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by gnicholas 2y ago
> No, but if you gave your friend Bob a copy of the painting, he's allowed to copy that copy as much as he wants once you lose the copyright. Wouldn't this require Bob to outlive the artist by many, many years? My understandi
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by gnicholas 2y ago
For sure. I'm just glad there's a separate charge port. On previous generations, you would sometimes have to unplug from power in order to back up an iPhone to an external hard drive, for example. Given the lousy battery life on t
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by gnicholas 2y ago
MBAs don’t have that many ports — just two USB ports and the MagSafe charging port. It’s better than before, but you still have to go with an MBP to get HDMI, SD, or ports on both sides.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
True! Presumably they'd refuel the vehicles in these places as well. The number of depots would depend on how much time you want to waste having vehicles driving out-of-direction and (1) the cost of additional real estate plus (2) the
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Makes sense if they're nearby frequently, but if vehicles are serving larger areas, that would happen less often.
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Making AI better at math tutoring(blog.khanacademy.org)
135 points by gnicholas 2y ago|147 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I wonder if they'd ever offer riders a discount for taking trash out that was left behind by other riders. They could even include a vacuum and give people a couple bucks off for cleaning it out during/after their ride.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> Unsupervised in what sense? Unsupervised in the sense that there's no driver there to clean the car when it gets dirty. At the same time, presumably part of the odor of an uber comes from the driver, so that helps. I wonder if w
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I can take in the scene in front of me with my parafoveal and peripheral vision while looking at the mirror with my foveal vision. It doesn't work the other way around, as anyone who has ever driven would know. That's like asking
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Weird to claim it's future-proofed when it's dropping support for MV2. IIRC other browsers (Brave, Safari) are not dropping MV2 support, and hopefully Google will eventually rethink this.
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Mail-Order Drugs Were Supposed to Keep Costs Down. It's Doing the Opposite(wsj.com)
2 points by gnicholas 2y ago|0 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> There is no law requiring a driver to check their mirrors before stopping for a traffic signal. There are plenty of things that are not required by law that are nonetheless a good idea. Also, no one (other than you) ever said anythin
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Who said anything about looking somewhere else entirely? My rear-view mirror is in right in front of my windshield. Also, I've been looking straight forward for the last while so I know what's there. It's also unlikely that i
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by gnicholas 2y ago
The thing is, liability (and all negligence) is based on a 'reasonable person standard'. That means that if the jury is comprised of other people who drive in the same way, which you deem dangerous, then they will be adjudicated t
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by gnicholas 2y ago
If it's coming from Amazon, they don't need to bother with inspecting the package at all. They just need to subpoena Amazon and get the purchase records. The impact of mail scanning only applies to mail whose contents are not alre
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by gnicholas 2y ago
If it is "patently dangerous" to drive as though it is not the case that "the car in front of you is a brick wall" and that "the distance ... between you and them ...should be greater than the stopping distance of y
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Yeah, and it hardly ever comes via USPS, at least in my experience.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> Aaron Kau poses for a before and after portrait showing off the clothes his stylist selected for him during a shopping trip to Bloomingdale's. At a glance, I couldn’t tell which was the before and which was the after. The shoes
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> The whole time that a driver is checking their mirror(s) to look behind them, attempting to ward off a crash that they cannot actually control I didn't suggest that someone drive around with their eyes on their mirror the whole
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by gnicholas 2y ago
If you drive this way in many parts of CA (especially LA), you will be cut off by a never-ending stream of vehicles. All of this lane-changing, happening right in front of you, will put you at more risk of collision than simply following at
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Should this factor in the braking ability of the car in front of me? That is, should I give more follow distance when behind a 911 versus an Escalade? I think most people don't have a sense for how quickly different types of vehicles c
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by gnicholas 2y ago
If the lead car hit the brakes for no reason, he has been negligent and would be liable. This could happen if you hit the wrong pedal, or presumably if your AEB system malfunctioned and thought it saw someone in the road. It might also appl
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I've wondered how the liability rules will work when either: • vehicle A slams on the brakes inadvertently/erroneously or • vehicle A slams on the brakes due to a small animal crossing the road and then vehicle B hits vehicle A fr
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Yeah, most browsers do have reader mode now. I honestly don't love them because they're typically not customizable, and are sometimes too narrow for my taste. I wouldn't mind resizing the browser window except that with tabbe
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I don't mind Drew or Fabien's layout, which have a reasonable column width. But Dan's site is unreadable for me (at least on desktop) without reader mode. What would be the reason for choosing to have full-width text on a blo
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Funny, I quite like progress bars! I agree that they can be too bold at times, but it's nice to have a visual indicator since scroll bars have disappeared (especially on mobile).
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> Seattle-based researcher Ro Singh was hooked on ordering in several times a week until the city adopted its pay measure in January. App prices “became absolutely nuts,” he said, after adding varying delivery fees in addition to tippin
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Delivery Drivers Got Higher Wages. Now They're Getting Fewer Orders(wsj.com)
1 points by gnicholas 2y ago|2 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Really? Aren't town cars nicer inside than regular cabs? Limousines tend more in the direction of conspicuous consumption, though I imagine they are also generally more comfortable/clean than less-expensive options. Limos are also
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School Cellphone Bans Have Buzz, but May Be Hard to Enforce(nytimes.com)
3 points by gnicholas 2y ago|6 comments

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