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by ggreer 7y ago
If the US had stayed a colony, it would have abolished slavery 30 years earlier than it did.[1] Hong Kong would probably be better off if it had remained a British colony. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolit
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by ggreer 7y ago
> It might cause motion sickness, but maybe you can get away with pitching/yawing 5 degrees for every 1 degree of head movement, so to look "straight up" you only have to tilt your head up 18 degrees. That would cause extr
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by ggreer 7y ago
Are you thinking of The Camel has Two Humps [1]? I don't think it was ever published in a journal and the author later retracted it.[2] It seems like the conclusions of the study were overstated, but the general idea is correct: Those
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by ggreer 7y ago
That's exactly what it is, and so is python's range(15): >>> list(range(15)) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] The important thing with syntax is to avoid the illusion of understanding. That&
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by ggreer 7y ago
YouTube has support for VR videos. If you could record & render such that people with headsets could watch a session, that might help with interest and adoption. I think navigation needs eye tracking, which sadly no headset currently su
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by ggreer 7y ago
Some economists studied this[1] and found that even if you assume incredibly expensive drones and a rather small, spread-out city (Chattanooga TN), drones are signifacantly cheaper than delivery trucks. This is true even if delivery trucks
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by ggreer 7y ago
That's possible, but the certs expire very quickly and they only offer access to a tiny subset of resources. You'd be constantly exporting & importing certs.
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by ggreer 7y ago
Here's an AP article from 31 years ago[1]. > A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. ... &g
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by ggreer 7y ago
It's not a ban on sonic booms. It's a ban on supersonic flight. Even if someone invents a quiet supersonic aircraft, or flies at a higher altitude to reduce noise, the current FAA rules ban it.
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by ggreer 7y ago
At almost every job I've had to push back on designs with low contrast and large fixed headers for UI elements. These things look fine on a 27" 4k screen in office lighting, but they're horrible on a 13" laptop with glar
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by ggreer 7y ago
Even the former chairman of the FDA admits that the FDA is the main reason why the US doesn't have enough coronavirus tests.[1] If not for the FDA we would have ramped up testing 6 weeks earlier. Labs were already developing and doing
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by ggreer 7y ago
Neat, but why don't all the cells in our body do that? What's the trade-off that goes the other way for cells most likely to get cancer (prostate, breast, lungs, lymph nodes)?
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by ggreer 7y ago
- Market cap is not liquid assets. Amazon can't sell my shares of their company and use it to fund their employees. - This is not run by Amazon. It's run by the Emergency Assistance Foundation, Inc[1]. a 501c(3) charity. Their Lin
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by ggreer 7y ago
Almost all of his wealth is the value of the companies he runs. He's so cash-poor that he couldn't even pay a $75k fine.[1] 1. https://observer.com/2019/10/elon-musk-british-diver-lawsuit...
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by ggreer 7y ago
Minikube now has both a docker[1] and a native driver[2]. The docker driver is derived from Kind. 1. https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/reference/drivers/docker/ 2. https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io
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by ggreer 7y ago
> Your colleagues, maybe not, but certainly you are culpable for your direct reports. Should we jail parents if their children commit crimes? If anything, a parent has more influence upon their child than a manager has upon a direct repo
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by ggreer 7y ago
Neat idea, though I think it will be quite some time before it produces something that people can build or use. Another option might be to figure out ways to adapt existing ventilators to be used by multiple patients. If you find 4 patients
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by ggreer 7y ago
He bought most of the masks from a single liquidation company a month ago, and he bought the hand sanitizer from some stores in Kentucky & Tennessee, but not in large enough quantities to cause shortages there. He definitely didn't
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by ggreer 7y ago
Do you have evidence that someone has bought 10,000 masks from every hardware store in a state? Otherwise you're arguing from fiction.
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by ggreer 7y ago
People who use the "fire in a crowded theater" metaphor clearly don't know where it came from. It was coined by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Schenck v. United States.[1] He ruled that it was constitutional to send so
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by ggreer 7y ago
Normal triage is when you prioritize the most seriously injured patients so they don't die waiting for treatment. That's what hospitals typically do. In a mass casualty event, hospitals engage in reverse triage which optimizes f
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The FDA is a big slow bureaucracy. Also, all of their incentives are to block new things. If they approve a new medical treatment or diagnostic that ends up harming people, they'll get tons of bad publicity and the individuals who appr
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by ggreer 7y ago
It's an unintended side effect of FDA regulation. This thread by the previous FDA commissioner explains it.[1] 1. https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/12319443268270817...
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by ggreer 7y ago
Please don't use quote tags if it's not a quote. Also it's clear by your mockery that you don't want to discuss this in good faith.
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by ggreer 7y ago
In the same article about 144 reported flu deaths, they cite the comparable Hong Kong flu stats (226 dead) despite Hong Kong having 0.5% of the population of China. Nowhere in that article do they mention differences in methodologies of rep
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by ggreer 7y ago
Let's look at China's flu death stats to get an idea of how honest the government tends to be. From a 2018 article in a CCP-owned newspaper[1]: > The total number of flu deaths last year was 144, compared with 56 in 2016 and 41
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by ggreer 7y ago
It should be noted that Bushnell has disliked Stallman ever since Stallman dismissed him from the Hurd project due to inactivity. It’s not clear how much of what Bushnell says is true. I haven’t stumbled on anyone willing to corroborate his
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by ggreer 7y ago
> Have you ever been on the freeway during white-out conditions before the ploughs have gotten a chance to come by? People slow down, turn on their hazards if necessary, and if the road markings aren't visible, naturally form two la
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by ggreer 7y ago
Most drivers don’t live in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Wisconsin, etc. If you want to see how the average driver performs on icy roads, look at videos from Portland and Seattle. Both of those citi
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by ggreer 7y ago
Isn't that asking for too much? Most humans can't drive safely in blizzards. And unlike self-driving cars, many humans are overconfident in their abilities. If a self-driving car recognizes dangerous conditions (poor visibility, m

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