iisan7

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by iisan7 3y ago
Park at a convenience store. Go in to get a coffee. Leave friends in car. Friend decides they want a coffee too. They open the door-- car alarm goes off. I'm sure some cars are better programmed but this has happened to me in several c
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by iisan7 3y ago
Agreed. I get why folks on this site repeat the mantra that it's shedding light on insecure hardware, and of course that's true. But civilization depends not on ironclad laws and politics, but on good faith actions. An unhackable
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by iisan7 3y ago
Taking notes is compression of facts or ideas that are "full size" in the mind at the moment of reception. More fidelity when typing, lower compression ratio, and thus better for comprehensive reference; a personalized textbook. H
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by iisan7 3y ago
That's great but I'm still left wondering about the malicious actors problem. I thought consensus from multiple vehicles but easily spoofed. Validation against third party data but then what's the point. I can't see an e
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by iisan7 3y ago
The ideas of racial hygiene and eugenics certainly drew upon American science of the time, as well as German archaeology and anthropology. Their racial policies carried forward the ideas of American eugenics to its extreme but logical concl
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by iisan7 3y ago
if you couldn't compete on price, consumers would be more discerning. especially for the things that cost the most, they'd favor the company that could sell trust and quality. I suspect this is why people remember the golden age o
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by iisan7 3y ago
Coins might be good for the mint. I don't see how they are good for the user, compared to bills.
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by iisan7 3y ago
Heirarchy of needs: baseline level of "Freedom from" poverty, conflict, instability comes before "freedom to" act liberally. I'd agree that making that transition in priorities is important, and that a government al
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by iisan7 3y ago
I remember some good stories after the last MAX scandal, like https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg... . It's not clear whether Stonecipher simply outmaneuvered Condit, or perhaps McDonnell D
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by iisan7 3y ago
One of my favorite short books is about Japanese esthetics -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows . it covers an eclectic set of topics (why black is the best color for toilets?) but it's a delightfu
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by iisan7 3y ago
A union wouldn't push to move layoffs to January, they would push to prevent layoffs at all. Which is maybe what you're advocating, but not what the parent post was saying.
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by iisan7 3y ago
I believe T Mobile also allows you to require a secret 6-8 number PIN that is not texted to you. It's opt-in however, and I am not sure whether it can be overridden by a service tech.
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by iisan7 3y ago
Also along these lines, "Remember that there are people out there eager to help others." Early in my career I was afraid everyone was too busy to help, or too important to bother. Some surely were. But many people I thought were u
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by iisan7 3y ago
This sounds more like advice that he's gathered or been given that seemed the best to him. I think that's fair. People give young people advice a lot. Also becoming a dad makes one feel quite a bit older. Now it would be interesti
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by iisan7 3y ago
I sometimes appreciate the extra dynamic range of Fahrenheit for describing temperatures relevant to human environmental comfort. With C you need to use a decimal point and significant digit. It's rarely that important though. You coul
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by iisan7 3y ago
well, the first line of the linked page says these are "comic fantasy" and "high fantasy" respectively, so no (though I think Discworld is arguably sci fi). But I get your point and concede that genre boundaries are not
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by iisan7 3y ago
3-way switches are the best solution here. Switch the bedside lamp on from the main switch by the door, and then off again from a second switch at the bedside. Many stairways are like this: you can control the lights from the switches at th
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by iisan7 3y ago
Adding to this list the Philips sceneswitch bulbs: color changing bulbs that can be rapidly power-cycled to change color. https://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/consumer/choose-a-bulb/... If one could trigger schedu
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by iisan7 3y ago
Narurally. I think it's widely recognized that social commentary is what distinguishes science fiction (which casts a lens on possible futures extrapolated from our present) from fantasy (escapism, mythology, or hedonism).
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by iisan7 3y ago
Other commenters mostly made the points I had in mind about companies in the fractional ownership space. Regarding agents dampening investment in housing, I had on mind the fact that the transaction costs of 6% or so when selling makes hous
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by iisan7 3y ago
Silicon valley has if anything made real estate more of an investment, look at fractional ownership schemes. The costs of transacting business through an agent is a holdover from another time when those costs weren't that significant g
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by iisan7 3y ago
relative risk in terms of a ratio: <1.0 means less, >1 means increased risk compared to the control group. E.g., one study showed that beef reduced risk of cancer by 50%, another showed that it increased risk by 500%
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by iisan7 3y ago
It's just part of the cost of ownership. Not classy to balk about a few hundred bucks more to register your car when you've paid tens of thousands for it, and are also paying more to insure it, and to maintain it, and in depreciat
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by iisan7 3y ago
There's one consideration missing from your list though, which is the fact that controlled burning is way more risky now than ever before, due to the immense fuel build up. The reduced frequency of controlled burns has contributed to m
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by iisan7 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. A quick search turned up this book, is it the right one? https://archive.org/details/modernsurvivalma0000agui . Fernando Aguirre, 2009. The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Coll
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by iisan7 3y ago
Same bucket here. But what do we do when it does need replacing? I don't own an old car because it's a hobby, I don't have a garage, and I also think that safety has improved a lot. There's a sweet spot to be found for c
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by iisan7 3y ago
thank you. I as well was interested to read something new interesting on the energy future. This, however, was not it. The author is "working on a three-year grant for the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Adminis
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by iisan7 4y ago
Interestingly, many glosses using Chinese characters (not all, but many) were from Japan-- sometimes used phonetically (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438200_008 ), and sometimes used to translate concepts. Chinese
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by iisan7 4y ago
i would take a world transformed by ai over a world with nuclear weapons.
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by iisan7 4y ago
This whole episode recalls _A Confederacy of Dunces_ vividly with Naccache as Reilly.

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