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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_vaccines
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by mikeash 7y ago
I think it’s misleading to act like vaccines weren’t saving kids’ lives until my parents’ generation.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Note that vaccines were introduced in the late 1700s, not the mid 1960s.
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by mikeash 7y ago
What would you do if someone wants to leave without swiping? Hold them there against their will? That would be eight million times more Orwellian than asking them to voluntarily install an app in exchange for some points.
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by mikeash 7y ago
They can’t recoup the cost of roads but that doesn’t stop them from building and maintaining a ton of them. Public services don’t have to pay for themselves directly.
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by mikeash 7y ago
You’re totally right. It just looks like the current situation in places like SF is almost entirely due to difficulty in getting permission. Remove rent control entirely and the supply wouldn’t increase much. It’s different in various other
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by mikeash 7y ago
Beats me!
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by mikeash 7y ago
Lack of supply is a problem, but is it caused by an inability to turn a profit? It seems like developers have no trouble making money from new construction. The difficult part, and the part that limits supply, is getting permission to build
129.
by mikeash 7y ago
This is a list of three: Whitson, his son, and his girlfriend.
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by mikeash 7y ago
No, they don’t. You can access your account with just SMS. That makes it 1FA.
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by mikeash 7y ago
They already are way more popular. There are 168,000 gas stations in the US. How many electrical outlets are there?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Twitter doesn’t use 2FA over SMS. Dorsey’s hack doesn’t tell us anything about that.
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by mikeash 7y ago
2FA over SMS is fine. It’s not a terribly strong second factor, but it’s decent, and far better than nothing. The problem is when companies implement 1FA over SMS and call it “2FA.” That is a catastrophically had idea, and unfortunately it
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by mikeash 7y ago
If we could go back in time and redesign everything from a clean slate, we really should just have different formats and client apps for “run portable apps with rich GUIs over the Internet” and “view text with clickable links embedded.”
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by mikeash 7y ago
I just tried Twitter on my iPhone and it fails as described if I manually put in a new URL and then go back from there. Google gets it wrong in their search results. When it’s that common to have this bug I’d say it’s fair to just consider
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by mikeash 7y ago
This was back when the Model S was the only Tesla available in any real numbers. California had a ton of them. They are long range, but not long enough to do SF-LA without charging. Long trips should be the ideal case for battery swaps, bec
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by mikeash 7y ago
What’s the incentive for cities to have the ubiquitous street parking they have now?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Charging times just aren’t that bad, and they continue to improve. Tesla has a battery swap station on the busy SF-LA route. They shut it down because almost nobody used it.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Charging stations are already far more ubiquitous than gas stations. Every garage with an outlet is a charging station. A solution is still needed for people who park on the street. Chargers on the street is the obvious way to handle that.
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by mikeash 7y ago
How is calculating the number of grapheme clusters relevant to TCP packet size? As for state abbreviations, is $7 a valid abbreviation? Is XQ? You’d probably want to validate those against a list of known good ones.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Length is defined as the longest side. The other two sides are interchangeable so pick what you like. This measure doesn’t appear to account for packages that require a certain orientation.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Ah, I just saw 95kWh and figured it was close. I didn't realize the usable was so different. I'm a bit suspicious of the WLTP ratings for these cars. The EPA rating for the Model X Long Range is 325 miles, while the e-tron's
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by mikeash 7y ago
It's really rare to care about the number of glyphs. That's not something you can answer for a string in isolation, anyway; it depends on the font being used to render it. The only code that would care about this would be somethin
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by mikeash 7y ago
Apparently I misremembered slightly: it's actually width + 2 x length + 2 x height. That link doesn't seem to explain the why, but my understanding is that it's just a decent heuristic for the general difficulty of handling p
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by mikeash 7y ago
It doesn’t matter how well you understand Unicode, it is impossible to compute “the length of a string” because there is no single metric that means that. It’s like measuring “the size of a box.” I want volume, you want maximum linear dim
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by mikeash 7y ago
I found about 250 miles for the e-Tron and 315 miles for the Model X competing WLTP ratings. I imagine aerodynamics are a huge factor in this difference.
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by mikeash 7y ago
You pay for those benefits. Those payments go to the people using fossil fuels. It's not an externality. Your thought experiment about banning fossil fuels doesn't tell us anything about externalities. An externality is when part
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by mikeash 7y ago
I haven’t paid attention, but from searching around it looks like they generally do this fine.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Any decent streaming service will let you build a custom playlist and play it in order, if it doesn’t already have the entire work as one “album.”
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by mikeash 7y ago
Plenty of steaming services will play entire albums in track order.

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