachusetts was remarkably homogeneous for the first 100yr and they ran the kind of authoritarian theocracy that the Taliban would be proud of. I guess they voted for it in the same way that there are plenty of dictators that always win a
115.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
In theory, sure. In practice it seems like if you give people one step forward in acceleration they get two steps picky about what gaps in traffic they need to do their thing (merge, left turn, whatever) resulting in a net decrease in the o
116.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
Gasoline doesn't go bad that fast in a modern sealed fuel system and engines with modern electronic control systems that have a lot of latitude to adjust in real time are really forgiving. People are mostly projecting their experience
117.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
These are made by bots or low paid foreign labor (and probably soon AI if not already) and spammed at places like Reddit/HN for a) karma farming to make accounts look "legit" for advertising use b) ad view revenue. It's
118.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
The venn diagram of people who get really exited over pulse welding and people who spend enough time using a stick welder to notice yet alone realize any benefit from those settings" is just two circles. I can see the theoretical benef
119.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
What's the floor space for that elevator though? I can't think of any elevator placard I've ever seen where the rating was something you could realistically exceed. You'd need a "some tradesmen moving a big piece o
120.
▲
by
dsfyu404ed
4y ago
There's no incentive to spend the labor calculating what you really "need" when you can just do napkin math based on naive assumptions and be pretty sure you're within whatever safety factor the clipboard and vest types
More ›