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by minitoar 5y ago
In the real world most people care about saving money. Whether that’s due to wear on the bulb or extra energy consumption is irrelevant.
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by minitoar 5y ago
For a CFL, it’s about 15 minutes. https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/save-electricity-and-fuel...
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by minitoar 5y ago
The upside is that I get to participate in the economy as it exists.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Twitter has announced they are working on a feature called “Communities”.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Getting a bit off topic but I definitely have some strong associations between concepts and the time & place or people I learned them from.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I think it only needs a minor tweak. Maybe prefix with “trying to” or something like that. I am empathetic to the challenge of naming things concisely and accurately.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Ok but that is a rather clickbaity title. The title makes it sound like they are successfully doing that.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Agreed, this is extremely confusing and a pretty big design flaw. Google Maps pops up a warning if the business you are traveling to is closing soon, or if there are tolls. It should show a warning in these situations where the road ends fa
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by minitoar 5y ago
You just need enough light to do spectroscopy. I’m not really aware of a limit other than being in our light cone.
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by minitoar 5y ago
This is a straw man argument. GP is talking about valuing outcomes differently.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Still has a ways to go. The eBeaver range is dramatically less.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Maybe not, given Jevons paradox. Bitcoin is almost a pure manifestation of this.
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by minitoar 5y ago
It’s not that odd if you consider it is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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by minitoar 5y ago
In my opinion that's part of what makes it funny, and is also a core issue in the Ship of Theseus problem -- who's to say how much it can be changed and is still "the same thing"? Maybe the thing that was replaced was ve
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by minitoar 5y ago
House wiring is worth stripping and recycling though. Scrappers will come and buy this stuff from the demo companies.
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by minitoar 5y ago
I guess my point was: without that servicing it would’ve been a pretty short life span (literally 0?). The swarm approach helps with this.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Yes, that is the joke I was making. Thank you for explaining it.
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by minitoar 5y ago
It’s the telescope of Theseus, though.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Right, in lieu of that these schemes use a variety of different mechanisms. One way is you can mint the derived asset at a price oracle by staking other tokens. If the synthetic spot price is too high, you can sell your newly minted asset f
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by minitoar 5y ago
Because there's some mechanism for arbitrage that allows you to effectively settle it. If the spot price is too low you can make a profit.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Yes.
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by minitoar 5y ago
TY! Twitter has since acquired the Interana engineering team & IP, so we’re now doing the same thing at Twitter.
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by minitoar 5y ago
For Interana I think we end up doing this by batching writes & sorts, and not really having a strict guarantee on when data imported actually shows up in query results.
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by minitoar 5y ago
Different sheep make different sounds today. Mostly it’s just yelling. I think our perception of it insists on a leading consonant that just isn’t there.
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by minitoar 5y ago
For the past idk 10 years I’ve felt like nuclear power was really on the way out but over the past like 24 months I’ve noticed a huge resurgence in support for these types of projects. Maybe that’s just my bubble but it seemed like a seriou
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by minitoar 5y ago
Source? Have you participated in such discussions?
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by minitoar 5y ago
Yeah app stores generally don’t allow for downloading code like that.
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by minitoar 5y ago
I don’t get this. What do moles have to do with dimensionless values?
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by minitoar 5y ago
IMO the way this implemented at Alpine Inn in Portola Valley using www.toasttab.com is amazing. Being able to sit down and just immediately fire off some drink orders and so on and then close out your tab without having to wait for staff to
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by minitoar 5y ago
Short option positions which gp is referring to aren’t really...optional. You sold the option to someone else.

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