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by flatline 5y ago
Yes. I talked to a builder, he thought he was going to have to do R22 insulation across the entire thing because it’s not clear whether it is a wall or ceiling. Ridiculous because the engineering for domes has been around for 70 years. Most
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by flatline 5y ago
Good luck trying to get permits to build anything the slightest bit unconventional in any populated area. I looked at building a geodesic dome, and was going to end up in the boonies and likely still paying off the inspector to pull permits
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by flatline 5y ago
Speculation is a huge use case. Bitcoin will never be practical for day to day transactions but it may be for a settlement layer - certainly Ethereum is proving that out right now. A few minute settlement time is a huge advantage over what
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by flatline 5y ago
That would not work for me. I need to keep one finger on the slip knot at all times or it becomes loose, resulting in a very unsatisfying knot. This has been by far the biggest hurdle to teaching my kids to tie a decent knot in their shoela
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by flatline 5y ago
Don't want to stay around to do the boring bits required to make a working product that serves a real world use case? Go into academia! Not making a generalization about academics, it's just that academia is one of the few places
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by flatline 5y ago
I first heard about it here! Glad it’s still a thing, it’s neat. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9981745
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by flatline 5y ago
I have relied on gps with downloaded topo maps in areas where there is literally no cell reception. iPhone X using AllTrails fwiw, I feel like it must have a real gps radio packed in there somewhere.
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by flatline 5y ago
I have learned to always check the developer name, and if I'm not 100% sure, I don't install it. It's annoying because there are a bunch of them out there like this. I've also seen the "free but not free" apps
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by flatline 6y ago
A nit, the telephone and fax machine developed more or leas in parallel, and the first working fax predated the first telephone by 11 years!
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by flatline 6y ago
They mentioned the empty bottle. I'm sure he didn't have to poop living in a crate for five days with only water to drink.
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by flatline 6y ago
Conan is probably the flagship C++ package manager and supports multiple build systems including cmake. Nuget/vcpkg is also usable but does not come with build system integration.
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by flatline 6y ago
I always thought nocebo was a belief that the medicine would have not therapeutic effect, which is then borne out in reality. But the amplified side effects dovetail with my understanding. As an anecdotal data point, I'm a redhead with
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by flatline 6y ago
New Mexico is currently at 48.4% of the eligible population with at least one dose, which recent research indicates is at least 80% effective. Research also indicates that the non-eligible population - children - are not as likely to spread
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by flatline 6y ago
It's definitely a nightmare if it's part of the culture. If it's a junior developer you are mentoring that's another story.
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by flatline 6y ago
This explains a lot of my interactions with my peers. Some groups of developers need hand holding, guidance, feedback, and correction. Continuously. The other group just gets stuff done and get normal feedback I”d expect from my own work. W
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by flatline 6y ago
I turned off autocorrect years ago and never looked back. Sometimes I misspell a word but it’s better than typing a word slightly wrong and having a completely different word pop out. I’ll still use autocomplete sometimes to save some typin
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by flatline 6y ago
I wish I could own a home, that I put equity into, and have a reasonable assurance of getting that equity back out, without having it be a highly speculative, leveraged investment. Alternatively, I wish renting was affordable in any place w
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by flatline 6y ago
Do white people not work on their cars? The most obnoxious (and awesome) cars I’ve lived next to were owned by white people. There is definitely a latino car culture where I live but I’ve been other places where it’s all old white dudes. Se
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by flatline 6y ago
It would be no problem for me to go back; I don't really use social media and would probably be fine without anything beyond a land line to maintain social contacts. My kids, by contrast, have grown up in a completely different world.
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by flatline 6y ago
SICP introduced a lot of fundamental concepts in CS to me as a junior, self-taught developer. Building everything up using immutable functions and then introducing mutable state was revelatory and still influences my design decisions 15+ ye
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by flatline 6y ago
You may have been downvoted for a snarky tone, but this is the first time I've seen it mentioned here - bitcoin is taxed as a commodity in the US, each exchange is a capital gain or loss.
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by flatline 6y ago
The US is effectively zero population growth, as are many other affluent parts of the world. This seems like an overly simplistic assessment.
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by flatline 6y ago
It would allow flexibility for those who can manage their money successfully, and aren’t horribly unlucky. Unfortunately that population is relatively sparse - the monthly stipend is going to be funneled into the pockets of unscrupulous le
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by flatline 6y ago
Ethereum has had a few other interesting, non-black-market uses over the years. DeFi, game assets, NFTs, etc. And the technology has actually evolved. Bitcoin is just...still bitcoin.
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by flatline 6y ago
"An error in judgment". That's kind of like, I'm sorry we got caught. The fact they thought something this was a good idea at all is telling.
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by flatline 6y ago
I know for crypto back in 2015-2017 there were semi-private groups that would orchestrate P&D schemes for alt coins. I think "social media" is probably misused here as much if not more than "meme stock" - the interne
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by flatline 6y ago
I think the concern is that the authoritarian Chinese government can exercise an awful lot of influence when they are inclined. For a supposedly decentralized system it's an awfully big risk.
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by flatline 6y ago
I also noticed some false positives. It is a good demonstration of the difficulty of the task: there is no easy, automated, out of the box solution that will arrive at the correct answer. You could make a decent approximation if you could c
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by flatline 6y ago
> it is working so poorly for average investors Is it? I've heard a lot of talk like this. The last decade has been spectacular in the markets. I know plenty of average investors who've outperformed the S&P by investing in
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by flatline 6y ago
Wow - nearly unreadable with the giant cookie prompt. The web is practically broken in so many respects nowadays, yet it's at the center of so much of what we do.

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