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by hangsi 3y ago
"Irrelevant!"
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by hangsi 4y ago
Surely in retrospect, it must have been obvious you would find such people despite their rarity?
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by hangsi 4y ago
Human commenters have to make the choice to reply at all. This is an option not on offer to these new writers, which are compelled to always generate something. So there is one key difference still.
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by hangsi 4y ago
This reminds me of a classic (non-internet powered) version of this where every business in London was sent to some unsupecting resident's address in order to win a bet, clogging the streets in the process: The Berners Street Hoax of 1
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by hangsi 5y ago
The chip shortage/pandemic has stunted what would have been a massive scale up in vr production in the last 2 years. This has been a brake to economies of scale applied across the industry, so the existing players can put their logisti
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by hangsi 5y ago
It seems like the original text is from 2005, and 2019 is just the date of reproduction online, no? > Originally published in Granta 92, 2005 14 years makes for an interesting difference in context.
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by hangsi 5y ago
A fair summary would be "often very well, but not always". A good exmaple would be the S2ORC dataset [0]: a dataset of full parses of scientific PDFs. In their paper, the authors write about the difficulties of getting the parser
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by hangsi 5y ago
A somewhat HN-famous example of the "couldn't you..." sentiment would be this from the debut of Dropbox ("couldn't you just use ftp"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by hangsi 6y ago
Here, and probably making its move in the not too distant future: https://www.starlink.com/
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by hangsi 6y ago
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
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by hangsi 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus#Rise_t...
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by hangsi 6y ago
> Imagine if you could fund a tech startup by pre-selling product to customers instead of slicing up ownership of your company before it's even off the ground. Isn't that (not quite literally) the story of early SpaceX? Admitte
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by hangsi 10y ago
Socioeconomic analysis of Italy normally sees a distinction between the wealthier, more industrial Northern half (e.g. cities like Milan) and the poorer, more agricultural, mafia-troubled Southern half (e.g. Naples) normally including Sicil
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by hangsi 10y ago
I imagine there are a couple of points that play into this: 1) The good dam spots are occupied, to put it lightly. 2) Hydroelectric dams aren't exactly built to be replaced 3) The technical side of hydroelectric power generation hasn&#
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by hangsi 10y ago
Only the companies invested in low-competition markets with monoplistic tendencies need to worry. This is framed as an anti trust case, which means that the abuse of privelidged market position is the issue - not the company's profit i
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by hangsi 10y ago
I can only guess that the price of replacing an MRI scanner is more than the expected difference in operating cost of nitrogen vs helium. Everything I know about MRI suggests that the machine itself is fairly pricy.
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by hangsi 10y ago
There is lots of it now, so the market price is low. The reason that this is a problem is that compared to other raw materials like oil, there is basically nothing that can be used as an acceptable substitute for helium in its scientific&#x
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by hangsi 10y ago
I think it has less to do with superiority than many people believe. Consider the gist of this idea I made up now: If a person is considering ideas (especially political ideas) then they might view those ideas as being held by a person like
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by hangsi 10y ago
Cost? Probably very similar. However, should the private fire service be around when your house is on fire, you are in no position to refuse whatever price they ask for (and they will happily pocket the difference).
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by hangsi 14y ago
My mathematics teacher once said that being a research mathematician was one of the most creative jobs in the world. I agree with this, since I can see this situation: as a painter, you have a near infinite number of possible subjects. It s