its_ethan

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by its_ethan 11mo ago
Who is claiming that using a streaming site is piracy? No one is saying that lol What the guy was saying is that circumventing payment to watch a movie = pirating, and it seems like you're saying that's not the case. It seems you&
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by its_ethan 11mo ago
I don't think you actually looked very closely, so it's weird you've doubled down on that lol Item 2 of "Permissions and Restrictions" says you aren't allowed to "circumvent, disable, fraudulently engage w
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by its_ethan 11mo ago
I'd say generally accepted by the majority of English speaking/western society? If someone said they were going to "pirate a movie" there's next to zero chance they are referring to the distribution side of that end
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by its_ethan 2y ago
That's a fairly bold claim to say that I oppose making any change for the better lol... anyway.. Having grown up in both rural and urban areas, and having seen many articles like this one, they tend to (more often then not) read like t
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by its_ethan 2y ago
With respect to the Apple ad, I don't think that was about AI at all - it was for the newest iPad Pro right? I interpreted it as look at all these cool arts/creative things that we've managed to compress into a single sheet o
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I've given up on "arguing" with people on this thread, but FWIW, I have lived in Berlin and Frankfurt both for extended periods of time (2.5years total). I'll leave it up to you to decide if those are walkable cities or
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Sure, and you can do that 20/30 minute walk if you want, there are many parts of minnesotan suburbs that are, in fact, very walkable already. On a weekend, that is a nice thing to do - but the day-to-day life that the majority of peopl
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by its_ethan 2y ago
And that's great for those places. But why do people feel compelled to make relatively new US suburbs more similar to old suburbs in Madrid? No one is trying to make suburbs in Madrid more like suburbs in Iowa - I'm voicing frustr
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I'm quite familiar with Minneapolis, and you're right it is fairly suburban - but suburbs are a phenomenon of the world after the invention of the car. Car ownership rates in suburbs are incredibly high, like 90%+ in most suburban
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by its_ethan 2y ago
These posts always feel like people are fetishizing some "utopia" where everyone should want to live in an imaginary fully walkable, meticulously maintained, pristine city. The comparisons of like a 2 square mile section of the
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Even with plunging cost and increasing capability... this is talking about infinite compute, it's essentially impossible to achieve by definition. You could dedicate the worlds entire compute to the Goldbach's conjecture functio
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by its_ethan 2y ago
VSauce is a little silly, but genuinely does have great content packed in his videos, and he has one on Supertasks: https://youtu.be/ffUnNaQTfZE
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Wow dumb mistake on my part - it looks like the $37b is the quarterly gross bookings, so instead of $3.71 per ride, it should be ~$14.80 Sorry!
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by its_ethan 2y ago
$4 is still above their claimed average ride price though, so there must be a really high quantity of even cheaper rides coming from somewhere... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ edit: I had made a mistake, see my other comment
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Fair enough, but to average $3.70 there would need to be literally 100 $3 rides to "offset" my trip to the airport. I guess it must be true, I'm not here claiming Uber is lying in their quarterly reports. I'd be really c
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by its_ethan 2y ago
There are 28.5 million uber trips per day (~10 billion trips / year) but Uber's gross bookings are ~$37 billion. Which means the average booking is $3.70 ? That feels... weird? I paid $71 to get to the airport yesterday. Where are
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Not sure what math gets you to 198,000 belts needed? If this belt can do 5 tons per second, that's 10,000 lbs per second per belt So to reach 1,000,000 lbs/s globally, you would do: 1,000,000 lbs/s divided by 10,000 lbs/
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I am not the person you were arguing with, so sure maybe I don't know what the other guys argument is lol I was just commenting on what I was seeing in your comments - sorry that I struck a nerve.. I'm not sure what bubble you
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by its_ethan 2y ago
> Nothing prevents people from investing also in other companies if they feel like I thought you just said that this isn't a viable option for most people? Now it is on the table? > are you implying they are "too dumb"
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Yea none of the interactive stuff appears to be functional :\
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by its_ethan 2y ago
https://archive.is/rgGaX
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by its_ethan 2y ago
It sounds like you already sort of know the answer.. you are atypical in your ability to relate to sports. You mention a couple times that it just doesn't "click" for you, and fair enough, but it might just be one of those th
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by its_ethan 2y ago
They may not care about the politics, but if the politics is what contributes to the economy / shortages / difficulty in getting things like food... then the politics matter, regardless of if any given citizen is consciously aware
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by its_ethan 2y ago
From The Planetary Society: "None of NASA's budget is used for national defense or intelligence gathering programs; it is a civilian agency responsible for the peaceful exploration of space" Do you have evidence to the contra
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Another factor is that when NASA says the expected mission life is like 30 days or whatever, it doesn't mean they are designing to just meet that 30 day target. I can only speak to mechanical design, but the margins that NASA uses are
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Re: developed over the last few years, I clicked through 2 layers of referenced articles to get to the actual paper which says oxygen is down 2% on the last 50 years [1]. The rapid falling of oxygen seems to be (as far as I can tell from th
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that it's a reality NASA has to deal with. so yea... :/
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Very, very few people are going to click on the headline you've suggested, and engagement with the public is pretty important for NASA. "Martian surprise" is something that will get people interested, if only to click the lin
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by its_ethan 2y ago
> technology so advanced it might as well be magic All "optimistic" sci-fi is reliant on a utopian fantasy in some form, I wouldn't be looking to sci-fi authors to actually have a workable recipe for how to achieve any g
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Presumably we need more air conditioners precisely because there are currently people without them..? I think the guy you're responding to believes there's a need for more AC to prevent exactly what you're describing. And re;

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