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by kurthr 3y ago
If their sample rate and position accuracy was even remotely acceptable, then it should be obvious he was riding past and didn't spend more 1 minute with 100m of the location. They should only have been asking whether he saw anything s
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by kurthr 3y ago
Because it's mostly distressed lending, the preference is almost entirely on the lender not the borrower. IMF loans are required to be fairly transparent, while B&RI have so far been opaque (not clear what the terms, payment priori
843.
by kurthr 3y ago
It's cheaper to cut up a chicken than buy chicken breasts. It's cheaper to make your own burger than buy takeout. Of course there's TidePods etc. That said, there's also the other side. I've seen people prioritize p
844.
by kurthr 3y ago
Very few people these days don't have access to credit. If you knew you would save 50% over a couple of years, even credit card rates would be better than break even. The real problem is a lack of knowledge, interest, or simply caring
845.
by kurthr 3y ago
Perhaps there is a better archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230930133128/https://www.newyo...
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Reddit forces personalized ads, starts X-like user payment program(arstechnica.com)
5 points by kurthr 3y ago|1 comments
847.
by kurthr 3y ago
Just a thought, if a black hole that close were discovered there would be another space race to get there. It just sounds so cool to the politicians (who've seen the movies) that any scientist would have no problem convincing them to l
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by kurthr 3y ago
Actually, one of the issues I saw in a company with a large Indian population ~20% was that some brahmin would discriminate (and talk smack) about other brahmin (by name/family) who didn't dilligetly follow (eg dietary) rules. I&#
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Breakthrough fusion discovery mitigating damaging runaway electrons(phys.org)
3 points by kurthr 3y ago|0 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
Well, usually those are for parking either in quite dense (>3 story) business/commercial or residential. It's "only $13/day". Even Tokyo, NY, Paris parking spaces don't get cheaper. So the exception is for r
851.
by kurthr 3y ago
If parking spaces are $400/mo, you're going to be hard pressed to have power, water, and heating for $500. The reason a tent in the city is $0 is because that is an externality that is allowed... you can't even stay for free
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by kurthr 3y ago
The one comment I'd make is that it's not just the order the books were written in, but also the order they're read in. I just happened to read Gibson's Count Zero (when it came out) before Neuromancer and found that I p
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by kurthr 3y ago
Next stop Apophis! I didn't realize the mission had been extended. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-spacecraft-return...
854.
by kurthr 3y ago
Please add some form of controllable undo . Not some weird shake dialog (iOS), or complete absence (Android).
855.
by kurthr 3y ago
I find this sort of fetishism interesting. Certainly, the NSA/FSB were and to some extent still are fetishized in film and media, but it seems Mossad consistently are. Within China 国家安全部 are and I assume that it's useful to them s
856.
by kurthr 3y ago
So you can sell the LLC that "owns" the property and maintain the low tax assessment.
857.
by kurthr 3y ago
It was weird to me that even the static images would be noticeably different scales (The Chocolate Factory and even the cropped BeatBuilder).
858.
by kurthr 3y ago
CA is losing population too and building houses in those desirable locations. Why don't prices go down? These are financialized assets bought on credit. Some 8-10% of SF rental and 2% of owned housing is vacant (over 25% of commercial)
859.
by kurthr 3y ago
Embedded Sensing, Most Automotive, DisplayDrivers are usually mixed signal solutions that don't benefit from process shrinks as much as others. For a long time costs continued falling on legacy (55/90/180) processes, but that
860.
by kurthr 3y ago
I hear there are developments of half-node reductions in 28nm processes to get down to "22nm" mostly with wiring density. But your point stands, it's the last planar node for mixed signal.
861.
by kurthr 3y ago
I find it weird that many businesses/organizations/people try to come up with one metric to keep things simple (and to be easy to optimize), but are then surprised by Goodhart's law. It's important to have multiple metri
862.
by kurthr 3y ago
It's not that he was an InCel. He was proud of his celibacy.
863.
by kurthr 3y ago
Just remember you privatize the profits, and socialize the losses! The costs (drug research and healthcare) should be born by by the public without negotiation, while the profits (drug pricing and patents) should be monopolized.
864.
by kurthr 3y ago
Use liquid nitrogen and you can get it to turn light pink!
865.
by kurthr 3y ago
Well, he was also a lifelong celibate.
866.
by kurthr 3y ago
Hey, try heating up that ruby! It'll turn darker as the bandgap moves toward the IR. You can shift your dip with a hair drier. It should move from ~1.15eV at room temp 75F/25C to ~1.10eV at 120F/50C, which should be about 35n
867.
by kurthr 3y ago
Certainly, Grenache comes to mind as a red varietal/preparation that could be confused with some whites. There aren't many common (cheap) white wines with much tannin, perhaps some heavy contact SavBlanc, but that nose is so disti
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, and it's pretty easy to test by just buying two (a red and a white) bottles and trying yourself. Of course most red food dye the wrong color and you would probably taste it if you used that much... so just blindfold your self and
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US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art(arstechnica.com)
42 points by kurthr 3y ago|103 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
They're blocking content (or demonetizing) for their own profit. Whether it's to keep advertisers or lower their payouts is a bit irrelevant. Maybe being forced (under penalty of law) to reveal at least the process of that moderat

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