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by ff317 4y ago
It's actually quite complex to unpack. In the past, you could order the cars with or without FSD hardware (on promises of future capability). These days (~2020+? I'm not sure the cutoff), you can order them without or without an
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by ff317 4y ago
+1 to that. I'll add the other thing that gave PHP an edge at the time: Installing any major work built in Perl back then was a nightmare of installing all the underlying dependency modules, often into the system directories. It didn
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by ff317 4y ago
Yeah but what about life insurance? It's not the deceased who gets the payout, it's their survivors. It's a real grey area ethically, as you can think of it as the survivors taking a bet on whether a family member will die
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by ff317 4y ago
Yes, but, you could also say the same of fossil fuel power plants as well. The world has been getting "cheap" electricity from fossil fuels for many decades now while ignoring the environmental (and other, like nuclear waste prob
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by ff317 5y ago
There were older attempts at this stuff, in the 90s with "Beowulf" clusters that had cross-machine process management and whatnot. It's a lot harder than it seems to make this approach make sense in the real world, as the ab
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by ff317 5y ago
Yes - after I got bored of regular Sudoku, I found "Killer Sudoku" and I've been playing that variant regularly for a long time. The hard puzzles (blank with no "easy" parts) in the killer variant are quite challen
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by ff317 5y ago
My personal favorite recommendation in this vein is The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ . They've got some great writers and editors and often deliver pretty unique insights. Their articles tend towards long-i
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by ff317 5y ago
I'm not asking whether significant protests tend to cause economic harm. I'm asking whether there should be reasonable limits. I think it's easy to come up with a feel-good answer like "the economic impact of the prote
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by ff317 5y ago
Serious question though, which applies to both the Canadian truckers case and the Minneapolis example above - does a right to protest an issue also include a right to inflict economic harm (on broader society, in poorly-targeted fashion) in
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by ff317 5y ago
Correct. Multi-point racing harnesses can only be used with a cage. The standard diagonal shoulder belt design allows your body to lean over sideways (towards the center of the car) if the roof of the vehicle caves in on your head and pus
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by ff317 5y ago
Yeah but it wouldn't be illegal if the rationale was that they had priced some gas discounts into the Toyota purchase price as part of the deal.
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by ff317 5y ago
Yeah but usually what happens is that no new development of that sort occurs during the (intentionally limited by cheaped-out hardware design) lifetime of the appliance. If they do push any updates, they'll either be to fix security p
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by ff317 5y ago
Well, one part of the charging problem they're trying to solve is getting cars in and out of slots quickly to increase overall capacity. For the existing Tesla owners in the US, there's virtually zero auth/payment overhead:
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by ff317 5y ago
It's a leaky abstraction, though. The problem is that many systems people that were raised only on these abstractions lack the depth to understand what's under the hood when those other layers do unexpected things.
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by ff317 5y ago
The labels applied to liberals here are ones with positive connotations, and the labels applied to conservatives have negative ones. One could choose other labels that make for a different obvious outcome. Most political debates are more a
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by ff317 5y ago
Also on a similar theme: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil (it's intended to be about free market economies, but you can also read it as something about knowing how even simple modern marvels work at all).
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by ff317 5y ago
Sceptre has been my favorite. They're not the most-premium brand, but I've been buying them for years for home TVs and they're decent. They do make Android TV models, but they also continue to make non-smart models with 4K
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by ff317 5y ago
Because it's cheap to replace a roku/chromecast as technology evolves, but TVs tend to be longer-term investments. Hating smart TVs is akin to hating cars that have built-in factory navigation systems. Content streaming devices&
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by ff317 5y ago
Part of the problem is that most 401Ks have a very limited set of investment options. You get a short menu of choices arbitrated by a clueless HR person at your company and the self-interested financial company that manages the 401K plan:
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by ff317 5y ago
I get what you're saying. It's ineffective to robotically collect them this way (ever), and if humans go collect them, they could just collect a lot more while they're there, making it all pointless. Perhaps an answer is tha
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by ff317 5y ago
I think this is pretty valid, but I'd couch this in terms of citizens vs non-citizens. I knew and/or interacted with a lot of working-class/poor citizens and life seemed better for them there than in many countries. There
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by ff317 5y ago
I have a similar take. I lived in SG for ~5 years, many years ago (90s). There's a lot I would like to criticize on abstract principles about the politics, the surveillance state, the lack of freedoms, some very draconian laws and
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by ff317 5y ago
It could be the case that a lot of the momentary, solo reaction is driven by your brain's anticipation of those future social situations.
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by ff317 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not suggesting anything about the fundraising methods or tactics. I'm just talking about the general idea, floated often in comments on threads like this one, that our budget and/or reserves and/or endowment
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by ff317 5y ago
I'd agree the raw infra costs themselves are now a small slice of the pie. The much larger slice, though, is all the engineering and other staff required to make it work. By my rough counts, adding up just the Technology, Product, an
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by ff317 5y ago
I mostly agree with your analysis, but while Devolution sounds good on paper at an abstract distance, the reality of it is going to be (and is) a lot messier. The problem is that we don't have just Red-vs-Blue states in the US. We als
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by ff317 5y ago
Choosing this of the many similar replies to answer to: Full disclosure: I work for the Foundation in an engineering capacity. The foundation has over 500 staff members. No organization is perfectly efficient, but by and large the money do
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by ff317 5y ago
> pretty much ensuring those animals don't go extinct. Sort of, but you have to add some nuance here. None of the animals we commercially farm in mass quantities for food are "natural" animals to begin with. They were br
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by ff317 5y ago
Sounds like a great economic opportunity for some construction contracting companies to specialize in these offices-to-apartments conversions. It is possible to gut a lot of the "soft" walls and infrastructure on each floor, brin
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by ff317 5y ago
> The more desirable sounding Modern seems to be unachievable for any real world site. I'd love to see counterexamples if I'm wrong. I'd agree that the description of "M" in https://wiki.mozilla.org&#x

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