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541.
by mikeash 7y ago
“A few hours” doesn’t match my understanding of “commuter flight” at all. A few hours can get you clear across the US, and is more than enough time for someone to need to dump ballast.
542.
by mikeash 7y ago
Sounds like your best option is to stop procrastinating so badly that you have to get work done in one of the least work-friendly environments out there.
543.
by mikeash 7y ago
What airline charges extra for non-middle seats? I’ve never seen that.
544.
by mikeash 7y ago
There are still free hosts out there, and the simple HTML of yesteryear still renders fine today.
545.
by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t think it’s any harder now than it was then. It’s not like people somehow automatically knew where to get free hosting or how to use it. They’d learn it from friends, or books, or online sources. You can do the same today. The only d
546.
by mikeash 7y ago
It’s fair to compare the prices of anything. This mission cost way more than a bottle of water, and way less than the market cap of BP. Both entirely fair comparisons. Where it gets tricky is what conclusions you draw from those comparisons
547.
by mikeash 7y ago
Eventually they’ll decompose and return to their original state of being dirt.
548.
by mikeash 7y ago
If I bash your head in, I’m merely returning you back to an earlier state.
549.
by mikeash 7y ago
CO2 levels have increased by 50% over the past couple of centuries. Are plants growing bigger as a result?
550.
by mikeash 7y ago
Good: it detects when you’re offline and displays a fun error page. Bad: this only works on every other click. Half the time the links just silently fail....
551.
by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not an argument, just a plain statement of fact. Remember, the context here is an article about the reasons why a huge number of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. It’s quite relevant to mention that having everyone buy old cars can’
552.
by mikeash 7y ago
I did this years ago and it hasn’t worked yet.
553.
by mikeash 7y ago
I memorize some 10s. 0 is 32, 10 is 50, 20 is 68, 30 is 86. Extend beyond what’s memorized by using the ratio 10/18. I don’t have 40 memorized, but it’s easy to figure that it’s 104. Then use the approximation of 1C=2F to fill in the g
554.
by mikeash 7y ago
It makes more sense when you put it like that. The average mortgage holder has a 2019 salary but probably only a 2010 mortgage. (Or whatever bygone year is correct.)
555.
by mikeash 7y ago
I do not. 20% is more plausible. The gap between 15% and 20% is high.
556.
by mikeash 7y ago
Avoiding fines is pretty much trivial. It’s insignificant compared to the cost of maintaining and fueling the car unless you’re incredibly irresponsible.
557.
by mikeash 7y ago
Buying such an old car takes some knowledge and skill. You can certainly find one that will be reliable. But can the average person actually count on being able to do that? Beyond that, this may be a good financial decision on a personal le
558.
by mikeash 7y ago
Am I reading that chart right that the average person with a mortgage pays around 15% of their income for housing? That seems implausibly low.
559.
by mikeash 7y ago
By that standard, the space elevator was invented about twenty years ago by Robert Boyd and Dimitri Thomas. I don’t see this being a good way to determine inventorship (if that’s a word).
560.
by mikeash 7y ago
Is it fair to say he invented it if it couldn’t be built?
561.
by mikeash 7y ago
It’s not hard to infer that traffic from an embassy is probably going to their home country.
562.
by mikeash 7y ago
It’s privately funded. Feel free to send your own library to the moon if you’d like to see it be done differently.
563.
by mikeash 7y ago
Tor is an anonymizer. Why would embassies use an anonymizer for communicating back home? Everyone knows they’ll be communicating with home. There’s no point in hiding that. What you want to hide is the content of that communication, which T
564.
by mikeash 7y ago
Merely breaking a contract is not a crime. Obtaining services through fraud is.
565.
by mikeash 7y ago
If you do it by accident? Sure. If you discover that you can trigger the bug by unplugging the router at 11:59PM and take advantage of this to blow through your limits? That’s not so legal, no.
566.
by mikeash 7y ago
This is a business and satellite bandwidth is fairly precious. A better analogy would be going into a restaurant with big “No Outside Food” signs with a sandwich you made at home, hiding the sandwich in a false compartment to get past a che
567.
by mikeash 7y ago
I’ve become a recent convert to Envy. They seem more robust than Fuji and taste at least as good. With other varieties, I’d always go though a cycle where I liked them for a few weeks, then got a few gross ones and I’d give them up for a fe
568.
by mikeash 7y ago
This is a minor variation on a long-standing problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_i...
569.
by mikeash 7y ago
This particular scenario involved injecting server code in 2015, then waiting until 2019 to use the credentials they collected. They would not be able to bypass 2FA here. It’s true that 2FA wouldn’t protect you from having your account comp
570.
by mikeash 7y ago
You can be confident and self assured without being an asshole. You mention Steve Jobs. What about Woz? Without Woz, Apple never would have gotten off the ground. I suspect most of us would agree that Woz is not only a 10x engineer, but pro

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