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by marvin 5y ago
Don't know about the US, but in my jurisdiction, the dog would be killed by the police if it could be proved that it had bitten a human. There's very few exceptions to these rulings.
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by marvin 5y ago
If leaders and strategists around the world could take one single lesson from the Covid pandemic, it should be that you must never, never underestimate the power of mental inertia and the status quo. It leaves all but an elite few in the du
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by marvin 5y ago
In Norway, we call this class of error "a Kenneth", after everyone who logged in to see their tax return in 2012 received the tax return of a guy named Kenneth. The culprit was allegedly a misconfigured load balancer.
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by marvin 5y ago
I found that they completely butchered my favorite characters from the book series. Holden is way over the top macho and gets in "check out my ego" screaming matches with folks all the time, Bobby is at least emotionally a weak-wi
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by marvin 5y ago
Looking forward to read the transcripts from the cockpit voice recorder. Curious to know whether the pilots knew or suspected that there were intelligence operatives on board.
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by marvin 5y ago
In that sense, this article was actually quite good.
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by marvin 5y ago
Wouldn't Tether in effect be a Ponzi scheme if the value of 1 Tether permanently drops below 1 USD at some point? The reasonable assumption here is that Tether (the entity) does some sort of embezzling in the background, which means
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by marvin 5y ago
Do automatic gearboxes compression brake when going downhill? That's what I was trying to avoid. My point was to conserve your kinetic energy, not optimizing the fuel flow during the times when you don't want the engine to produce
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by marvin 5y ago
Curious question about terminology: The word 'nerd' no longer has obvious negative connotations. It also seem to no longer apply to many folks who would have been branded obvious nerds in 2003. And vice versa - many people laugh
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by marvin 5y ago
I'm just five years older than you and strongly relate to these descriptions of being a nerd, having academic interests not shared by young peers and consequently caring very little for social games. Even in adulthood, unless I careful
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by marvin 5y ago
It generally breaks down to don’t brake unless you have to, and know & use the performance characteristics of whatever you’re driving. This might mean slowing down while anticipating stoplight changes, curves or congestion behavior so y
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by marvin 5y ago
Not to mention cultural differences that are so ingrained that it’s hard to imagine people could consider things differently. It’s become clear to me after visiting other (Western!) cultures that many things, e.g. political views that are a
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by marvin 5y ago
This is basically the bread and butter of large parts of the consulting industry in Norway as well, although not quite as dysfunctional. Always be recruiting promising young engineers from university, pay them graduate salaries and bill the
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by marvin 5y ago
I'm not going to participate in what is bound to be a flamewar on this topic, so I'll probably just contribute with this single comment. Hamas won the election in 2006, and no elections have been held since. While sort of democrat
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by marvin 5y ago
This is a beautiful idea, basically eliminating the threat and inconvenience that most viruses cause. But it's a bit early to conclude that this is certainly the future. Covid is by far the worst and deadliest pandemic since 1914, whic
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by marvin 5y ago
I know that glider maintenance procedures in my country call for redoing the center of gravity measurents after painting. Might have been related?
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by marvin 5y ago
Those who retire don’t get too public amout it. And most who could will in fact keep working in some capacity, either because they’re excessively paranoid about the capital markets or they enjoy work too much to quit.
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by marvin 5y ago
That would be the unstated subtext. Maybe I should write a whitepaper.
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by marvin 5y ago
I am reminded of a commend I read on HN a few years ago. "Here lies marvin, who valiantly sacrificed his life in the name of progress. Thanks to his heroic efforts, the trees in GTA 7 look very good." I'd love to read a prope
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by marvin 5y ago
You figure Tesla would be the in the world's top 10 companies by market cap today if Musk hadn't invested and run it, and the company was still run my Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard? I mean...it's hard to prove a negativ
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by marvin 5y ago
Is it possible to create a «proof of pain» cryptocurrency, where holders repratedly stab themselves with sharp objects to increase their cryptocurrency balance?
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by marvin 5y ago
I figured that was subtext, and that we're not necessarily talking about what a hotel executive would think.
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by marvin 5y ago
Maybe they’ll do that someday. Bootstrap to there, and then switch around and save us all the hassle of writing webapps. That would make this comment thread look more hilarious than «less space than a Nomad, no wireless».
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by marvin 5y ago
This is an excellent point, and I think this comment thread would have much less negativity if everyone asked themselves this question. But then they’d have to own up to the nauseating idea of callously dismissing some truly spectacular sea
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by marvin 5y ago
That two domain experts disagree on a radical idea is irrelevant, if the one presenting the radical idea turns out to be right. There are no points given out for merely participating. This happens all the time. And the most interesting idea
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by marvin 5y ago
When a critical mass has been vaccinated and continuing with business-as-usual (pre-pandemic) lifestyle will not cause collapse of the healthcare system in a few weeks' time. This is real, it's measurable and it's time-limite
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by marvin 5y ago
No one has overreacted, unless you accept an outcome that both leads to improvised individual social distancing and the even worse worse economic devastation that follows. This was uncertain to most people last year, but now we’ve seen so m
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by marvin 5y ago
A well-known Norwegian economic commentator pointed this out in a newspaper article a few weeks ago. You'll eventually be forced to maintain an R~=1 no matter what you do, so it's best for everyone if your cases have a low baselin
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by marvin 5y ago
They won’t be able to compete on price, because they’ll be bidding for batteries on the open market along with everybody else. Takes another 5 years to build out capacity, and who knows what Tesla will have accomplished by then.
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by marvin 5y ago
I've found diving to be the least demanding "action sport" activities that I've tried, and I've done a fair bit of climbing, diving and flying gliders. Careful and well trained open water diving leaves you with plen

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