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by milesvp 3y ago
I certainly agree that how you spend money could just encourage people to become homeless, I’d hoped to convey that idea by talking about percentage increases in the homeless population, since not every new homeless is going to be a transpl
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by milesvp 3y ago
There is an important phrase in economics, “all other things being equal”. That phrase covers the idea that if you chose another state that was equally expensive as california, and was equavalent in every other aspect, then this one differe
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by milesvp 3y ago
I'm not sure you can make such a bold claim. If California is spending money on homelessness, then all things being equal, it will attract more homeless people than if it didn't spend money on homelessness. Some percentage of thes
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by milesvp 3y ago
I hear the sarcasm in your voice, but truly this is a thing. There are bands of radiation that are very transparent to our atmosphere and there is work being done with meta materials to try to shift waste energy into these bands to bleed it
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by milesvp 4y ago
Planet money did a fantastic series on the textile industry several years ago when they decided to make a t-shirt and wanted to trace the whole thing. Turns out textiles is sort of the cheapest industry. It’s unique in that it requires capi
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by milesvp 4y ago
I think you may be uncharitable in the constraints they were working with. A wireless unit has to handle all the rendering while running off a battery. worse is that VR is a very hard place to be. Lag can be enough to cause nausea, but jitt
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by milesvp 4y ago
I'm curious too. When I go to stack overflow, I get lots of clues as to the trustworthiness of a given answer. I don't know how I'd get any clues from an LLM that its solution is outdated or suboptimal in some way
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by milesvp 4y ago
You probably could, but I’d recommend getting a chip with a dedicated I2S peripheral and use freertos with a high priority dedicated audio task that’s sole task is processing audio. You really don’t want to miss an audio sample. It’s very a
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by milesvp 4y ago
HN might not be different in terms of upvotes and downvotes, and wanting to get fake internet points, but I still find it qualitatively different. In particular, I have never felt the urge to read downvoted comments on reddit. On HN, if it’
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by milesvp 4y ago
Yes. Believe it or not, getting certified for a number of standards in the IoT world require some proof that you have access to the device in order to pair with it. This is often something like a button press during the process, but a uniqu
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by milesvp 4y ago
> These clusters of neurons have been known to start firing and even display synchronized patterns... This doesn't surprise me at all. Dr. Thomas DeMarse was training rat brain slurries (think brains thrown into a blender) to fly fl
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by milesvp 4y ago
I use it when I find a thread in a much larger thread veers to a tangent I won’t find much signal in. I find I use it a lot more on mobile too, though it’s a hard button to hit. I appreciate removing complexity, but it’d make using the sit
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by milesvp 4y ago
I remember hearing a story years ago of the first Baskin and Robbins (aka 31 flavours) opening in japan, and how no one would leave the tiny lobby until they’d finished their ice cream cone. Japanese norms totally broke that american franch
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by milesvp 4y ago
>>EU VAT is pretty much straight forward. You are directly contradicting what the parent is commenting on. I honestly can’t tell if your current comment is trying to be sarcastic, but you are clearly not putting forth consistent argum
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by milesvp 4y ago
I think I first saw this argument on freakanomics, but there's a real debate in economic circles about things like helmets and whether or not they have are a net benefit regulation. Requiring helmets will have a negative impact on bicy
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by milesvp 4y ago
It’s even worse tham that. Many letters can easily be confused for different letters, hence the reason for phonetic alphabets. I had one company who had an external system known as OAS, and some manager who maybe should have known about OAS
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by milesvp 4y ago
What I find interesting is the feeling of honestly forgiving. whatever the other person feels, just simply forgiving someone of some slight or wrong they may or even may not have done to you can be very cathartic. It was only recently in my
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by milesvp 4y ago
On the topic of lawyers, a good friend is a solo practice lawyer. She says the general rule as a solo lawyer is that you generally can’t bill more than 20 hours of a 40hr week. The rest of the work time is marketing and business related. Bu
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by milesvp 4y ago
I agree it seemed like a dumb business model. What I find interesting was an article I saw recently that suggested cities that banned these rentable scooters saw an increase in average commute time. I would not have guessed enough people us
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by milesvp 4y ago
Can you cite a source? Every generation for the last 200 years has felt this way, and I was taught from an econ degree years ago that historic averages turned out to be ~1.2 jobs created for every job lost to automation. Economies also tend
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by milesvp 4y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I'm wondering if the price differences are reflecting a general demand for certain sizes? When I was maintaining AWS servers, I don't think it would have been easy for me to take advantage of spot pr
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by milesvp 4y ago
Yeah, and what the above is forgetting that most of the payment is interest. So it may have been no different than paying a landlord. My experience renting houses in the 2000’s was that my rent was about the same as my mortgage payment + ta
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by milesvp 4y ago
To further this, I know someone who was a public defender a decade ago in the US. They would regularly try to get intersection camera footage to attempt to prove their clients not guilty. Often it was impossible to track down who owned the
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by milesvp 4y ago
The number I saw was something like every 5 years the number of programmers doubles. So half if all devs have less than 5 years experience. And since most new devs are more likely to be closer to college age than retirement age devs tend to
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by milesvp 4y ago
The old magic the gathering game blog had a lot of good game design topics. One of the articles talked about the 3 or 4 player archtypes they tried to design for. Worth the potential rabbit hole. https://magic.wizards.com/en
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by milesvp 4y ago
Huh? water usage is a huge environmental issue. Only people far upstream really can say it’s not. We are amazing at not only diverting freshwater from streams and rivers, we’re also really good at pumping it out of the ground and diverting
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by milesvp 4y ago
I’ve been seeing more and more evidence that we may not be getting enough UV exposure in general in the US. Vitamin D production is big, but what fewer people know about is nitric oxide which is also sythesized from UV exposure. It is a mus
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by milesvp 4y ago
It’s the type of people they attract. It’s the owners who are often very avid readers. It’s the collection of books you find, most of which have had some amount of curation, if only because of limited shelving. They are often very low margi
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by milesvp 4y ago
There’s controversy around this in the mario kart speed run community too. Apparently with snes controllers you can press L+R on the dpad if your dpad has been used enough to wear down the dpad’s plastic center pivot. What’s interesting i
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by milesvp 4y ago
It's a commercial display. Not a TV. if you want it to display something, you need to attach something that provides output. There's is a very common thread here on HN talking about people wanting to support dumb displays, display

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