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by jfengel 3mo ago
I am a righty, and yeah, I mostly held my coffee in my left hand. Texting instead would be very hard. I could probably do it once I'm on the highway (though not while drinking coffee). I bet a teenager would at least give it the old hi
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by jfengel 3mo ago
India and China are both supporting Russia in various overt and covert ways. That's a huge fraction of the world. Iran is even more closely linked. Arguably the real reason for the American attack on Iran is to reduce their contributio
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Ah, but they were aware of that, and built in protections for minorities. Which means that everything leads to the status quo, and the majority voices get shut out in favor of the most entrenched minority. Those clever founders.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
I can't believe that there's a market for re-publishing press releases, whether it's done by humans or LLMs. Elektrek links to Eco-Business, a similar blog republishing press releases. They cite, but do not link to, the press
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by jfengel 3mo ago
I had no trouble managing my mug of coffee while driving stick. (Before cupholders were universal, and before texting). It required some deft coordination to get out of the parking spot and getting up to speed, but I spent most of my time i
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by jfengel 3mo ago
It seems weird that he's committing a major overhaul of his product lines to a product for which he has not yet demonstrated a full prototype. It's possible that he's got a wonderful product that he's keeping secret unti
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by jfengel 3mo ago
When the government is panicked, hurried, and biased, all safeguards are really grasping at straws. You cross your fingers and hope that future governments will be less mendacious. (Or more to the point: that your fellow citizens will want
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Netflix always used to get a lot of crap for refusing to renew series. The "second season slump" graph suggests that they were right: viewers don't tune in for the second seasons. It doesn't matter why that is. It only m
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by jfengel 3mo ago
CGI had some very big wins early on. Jurassic Park was made in 1993, and still looks really good today. Terminator 2 was two years earlier than that. It didn't try to be photorealistic, but it used the available tech in a way that was
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by jfengel 3mo ago
The number is 83%, not 87%. And it's a rather dubious way of polling on the question. Voters support voter ID in the abstract, but only a minority of voters support the currently-proposed law. The way you implement voter ID matters a l
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by jfengel 3mo ago
I'm not so sure that this rot did start at the head. Certainly it's true that here in 2026 there is an incredibly visible rot right at the very top of the system, but we've been working on that rot for a very long time. That
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by jfengel 3mo ago
I believe your last paragraph hits the nail on the head. The author has the solutions they want (restricting women's rights). The "fertility crisis" is their justification for it. If overpopulation had been the problem instea
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by jfengel 3mo ago
It was always a sham, but it used to be possible to think that it was gradually getting better. In the 20th century, we extended voting rights to women and 18 year olds, and we put measures in place to protect black voters. The moral arc of
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Why would somebody pay so much for something that should be saving money? From the first paragraph: two hours of virtual learning a day and entrepreneurship workshops. There ya go: they think they're buying access to Silicon Valley
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Cities have city councils that pass laws. This likely doesn't even require a new law. There is probably an existing law against deceptive advertising in renting. This is just the mayor announcing that he will interpret the existing law
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by jfengel 3mo ago
"Unconstitutional" is whatever the Supreme Court says it is.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
It depends on who gets to define "meaningful". There are a lot of things that I think are meaningful that you probably don't. And while many would say that STEM automatically qualifies, I don't think that really holds up
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by jfengel 3mo ago
For the most part, shooting wars avoid taking out leadership. You need somebody capable of surrendering, and with clear authority to order the troops to cease fire. That said, the US has already broken that with Iran, so all bets are off.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
People routinely spend many hours indoors, with CO2 levels several times the overall global CO2. I'd expect that effect to swamp the fraction of a percent that global CO2 levels rise. Rising CO2 isn't going to be great for any of
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by jfengel 3mo ago
The thermodynamic arrow of time is very old news. I'm having a hard time figuring out what's new here.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
That sounds like a horrific idea. Polymarket isn't a stock or commodities market. There is no underlying value to it. It's zero-sum: the only money coming in comes from the other players. (Minus their overhead.) It's gambling
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Because we like property.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
According to my contact at Nike: several years. (She cautioned me against buying too many pairs at once.) Foams break down. As with food "best by" dates, you can get away with rather a lot more than they recommend. But a quarter-c
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Nobody has ever asked me that. I'm having a hard time imagining how that conversation goes. Anybody interested in it would just find out. I wonder if you were telegraphing it, which caused them to ask. I'm reasonably confident abo
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by jfengel 3mo ago
> There are US parties that support open borders, DEI/wokeism, There really aren't. Nobody supports "open borders". That's just a Fox News lie. People do support diversity, equity, and inclusion, but Fox News&#x2
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by jfengel 3mo ago
I'm hard pressed to think of anyone who believes that America has a healthy democracy. Even those most recently elected continually claim that democracy is under threat.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
The $10 gauge is of dubious accuracy. Especially if I bought it at a convenience store that happens to sell gas.
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Not quite sure what you're suggesting here; perhaps it's satire? If P!=NP then it is arbitrarily smaller, for the same reason that e^x > Cx^N for any constants C and N, as long as x grows big enough. There is no epsilon in that
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by jfengel 3mo ago
I had noted a few weeks ago that Hacker News used a font without serifs, causing confusion. I'm not sure when they changed that, but there are now serifs on the capital I and lower case "l". This headline is much less confusi
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by jfengel 3mo ago
Headline is a bit over-dramatic, given that it's already 9 years late. "A decade late" means that it will finally be certified next year. The news, such as it is, is that it might actually get certified next year.

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