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by ggreer 5y ago
In case anyone's curious, here's the ban message I got: Disconnected: You are banned from this server- IRCCloud is no longer welcome on freenode (2021/6/13 12.46) I'm not sure why this is happening now. It
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by ggreer 5y ago
Are you sure that's not something else like inertia in various mechanical parts or engine tuning? Maybe it sacrifices responsiveness at low RPM for better emissions or better performance at high revs. There's certainly no need for
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by ggreer 5y ago
Yes and that's a good thing, but I was responding to the claim that, "...decriminalization would allow for official medical studies."
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by ggreer 5y ago
Do you also apply this reasoning to fingerprinting, DNA analysis, tire prints, and ballistics comparisons? Like most people, I don't understand all of the failure modes involved with those technologies, but they do seem to be helpful t
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by ggreer 5y ago
Ketamine is schedule III in the US. That makes it less restricted than meds like adderall and most prescription opiates. Decriminalizing it wouldn't really matter for research studies.
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by ggreer 5y ago
> Cryptocurrency is by definition non-fungible, and as you rightly pointed out, harder to recover. Cryptocurrency is very fungible. When I withdraw BTC from Coinbase, it's the same as any other BTC. There are blacklists of BTC addre
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by ggreer 5y ago
> If someone steals your fiat USD, there will eventually be someone with guns removing you from society if you don't return them. That's true for any type of property, including cryptocurrency. US police have returned stolen cr
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by ggreer 5y ago
You want the tech world to tell regulators that, "Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping end first dates fast.", and
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by ggreer 5y ago
Tweets like those are why Pinboard is one of the few Twitter accounts I've blocked. On certain issues, the author loves to righteously sneer. It annoys the hell out of me because when he's not sneering, he can be a knowledgeable a
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by ggreer 5y ago
Commercial off the shelf. [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf
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by ggreer 5y ago
That's the reality that Tesla owners already live in. Last week I visited my family for my grandmother's birthday. Of the 700+ miles traveled, over 98% were on autopilot. I entered my destination and hit "Navigate on Autopilo
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by ggreer 5y ago
If anyone is wondering why people are discussing this particular exit so much, look at this image: https://goo.gl/maps/Q2Qm5RR3myMkdsFE8 See that lane on the right that has solid white lines on each side of it? Now pan
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by ggreer 5y ago
I don't know about that. Musk and Karpathy have always been pretty gung-ho about solving self driving with nothing but cameras. We'll know for sure if they ever re-add radar to the Model 3/Y in the US. I think they won't
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by ggreer 5y ago
Isn’t our crime 5x more? The only way to get the same incarceration rate would be to imprison criminals 1/5th as much as Europeans do.
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by ggreer 5y ago
I'm surprised you find it tolerable. My Model 3 can get from Portland to Spokane (350 miles) with one charging stop in Kennewick, taking about 6 hours total. If I use ABRP to simulate the same trip in a 2020 Bolt, it requires 3 stops a
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by ggreer 5y ago
With Teslas, you plug in your destination and it provides directions with charging stops. For example: I drove over 600 miles from Portland to Berkeley starting at 25% battery. It routed me to three charging stops[1] and included times for
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by ggreer 5y ago
What do you do for road trips? The supercharger network is essential for that.
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by ggreer 5y ago
I have run this experiment in several communities, including Xbox Live (which is full of annoying teenagers). My experience wasn't much different from choosing my normal male-coded nicknames. Instead of assholes calling me, "fag&q
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by ggreer 5y ago
Semver v2 was published in 2013. The only file changed between v1 and v2 was semver.md. Here's the diff: https://github.com/semver/semver/compare/v1.0.0...v2.0.0#fil... In addition to expanding and clari
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by ggreer 5y ago
Tesla superchargers already charge at 250kW. They use liquid cooling in the cable.
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by ggreer 5y ago
This was true in the past, but I don't think it's the case now. Professional mirrorless cameras support extended batteries and use the same sensors and processors as their DSLR counterparts. For example: Canon's EOS R5[1] use
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by ggreer 5y ago
The forces are balanced when turning on a motorcycle, just like turning in an airplane. The phone’s gyroscope could notice the roll, but the accelerometer will just read slightly higher g forces in the “down” direction. That said, you can d
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by ggreer 5y ago
I'm pretty sure these intersections are often coincidence. There are enough myths across enough cultures that you're bound to find some with similarities to real events. For example: if the story of Sodom and Gomorrah had been a K
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by ggreer 5y ago
What? After two years, every Basecamp employee starts getting shares that pay dividends.[1] Their handbook also claims that employees will get 10% of the value of the company if it is ever sold or goes public (though they plan to never do s
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by ggreer 5y ago
There are several issues with this tax. First, the ultra-rich won't pay it. They'll take out loans against their stock instead of selling it. Second: The 14th amendment to the state constitution[1] says: > All taxes shall be un
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How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take? (2020)(nytimes.com)
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by ggreer 6y ago
> It is about 1000 mountainous kilometers from Portland to Oakland. If you drive along I-5 from Portland to Oakland, there is one mountain pass (Siskiyou summit[1]). Most of the trip is very flat, as you're traveling through Oregon&
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by ggreer 6y ago
Back in 2019 Governor Newsom put most of the CA HSR plan on hold indefinitely.[1] Now the official plan is to build a 171-mile high speed rail link from Bakersfield (population 524,000) through Fresno (population 542,000) to Merced (populat
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by ggreer 6y ago
Personal Rapid Transit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
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by ggreer 6y ago
I know it sounds absurd, but you can check Google Maps for the possible routes and times.[1] It looks like a Greyhound bus is actually 2 hours faster (16 hours). Also it looks like some parts of the track along the west coast are undergoing

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