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by mediaman 6y ago
If the optimal overall speed is determined by greatest efficiency, which means a reasonable maximum speed, then I would think traffic would have an even bigger impact: it's not profitable to compensate for heavy traffic with absurd spe
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by mediaman 6y ago
It's in the article.
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by mediaman 6y ago
Anything you miss from Rails now that you're primarily using Phoenix for those use cases? Elixir/Phoenix does look pretty intriguing to me, though the support universe is smaller. What held me back so far is that a lot of simple B
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by mediaman 6y ago
It's a good question. I don't know about film, but I do have visibility into the game artist market. The pay is OK but not fantastic: generally in the 60-80k range, depending on experience. Many of the very low paying jobs ($15&#x
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by mediaman 6y ago
Tools to make art content have gotten dramatically better in the last 10 years. Systems such as Substance, which create algorithmic textures to replace manual texture creation in Photoshop, have resulted in at least a 10x increase in produc
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by mediaman 6y ago
Look again: none of the available options are for restricting incoming messages to contacts (at least on iOS).
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by mediaman 6y ago
That's bizarre. I just looked at the app and they support contacts-only limits for everything (voice, presence, profile photo, forwarded messages) _except_ for regular messages. You can't reject images from non-contacts either. It
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by mediaman 6y ago
The Kobe crash could have been prevented by many things. Existing synthetic vision systems would have easily prevented this. They're not even that expensive - built in systems can be had for a few tens of thousands of dollars, or non-c
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by mediaman 6y ago
Yep - many, if not most, factories staff these positions themselves. It fits in with their existing maintenance, assembly, cleaning, warehouse type roles. It's mainly white collar places that don't know how, or don't want to,
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by mediaman 6y ago
Seriously. That's what surprises me about a lot of cheating: really? Cheating on this material? Why not at least wait to cheat when it really counts, on something very difficult to do without cheating? This form of cheating just seems
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by mediaman 6y ago
I agree with you. Smart people with dark traits become really good at painting their objectives in moral, altruistic terms. They tend to limit the display of their "dark traits" through actions to infrequent events where they stan
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by mediaman 6y ago
These concerns are unlikely to surface in ways that are important enough to overcome the advantages of automated long-haul trucking. Network coverage? On most big interstates it's perfectly fine, even through mountain ranges, and it&#x
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by mediaman 6y ago
Lending out vast sums against a small reserve is not necessarily bad, depending on how the deals are structured. In the US, banks issue credit in the form of credit cards. But they don't hold on to it. They create special-purpose entit
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by mediaman 6y ago
it's transposed, not case difference
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by mediaman 6y ago
This is an unlikely outcome. Already, Toyota has released their third version of driving assistance, TSS2.5, which has reasonably decent ability to stay in lanes on highways. For anyone who does any highway driving, it's a competent sy
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by mediaman 6y ago
I just checked the store configurator and there is no option to upgrade the Pro with M1 to 32, which is consistent with the presentation.
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by mediaman 6y ago
Many DOJ attorneys resigned from this case in protest of it being brought to bear too quickly. Bill Barr, US Attorney General, overruled senior DOJ attorneys who felt that it was impossible to bring a strong case against Google by rushing i
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by mediaman 6y ago
I agree. It's better to cut off the line past the point where it no longer has any data to support it. In this case it's about 2.5 years of missing data that is substantiating a claim of 2x+ increase during the same time. It'
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by mediaman 6y ago
It requires a weekly connection, which they implemented so that if there were a bug that were in an upgrade they could deploy it reasonably quickly. But as you say, it can be disabled, because it's open source.
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by mediaman 6y ago
The real question is: why don't they try to contact the recipients during the 24hr period prior to the announcement, at that recipient's acceptable local time zone? I don't think a Nobel recipient is going to spill the beans
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by mediaman 6y ago
Since you're feeling judgmental ("How can you utterly fail to see a problem..."), let's take it the other extreme. Suppose a device is released that has a 30% false positive rate: two-thirds of the people it identifies h
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by mediaman 6y ago
Would you disqualify companies that had bootstrapped successfully, were profitable, and did not take any outside money? Not a judging question - I understand the value of a good investor's due diligence and backing in improving the odd
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by mediaman 6y ago
You're right that the broken window fallacy is a fallacy when the economy is not in a depression, but it can be a bit more situational and complex than that. When aggregate demand is "stuck" at a depressed level (high unemplo
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by mediaman 6y ago
Blender is not currently a parametric modeler. I think there is some effort to add some parametric functionality, but it is a loooooooong ways away from that as it's a complicated feature set. Though it would be wonderful if Blender wa
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by mediaman 6y ago
Yes. It's the sort of take by people who have made zero effort to study history or economics. "Keep the budgets tight" was the mantra in the early 30s in response to the depression. It took a World War that killed millions of
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by mediaman 6y ago
The rest of the article goes on to detail the collapsing population of orcas, and the reasons why. It's not a stretch to say a population with catastrophically declining population is likely stressed.
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by mediaman 6y ago
They're looking for companies that are fatally flawed but present otherwise. Kind of like the Hindenburg. Hedge funds are not usually terribly concerned with marketing image. See, for example, Cerberus Capital Management, the former ow
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by mediaman 6y ago
I have industrial machines that run the user interface on Windows 3.1. There was a fad for a while of not using PLCs, and instead using 'regular computers', at least for a portion of the system (usually a PLC still handled the mos
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by mediaman 6y ago
Yes, I believe your thinking on this is correct, and it seems to be where the consensus is anyway (not in the media, or the average person, but among experts): transmission is concentrated in indoor activities with sustained exposure withou
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by mediaman 6y ago
Prop planes don’t work well at higher elevation. There’s nothing for the prop to work against. It’s why jet engines, with their compression, work better. Props work better than jets at low elevation where the span of a propeller can work ag

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