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by mikeash 7y ago
This series of photos from a Key West fishing tour company really drives it home: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...
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by mikeash 7y ago
Obvious counterexample: one-time pads. Even if you don’t go that extreme, there’s no indication that e.g. AES is breakable.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I know, put them on the turbine blades.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I wouldn’t say “ran on.” It wasn’t a fly by wire system or anything like that. But plenty of electronic systems would have used vacuum tubes, such as radios and radar.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Am I not allowed to have my opinion about his opinion? You can have expansive ideas about opinions being acceptable but you need to apply them consistently. If he can tell a bunch of people that they’re not worthy of their careers, surely I
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by mikeash 7y ago
What is the advantage of putting the solar panels under the cars rather than above them?
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by mikeash 7y ago
I can think of worse places. On top of airliners, for example, or inside active coal mines.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The only significance of $10,000 is that it’s the amount that triggers reporting. Such transactions aren’t illegal or even suspicious. They’ll write you a check for the full amount and the other bank will accept it. There might be a hold on
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by mikeash 7y ago
Edge cases which rarely come into play are the ones you should be most afraid of. Things that happen often get caught before they cause trouble. Things that never happen are fine. Things that happen rarely are what get you. For an made-up e
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not a nice way to talk to someone but the original comment was also extremely rude. They basically told a significant chunk of the people reading this side that they aren’t worthy of the career they’ve chosen. That’s deeply insulting a
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by mikeash 7y ago
If you think excitement indicates skill to the extent that you want to base your hiring on it, that’s fine, but don’t expect skilled programmers to be all that interested in working for you.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I just can’t find anything nearly as interesting to do in my own time as what I do at work. Sure, I could build stuff for myself, but it’s kind of boring!
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by mikeash 7y ago
The real purpose of the justice system is to make people believe in it so they avoid settling their own disputes. Anything else is incidental. Actually punishing criminals and not punishing innocent people helps, but is by no means necessar
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t know, but I’d expect them to send the police if it’s an emergency (you’re in imminent danger of going through with it) and to tell you to stop tying up the line and seek help yourself otherwise. This would be just like calling them
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by mikeash 7y ago
911 doesn’t have the resources or training to deal with suicidal people. The purpose of 911 is to get first responders to your physical location. The purpose of suicide hotlines is to get help on the phone.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Even more pedantically, lying is all about intent to deceive. A correct statement is still a lie if you think it’s wrong. The key question here is: does Amazon intend to deceive? It’s probably impossible to know but the odds are decently go
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by mikeash 7y ago
Thanks for providing concrete numbers! Looks like the effect would be too small to notice even if gas were free.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Did they update their web site? Because as it stands now, it’s clear that they‘re a standard agency connecting developers to people who want work done, with some vague stuff about AI helping to match them.
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by mikeash 7y ago
More fuel would mean lower prices would mean more generators built to take advantage of that.
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by mikeash 7y ago
A lot of that is because most end users don’t have such granular prices. They keep their AC on because why not. When price changes are concentrated on just a few users, the swings get wild.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Latency on a loaded connection can be really bad but it won’t be related to how fast you type unless the connection is really slow (like, early dial up modem slow). When you press a key, it will take a while to see the result. Depending o
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, they can afford it. The purpose is just to reduce risk. The rule doesn't need to be, and I'm sure it wasn't intend to be, foolproof.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Sure, but the odds of a fire actually happening are still quite low. Unlike a bomb, where it's pretty likely to explode in flight because that's the whole point.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It will probably be quite effective. Travelers will see these articles, and airlines will probably send out reminders to people not to bring these machines on the plane. Most people with them will get them fixed or leave them at home, and t
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by mikeash 7y ago
This page is super misleading at least in Safari on Mac. The latency number appears to actually be a minimum delay between each letter. 200ms latency should mean that each letter appears 200ms after you press the key. But if you type reason
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by mikeash 7y ago
The comment wasn’t declaring them to be “not-green” because of the mere existence of environmental consequences. It was doing so because of the large magnitude of those consequences. There’s probably a good argument to be made that they’re
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by mikeash 7y ago
Would you kill a billion for the sake of 8 million?
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’d take that to mean that the residents of those countries don’t typically get their bananas from commercial plantations.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t want high density housing. But I want things that require high density housing: the ability to walk to lots of places and good public transportation when I want to go farther. I’ve compromised on an expensive lower density location
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by mikeash 7y ago
Ah, but VINs aren’t numbers. (Never mind what the N stands for.) 000 would be perfectly valid.

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