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by lovecg 5y ago
Why wouldn’t another producer undercut them in that case, winning the lower end share of the market?
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by lovecg 5y ago
Serious question, does that make a difference if you heat your house using a thermostat anyway? The furnace should just run for less time to compensate. I have the same question about incandescent lightbulbs that seem to have been banned in
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by lovecg 5y ago
Timescale matters. This is often missing from the discussion. Warming up over a period of 10 thousand years is very different from same warming over a 100 years. Evolution in existing species assumes a certain pace of change in the environm
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by lovecg 5y ago
The median home price in the US is something like 300-400k. You’re on HN so I assume you’re in a tech-related field. If you can’t afford that in 10 years you’re doing something wrong.
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by lovecg 5y ago
There’s a large, large difference between your friend taking a screenshot and your friend authorizing a third party to any content they themselves can see. Scale and automation matters a lot.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Wondering what the economics of keeping single use cups but making them out of aluminum would look like? It’s one of the more valuable recyclables (to the point where homeless people will collect them to make some money).
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by lovecg 5y ago
Under no circumstances you should get Crusader Kings 3. If you value your time at all that is.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Would you provide your physical home router to me for an “audit”? I promise not to do anything with it and you can be assured you can continue using it afterwards with no worries about your security. I imagine Maricopa county has no interes
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by lovecg 5y ago
We do and sounds like we did. https://recorder.maricopa.gov/justthefacts/ > This is false. Maricopa County uses an air-gapped system, meaning its tabulation equipment is never connected to the internet and is comple
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by lovecg 5y ago
I’d love to learn more about your setup, especially how you attach images. Still tuning my own org mode config!
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by lovecg 5y ago
Yep. Back in the hand-written letter days people must have thought “think how much time we would save if all this was automated and letters were delivered instantly!” Nope. We just send 10x more.
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by lovecg 5y ago
The extra security around all this gold would probably end up costing more than the medals themselves.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Not sure if that’s a good comparison: 1) the lab leak theory is only incidentally political since the two sides decided to make it into yet another hot button issue; 2) the media did cover the emails story extensively and it was never prema
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by lovecg 5y ago
Did Covid escape from a lab? True/False please.
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by lovecg 5y ago
The flip side is job security so it’s not all bad :)
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by lovecg 5y ago
As far as I can tell he served as Under Secretary of Energy for Science and has zero climate science background. I’m not sure it’s accurate to call him a “climate expert”. There are plenty of articles debunking his points as outdated strawm
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by lovecg 5y ago
I’m mostly still annoyed about the colon. Come on, ip:port is a pretty widely used convention people! The number of parsing bugs I had to fix with the migration…
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by lovecg 5y ago
That’s a very serious accusation you’re making and it doesn’t agree with anything I’ve read about those models. On the contrary the predictions seem to match observations very well over the last couple of decades. This is not backtesting ei
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by lovecg 5y ago
There’s probably a good reason for it, but I’ve never understood why IPv6 couldn’t be fully backwards compatible. Then there would be no need to migrate - everyone would be already on IPv6 by definition.
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by lovecg 5y ago
That’s cute but it should also list “what if we kept developing countries in poverty (by denying quick and dirty industrialization that we ourselves enjoyed) for nothing”. The problem is hard because there are hard decisions to make.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Meh. The denier response is “yeah CO2 is increasing, but the evidence that it’s leading to other stuff is suspect”.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Obligatory Dan Luu reference on how 95th percentile of anything is not that impressive https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
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by lovecg 5y ago
> “We don’t call them Newton’s laws anymore,” an upperclassman at the school informs me. “We call them the three fundamental laws of physics. They say we need to ‘decenter whiteness,’ and we need to acknowledge that there’s more than jus
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by lovecg 5y ago
> Former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe named the JWST after Webb in 2002, when the telescope was in the early stages of development. It was a unilateral decision that took many by surprise, because NASA’s telescopes are typically named
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by lovecg 5y ago
I had to look this up since it’s been a while, but looks like no - this is not a full solution. It correctly accepts the positive instances in polynomial time but no algorithm is known that would fully decide all instances in polynomial tim
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by lovecg 5y ago
In fact if there was a non-constructive proof, we would already know a polynomial time algorithm for solving any NP problem: just iterate over all program lengths (from 1 to infinity) and then iterate over all programs of that length n, run
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by lovecg 5y ago
It seems like a manual like that today would have to go through multiple layers of bureaucracy and legal approvals that would suck all life out of the language. I know that the army always had censors, etc. but maybe it is yet another examp
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by lovecg 5y ago
It’s certainly interesting. My initial reaction is that “lifetime abstainers” is still a sufficiently distinct group from the continuum of moderate to heavy drinkers so there might be other confounders. I wonder if a study like that exists?
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by lovecg 5y ago
Yep. The old meme that “moderate drinking is better than no drinking at all” needs to die: these studies included people who didn’t drink for medical reasons, skewing the average health of the nondrinking cohort down.
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by lovecg 5y ago
You don’t need to comply with pages and pages of arcane regulations to build a website though.

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