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by lesuorac 2y ago
> The reason I know this to be true is because the proportion of drivers who speed on any given road varies wildly with the road. Another way to arrive at this conclusion is that if the speed limit is both 65 for trucks and cars its triv
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by lesuorac 2y ago
As arrests go up, crime should go down; whose left to commit crimes? It doesn't mean everybody being arrested is guilty but if you have a say 20% accurate arrest rate and you run it over the entire population you're going to remov
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Is it disagree and commit? NSF is an "independent agency" [1] so if the job you were appointed to an confirmed by congress (senate) is at odds with the presidents desires I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a problem for
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Nobody wants to be told that they have to install solar panels to save climate change. Picking a problem like space flight avoids all the "nimbyism" from say actual nimbys but also from say Exxon. There's an interesting fight
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> Yes, you can refill quicker, but time to "refuel" EV's is dropping precipitously as well, and it's just all around safer than tanking around highly combustible liquid gas. I always think of I, Robot where the protag
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I'm not sure the states will go along with it. Sure, he tried to get Georgia to alter their vote totals so he would be the winner. And when that failed he got states to submit a second slate of electors with him as the victor. But in b
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by lesuorac 2y ago
The simpler version I like is when you get stuck, write down why you're stuck and _why what you're doing should've worked_. Usually that's enough to find an incorrect assumption and make traction. Like you're callin
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> Of course, we tried debug builds too. Those cut the time down to ~5 minutes — but they’re not usable in practice. I wonder how true this is. Haven't use feldera but other rust stuff I have if I run as debug it has serious performa
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by lesuorac 2y ago
And even taking sharpie and drawing a black box doesn't mean the words can be seen at a certain angle or by removing the sharpie ink but not the printed ink. Really, if you need to censor something create a duplicate without the origin
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I dunno. Somebody going "I hear you" and then proceeding to make my problem worse or describe something completely different really doesn't make me think highly of them.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Eh, collective punishment is the fallacy. These problems are generally industrial in nature so it's very knowable as to where a large source of pollution comes from. There just isn't a political will to actually enforce laws.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Log storage is expensive.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
But hindsight of HN is different from hindsight of FaceBook. FaceBook was literally collecting data on what apps people were using on their phones and empirically saw the rise of Instagram. Of course the rise of Instagram didn't need t
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by lesuorac 2y ago
This is past tense no? There's been neural processing chips since before LLM craze [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_processing_unit#History
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I suspect Dolphins can tell people apart and will recognize you as not the guy that threw the bottle cap akin to all those stories about crows. Certainly will be interesting to see how much we can bribe Dolphins to do once we have faster co
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> Henry Ford made an interesting argument for printing money to fund productive enterprise in the context of a gold standard currency. Is there a link/etc to the long form of his argument?
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> preferably in more detail than just "tax cuts" That's like asking what an ocean is but preferably in more detail than just water. But to answer the question, we really can't give more detail. Congress passes a budge
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> I agree with that critique, though it may be a problem with this specific version of Globalism, not globalism itself. Well, there's nothing about Globalism that enforces this so it's really a complaint about most if-not all G
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> > historically very popular > When? Not for a long time. Slavery and witchcraft were historically very popular ... The wikipedia article places it as 16th to 19th century which is a longer time period than Globalism was popular.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
It's an economic theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism The general idea is that when you buy stuff you're losing wealth so if you never buy anything then you never get poorer. Since we constantl
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by lesuorac 2y ago
So when say Comcast owns a sports team and runs videos promoting the idea of buying a ticket to see that sports team it wouldn't be an ad because Comcast didn't pay itself? I'm all for banning whole forms of advertisements (e
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> They throw themselves into various pieces of work that don’t make money ... better screenreader support Truth hurts lol. This I think is where Capitalism is at odds with a lot of people's intrinsic values. Accessibility unarguable
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by lesuorac 2y ago
At what point can we focus the output of an industrial AC unit into water to generate steam for a turbine?
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> Well, Switzerland cowardly decided not to react or retaliate, even though those tariffs make no sense. I'm not sure that reactionary tarifs are the correct action. Flagging products as American or pulling them from the selves seem
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Isn't this term just an extension of the end of his last term? He spent the majority of his term being blocked from doing completely problematic stuff by his staff who he increasingly fired or resigned. He finally got the end of his te
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> Those statements are offered as truism ( and they do sound true enough ),but are they anything more than a hopeful assertion? For the US / Euro, yeah you can just digitally wire say $ 150 million no problem. You just can't ph
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I mean, if just hire somebody without any sort of training it should just be expected that they're bad? Like show me where in the Apple training they teach how to set ringtones? UPS straight up flies people to training [1]. Of course t
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by lesuorac 2y ago
There's also sometimes a button for the "Printer Version" of the recipe which is very much no fluff. Ex. Above all the fluff is the word "Print" in a yellow box [1] which takes you to a no fluff page [2]. [1]: http
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I disagree, the problem is the race to the bottom in advertising. Drugs ads being able to show 30s of the one positive side effect and then spend 0.5s speed talking through all the negative ones is not a fair description of the drug. Almost
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by lesuorac 2y ago
My main concern would be these seem to be fabricated claims. Mr Mitchell still was invited to the auction and attended it [1]. Ryan Burger seems to have never invited Mitchel to any events at all [2] prior to the video and yet shortly befor

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