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841.
by hammock 2y ago
Why not pay a local labor team to sit idle while you do the work yourself? Would be worth it
842.
by hammock 2y ago
The mission here was just imaging. I think the first ever imaging of the underside. So the estimates of mass with data on the underside are only just beginning
843.
by hammock 2y ago
Yes, brokerages do this with your cash sweep funds, but they always name actual partner banks. I believe the issue here is those banks moved the funds into non-banks
844.
by hammock 2y ago
Counterintuitively, yes, because air travel is a Cournot good and you grow/make money by expanding supply (more planes), which they can’t
845.
by hammock 2y ago
Good point. Worth noting that the Russian newspaper reporting this, Kommersant, is the most liberal/independent of the three business dailies in the country and is sort of the Babylon Bee of Russia, if the BB wasn’t satire: it spells i
846.
by hammock 2y ago
>In June, the FDIC made it clear that its insurance fund doesn’t cover the failure of nonbanks like Synapse, and that in the event of such a firm’s failure, recovering funds through the courts wasn’t guaranteed. Apparently not FDIC insur
847.
by hammock 2y ago
I’ll get downvoted for this but so many people taking 15-50% paycuts without a moments thought, or trading 50% of pay for 3-4 hours back out of a 11-12hr workday (including commute) sort of implies that there are a lot of overpaid people ri
848.
by hammock 2y ago
Whats going on with all the drawn-in stuff on the photo of WEB Dubois?
849.
by hammock 2y ago
Another awesome mathematics article that loses me about 10-15% of the way in do to my own technical limitations. Any tips from HN on how to improve my ability to get thru, say, 45-50% of these types of articles?? Generally speaking, not spe
850.
by hammock 2y ago
The tech is beamforming .. the applications are AV conferencing, camera tracking, voice lift, or sound reinforcement
851.
by hammock 2y ago
The northeast woods does not have a wet/dry seasonality the way fire country in the West does. In the West, the wettest month (which is in winter) can have 6-10 inches of rain while the driest (which is in summer) has 0-0.5 inch. In th
852.
by hammock 2y ago
Couldn’t driving more be a sign of a strong and productive economy? Other large countries like Russia or Australia or something that drive less have smaller GFP as well. Can we make a better comparison of how much Americans drive, plus tota
853.
by hammock 2y ago
"Shifting left" is like moving the fat kid on the hike to the front of the line
854.
by hammock 2y ago
Why can’t you shift the “someone further down the line” left along with the task?
855.
by hammock 2y ago
Sounds like the bottleneck concept from Goldratt’s The Goal
856.
by hammock 2y ago
The guy in the grandparent YouTube video suggests shaking the coin in a closed hand (or better, a box) to randomize the starting side and then transferring it unseen to someone else to flip it Craps is also brought to mind where the dice ha
857.
by hammock 2y ago
So.. how would you make it a lot better?
858.
by hammock 2y ago
There is a machine in a certain wood window manufacturer's plant that I have toured, which uses lasers to measure odd pieces of wood and then table saws to cut them into necessary sized pieces, minimizing waste - even cuts for fingerjo
859.
by hammock 2y ago
>If I just built a house, and if there were some definitive test to know the wood came from somewhere illegally, who would I sue? Or: who could sue you, to return the wood?
860.
by hammock 2y ago
>What other model is there? They didn't propose one. Start with Praxeology (the methodology of Austrian economics). Specifically, Mises’ Human Action. The simple axiom that all preferences are subjective instantly eliminates a lot
861.
by hammock 2y ago
Palantir
862.
by hammock 2y ago
Many of those questions can be answered. The charts show absolutely frequency. The max is not normalized across the words, each chart is 0 to 1. That’s how the data comes out of google ngram viewer when you search terms one at a time, which
863.
by hammock 2y ago
Yes, all warts are caused by HPV no matter where they appear
864.
by hammock 2y ago
That is likely to be true if we take a limited firm-centric view (the local shop will never be the best it can be if the next guy has to be the first son of the last guy). But having a multigenerational shop and shopkeeper, or farms and far
865.
by hammock 2y ago
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_curse 2) By "organism" I assume you mean "cell" since humans have several thousand different species with their own DNA living on or inside the body at an
866.
by hammock 2y ago
>”human capital was strongly transmitted from parents to children” That doesn’t sound distasteful to me at all. Is that bad? Can we make a distinction between parents raising their kids and giving them great opportunities, and “nepotism”
867.
by hammock 2y ago
The 12 hour formula is the only way you can get it OTC by itself. That’s because it’s a recreational drug that is commonly abused (“robo tripping”) and extended release prevents that. Otherwise you have to get it in a combo drug like NyQuil
868.
by hammock 2y ago
Dextromethorphan (DM or DXM) is the OTC cough suppressant. Marketed as Delsym comes in an orange box, or you can find it in various combo formulations, and it works
869.
by hammock 2y ago
https://shop.winefolly.com/collections/posters/products/colo...
870.
by hammock 2y ago
It is, I was making the point that it's easy to prove an anecdote wrong and hoping there was more data

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