imaginariet

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by imaginariet 5y ago
What's the point of having an account if you'll just ban it for criticizing HN holy cows likd nuclear energy.
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by imaginariet 5y ago
> people who couldn't answer such questions as who their senators are would see their vote go straight in the trash Your proposal would send to the trash the votes of 90% of black people. How progressive... > Only 16 percent o
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by imaginariet 5y ago
Good catch correcting me that 47% is not half. Are you saying that the votes of uneducated people should be worth less than those of college educated people?
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by imaginariet 5y ago
I've read that on his subreddit you get banned if you mention that he got his PhD from Drexel.
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by imaginariet 5y ago
The first half is like: Lex: vaccines are good Rogan: maybe, but they are for weak unhealthy people. I'm healthy and fit. Also, long term side-effects Lex: but we don't know the long-term side effects of covid either Rogan: yeah.
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by imaginariet 5y ago
You would be surprised, but reading a transcript is much faster than listening, even on speedup (1.25x, 1.5x, ) You can also quickly scan ahead, or reread a sentence. Navigating audio is harder.
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by imaginariet 5y ago
In UK, where NHS is publicly owned, it was actually policy to have 90% occupancy of ICU beds. If it was less than that, the "extra" beds would be removed.
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by imaginariet 5y ago
Even professional video production (movies, ...) shoot the raw material in lossy formats, albeit, with minimal compression. Not even they can afford lossless capture. Because while storage capacities do increase, so does the used video size
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by imaginariet 5y ago
As Taleb likes to say, an efficient system is the opposite of a robust system, kind of by definition. We are now witnessing the effects of our modern hyper-efficient just-in-time global manufacturing system.
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by imaginariet 5y ago
For something like Instagram, where most images (and videos) are viewed only once, size is very important. And way more images are viewed on Instagram than on mobile websites.
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by imaginariet 5y ago
From a linked article: > It would be great if web browsers would accept in an <img> tag all the video codecs they can play in a <video> tag, the only difference being that in an <img> tag, the video is autoplayed, mute