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by marshray 6y ago
In the real world, farmers and consumers have been using standardized forward contracts to stabilize prices for eggs, butter, wheat, and corn since 1864.
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by marshray 6y ago
Your analogy would apply if 3rd party car mechanics had a history of installing GPS trackers and hidden microphones. We decided to punish people criminally who betray our trust in that way in physical space, and that usually works well enou
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by marshray 6y ago
> It could be hidden the same way as developer options If checking a box buried three screens deep in Settings is all it takes to play Fortnite with your friends again, that box is going to get checked. And once it does, all the privacy
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by marshray 6y ago
I feel like we have too much innuendo flying around these days. What are you talking about?
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by marshray 6y ago
I saw the same thing happen 2002-ish. Have to admit I was a little disappointed to find that wasn't part of the show.
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by marshray 6y ago
Beaming power from space has huge losses, and I really don't think we need to a system of remote-controlled death rays orbiting the planet right now.
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by marshray 6y ago
> But there is a tipping point where marginal solar is not really valuable for a grid anymore. And that is a very good problem to have. There are any number of industrial processes that could easily put that excessively cheap energy to u
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by marshray 6y ago
> Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was far cheaper than electricity from renewables. This has dramatically changed within the last decade. In most places in the world
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by marshray 6y ago
I said 'hubristic' because it seemed to me that the inability to draw conclusions about the cosmos from our own (single data point) limited perspective was a fundamental limitation of the human condition.
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by marshray 6y ago
I don't agree the implication is obvious at all. Interpreting it that way make it a total truism - nonsensical unless interpreted within a greater context. And it looks to me that's just what the GP poster was trying to do - chall
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by marshray 6y ago
"Entering the country illegally is illegal" is restating the law. Such a statement would likely take on more meaning given the context in which it was said. "Nobody has the right to ..." is your opinion.
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by marshray 6y ago
Yeah. This looks to me like a hubristic level of extrapolation from a single data point.
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by marshray 6y ago
I just get a "Cookie Absent" redirect.
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by marshray 6y ago
It's sort of the retro-computing equivalent of doing donuts in the high school parking lot.
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by marshray 6y ago
Also: 5) The eval board price is intentionally high to filter out non-serious users who're not engineering with a plan for eventual high volume production. Sales reps may just eat the cost of some dev resources if it enables a volume s
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by marshray 6y ago
The compute-intensive part of that task is the hashing function, for which common CPU extensions are cheaply available.
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by marshray 6y ago
Knobs and sliders allow users to leverage their spatial and manipulation abilities to specify a value from a continuous range. You could also ask users to just type in a number, but that interrupts the flow and pushes some other data out of
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by marshray 6y ago
Well, the cells don't need to be the same size if they each have their own charge controller.
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by marshray 6y ago
Would be interesting to find an explanation for the surge (and decline) in atmospheric Freon, and its replacement with other refrigerants.
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by marshray 6y ago
NTP is typically backed by GPS. If you have a datacenter full of computers, obviously you don't want to run a separate GPS antenna for every system. NTP allows systems to synchronize to GPS over a network.
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by marshray 6y ago
Before COVID-19, I would have said that we pay for CDC, FDA, Surgeon General, epidemiologists, and virologists to be right about that stuff and they're generally trustworthy. But then they all tried to convince Americans not to wear ma
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by marshray 6y ago
Customer signed a document? Great, job one is to get all the data from those filled-in blanks into the database accurately. Whatever the customer signed is the authoritative contract, not some imaginary entry in a schema intentionally const
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by marshray 6y ago
Also, fix the problem that Range<u64> can't do .len(): fn main() { let r = 0u64 .. 1; let n = r.len(); | ^^^ method not found in std::ops::Range<u64> println!("Hello, world
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by marshray 6y ago
That's a feature not a bug.
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by marshray 6y ago
> if healthcare workers people can work inches from ICU patients on ventilators and HFNC's that spray virus particles far and wide, and use only masks and googles/shields Healthcare workers do, in fact, become infected with COV
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by marshray 6y ago
Support for extensions (scripts) is one of the things banned by the hobbyist license.
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by marshray 6y ago
Fair to assume the 'hobbyist' license was being used in large scale production in cultures where people are comfortable being dishonest about such things.
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by marshray 6y ago
'Generous' implies an act of benevolence. A bait-and-switch scheme is anything but.
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by marshray 6y ago
We were discussing 1000 AD. "The "Dark Ages" is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages (c. 5th–15th century) that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Wes
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by marshray 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)#/me...

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