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811.
by gniv 8y ago
In the computer world, a similar idea was building a highly-available cluster using consumer hardware. This was also counter-intuitive and revolutionary when it was introduced (20 years ago?).
812.
by gniv 8y ago
Oh if the likes are included then it makes sense.
813.
by gniv 8y ago
> 1T messages per day How? I mean there are 7B people on earth. Are people that active on Twitter? Or does "messages" mean something else here?
814.
by gniv 8y ago
How much do doctors and lawyers typically make in Poland?
815.
by gniv 8y ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Your second link says that the Okinawan sweet potato is a staple in Hawaiian cuisine. I wonder if there were studies comparing the health profiles of Hawaiian and Okinawan people.
816.
by gniv 8y ago
I was curious too, and I found this paper discussing the effects of a 2.5 week shutdown in 2013: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a589972.pdf (8 pages, I haven't read it all yet, but does s
817.
by gniv 8y ago
> "119 miles of range in 15 minutes" is also nowhere near as fast as an IC car "visiting the pump". The article was corrected to say 5 minutes. See also replies from timsher upthread.
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by gniv 8y ago
> it’s vanishingly rare that a street will have both a number and a name. Not really. In New Jersey for example, almost all major roads have both a name and a number, and both are displayed on Google Maps.
819.
by gniv 8y ago
Not GPS. The location of the magnetic north pole.
820.
by gniv 8y ago
Is this because everybody is expecting a "breakthrough" in battery tech, thus dooming a big investment in lithium-ion plants? I keep seeing stories about solid-state batteries, but I don't have a feeling if they really are cl
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by gniv 8y ago
It is clickbaity. It is also wrong, indeed. But it's used here in the same way a person would say to a friend "You're insane!", when hearing of that person's unusual feat (like making 10000 wikipedia edits in the la
822.
by gniv 8y ago
That's a good point. It could be that since we don't know how to scale curation (and use upvotes as a proxy), we exacerbate the problem of lurkers not having their (few) comments discovered. As a counter-example, I find the "
823.
by gniv 8y ago
> A related phenomenon I've been thinking about is the impact of traditional entertainment media (TV, Movies and Music) and the inherent bias in the sample of worldviews that the people who work in those businesses espouse. Agree, t
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by gniv 8y ago
> Are you saying that internet commenters have a monolith "worldview" No. I'm saying that each person has a worldview, which is the aggregate of their life experience. If a small set of people drive most discussions, then
825.
by gniv 8y ago
That's probably true, but it might be the end result of a vicious cycle: you don't engage, you don't sharpen the skills required for it, you fall into the easy role.
826.
by gniv 8y ago
> This parallels civic/political engagement in real life. Indeed it does. And the "insane" label to the engaged is even more apt there.
827.
by gniv 8y ago
Most of the comments here are either elaborating on the OP, or justify lurking. I am a mostly-lurker myself, but I felt the need to comment here, since I was hoping to see the discussion go into a different direction. The OP uses the word &
828.
by gniv 8y ago
> The train is about 8 hours and $100. Small correction: It's 2 hours from Paris to Bordeaux.
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by gniv 8y ago
This article made me look at the iron content of various foods that I eat often. Surprisingly, dark chocolate has a lot of iron -- a 100g bar has 100% of DV.
830.
by gniv 8y ago
That's an interesting idea. I wonder what, fundamentally, caused the marginal tax rate to fall? Is it the perception (or reality) that governments waste the tax money? Or is it simply the corrupting influence of wealth in govt? I don&#
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by gniv 8y ago
I haven't had these issues. Also, the intext: operator works for me (make sure there is no space after ':').
832.
by gniv 8y ago
> "foo bar" is actually treated like "foo" "bar" No it isn't. Compare "internal engine" with "internal" "engine": https://www.google.com/search?q=%22interna
833.
by gniv 8y ago
I'm not as pessimistic. I think Google is taking its time since a bad accident would be a PR disaster. Given how big a deal this is, it makes sense for them to take it slowly, and I don't think we can read much into this in regard
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by gniv 8y ago
Note that this includes refined product, which is massive in the US. When I first read this wikipedia page, it was a huge surprise how world-dominant the industry got in the last 10 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by gniv 8y ago
The solution proposed is reforestation. The article mentions at the end that "There is good work being done on this front already", but fails to mention a fact that does not fit their narrative: "Despite ongoing deforestation
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by gniv 8y ago
The link at the bottom of that article is pointing to another Medium post with details of the launch: https://medium.com/waymo/riding-with-waymo-one-today-9ac8164... Notably, "At the start, Waymo-trained drivers w
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by gniv 8y ago
I think you misunderstood. > One employee traveling for work checked his dog into a kennel and billed it to his boss as a hotel expense. I read this as "employee pretended that the kennel expense was a _human_ hotel expense". (
838.
by gniv 8y ago
The article doesn't say how much of the budget is from income taxes, but it cannot be a lot if only 2% pay taxes. In the US income taxes are almost half of budget revenues.
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by gniv 8y ago
Oh, it's a thing. Random article about it: https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o...
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by gniv 8y ago
One point that I'm not seeing clearly articulated in this sub-thread: The US is widely rich. A lot of people can afford to buy things for status-signaling, no matter how silly you and I find it.

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