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by kemiller 5y ago
Does this mean we can have Sudafed back?
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by kemiller 5y ago
They can get away with less safety buffer and cooling equipment and so at the pack level, they can claw some of that mass energy density back. Not all of it, but combined with other advantages, they're quite viable for EVs, and no bra
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by kemiller 5y ago
These are outside numbers designed to make Apple look bad in a lawsuit. I’d take them with a grain of salt.
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by kemiller 5y ago
I think everyone agrees that being in the office, all things being equal, is better for collaborative work. It's just all the not-equal externalities (especially commuting and high real estate prices near good jobs) that make it suck.
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by kemiller 5y ago
There was a point in the development of the internet when we switched, without a lot of discussion at the time or since, from a world of collaboratively-developed, open and decentralized protocols, to a world of private silos. It's lik
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by kemiller 5y ago
Tsk. Someone didn’t make the right burnt offering.
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by kemiller 5y ago
An evolution of Gopher. I love it. The internet in 1993 was a special place.
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by kemiller 5y ago
Fruit is generally evolved to be eaten as a seed-dispersal and -fertilization technique. Not sure about other parts of the plant.
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by kemiller 5y ago
This is really poignant because flipping channels is how most of us experienced it. One of those days that gets burnt into your mind.
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by kemiller 5y ago
Nowhere in the constitution are you protected from consequences when you say something stupid, and right-leaning folks have been saying this particular stupid thing a bit too often. Have the offices of Fox News or Breitbart or the Creation
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by kemiller 5y ago
Yes, fixing the metadata problem is so important. I hope it also means a much larger catalog.
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by kemiller 5y ago
I've been wishing for one of the major services to take classical seriously for decades. This is probably good news and one fewer sub I need to maintain.
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by kemiller 5y ago
OK people. There have been a grand total of 11 cases in 2.5 years. NHTSA investigates a lots of things. How many regular drivers collided with emergency vehicles in the same time frame?
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by kemiller 5y ago
Yes there have been stories about irresponsible people. Do you have any evidence that this is the common case? The aggregate evidence seems to suggest reduced accidents and reduced fatalities.
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by kemiller 5y ago
Nothing is perfect, but the Dashboard can be completely ignored and doesn't get in your way.
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by kemiller 5y ago
And this is exactly why some people prefer MacOS, which eOS is trying to emulate.
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by kemiller 5y ago
This is pretty much why all the desktop Linux experiences fail. The major linux apps were all developed for different desktop experiences and so there's no consistency, even on things as basic as copy/paste shortcuts. It's ve
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by kemiller 5y ago
With a huge balloon and flexible solar panels + fuel cell (they've already got to carry H2) they could be nearly zero.
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by kemiller 5y ago
Well why else would they bother? This is WAY more complicated than just scanning on their servers.
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by kemiller 5y ago
They don’t send unencrypted full-res files, they send low res “visual representation” and can only decode if they get > x “hits”. Assuming it works as described I do think it’s better than just having full keys as they do now. And why
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by kemiller 5y ago
They want to move to e2e for photos so they don't have to keep those keys. That's what this is part of — a way to prevent their service from being used for CSAM, yet still provide e2e encryption. I feel very ambivalent about this.
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by kemiller 5y ago
Looks 5k is just a number I pulled out of my ass. The Boring tunnels are generally deep enough that these things aren’t a concern but if it’s $x plus named protection on an insurance policy, that’s still a lot cheaper than surface rights o
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by kemiller 5y ago
You're right that property rights underground can be complicated in the US, but generally speaking the easement rights needed for underground are likely to be much easier and cheaper to acquire. Someone comes and wants to give you $500
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by kemiller 5y ago
"Full autonomous driving" within a closed course set up like a metro system is 100% possible today. The hard part is all the weirdness of the real world and in this model you can shut most of that out.
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by kemiller 5y ago
That’s why my front lawn is dead dead dead but I have a small patch of green in the back. I get the psychology angle, but when we grow cheap commodity crops with irrigation water only to ship them to China where they are fed to cattle is o
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by kemiller 5y ago
Lawns are really not the problem though. Golf course maybe. The problem is thirsty crops like alfalfa grown in the desert and then shipped out of state.
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by kemiller 5y ago
Everyone here is right that you can sub for propane with little modification. Propane actually has higher energy density than methane, too, so it creates higher heat with less fuel. Seems like the best solution — allow restaurants to instal
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by kemiller 5y ago
Wait what?
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by kemiller 5y ago
Waymo etc do not use LIDAR for object sensing, only for positioning. LIDAR sucks for object sensing because it gives you no information about whether it's a plastic bag or a person — you still need vision for that. Even if you just er
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by kemiller 5y ago
Well the problem is that if you only change these policies in one place and don’t follow through on the rest of the chain it’s going to be a disaster.

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