flashman

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by flashman 7y ago
I have been reading your website since the heyday of Digg. Thanks for the link - I thought you must have stopped writing around 2010.
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by flashman 7y ago
I wonder how quickly it charges. Vehicles in mine sites are often in use around the clock, which is fine if you can quickly top them up with fuel, but if it takes a few hours to recharge them, you're going to need more vehicles.
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by flashman 7y ago
I'd argue physical comedy is more difficult than spoken comedy, because any fool can deliver a line but it takes a master to sell you a fall. Is it any wonder that physical comedy was more popular in the silent film era?
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by flashman 7y ago
There's a line in the Stratechery article that makes perfect sense in the context of WeWork: "Uber without an at-scale competitor is a much more valuable company." It's the same point Stoller is trying to make: Financier
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by flashman 7y ago
> Lots of studios seem hungry for anyone with experience. That's because once someone has experience, they can 3x their salary outside the industry.
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by flashman 7y ago
> how long before it disappears a while: http://web.archive.org/web/20190419041118/https://m.facebook...
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by flashman 8y ago
So a single point of failure (malfunctioning sensor) can engage the horizontal stabilizer without notifying pilots, in a way that the control yoke can't override. What the hell did Boeing think was going to happen?
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by flashman 8y ago
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti told employees in 2015 that "when you look at companies that have unionized, the relationship [between managers and employees] is much more adversarial." I suppose the remaining employees have taken
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by flashman 8y ago
/u/rhiever also published some code on transforming an image into a travelling salesman path: http://www.randalolson.com/2018/04/11/traveling-salesman-por...
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by flashman 8y ago
It's ridiculous. I remember being able to track live events by just looking on a map near where they were happening: hurricanes, protests and festivals for example. That feature's just gone, now.
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by flashman 8y ago
This might be a good place to ask: does anyone remember that study showing which sports were enjoyed (as spectators or as players) by which income brackets? E.g. golf had fans with high average income, while basketball fans had a lower inco
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by flashman 8y ago
> as students are graded on their studying skills, I feel like teachers should be graded every fews years on their teaching skills If a teacher grades a student poorly, there can be repercussions. They have an incentive to grade fairly
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by flashman 8y ago
IT Services mandated a pentest when we wanted to switch our corporate website to Drupal (as part of a battery of exercises intended to convince us to stay with Interwoven Teamsite, which they paid a million dollars a year for). When we agre
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by flashman 8y ago
In the USA, renewables provide two-thirds as much power as nuclear. If you want to claim nuclear is major, you have to accept renewables are too.
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by flashman 8y ago
I'm following this story because our local air force base (in Australia) used 3M firefighting foam for decades, and the run-off has contaminated residential properties, including creeks where people used to fish. The Australian governm
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by flashman 8y ago
A decade ago, I never would have thought that Apple would be the ones mainstreaming Trusted Computing. (Well, the iPhone was out... maybe 12 years ago.) These were machines that supported the hacker ethos of tinkering and experimentation, e
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by flashman 8y ago
> the invader wins by covering distance The invader wins by crossing the baseline. This fitness function lets me use evolution against the invaders by letting the dumbest ones approach the baseline before killing them, making future wave
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by flashman 8y ago
Correct. A greater fraction of its weight is hydrogen due to the extra neutron, but it contains the same number of hydrogen atoms. Heavy water masses 20g/mol versus 18g/mol for regular water.
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by flashman 8y ago
People often ask, "But don't you end up with a wet butt?" The answer is, you use toilet paper (and less of it). Or if you're wealthy, your bidet includes a dryer.
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by flashman 8y ago
> there is no approved question for the donor questionnairre Do they not already ask if someone's ever been diagnosed with asthma, hepatitis, HIV, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, etc? All of which are permanent disqualifications.
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by flashman 8y ago
"Why don't we have threads like in Slack for more business oriented stuffs?" Because Discord's not for business oriented stuff? It's IRC. Two paths diverged in a yellow wood; Slack went corporate and Discord went fo
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by flashman 8y ago
"living at the edge of your means" is not the same as "middle class"
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by flashman 8y ago
> Why is Bezos doing this? workers organised organise, workers!
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by flashman 8y ago
Never underestimate the value of being able to forego VC and/or a salary. Allows bigger risks and upside, which combined with survivorship bias makes successful founders look like someone to emulate.
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by flashman 8y ago
don't forget: - safety net in the form of a wealthy family - business model based on rent-seeking
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by flashman 8y ago
I bet this is why you get a sense of impending doom when you have to vomit.
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by flashman 8y ago
"As you're Ubering down the road of life, if you're ahead of schedule and there are no other productive activities you can fit in before your next appointment, don't forget to stop and smell the roses." There are a
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by flashman 8y ago
Design question: are the players click-to-move because that improves performance compared to, say, following the cursor at all times? Compare this with agar.io, where the player is always moving towards the cursor. Well done on this game. I
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by flashman 8y ago
Is there a name for the logical fallacy of saying in-game murder is no worse than making references to real-world hate groups?
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by flashman 8y ago
Genuinely curious, how do archaeologists catalogue items found in sand bars? Through correlation with upstream sites? I can't imagine stratigraphy would be terribly helpful.

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