jojobas

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by jojobas 5d ago
I have no mouth but I must pad.
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by jojobas 5d ago
Russia protects its crown jewels by blocking anything of dissent, including youtube.
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by jojobas 5d ago
Two dead and few dozen ill doesn't quite sound like the worst thing. Random street cops do that to more people for no good reason in any given year.
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by jojobas 8d ago
At triple the speed and double the approach angle, for ~6 times the sink rate. Hardly an approximation.
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by jojobas 8d ago
The final approach was at about 12 degrees glide. This is about double of no-power Cessna, but still kinda shallow.
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by jojobas 9d ago
While some are indeed highly skilled and earn well, many are skilled only on paper and end up driving Ubers. Also in the recent past many of the skilled migrants were for low-paid occupations like chefs.
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by jojobas 9d ago
Yeah, Iran blowing up half the Middle East? Totally Bezos' fault.
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by jojobas 9d ago
Per capita GDP is falling with every new migrant. I don't think it's the kind of GDP growth anyone wants to have.
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by jojobas 9d ago
Nobody in Australia should like it.
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by jojobas 9d ago
Like ordering the submarines from France... again?
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by jojobas 10d ago
There's plenty of traditional architecture that's not baroque, and is therefore not very rich in ornamentation. An austere brick home with a tiled roof still wins over a modernist cube house in both form and function, if not cost.
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by jojobas 10d ago
Paint the stopper vantablack then.
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by jojobas 11d ago
"Leg to stand on"
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by jojobas 11d ago
... to run any company into the ground autonomously
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by jojobas 13d ago
The life-bearing debris would have to arrive quite some time after formation of Earth, as it was molten. Surviving atmospheric entry is hard, surviving after landing in lava is impossible.
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by jojobas 13d ago
You might know them as street racers and/or "these assholes with loud pipes at 3AM".
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by jojobas 16d ago
Teslas also require a couple of OoMs more interventions driving the same distance than Waymos.
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by jojobas 16d ago
This is not supported by crash data. In Australia alcohol is involved in some 30% of fatal crashes. A lot of crashes are caused by a very small number of hoon drivers, distracted drivers etc. Autonomous cars beating the average that include
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by jojobas 16d ago
The question is why post ads to Hacker News.
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by jojobas 18d ago
Wrong number, I have no idea.
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by jojobas 18d ago
GBM/DRM Kodi supports HDR video on the Orange Pi 5 family. You can grab whatever audio from HDMI or plug whatever in the usb port, the only advantage of this Vero is the optical out.
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by jojobas 19d ago
Any SBC like Radxa Rock (cheap) to Orange Pi (powerful). 4k output, a linux you control, play retro games or stream torrent movies.
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by jojobas 19d ago
The argument against "they can do something else with their lives" is not a strawman though. In a hypothetical end state where the people who own fully-automated production of everything, and need maybe few millions employed to su
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by jojobas 19d ago
As a kid I'd often start reading books from about the middle, if I liked it, I'd restart from the beginning before I finished, if I didn't, I got another book.
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by jojobas 19d ago
Stay mad.
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by jojobas 19d ago
None needed.
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by jojobas 21d ago
I don't know. The website does what it needs to and doesn't do anything to annoy me.
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by jojobas 22d ago
Creativity and originality? Like when you try to scroll a page and it rotates an image gallery instead?
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by jojobas 23d ago
IBM is more than 100 years old, has defined a huge part of how we think about computers, made plenty of its employees and workers of the wider field rich, has sold many businesses it considered distracting, and is still worth $200B+. Anyone
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by jojobas 23d ago
At least Victoria and NSW treat ubers exactly like private cars in terms of child restraints. "Cannot carry safely" is valid defence for whatever discrimination suit I believe. Then again, plenty of Uber drivers carry a booster se

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