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by nayuki 3y ago
Definitely reminds me of H T T P colon slash slash slashdot dot org
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by nayuki 3y ago
I kind of contributed: https://www.nayuki.io/page/casio-fx-991ms-tips-and-tricks
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by nayuki 3y ago
It was probably a live stream. It starts early so that people can join in, then the content begins at the scheduled time. What you're watching is the recording of the full stream.
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by nayuki 3y ago
That's why we need a land value tax as Henry George proposed. People should not be able to make money by squatting on land and waiting for its value to appreciate - whether as a owner-occupier or as a landlord.
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by nayuki 3y ago
https://archive.ph/wkUOL
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by nayuki 3y ago
To avoid the cost of sitting down for 3~4 hours to rewatch the full video while critiquing it and writing notes, I opted to skim the entire narration transcript and pick out some points. This is not a complete critique, but I'm bounded
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by nayuki 3y ago
I refuse to watch this 2.5-hour video because I don't trust his words. I watched the entirety of one of his previous videos on a friend's recommendation - "Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs" https://www.you
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by nayuki 3y ago
Themself - the ability to attract a paying audience.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I appreciate your work and all, but this URL change disoriented me. I upvoted the submission when it was pointing to the root page of the website. Coming back to the thread half a day later now, I suddenly found that I upvoted the page &quo
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Preserving core values Speaking of this, maybe someday the line between volatile "memory" and non-volatile "storage" (currently HDD and flash) will cease to exist. Then we no longer have to ask if a file is loaded i
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by nayuki 3y ago
BTU/h and kW are measures of power, or the rate at which energy is delivered. BTU and kJ are units of energy.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Well yeah. From the article: > In 1978, a Boeing AOG team repaired the bulkhead of a Japan Airlines 747 damaged in a tail-drag incident. Seven years later, the repair failed in flight, resulting in an explosive depressurization that tore
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by nayuki 3y ago
Your way of thinking is how we get into useless campaigns like stopping plastic straws.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Yeah, this is a stupid system. The free market doesn't work properly when people can't know the price before deciding to buy or refuse the service. Transparency is not an optional perk.
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by nayuki 3y ago
The amount of plastic in LEGO is a drop in the bucket compared to: Plastic packaging for food and goods, bottled drinks, car parts (panels etc; remember that a car is completely trash after ~20 years), plastic in shared goods such as school
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by nayuki 3y ago
That's true. But there will still be some kind of rationing going on. If there are a thousand seats but a million fans, then 99.9% of them will be disappointed. Sure, you can lower the price, but then the winners will be either first-c
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by nayuki 3y ago
And how will standby tickets be rationed? By auction? By first-come-first-serve? You still have the same fundamental problem of scarcity.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Who gets those (1 - 1/x) tickets? Will there be a massive queue? In that case, people are paying with time instead of with money. Time is not free, and opportunity costs are real.
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by nayuki 3y ago
I agree with you and that's called a Dutch auction or descending price auction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction But inevitably, someone (such as the vocal people in this thread) is going to complain th
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by nayuki 3y ago
Okay, so scalping is illegal in a hurricane. Is it also illegal for outsiders to choose not to provide goods to the sticken area because the sale price doesn't justify the cost? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKl-
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by nayuki 3y ago
0.5 to 1.0 is just one F-stop in photography. If you make your sensor 2× better, that's not going to overcome a 100× reduction in front glass area when moving from a DSLR to a phone.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Wrong. Silicon image sensors are benchmarked by their "quantum efficiency" - the number of electrons generated by a photon. That number is something like 0.5, which isn't far from 1.0. There is very finite room for improvemen
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by nayuki 3y ago
It's an interesting topic and I agree with the conclusions. But I really dislike the testing methodology - the comparison photos have clearly different poses and people/animals moving around. I've done my own smartphone vs. D
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by nayuki 3y ago
The problem with property tax instead of land value tax is that a parking lot operator pays a lot less tax than the 30-storey apartment building next door. This is despite the fact that both plots of land have the same neighborhood amenitie
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by nayuki 3y ago
So tell international fans to f*ck off, right? I know many friends who fly to Japan to attend concerts because they genuinely like those artists. Way to stifle free trade and trample on people's preferences.
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by nayuki 3y ago
When you're rich, you can do that. Being rich, by definition, means having more options available to you. That's really what money is - a transferable token to persuade other people to do stuff on your behalf.
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by nayuki 3y ago
> Ticketmaster was scalping not the scalpers. If I understand correctly, the definition of scalping is to buy and sell quickly in the hope of a profit. Ticketmaster is the originator of the tickets (it is not reselling from anyone else),
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by nayuki 3y ago
This sounds like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Marathon . It has different entry classes such as lottery, previous participant, or pay a high price.
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by nayuki 3y ago
Scarcity - exactly. Say that an artist is holding a concert and 20 thousand seats are available. But she has 50 million fans all over the world. How do you allocate these 20 thousand seats - who will get them? You can either satisfy the hig
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by nayuki 3y ago
If you go by that standard, barbecuing over a fire is pretty unnatural too. Burning chemicals, depositing random hydrocarbon soot onto your food, having poor control over the cooking temperature... And we know it's unhealthy.

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