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by nitrogen 5y ago
So, it's not really "you will own nothing and be happy about it", but rather "you will own 0.1% of 1000 houses rather than 100% of 1 house, and be happy about it." If only that were actually literally true. If I
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Private Equity buying up housing Speaking of this, an entire new construction neighborhood near where I live was just purchased, with all of the for-sale signs replaced with leasing info signs. You will own nothing, but you will not be h
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Having also worked on mortgage software, there are ways to "sell" it -- the people your software helps are getting homes when they might not otherwise have been able. That's pretty exciting for them.
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In addition to just really liking the IT people at some of the places where I've worked, I've found that the people who are hostile are really shooting themselves in the foot when they do need help. Making friends across all depa
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They will not also match the visual derivative. How can you be certain, and what prevents a generated image from matching both?
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In addition to the sibling answers, one could have verified an algorithm mathematically, but made a typo in the code.
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Being excessively sensitive to carefully chosen four letter words used appropriately for emphasis is a form of toxicity.
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Make an actual argument. HN is getting a bit pathetic. Did you make an actual argument? What's pathetic is accusing anyone who disagrees with you of supporting child exploitation. None of the people I care about who were victims of
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I think you may find that folks don't take as dim a view on preventing exploitation of children as HN crowd. ... (if they become the home of child exploitation and porn) Don't do that. It's bull and you know it.
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Most recent example of empty bags I have encountered is salads/greens. The same bag size used to contain twice as much salad by volume just a year or two ago.
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You're probably just expecting stricter definitions of the word "garden" (and "wilderness" for that matter). At one extreme there's a botanical garden, where every single leaf of every plant is carefully inspe
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There's no need to jump to kicking people out of their homes. There are plenty of options: Special taxing districts and/or community volunteer programs in high fire risk areas to fund fuel removal initiatives -- think a crowd of
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Those are usually easily reversible.
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No, really, climate change is not some incidental factor here, the climate conditions in CA are a huge contributor to these fires and possibly dominating factor in these fires. All the more reason to focus on managing them, and remember t
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unified API, the ability to drop plugins in for new file types, and for applications to actually unify around using a specific standard. There have been attempts, such as OLE and ActiveX on Windows, or KParts in KDE 2 (and dcop from Qt 2)
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The other way around. If the database of fingerprints is unauditable, and especially if the database varies from country to country, then it would be very easy to add fingerprints for classified documents, or photos documenting known war c
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The early-20th-century sci-fi novel Earth Abides is about the lives of some of the remnants of humanity after a virus wipes out most of the population. Even then, California had a reputation for wildfires, and in the story large parts of t
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Why do people have a fascination with proving others' real life experiences "wrong" using some aggregated idea from a self-appointed authority figure? Statistics and summaries don't remotely represent or contradict indi
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Using a rough rule of thumb that one millisecond equals one foot, it kind of makes sense that we would be able to follow speech coming from someone up to 45 feet away. But the tolerance on the negative side is surprising.
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The claim of novelty for time-travel filtering seems odd, so I wonder if this was a mistake in transcribing the quotation for the article. Any FIR filter can effectively time travel if you consider the peak to be time zero. Negative delay
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AKA the Haas effect or precedence effect, making the first sound to arrive the most important for localization, even if echoes are louder.
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As a kid I learned piano from someone who experienced personal panic during the original broadcast. Only now did I make the connection in my mind between her stories and War of the Worlds. Snopes "debunking" something doesn&#x27
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Video games, VR, and other headphone systems do use generalized HRTFs for directional audio. Edit: I'm currently working on a series of videos to explain sound direction and perception. Some of the code I wrote for my demos is or wi
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Is there some way of verifying that the fingerprints in this database will never match sensitive documents on their way from a whistleblower to journalists, or anything else that isn't strictly illegal? How will this tech be repurpose
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With an R0 value of 6 What is effective R with the mRNA vaccines?
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THX probably specifies a stat like RT60 reverb time, or EQ matching the target curve, or prominence of early reflections, and the tables (big flat reflective surfaces) probably threw off that metric.
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If previous environmental outcries were driven by PR, what's driving the current plastics outcry? Why should one believe that "this time is different?"
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And the least harmful is not to dump plastic in a landfill, but to not produce plastics at all. And all of the human advancements in sanitation, food safety, and transportation energy afforded by plastics? You'd significantly increa
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The problem seems to be that the trash is getting into the water. Who is dumping laundry detergent bottles into rivers and oceans? Solve that problem. If the bottles switch to some other material, whoever is dumping them now will keep du
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I've been an advocate for and developer of Free software for a very long time. But the UX of everything Free is just horribly bad. I've written a toy softsynth for myself in Ruby and was looking for some MIDI editing software tha

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