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931.
by floxy 3y ago
Seems like there should be a summary of your performance at the end. Maybe take absolute value of the difference between your guesses and the actuals, and calculate a mean and standard deviation for all of the questions.
932.
by floxy 3y ago
Newport is the "Deep Work" guy whose first step was "off-load your trivial tasks to your secretary". He lost me at that, since I need the 5 steps before that where I get a secretary.
933.
by floxy 3y ago
> So depending on the launch orientation to orbit The Wikipedia page has the date, time, and location for the Pascal-B test: August 27, 1957 22:35:00.0, 37.04903°N 116.0347°W So that would have been 10:35PM local daylight savings time fr
934.
by floxy 3y ago
Hopefully in my lifetime we can do something like these lightsails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI&t=883s ...which do a swing by the sun to get up to 22 AU/year.
935.
by floxy 3y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-opioid-us...
936.
by floxy 3y ago
>Also keep in mind that from the perspective of someone falling in, there's nothing particularly noticeable as you cross the event horizon. So I've heard that before, but let's say you are slowly spiraling into a supermass
937.
by floxy 3y ago
I have no idea about this, but it would certainly be interesting if someone were to perform simulations for a black hole merger using both the ring singularity and this torus-of-mass distribution, and see if there are any differences in the
938.
by floxy 3y ago
>when every dealer now feels entitled to some random markup in price over MSRP. Well, for Ford, that's supposed to get you on the naughty list. https://www.kbb.com/car-news/ford-ceo-warns-dealers-cut-the-...
939.
by floxy 3y ago
Yeah, but 1.21 GW though...
940.
by floxy 3y ago
>"insert the side that already has writing face up, and the side that is blank face down" More odd that it would be on a printer, but for a scanner, it is telling you that it will scan the side that is face up. For a printer,
941.
by floxy 3y ago
I have no idea about this, but it would certainly be interesting if someone were to perform simulations for a black hole merger using both the ring singularity and this torus-of-mass distribution, and see if there are any differences in the
942.
by floxy 3y ago
Seems like it could also be inflation related, where people are substituting less expensive macrobrews for more expensive craft brews.
943.
by floxy 3y ago
Except for the posting on HN?
944.
by floxy 3y ago
How should we interpret "Thousands of Units, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate" in that data? If you download the file, and sum the column you get 1,114,912, which would be 1.1 billion if the units are truly "Thousands of Unit
945.
by floxy 3y ago
I'm as sticker shocked about inflation as anyone, is there a new minivan that is less expensive than the Kia Carnival (starts at $33,200)? Assuming $40k for the ID.Buzz, minus a $7,500 tax credit, gives about the same ball-park price.
946.
by floxy 3y ago
VW is apparently coming out with one next year... https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/id-buzz-microbus
947.
by floxy 3y ago
"Chevrolet Bolt EV Isn't Dead: It Will Return with GM's Ultium Batteries" https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44639082/chevrolet-bolt-e...
948.
by floxy 3y ago
> electric Honda fit Are you looking for one specifically made by Honda? Or what is missing from the small electric hatchbacks like the Chevy Bolt or Nissan Leaf?
949.
by floxy 3y ago
4x4 in the summer? Yeah, not so much. 4x4 in areas with real winters with ice and hills and mountains? Yes indeed that is quite an improvement.
950.
by floxy 3y ago
Aptera seems to be a little different than most. At least it doesn't have 4 wheels. https://aptera.us/
951.
by floxy 3y ago
>(even with two wars going on) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
952.
by floxy 3y ago
Maybe someday... Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421
953.
by floxy 3y ago
Anyone have stats on the overall audience of HN? I'd have guessed it to be very west coast heavy.
954.
by floxy 3y ago
But it was late afternoon on a Friday. Could be a 20% chance that it was so time critical that it had to be immediate. Or an 80% chance that it was scheduled for a Friday afternoon.
955.
by floxy 3y ago
Could be something like Brockman pushing to investigate further, before having the vote, and the rest of the board not liking that.
956.
by floxy 3y ago
"I don't know what language will be used to program high performance computers in 50 years, but we know it will be called Fortran."
957.
by floxy 3y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=base+load&iax=images&ia=ima...
958.
by floxy 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuScale_Power
959.
by floxy 3y ago
I'm always surprised by Tesla's valuation ($737B). TSMC is only worth a paltry $512B. British Petroleum and Shell Oil seem like they'd meet the requirements for >$100B UK company? https://companiesmarketcap.com
960.
by floxy 3y ago
The radius of the universe is closer to 46 billion light-years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

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