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by largbae 4y ago
I don't get it, what is the difference between what was done here and paying a lobbyist?
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by largbae 4y ago
This isn't an electricity solution, they are asserting that ~27% of global energy consumption is for industrial heating, which is a more straightforward use case for hot bricks. edit: I misspoke, 27% of greenhouse gas emissions are ass
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by largbae 4y ago
This is a blogpost by Sabine Hossenfelder summarizing her criticisms of particle physics. None of the above information is in the blogpost or HN post title, which is annoying.
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by largbae 4y ago
But couldn't he have kept his perks by, you know, not invading Ukraine in the first place?
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by largbae 4y ago
I think "now" is an underrated concept in physics, as in a universal ordering of events, regardless of what order position and relative velocity cause them to be observed. If there is indeed a universal "now", then faste
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by largbae 4y ago
Option 3: Buy the upstart a la Instagram.
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by largbae 4y ago
That works when you are at the first point in your trip. Now get that taxi to show up in a timely manner at your house or the house of someone you visit.
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by largbae 4y ago
GDPR is a good idea, but it seems to be top-down and pushing against megacorp and user alike. As it stands, the law is only making it more expensive to be in the data harvesting business. These extra risks and requirements raise the barrier
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by largbae 4y ago
Let's agree as a species not to try and find out.
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by largbae 4y ago
I wonder if this adjustment is enough... Spitznagel's fund did return 4,144% in Q1 2020. Maybe they found some other similar hole, but one seems to still exist. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-spitznagel-unives
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by largbae 4y ago
Buy an index fund and when the market is down try and buy more. If you do wish to do something to actively manage things, try giving Nassim Taleb books a read, or just read about his or Mark Spitznagel's investment strategy. They also
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by largbae 4y ago
This right here is what HN is for. Thank you for sharing!!
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by largbae 4y ago
This article seems to be saying the opposite, can you share any references?
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by largbae 4y ago
Again, not that simple. The customer restore procedure was almost certainly tested(and in active use as customers blow up their own data often enough). It was _not_ tested on 800 customer stacks simultaneously, as that was considered a sit
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by largbae 4y ago
It is never that simple. Say the backup existed, and was global. By the time you get everyone briefed on how fubar it is and get agreement to load the backups, there are hours of changes from the unaffected customers that will be wiped by t
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by largbae 4y ago
#4, use your network, should be #1. If you are 50 and you did not just make a drastic career change, you probably know some former colleagues who enjoyed working with you in the past. It often feels awkward to directly ask someone for work.
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by largbae 4y ago
Remote work isn't ruined, first of all. The power of remote work is unlocked by working asynchronously with many folks at a time, each of whom can choose for themselves when to focus and when to interact. This is lost on people who ins
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by largbae 4y ago
This, and furthermore the scientific value of proving that this can be done has value too. Imagine trying to compensate someone to undergo this experiment willingly...
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by largbae 4y ago
I agree with most of what you're saying here, but those who get discussed on Twitter are not always tweeters. You can get dragged to the public square by someone who takes a video of you at that proverbial local pub.
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by largbae 5y ago
I think this means "with it" enough to pass the conditions by which the doctors will assist his suicide.
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by largbae 5y ago
I think most everyone _is_ vaccinated. That is what makes this sadder. Can we use some of this outrage energy that the world has summoned in this decade to hold governments like CCP to account? Or are they still untouchable because everyone
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by largbae 5y ago
The HN title is incorrect, the linked article is "How Putin's Game Ends"
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by largbae 5y ago
Somehow the world came to a consensus that nuclear weapons should never be used, and that genocide and slavery are reprehensible. Creating and/or modifying viruses to better infect humans belongs on the short global "don't do
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by largbae 5y ago
So let me get this straight... you enter the event horizon of a black hole, from which nothing can escape. This "frees" you from your deterministic past so that you have infinite possible futures... but since you're in a blac
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by largbae 5y ago
Readability, 100%. I have programmed in large projects in both Python and Ruby. Ruby is very productive to write, because everything and the kitchen sink is at your fingertips at all times. But because of Ruby's many ways to skin a cat
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by largbae 5y ago
Indeed. Once you start, you won't stop
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by largbae 5y ago
That one. Yuval Noah Harari in a recent TED talk noted that we could measure the peace of an era by the percent of world GDP spent on military. He suggested that the period between the Berlin Wall coming down and this invasion was a signifi
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by largbae 5y ago
Would it be possible for one of you experienced NoScript'ers to write a set of tips and tricks? I have been using NoScript for about a month since someone mentioned it here, and it has been wonderful. I never imagined I could opt out
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by largbae 5y ago
In the US, it's the fourth item in the Bill of Rights, but that's just a piece of paper, nothing worth fighting for...
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by largbae 5y ago
You seem to have a different angle than most here. I'm not sure I can join you in rationalizing an invading army but I believe in your right to say what you want, and value hearing from all sides. Can you share any sources or backgroun

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