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by mwint 5y ago
Go buy an M1 machine, use it for a week, and return it. Except you won't return it, because you'll recognize it's amazing beyond its benchmarks. And single core performance can't be discounted - turns out, it's ofte
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by mwint 5y ago
Hah, I love the idea of doing this. Detect a bot, change the price and put a big banner up that says “hey, human, click here to pay $40 instead of $4000”. Only works once or twice before bots would catch on and check the price, but I bet a
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by mwint 5y ago
> It's been two years, and in many ways, the data is still not in yet. But we hopefully aren’t expected to hide until the data are in?
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by mwint 5y ago
Think of it this way: the two cars (if they’re the same weight) create a virtual immovable object at the impact point. “Brick wall” is doing a lot of work there - note that it’s not the same as hitting a stationary car at 50mph, that car wo
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by mwint 5y ago
“Worse” [citation-needed]
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by mwint 5y ago
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-... indicates 347 Covid deaths in the 0-4yo category, since Jan 2020. Out of a population of around 16M in the US, ignoring churn in that category.
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by mwint 5y ago
No, they shouldn’t at this point. Especially in areas where everyone who wants to is vaccinated. Government-forced quarantine was only valid - if ever - at the beginnings of a disease where little was know. It’s not valid when we know the d
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by mwint 5y ago
> maybe someone shouldn't write their own small business website Youch, there goes a lot of literally world-changing startups, had this rule been in place in the past.
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by mwint 5y ago
Certainly, no disagreement there. What I propose is that we avoid being cavalier about the implications of creating law. Using the force of government is, or should be, a serious affair, and I think we water it down by using language like “
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by mwint 5y ago
Right, but the law doesn’t prohibit me from farming turnips*. It prohibits me from running a website without doing certain things. That’s what will be enforced, in escalating fashion up to and including violence. If someone “asks” me to do
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by mwint 5y ago
By that logic, I can refuse to follow this law without consequence? Sounds to me like my options are to comply, pay fines until I can’t and then comply, or go to jail (which would be done at gunpoint). What am I missing? What’s the magic wa
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by mwint 5y ago
All of this is right, except for this part: > We are well-paid professionals being asked to make our tools usable by the entire public “Asked” is wrong here. I can “ask” someone to do something. The government can “force” someone to do s
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by mwint 5y ago
The one that started roughly the time M1 started shipping in a laptop with good build quality and decent keyboard.
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by mwint 5y ago
Apple’s chargers have long been known as over-engineered in safety and reliability, e.g. not catching fire, dealing with “dirty” power better than most, etc. Look up Big Clive’s videos on them.
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by mwint 5y ago
There are severe market stability issues associated with people gravitating towards <1 year holdings. The cap gains rate exists partially to encourage long-ish holdings. With that incentive severely reduced as your plan proposes, you’ll
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by mwint 5y ago
Overall, these two changes would incentivize holding stocks <1 year more often than people do currently. Perhaps you could get a longer-term effect if you had another, lower tax level at 5+ years, or raised moderately the 1+ year cap g
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by mwint 5y ago
I wonder if there’s an opportunity here, for someone to put a frontend on torrents, charge $0.xx per show, and pass it along to the rights owner after taking y%. With all the people saying they pirate for convenience, not for cost, maybe en
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by mwint 5y ago
Perhaps it’s https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29974430-switched-on# ?
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by mwint 5y ago
Appears to be about a system in normal RAMs, not specific to this Finland thing. I’d be curious if it’s the same speed limiter with a variable changed, or a different easier-to-remove system.
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by mwint 5y ago
I’m kind of hoping it’s a big bright red fuse in the fusebox labeled “government fun preventer”. Probably not, but you can dream.
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by mwint 5y ago
Man, how’d they notice that? Must have been a different violation, and then they noticed the dummy.
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by mwint 5y ago
Remember last time Apple put out these weird relative performance charts, and we all thought they were hiding something? The M1 announcement. They turned out to be pretty accurate. So I’ll wait and see real benchmarks, but it wouldn’t surpr
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by mwint 5y ago
How do you “look at their sales”?
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by mwint 5y ago
I assume 12v battery, not the big one?
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by mwint 5y ago
> You get kicked off after 6 hours Is that 6 hours of continuous time, or does it indicate a quota of 6 hours total for the month?
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by mwint 5y ago
“Brake pad dust” is pretty specific. I wonder if tire emissions are true. One on hand, EVs tend to be heavier. On the other, efficient braking inside the regen zone should mean more gradual stops, lower average accelerations and speeds.
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by mwint 5y ago
If you’re able to program, you’re in a much better position to figure out control flow, sensor feedback systems, etc. Certainly your programming experience would help make a dishwasher more than your guitar experience.
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by mwint 5y ago
> Nor regenerative braking vis-a-vis brake pad dust. Huh? To be clear, you’re claiming regen braking may not significantly reduce brake dust? I drive an EV with relatively weak regen (‘15 Leaf), and easily 95% of total energy goes to reg
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by mwint 5y ago
Does inflation really matter here? The value of the loan isn’t inflated, so I don’t think inflation should “count” here? Willing to be wrong on that, just having a hard time understanding.
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by mwint 5y ago
Probably, but if it’s not using my development system’s resources I don’t particularly care.

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