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by jlmorton 5y ago
Since it was first proposed [1], it was not a vacuum, and the original paper spends a lot of effort to distinguish a low-pressure tube from a vacuum. The design not only is not a vacuum, but relies on it not being a vacuum for propulsion.
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It's obesity. We know that obesity is a large driver not just in severity, but transmission. When you compare a world map of obesity rates to Covid death rates, you'll find a better match than any other single variable, far better
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This article never even mentions the fundamental attributes of the proposed Hyperloop. Hyperloop is not magnetic levitation. Hyperloop is not a vacuum tube. It's a low pressure air ski. It is meant to be substantially easier to enginee
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The history is that people used to write paper checks, and merchants would charge a bounced check fee. Overdraft _protection_ was actually a banking feature which would save you from the cost and embarrassment of a bounced check. There is
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Yeah, I'm sure something like that is the strategy. The pricing is simple and easily understandable as-is. It's a nice marketing point to say all uploads are free, aside from storage costs. Still, even if they had some ridiculou
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At least with a 10mb avg file, 100 PUTs net them $0.005/month in storage fees. That's something. In my use case, it's probably more like 10,000 PUTs for the same amount. Backblaze, if you're reading this, I don't t
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I don't understand how Backblaze doesn't charge for PutObject B2 calls. I'm not complaining, I just don't understand it. At work, we have a use case where we store tens of millions of small files and mostly forget about
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The bear thesis for Tesla has been something like, "Tesla might have an innovative EV-first design, but when the major manufacturers with a century of manufacturing know-how wake up to EVs, they will drown Tesla in vehicles." I th
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> why on earth would you be allowed to live in a place where nobody wants to live with you? You might want to step back and take a deeper thought about this. We aren't very far removed from redlining and all manner of restrictions
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Often a single compiler won't make use of more than a core, but it's generally easy to build independent modules in parallel. For example, make -j 10, or mvn -T 10.
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This is exactly how we would want to structure it. The point is not to punish anyone. The point is to simply increase the cost of the unwanted carbon emissions, and then let microeconomics take over. If you pass a new tax that causes a wa
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It really shouldn't be necessary to link to this on Hacker News, but Snopes [1] does a good job putting this article into context. 1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warm...
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Because we don't know if it did it. All we know is that a Tesla was involved with a fatal crash involving a person changing their tire on the Long Island Expressway. [1] There's been no confirmation whether Autopilot was enabled.
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Rent is only affected by income/capacity to pay to the extent that supply is limited. You could give everyone currently living in Detroit $10,000/month, and it wouldn't impact rental prices at all, because there is an abundan
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Is it really that savvy? The golden goose is the iPhone itself, and the network effects of things like iMessage that keep people there. Services have a high margin, and make up a substantial chunk of Apple's profits, but they are dep
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What is the harm? "I'm very worried about getting Covid, but I'm also worried about the vaccine, so I'll get Covid to protect me against Covid?" This is an important public health topic to model how the pandemic pro
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* among patients hospitalized with severe illness in one Wuhan hospital between Jan and Feb 2020, self-reporting at least one symptom from a long list, such as fatigue, joint pain, etc, vs 33% of a control group without Covid infection repo
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That's because the base unit is essentially 1,000 colones, and if you're transacting in US dollars, most people will give you 1000 colones to 2 US dollars (500:1). If you change your money, then you'll obviously get a better
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> the colon is worth more than the dollar, really ??? I'm a little confused by this. The exchange value for 1 USD to 1 Costa Rican Colon is 1:621. But I'm even more confused why this is a problem for you. It's the purch
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That is a tiny fraction of the stated evidence. Notably, there was specific known malware installed on DNC computers communicating with IP addresses in Russia. I don't think the evidence released is overwhelming, but it's much mo
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> and all but saying that the reason there are hackings to things like critical infrastructure is because crypto exists Just to play devil's advocate, how do you imagine ransomware would work outside of crypto? There had been a few
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> It would be cheaper to rent apartments at current market rates, even in San Francisc Indeed it would, but that is not a realistic option. These are high needs groups, many with severe mental disorders and drug addictions. It is an emb
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I don't really disagree with you, but 53% is not that enormous of an effect. To put this in perspective, tobacco smoking raises the risk of lung cancer by about 3000%.
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Remarkably, after the recordings that preceded the illnesses were found to be crickets, everyone stopped reporting the cricket noise before the illness. Now, the American diplomats in Vienna report a new noise, a ringing in their ears, whi
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It is. The linked article is from 2018, before it was determined the recordings were of crickets.
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It's worth pointing out the US already does this. For instance, the Tennessee Valley Authority is a Federally-owned utility, and the sixth largest in the country. There are lots of other examples like this outside of utilities. The U
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I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's not entirely insignificant, but it certainly is not the driver of wildfires. If we perfectly buried all the power lines, we'd have fewer fires, but we'd still have most of
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No, it won't, because PG&E doesn't have the money to do this, and the company is already majority-owned by the PG&E Fire Victim Trust after emerging from bankruptcy. There are no rich shareholders to foist the costs on. N
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I mean, obviously everyone desires to have the power lines buried, the issue is that it costs something like $250 billion dollars to do it in California alone.
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> At least with medallions, there were caps to prevent overcapacity That's a really interesting way of describing an artificial monopoly specifically designed to increase earnings for a specific group of rent-seeking, wealthy medall

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