jtolmar

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> Why have copyright at all? You need some amount of copy protection so that people/companies with large platforms can't immediately rip off independent authors and sell their work before the author's version can get any w
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Some relevant questions are whether the demand is elastic and how difficult to compare and/or fungible the product is. Medical care is inelastic (without it you die) and difficult to compare (you don't get to try the same surgery
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Mountains mean rivers, rivers mean agriculture, and agriculture means more people. The Himalayas are the largest mountains in the world, and the countries flanking them have always been the most populous. Try an image search for "river
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> YMMD This is the worst date string format I've ever seen. Today is 0026, and February 26th will be too.
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It sounds like you want "contain: content" for almost every element, except when you're doing something like absolute positioning that's intentionally breaking containment. I get that you can't make containment the
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In #4 the author suggests using a service like Paddle to outsource billing. Does anyone here have experience they can share to compare this against Stripe? Other services? It's hard to know how cumbersome any of these products are in p
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There are problems where fossil fuels are suitable, related to how dense and stable they are to store. So mostly emergency power and/or remote areas (eq. power's down in a remote mountain village, etc.)
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For me, the grid version is broken, I open dev tools and it fixes itself, I close dev tools and it remains fixed, I refresh the page and it remains fixed, I close and reopen the tab and it remains fixed, I close the tab and open it again
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I'd probably pick the normal-normal conjugate prior, in precision form.
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> of course I think about things using language I used to, but I intentionally stopped and cleared my mind every time I did it for half a year, and now I only think in language when I'm trying to compose a speech or write. So that&#
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Crabs didn't stop evolving. They're not the same crabs.
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The maximum they're willing to pay might have gone up, but they can find someone else instead of paying the maximum, because labor is provided by tons of different, individual people who don't coordinate a price. The rise of pro-u
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You decide what resource a planet produces, then hook it up to nearby planets that provide the resources it wants, which expands how far it can send its resource along the network. The network itself is composed of rail lines directly betwe
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I played MOO1 for the first time a few years ago, and it's by far my favorite 4x game. The sliders cut down on a lot of busywork present in MOO2 and Civ, the random tech tree is spicy, and the AI is much more interesting than the usual
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The US lack of mental healthcare institutions. Like an impressive number of problems in this country, it traces back to Reagan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...
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Neat article. It's definitely a good idea to get actual numbers to estimate total addressable market, CTR, and CPC. However I want to call attention to this bit: > First off, there are a ton of enabled small businesses competing in
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Aren't all of those problems solved by more trains?
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Great answer, but I also want to add: Even if you had ideal conditions or an amazing new TBM that goes through any material, you're still dealing with a machine that scrapes at rocks for miles on end. The parts that do the digging need
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System
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The earth shifts up and down by about a meter twice a day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_tide
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No new people becoming rich is fine, but that plus keeping the existing ones is more than a little oligarchic.
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Over a thousand years of technological advancement is not evidence of how effective some brilliant inventor is, given that humans do not live for thousands of years.
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Your heart is in the right place, but the richest people derive their wealth from capital investment, not from wages. A maximum wage would address the gap between executives and workers, but not between investors and workers. Since the inve
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"Somebody might work around it" is never a good argument against a policy. Whatever the policy's goals are, even a version full of loopholes will accomplish more of those goals than not implementing the policy at all.
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If you want that many units I'd precompute the paths with Floyd-Warshall instead of doing anything on the GPU. Probably still need to invoke the GPU to handle billions of units in the first place, though, and you'd need several gi
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Computer technologies: - Autonomous cars are mixed into regular cab/rideshare traffic, with percent of fleet varying from city to city depending on weather, consistency of markings, construction, and so on. The world is not fundamental
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It's also been quite a decade of growth for old stodgy languages. In 2010, it seemed like C++, Java, and Javascript were never going to change, but they've all significantly cleaned up their acts. I think the prediction still had
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Venture capitalism is capitalism. The goal of a capitalist business is to deliver profits to the investors, and YC succeeds under that model. The alternatives are businesses owned by the other stakeholders - workers, consumers, or community
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IIRC: capnproto generates messages that you could deserialize by casting them to the right struct, but refrains from actually doing it that way. Instead it generates a bunch of accessor methods that parse the data, as if you were reading so
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It also has a large permanent gutter, can't successfully fullscreen an image, can't switch images while zoomed (really common lately but still dumb), resizes to some third size if you double click on it twice(??), and loses its zo

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