its_ethan

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by its_ethan 2y ago
What about the screenshot supports the claim it's vaporware? And in what way do the tolerances not make sense? Just from your vibe check? We don't know anything about what tolerances are being used/held on any of the parts in
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by its_ethan 2y ago
> computer to monitor or test your code since it will mean that a computer will monitor a computer I mean... you don't trust the computer in that case, you trust the person who wrote the test code. Computers do what they're t
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Cool gadgets can't be made of molded silicone? There's definitely more to it inside that's taking the scrollwheel motion and translating that to motion at the watches crown.. I'm personally curious what the gadget that
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by its_ethan 2y ago
The main body could pretty easily be injection molded plastic, which can be very cheap and still quite precise. You could even overmold the plastic onto other components (at more cost, and depending on what the deisgn "inside" act
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I've thought for a while Apple itself could probably have some pretty decent success bringing back a new generation of the iPod. There's a (somewhat) popular community of people who mod old iPods to give them ssd's, better ba
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I had read the OP's comment as sarcastic, but you never know these days lol Your concern would be exactly mine as well, and why I assumed "brilliant" was sarcasm, cause it feels like handing over the problem to the same sol
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by its_ethan 2y ago
There's an entertaining "V-Sauce" video about Zipf's law for anyone wanting to learn a bit more about it and to see other examples of where it shows up: https://youtu.be/fCn8zs912OE
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Setting aside what happens for the uninsured (which is important, I'm just trying to simplify for my own understanding), isn't this mostly the levying of costs of very expensive drugs onto the insurance providers, rather than th
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I think there's something very true about your idea here. I don't know that there's really any study or data that would back it up, but if a large amount of people don't have the structure and expectations that employmen
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by its_ethan 2y ago
https://libraryofbabel.info/ you might find this to be pretty cool. It's similar to what you're describing. Whoever made it has an algorithm where you can look up "real" strings of text and it'll sh
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I'm a young millennial and Four Loko's were still somewhat popular at my college. Maybe it was just a localized thing.. they went under the name "sidewalk slammer" where you would (quickly) drink half of it, then pour in
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I’ve given up on this thread because people seem to be getting very defensive and interpreting malice when there is none, but your comment here is similar to what I was trying to say. Cycling has a tighter bell curve of skill than other spo
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I don't really intend to bicker, but I'm a little curious about the thinking here.. Maybe it's getting too philosophical, but if you're correct because of "wildly guessing".. you're still correct. Maybe yo
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I know Morgan Housel has written about this a decent amount, here's one article that jumped to mind: https://collabfund.com/blog/compounding-optimism/ "Technological progress is easy to underestimate bec
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by its_ethan 2y ago
No doubt! I err on the side of "most things are over-hyped" (see: room temp superconductor hype that lasted a week), but I try to remind myself there's a yin and yang thing going on. Yin: "this tech will change the futur
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by its_ethan 2y ago
> It is a sales pitch, one in which the problems of today are brushed aside or softened as issues of now, which surely, leaders in the field insist, will be solved as the technology gets better. What we see today is merely a shadow of wh
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I don't know that that's the analogy you'd want to use. It is correct that an F1 driver's competitive advantage is how fast they can get to 300 kmph (or just accelerate in general, since there's skill/strategy
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by its_ethan 2y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think people are trying to say it's a zero skill sport. It's not an indictment of you or the sport. I see the "argument" as: in sports like soccer or basketball, skills like dribbli
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by its_ethan 2y ago
This is an interesting thought, it makes sense intuitively.. I could see it being adjacent to why steroids are prevalent amongst body builders. After you've hit your "genetic wall" for size/strength, chemical advantage c
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Definitely some amount of it is natural, I'm even less competitive with running than you, but seeing my resting heart rate go down as you ramp up distances is a satisfying thing when you realize the hard work is paying off in a "t
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I don't know what it is about cycling that seems to concentrate some of the most insane physiological manipulation (not sure if that's the right phrase tbh). Other sports like baseball/tennis/etc seem to have some issues
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Just because you can say it, doesn't mean you should... that's a pretty clunky sentence in my opinion. Then again, it will only occur very extremely rarely in writing, so maybe it's OK. ;)
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Brother, I don't even currently own a car. I couldn't care less about speeding. I re-wrote this to the top to try and find common ground between us, rather than just bickering: I think that what would immediately dissolve any diff
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I'm really holding out that this is true. In a dream world, it'll up the ante to get people to vote in more reasonable ("quiet/silent majority" type) people willing to actually get stuff done.
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Are they not allowed to bring in the relevant agencies experts to help them write the laws? I guess the main concern would be congress being overly "politicized" (especially right now) and so things would be a bit slower to take e
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by its_ethan 2y ago
So make new laws or amend old ones? Isn't that what congress is ostensibly paid to do?
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by its_ethan 2y ago
> Used by whom? That's where the concern is. If the government is mandating it, it seems reasonable to think that more likely than not, they will want access to it. Even if for no other reason than to hand out tickets. The potential
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by its_ethan 2y ago
The concern I'm raising is that this legislation opens the door for further reductions in the privacy of location. In what way is that concern not based in reality?
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by its_ethan 2y ago
I said that they can know this data, not that they will ... Not requiring data reporting doesn't mean that the data won't be reported, as you seem to be already aware of. I am also in no way in support of the things you'
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by its_ethan 2y ago
Yea I've noted that there doesn't have to be a camera pointed at the driver... there does, however, have to be either a GPS and/or camera pointing outwards (that could be used to ID location) in order to know what the current

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