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by foo_barrio 5y ago
I gave a simple example. The point is that recycling often results in an inferior product than what you started with even after spending energy to reprocess the raw material even for something as simple as a bottle. It's the last thing
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Yes reduce and reuse. Recycling is the last the things to consider. Clean the bottles and re-use them. Don't crush them and spend energy making something else with that material.
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Also, hardly ever do you get the thing you started with. Clear glass bottles are not recycled into more clear glass bottles. IIRC the recycled class glass is not clear enough and you end up with lower quality glass. Car tire rubber get recy
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
What if you want to store an error message+status with the job if it fails? It means you have to commit something no? What if you want to mark the message as being worked on and what process locked it and when they did for some kind of job
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
I have tea cups repaired this way and have attempted to repair a few cups with lacquer. The cups work fine after 5+ years.
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
If your doorbell is electric and plays a recording of chimes, it can be very straightforward to implement this yourself. Just off the top of my head I use FFTs (fast Fourier transform) of a known recording of the door bell limited to certai
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Perhaps the repeated insertions/removals did clear off any light oxidation or slightly reposition the contacts?
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
It could have also been much worse though no? If those 3 days turned into 5 in a hospital with another long tail of lung issues would it still be worth it just not to get jabbed again?
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
If we outlawed locks then by definition they are criminal no? Isn't that the context here?
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Then the data you can't read becomes reason enough to pursue as criminal regardless of its content no?
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Some people build guitars other people play them. They are related disciplines and guitar builders know how to play a guitar but it's not their primary pursuit. Biking is no different no? Some people are interested in how to setup and
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Is it used only for counting? Mandarin and other East Asian language have a classifier for counting. English uses counting classifier sometimes. For example, "paper" without a classifier in English refers to an official document o
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
The old GB sounds were harsher and I am going to speculate it's because the SNES has a heavy low pass filter that smooths out things maybe a tad too much. The GB metroid sounds I feel like I can sit and remake them with square/saw
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
"You didn't build that" is as naive as "all taxes are theft" no? As important property rights are so is working together. No one human kills a lion or works a farm no?
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
My mom already "owns" whatever money my dad makes and vice versa. They file jointly and have partnership+joint accounts. This has been the case for 40+ years. The money won't go to her when he dies. It's already hers. I
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Money is already taxed multiple times though (in my part of the world NE US). If I buy a car with income received via dividends from Apple stock: * state sales sax on car * future city property tax on car * fed dividend tax on money used
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
What about sales tax? My income has already been taxed.
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
The board dictates what the company does and share holders can vote the board out if they don't like what they are doing no? Most boards are interested only in money but that reflects the share holders and board more than some sacred p
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
You don't need a stop watch to count days. Short term fluctuations and long term trends are sometimes really different to predict.
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
I disagree. Have you ever worked in finance? Inconsistent or unexpected number/date formats have to be dealt with. And to add to it, the formats can be binary and not just text that you can look at it and sort of "figure it out&qu
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Isn't the argument that fair markets are what allow all that stuff to get done? In other words they are better for the group over the long term. Unfair (via corruption or whatever have you) markets tend to stagnate and are good for the
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
"If there's not enough demand..." Demand is not that simple. There could be tons of latent demand and the internet seems to be one of those things that seems to show induced demand as well. People are incredibly adaptive and
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
It's definitely not you. There is a general term for this called "Poe's Law" that says something like: "a sufficiently thorough parody is indistinguishable from the original". That GP might be an example of thi
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Ha! I literally just sat at my PC and saw your response at 3m old. Yea I've noticed I tend to test pretty well on all the official charts but really can't hear a difference in a lot of "audiophile" stuff people claim nig
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
I am almost 40 and can easily hear pure ones over 17khz but can't differentiate pure noise with or without anything above 13khz. Right around 18.5khz there's a sharp falloff on pure tones no matter how much I pump the volume. I us
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
Funny you mention the hard stop! I too play piano and guitar and have not had problems with them. However I joined a startup way back in 2005 and was working on a laptop for 12+ hours a day and started to get RSI and shooting pains in my le
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
There is no state to track. If there is, 99% composition has worked out way better for me in the long run since I don't have this really strong coupling between two objects.
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by foo_barrio 5y ago
At the very beginning it was winter in the Northeast and treatment protocols were being development. Is it fair to even compare the virus that came into NY during Jan to a state where it came after 6 months of study, data and summer weather
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by foo_barrio 6y ago
I understand, I should have been clearer. My experience has been the opposite. The companies I've worked for had actual complexity to tackle. I guess I got a little defensive because I've encountered "game programmers are god
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by foo_barrio 6y ago
Looking at this pic of the Orion nebula it looks like even the smoothest, darkest areas have tons of stars in them: * https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/ This is also a much smaller area of the sky. The higher acui

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