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by nkurz 8mo ago
Presumably he meant to respond to the comment by "Fricken" that suggested there wasn't a problem because the companies would just keep selling chips under new Chinese ownership.
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by nkurz 8mo ago
I thought this was a surprisingly detailed article about the potential economic impacts of different "conflict in Taiwan" scenarios: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/the-10-tr... (
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by nkurz 8mo ago
> US speed limits are highly variables, they’re generally 55 in the north-east but on the western half they’re 65 to 70, and 75 in TX. I fear even that is misleading. Yes, the speed limits on undivided highways are often 55 in the nor
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by nkurz 8mo ago
> Probably 99% of all drywall in the US is not painted directly, either. I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but I'm pretty certain this is a vast overestimate. I've painted a more than average number of interior walls i
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by nkurz 9mo ago
I like Herzog's work, but that's a really tricky one. Herzog only became involved after the film was completed, and then edited it down to make more salable. I liked Herzog's version, but I liked the original even more once
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by nkurz 9mo ago
I'm confused by your reply. GP's point is that they both dissociate into simple sugars, and thus it doesn't matter what the source is. And your response says correctly that sucrose tastes different than both fructose and gl
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by nkurz 9mo ago
Thanks for writing it, and thanks for stopping by. Perhaps I'm naive, but I wasn't worried at all that the article might be a Russian fake. Instead, my worry is that it felt like propaganda. Genuine heartfelt propaganda, probab
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by nkurz 9mo ago
Welcome to HN! Your submission was dead, so I vouched for it. The topic seemed really interesting, so I upvoted it. And then I realized it was just a teaser. This doesn't break any rules, but was disappointing. I clicked on it in p
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by nkurz 9mo ago
I have nothing specific to add, but just wanted to thank both of you for trying hard to have a productive conversation about a contentious topic despite disagreeing. It's nice to see people leading by providing positive examples rathe
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by nkurz 9mo ago
Yes, like those. "Stealing money put aside to help the less fortunate" is bad and should be stopped, regardless of the political beliefs of whoever is doing it. The right question to ask is "is this fraud", not "w
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by nkurz 9mo ago
I wasn't aware how far along some of these Chinese satellite networks were. There are several, and the number of satellites planned for them is astonishing. This article seems like a good intro to them, with comparisons to Starlink:
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China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk(scmp.com)
145 points by nkurz 9mo ago|67 comments
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by nkurz 10mo ago
https://archive.is/Hq0cO
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by nkurz 10mo ago
> That would only affect those calling out directly. Many scrapers operate through a battery of proxies so will be hidden by such a simple test. That was my first question also, and had been my belief. The admin in question was very cle
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by nkurz 10mo ago
I was told by the admin of one forum site I use that the vast majority of the AI scraping traffic is Chinese at this point. Not hidden or proxied, but straight from China. Can anyone else confirm this? Anyway, if it is true, and assuming
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by nkurz 11mo ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but I think you are vastly underestimating both the accuracy and benefit of branch prediction. Yes, CPU's track that much about branches. Your suspicion that this is false is misguided. Here'
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by nkurz 11mo ago
Given the title "Search Results Gone Wrong", I'd like to take this opportunity to try to shame Kagi into fixing the search results for the "More results" feature. This simple feature is broken in that it often give
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by nkurz 11mo ago
> They know I'll be net healthier with the vaccine, therefore more profitable to them. How do you square this with the fact that in the US the same profit-minded insurance company is limited to a fixed profit margin based on the amo
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by nkurz 1y ago
I notice this paper is from April 2025. Do you know if this group has done any updates in the intervening 6 months to show how well their model seems to be working? For example, are they able to determine yet in Table 2 what portion of th
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by nkurz 1y ago
After a quick glance at your submissions, you seem to be submitting things mostly to promote your own projects or your own writings. Posting things primarily to generate traffic to them generally isn't accepted here. The "AI Guid
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by nkurz 1y ago
https://archive.is/dqjA6
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by nkurz 1y ago
I have nothing useful to add, but just wanted to say that I appreciated your insight through all your comments in this thread. Best of luck to you!
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by nkurz 1y ago
Yes, the actual refrigeration and heating cycles are always based on compressing and decompressing a gas. But the gasses used differ based on temperature range, and further you can have air to air, air to water, or water to water for the h
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by nkurz 1y ago
While technically true, I think that's in tropical Africa. Are there also diseases that they carry in North America? Even without disease, I tend to agree with the OP that black flies are worse than mosquitoes, and don't think I
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Corner crossing remains legal after Supreme Court rejects appeal(wyofile.com)
5 points by nkurz 1y ago|0 comments
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Boldvoice Accent Oracle: Do you have an accent when speaking English?(start.boldvoice.com)
2 points by nkurz 1y ago|1 comments
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by nkurz 1y ago
Not that it's definitive, but here's a link to Hegseth's Harvard Kennedy School thesis that he wrote for his Master in Public Policy: https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/26184649-hegseth I haven&#x
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by nkurz 1y ago
In the US, the valedictorian of a high school is typically the person with highest academic grade point average. I've never heard of it considering sports participation, although Wikipedia does suggest that sometimes extra-curriculars
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by nkurz 1y ago
I disagree, and think it's usually better to discuss articles like this than to flag them, but I appreciate your excellent explanation. Flagged or not, your explanation would have been a great standalone comment on the article.
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by nkurz 1y ago
> I hate that outside the probably 5 biggest US cities it's all so boring. Maybe I'm getting old and have rose-colored glasses but I feel like this wasn't the case 20 years ago. What makes you think this is the case? Just

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