mike_d

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by mike_d 3y ago
> All else being the same, priority should be given to research which is grounded in solid experiment design and a firm grasp on statistic. Agencies like DARPA exist primarily to counter this line of thinking. We built the atomic bomb by
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by mike_d 3y ago
> I'm just saying that people should stop expecting that the next breakthrough will come from crude tools such as EEGs and fMRI Scurvy killed over two million people until we figured out the solution was simply eating an orange. We
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by mike_d 3y ago
What you are experiencing is being present for the development of a major leap in technology. You'll see a lot of trial and error and near misses until someone cracks the big breakthrough of how we non-invasively read information in bu
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by mike_d 4y ago
Overbooking is never the fault of third party sites, they literally make an API call in real time and ask if they have inventory available. For smaller chains and boutique hotels the backend is probably a system that is calling into the HMS
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by mike_d 4y ago
A small screen isn't going to ruin the otherwise luxury experience of a Hyundai or Kia.
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by mike_d 4y ago
Bing buckets queries into pricing tiers based on complexity. Why on earth would DDG have any obligation or interest in telling you about their supplier pricing? You found out something that has little to no material impact on you from a pos
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by mike_d 4y ago
DDG does not have a search engine, they have a frontend UI to Bing. Search API pricing from Microsoft is going up, so they either have to cut the complexity of queries or just not be in business.
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by mike_d 4y ago
> Someone from France is telling you that actually, it's really not that great Yet is amazing that even with the poor management of the French government, it is still a beacon of hope the rest of the world looks to for our energy fu
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by mike_d 4y ago
My comment was a criticism of the San Francisco subreddit on Reddit, not of Hacker News. The rules are much more freeform over there and the site as a whole is constantly trying to find its balance between mob rule and moderator authoritari
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by mike_d 4y ago
You should never feel ashamed for coming to a logical conclusion based on the information provided.
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by mike_d 4y ago
> find a balance where it's not just an anti-SF crime-ridden sub The good ol' see no evil hear no evil approach to dealing with problems. I don't expect a subreddit to solve the larger problems of the city, but crafting th
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by mike_d 4y ago
Commercial speech does not have the same rights as personal speech under the law. I can scream "dang for president!" to my hearts content, but if my employer pays me to scream the same sentence it is subject to campaign finance la
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by mike_d 4y ago
I am actually shocked that the EFF seems to have no idea what is going on here. An entity (Tornado Cash) was sanctioned for participating in money laundering activity. GitHub terminated their accounts not because of the code itself that exi
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by mike_d 4y ago
Must be a slow news day at Hackaday. This is doomsday speculation about something interesting, based on someone else's YouTube video about a signal marker. The Russian Military transmits a constant signal to prevent anyone else from ta
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by mike_d 4y ago
SFPD needs a dedicated bike enforcement team. Ticket unsafe riding, helmets for minors, etc. We can then expand that to enforcement of things bike people complain about like cars parking in bike lanes.
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by mike_d 4y ago
San Francisco has a massive 464 miles of protected bike lanes, off street paths, and trails. We do a pretty good job of isolating modes of transportation with the exception of bikes occupying car spaces. We don't allow cars on BART&#x2
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by mike_d 4y ago
Unless you are a big importer and have employees overseas (or are willing to fly back and forth), the best you can do is ask the seller to remove the badging. Sellers usually don't want to take on the risk of modifying the vehicle.
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by mike_d 4y ago
This is a much better overview of what Biscuits are for the uninitiated. https://www.clever-cloud.com/blog/engineering/2021/04/12/int...
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by mike_d 4y ago
That is why I explicitly said an empty soda can.
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by mike_d 4y ago
This is why real businesses with real money have CFOs. Anyone who was sweating the SVB collapse should hire a virtual CFO right fucking now because their company has no financial leadership.
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by mike_d 4y ago
There is very obviously a recruitment link there. Look again. Hint: It is above the image data.
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by mike_d 4y ago
That looks a lot like the trucks they use to transport nuclear materials by road. They do all sorts of terrible things like shoot rockets into them, hit them with trains, and set them on fire during exercises so they can ensure they have tr
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by mike_d 4y ago
> The double wide container Yikes. Containers are stacked as high as they can be to not crush the containers below. Applying additional downward force is going to cause cascading failures. You've also just limited your deployment to
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by mike_d 4y ago
Every "I'm going to start with a shipping container" solution eventually runs into the same problem: shipping containers are effectively empty soda cans. They are only strong when loaded exactly as expected. Have you actually
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by mike_d 4y ago
> It's still 90$ if you are rural. Rural areas are the only place there is demand for Starlink. Nobody buys 95% reliable internet in a city that has fiber.
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by mike_d 4y ago
This should catch you up from the last time they reduced production: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3675262-democr...
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by mike_d 4y ago
The Saudi's want to help prop up Russia indirectly. Also everyone likes more money.
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by mike_d 4y ago
> The distinction between violent and non-violent crime is a meaningful one Consider someone who knowingly brokered a sale of baby formula that they knew was tainted with rat poison and killed dozens of children, would you consider that
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by mike_d 4y ago
> for non-violent crimes I get that a lot of people like to smoke weed and maybe do mushrooms at Coachella, but not all drugs are the same. Silkroad and other darknet markets sell everything from date rape drugs to fentanyl. Framing it a
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by mike_d 4y ago
You have a bucket of widgets, and so does everyone else to varying degrees. Each widget is really worth a dollar, but you paid $12 on average for yours because widgets were in demand at the time. Nobody really needs all their widgets right

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