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by jlmorton 3y ago
I'm a semi-recent convert back to iPhone from Pixel. One thing I deeply miss is spam filtering of text messages. This is a huge lacking feature in iPhone. You don't get these kind of low-interest texts on Pixel. Truly spammy texts
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by jlmorton 3y ago
The impact of the solar cycle is not nothing, but it is not remotely enough to affect policy making.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
I mean, it's already happening all over the world. It's not just Germany. The UK already taxes carbon in aviation fuel. It's about to implement a carbon pricing mechanism for jet fuel obtained in jurisdictions without it. The
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by jlmorton 3y ago
One of the key features of Overture is its planned use of e-fuels. I think this is almost crucial. Airlines are not going to line up to buy non-renewable, fuel-guzzling, net CO2-gushing supersonic jets for use over the next couple decades.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Incinerating what money? They are no longer raising funds for SpaceX in funding rounds -- just doing funding rounds for employee liquidity events.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
I think the missing info here is that Musk gave the non-profit the initial $100 million dollars, which they used to develop the technology purportedly for the benefit of the public, and then turned around and added a for-profit subsidiary w
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Ukraine's primary artillery for 155mm shells are the French CAESAR and US M777. There is no need to fire tens of thousands of shells with this equipment, and no one would ever do that. These shells cost thousands of dollars each. The u
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by jlmorton 3y ago
There are upsides though. It does add to grid resiliency, as the loads can be easily shed. It does make more funds available for investment in the industry. It's not clear that reducing loads would lead to quicker investment in renewab
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Where do you get 3 yottabytes? That is difficult to believe. I see 150 exabytes per month [1], about a thousand times less. https://gitnux.org/internet-traffic-statistics/ [1]
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Is this a serious question? You think SpaceX developed the industry-leading orbital rocket, launched hundreds of times to deliver thousands of in-house developed satellites utilizing homegrown, novel argon gas ion thrusters, to develop a gl
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by jlmorton 3y ago
It's probably Mandela Effect from pondering this too long, but I could swear it was said by Al Swearengen on HBO's Deadwood, which would be pretty amusing if true (although likely not).
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by jlmorton 3y ago
I just tried the exact same query on GPT4. Here are the results. [1] > The quote, "I'm not a believer, but I prefer my barber to be a Christian, especially when he's using his razor on my neck," is attributed to Napol
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Is $1.7 million actually that bad? I'm not sure this is unusual to San Francisco. Just a couple days ago, I saw Honolulu suggest a new public toilet would cost $1-2 million, along with $400,000 annually in maintenance and damage from v
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Double wrong. The poster even asked others not to share stories about Airbus, leaving them in ignorant bliss. The poster was simply concerned for their individual safety, which is unwarranted.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
That was not the point. The point was how much you should individually worry flying on a Boeing aircraft, and the answer is significantly less than the drive to the airport.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
This is an example of how attention from the media causes us to vastly overweight the significance of a negative event. The 737-900 has never had an incident. We found some loose bolts on a door plug that shares a design with the 737 MAX-9,
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Pro-tip: Amazon fills their page with that useless content from their ad network, just like any standard ad. uBlock Origin blocks all of it, and your search experience is restored to what you expect. For the longest time, I couldn't un
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Always refactor
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by jlmorton 3y ago
This is completely wrong. Boeing did make the changes to include input from two AoA sensors, they did change the system to prevent recurrent horizontal stabilizer movements, they did include a manual shut-off. What you are talking about has
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Starlink also just launched in earnest a couple years ago, and is experiencing meteoric growth rates of ~100% a year. It doesn't take very many doublings for this comment to go down with "why would anyone want Dropbox."
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by jlmorton 3y ago
The USMCA only tinkered with NAFTA. The principal changes are in the automotive and dairy industries, and they are extremely minor. This is certainly not a major component of the manufacturing construction boom. The TCJA could be having a l
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Back in June, I think, Evernote tripled their price, from $41.99 for an annual subscription to $129.99 for an annual subscription today. The previous subscription cost was already too high, when you consider something like Google One with 1
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Basically taking some action to indirectly signal dissatisfaction rather than directly confronting it. This could be many things. As the article says, it could be as simple as procrastination. It could also be something more insidious, like
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Well, I meant individuals don't just get to decide something is an investment. Certainly society as a whole, or even a large bloc of voters can decide something is an investment.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Note that NIMBYism has little to do with democracy, and it is mostly the opposite. NIMBYism is about a small, concentrated group of people wielding large amounts of veto power granted to them in various ways by local government. Democracy i
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by jlmorton 3y ago
People don't just get to decide something is an investment. It depends entirely on the behavior of the rest of society.
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by jlmorton 3y ago
This. That was really a wake-up call. I certainly do not support honking horns all night in cities for weeks, and I wouldn't have batted an eye if the government declared the protest a riot, arrested every individual involved, and put
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by jlmorton 3y ago
It takes a special kind of hubris to think you're going to develop a browser better than Chrome and Firefox as an open source project. Both Chromium and Firefox are already open source projects. What is the magic sauce that's goin
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Can we please stop pretending China, as a national entity, is doing anything at all with TikTok USA? It is absurd and not worthy of a board like this. I'm sure many you know people that work at TikTok? This just isn't happening, a
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by jlmorton 3y ago
Disclaimer: I didn't read more than the first page of the paper But there are lots of possibilities, right? For instance, if the alternative is glia starvation, and the myelin can be later regenerated, that might be preferable to glial

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