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by eutropia 7y ago
When I see people do this, I just think of the scene from the big Lebowski: Walter Sobchak: Am I wrong? (Belligerently arguing a bowling rules infraction at league night) The Dude: No you're not wrong. Walter Sobchak: Am I wrong? The D
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by eutropia 7y ago
Musk is selling precisely that to NYSE-London traders. Speed of light in a vacuum is considerably (I think 40%) faster than speed of light in glass fiber optics
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by eutropia 7y ago
No. My company was already 70% remote and our customers and users are in the US healthcare system. I consider myself extremely fortunate, because my wife worked at a restaurant and lost her job.
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by eutropia 7y ago
This sort of reasoning is why we have judges, though. If the law isn't capable of preventing something that requires a rube-goldberg machine of trades and positions, then a judge using common sense ought to be able. It's pretty c
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by eutropia 7y ago
Consider running fakespot against the reviews of them as well, because I straight up never buy commodity electronics on amazon without first checking to see how astroturfed the reviews are.
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by eutropia 7y ago
My wife and I recently started enjoying this! It's a very calming way to wind down in the evening instead of another installment of $TV_SHOW. I've been narrating Bram Stoker's Dracula, and I must say, the imagery and scenes
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by eutropia 7y ago
Speed of light in fibre is 40% slower than in a vacuum. SpaceX is planning on funding expansion by selling lower latency connections to London-NYSE traders.
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by eutropia 7y ago
Taxing capital incentivizes putting it to work. If you only tax gains then people can endlessly horde wealth. Taxing the wealth itself makes hording unappealing... I think.
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by eutropia 7y ago
I mean states which are ruled democratically rather than by elites. This means that the implicit bias in a democratic media is that of serving the people and exposing truth rather than covering for corpo-fascists and state-sponsered terror
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by eutropia 7y ago
We should be less worried about overt propaganda like DeepFakes and more worried about the assumptions baked into the media of all imperialist nations, the misdirection, and the selection of "what" to report on. States have been
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by eutropia 7y ago
> Our global survey at infrared wavelengths resulted in non-detections on 16 out of 17 dates Good thing they got lucky within their allotted time! It's a shame we don't have more observatories like Mauna Kea.
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by eutropia 7y ago
Boy they can fuck right off with that corporate doublespeak bullshit. Commitment to users means respecting that people have different preferences, and options let you respect that.
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by eutropia 7y ago
How many people (actual number) are "FAANG senior engineers" ? I feel like this comp package number gets a lot of attention but my intuition is that it's a rare thing, compared to the number of people working in tech as a wh
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by eutropia 7y ago
There's an argument to be made with respect to advertising to physicians, but not the general public. Doctors have limited time and they ought to know what meds are available somehow..
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by eutropia 7y ago
We should be very protective of this archive, those that produce the news want it to be extremely compelling and convincing for the narrative they're writing, but instantly forgotten in time for the next crisis. The patterns that will
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by eutropia 7y ago
I think one trend not to be ignored is the democratization of media piracy. It used to be that only the motivated and tech savvy had access to vast troves of content at their disposal; but recently sharing the spoils has become easier and
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by eutropia 7y ago
It's really hard for me to comprehend how people imagine that this is a reasonable attitude to have. It strikes me as willfully ignorant, entitled, and delusional. People who have this stance typically seem to understand "busines
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by eutropia 7y ago
I'm sorry, but you're suggesting that botulism would take hold inside a 4-6 hour window on fried, glazed, doughnuts? The risk of foodborne illness on an unopened box of fresh, less than half-day old deep fried sugar crusted doughn
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by eutropia 7y ago
His decision was a false dichotomy. If the problem was people in the office space (fire marshal), then he could have started having employees work from home. I'm sure that even in the dot com era, telephone and IRC and email would hav
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by eutropia 7y ago
> In the case of Pixel 4, the model runs on device, never sends sensor data to Google servers, and helps it interpret the motion to Quick Gestures. From the "Technology" page linked at the top. Personally, I don't see how
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by eutropia 7y ago
I once did a project scripting AI for Mario on SMB1 on an emulator, and I watched the game's memory pages as I did so I could learn more. To my surprise, I saw the pages of arrays of hex bytes in the memory mirroring what I saw on the
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by eutropia 7y ago
I was so amazed when I learned that many Western coniferous trees adapted to drop their lower limbs as they grow and only keep the trunk free of extra kindling near the ground, so they can survive brush fires easily. That's one of the
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by eutropia 7y ago
He finishes the video by saying: "there is no oppression here guys". Which is blatantly false. I know it's a tired meme, but there's an Orwellian panopticon powered by computers which literally rates each and every pers
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by eutropia 7y ago
Stock is down ~3.5% since Monday, is that a meaningful swing? Not sure if shareholders care...
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by eutropia 7y ago
At least partially I'm sure that's the case, however it looks like we're approaching the apex of that trend as well: TFA: >> The growth in plastic consumption has slowed down greatly, to less than 2 percent per year bet
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by eutropia 7y ago
I think the subtext here is obvious to people on HN, but isn't this because so much value is generated using electrons on increasingly efficient computer systems?
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by eutropia 7y ago
This email from 2002 describes system design decisions which led to amazon developing AWS. I wasn't a professional programmer at the time, but as I understand it, I think service-oriented design patterns were rare, let alone microserv
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by eutropia 7y ago
Speedrunners thank you for reusing objects! I'm certain that decisions like this are what lead to interesting teleportation techniques and item duplications. Games wouldn't be the same without these fun Easter eggs!
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by eutropia 7y ago
Just because saying "stealing" makes you feel morally self-righteous doesn't mean that physical goods and digital files are the same thing.
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by eutropia 7y ago
Existential dread for the future is why my wife and I plan on adopting children instead of procreating. Tell everyone you know: plenty of kids need parents and you can be that for them without adding to the world population or bringing a n

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