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by lesuorac 2y ago
From his blog in 2011 [1]. > I put my camera on a tripod with a very wide angle lens, settings configured such as predictive autofocus, motorwind, even a flashgun, to give me a chance of a facial close up if they were to approach again f
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I'm not sure where you arrived at that conclusion. The photographer has been claiming the entire time it's his copyright while other people (namely PETA) have been arguing the monkey should have it. https://en.wikipedia
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> No one is going to bat an eye at a 10 year old $100 bill coming through. Within the US mostly. Although sometimes you can have trouble with a $2. Outside the states you might.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Honestly, I don't think the article supports the headline. ex. "The cost to insure a Tesla Model 3 went up 30 percent last year.". Nothing happening in March of this year is affecting the price of insurance from last year. I
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> Nothing anyone can do to Twitter or Boring Company matters. Well, afaik the Boring Company hasn't done anything since 2021 [1] so I'll agree there. However, Twitter is very much not the case. Elon very much reads what people
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by lesuorac 2y ago
It really is telling how much the Elon backlash is targeted at Tesla instead of say Twitter or any of the other companies. It's ok to admit you don't like the cars or the FSD fud. But if you really don't like the guy why are
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> But that's just a bit of nitpicking. The whole question is about nitpicking though. If somebody comes to you with a picture of a desired webpage and list of http calls to make for each button on that picture then you're a pro
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Turns out, a lot of Americans aren't actually the fans of capitalism they think they are.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
IIUC, if I come to you and say I want a website that looks like this slide I drew that makes you a _programmer_. You're mechanically implementing somebody else's design. If I come to you and say I want to sell these widgets on a w
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Those aren't really "sales" numbers (tbh I'm not even sure GM "sold" any car either given that it was able to destroy all of them). GM only produced 660 units and 457 units. They never tried to actually mass pr
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> People don't die from flooding because of dams, people die from flooding despite dams. Deaths from flooding would not vanish (or even decrease) if we stopped using hydroelectricity/building dams. The floods are significantly
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Coal ash is commonly used in cement [1]. I would suspect the nuclear waste is being encased with cement to prevent its leakage with of course the punchline being that the encasement is more radioactive than its contents. [1]: https:/&
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I'm actually really interested in the end-game. My general experience is that people who've actual self-built an empire (ex. Bezos) are actually very aware of history + cause and effect. While the guy that needs to work overtime t
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by lesuorac 2y ago
That was the CIA not USAID. So this would be like disbanding Ford because VW was cheating on their diesel emissions. --- Look, making the government more efficient is a good idea. That's not what's being done. The government is be
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I do wonder how much of this is "rust" vs "people who pick rust". Like nothing stops you from littering your codebase with `.expect("TODO: Fix Later")`. This isn't just in your code too; it applies to your
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by lesuorac 2y ago
? If adding sugar to your product causes it to sell more then a company is going to do so. If every option for food include sugar then at every price point (including below poverty) then you're going to buy sugared food; but it's
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by lesuorac 2y ago
One regret I have is not starting a "software importing" company. Just take a bunch of open-source code and then "re-sell" it with a US HQ. Solves a lot of government compliance problems and I can use my 100% profit marg
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Surely it's cheaper to make a product without sugar than with; saves you the cost of an ingredient. I think it really is Americans like the taste of sugar. Would be interesting to know if other countries are just behind us in ramping u
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Must be pretty embarrassing to be Elon. Failing to accomplish what the bloated wasteful government achieved 40 years ago.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I think you missed the point they were making. When you go to say Google Docs, you're retrieving JS from _not_ your stuff. That JS (theoretically) can be altered to send back unencrypted data back to Google Docs. The point they were ma
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by lesuorac 2y ago
It's not probably. The hiring rubric gets items added/dropped based on what portions are statistically significant when compared to post-hire performance reviews. There's a lot of research in the public about "Structured
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> I really cant understand why trump has been elected a second time It's really simple. His only major opponent was a candidate that lost their own party's primary.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
How many more years do they need to be there to be indefinite? 2001 to 2025 is 24 years. These guys are portrayed as being the worst terrorist imaginable but a lot of them are just guys whose neighbor wanted a goat for reporting a terrorist
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Seriously? UK was the only EU member not part of the Schengen Zone as-in it was the only member you couldn't freely immigrate to. As well as it's an island, nobody hoping a boat from Morocco and landing in London. Pakistani's
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by lesuorac 2y ago
But that horse doesn't sound reliable. TSMC never pays tariffs anyways, whomever did the importing does so companies like Apple, GM, Tesla, etc. An announced deal really should be worthless politically, we've all seen Foxconn or A
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Global GDP is way up since the Europeans started abolition so everybody is ahead.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> American zoning in theory: we will keep noise and pollution away from homes. I think you misunderstood the parents comment. The origins of zoning is to prevent the mixing of blacks and whites. It's not about noise pollution; it&#x
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I'm not sure war even needs to be that large for it to be a problem. Basically unless its like China vs US then you don't need sell BTC to fund the country (even then I don't think you would; but if you never need to sell BTC
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by lesuorac 2y ago
VA Clinicians are exempt from the cap - https://www.veterans.senate.gov/services/files/3512D245-DA89...
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> Oh yeah, and I’m a government employee of the state of Virginia I mean this thread is on the federal government not state governments so your link isn't really relevant. Federal government employees cannot make more than the VP ($

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