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I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up(electrek.co)
196 points by nkurz 2y ago|98 comments
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by nkurz 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250202005342/https://annas-arc...
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by nkurz 2y ago
Yes, that's a reasonable possibility as well. It's not proof of an agenda, and might be prudent, but I do think it's a form of bias. There's a thin line between skipping "possibly superfluous" details and skip
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by nkurz 2y ago
Most of the news coverage I've seen of this story is omitting what some might consider a relevant detail: almost all the members of this group are trans. This is a divisive topic, but failing to mention this makes me worry a story is
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Does caring about climate change mean I can never ever fly?(vox.com)
2 points by nkurz 2y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 2y ago
> It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. Definitely instructive, but I think also important is how it recharacterizes the past. We should not assume that
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by nkurz 2y ago
The mention of AdamW is brief, but in his defense he includes a link that gives a gloss of it: "An updated overview of recent gradient descent algorithms" [ https://johnchenresearch.github.io/demon/ ].
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by nkurz 2y ago
I don't think that's correct. See the section in the article "Enumerating Employee Emails" which finishes "The jdoe@subaru.com (redacted) email was valid! We went back to the reset password endpoint and hit send.&q
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by nkurz 2y ago
I'm not sure which model you have, but I don't think that's true. I think instead it's that unless you pay for the remote start upgrade (which as you say includes the extra fob) you can't start your car using the n
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by nkurz 2y ago
Questions for both you and OP: Have you ever sent any email using this as a return address? Have you ever received any non-spam HN mail at this address? If yes, it seems like it might have been grabbed from a server in the middle. If not,
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by nkurz 2y ago
I don't thank that Dan is saying that the discussion is best held elsewhere. And I don't think he's saying it shouldn't be held. I take his point to be that if you are going to start that discussion, you are responsibl
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by nkurz 2y ago
Since this document doesn't easily lead to the others in the series, here are some direct links: Part 1 "How China Could Quarantine Taiwan": https://features.csis.org/chinapower/china-quarantine-taiwan...
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by nkurz 2y ago
I agree. Perhaps you could help me add examples to this Feedback thread? https://kagifeedback.org/d/5354-kagi-ignores-search-terms I've added a few, but I worry that adding more is counterproductive. Maybe it
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by nkurz 2y ago
From the article, the cymbal-making came first, and then the name followed: The company’s proprietary alloy was alchemized 13 generations ago in Constantinople (now Istanbul) by Debbie Zildjian’s ancestor, Avedis I. He was trying to make g
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by nkurz 2y ago
Hmm. You are right that there is no ability to add a comment to an article once it's dead, but you should be able to view all the comments that are there. If I recall correctly, this one had about 15 upvotes but no comments when I vo
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by nkurz 2y ago
I presume you are right that the previous article was flagged, but today's article was also killed by flags. Unless there was a dupe, it was flagged and dead when I found it on hckrnews.com. I "vouched" for it to bring it b
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by nkurz 2y ago
What purpose is served by the large graphic at the top of the article? It looks to be a picture of yellowjackets (or possibly honeybees) eating leftover barbecue sauce at a picnic table. There was some mention of "Honeycomb" in
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by nkurz 2y ago
Nice write up! Can you flesh out your example a little bit with more specifics about how the stock market version works? In particular, are the front-runners actually taking a risk by buying before they have a committed order? Or are the
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by nkurz 2y ago
Hmm. I heard that, but didn't put it together. Magnesium Iron Silicate is Olivine. It has a very distinctive olive-green color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine . Cummingtonite is Magnesium Iron Silicate Hyd
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by nkurz 2y ago
Did you link the right video? This is an old Onion video about a NASA mission. Was it in there somewhere?
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by nkurz 2y ago
I can tell you there is one that for me is head-and-shoulders above the rest: Wickson Crab. +1 to Wickson Crab. It's my favorite apple as well. I grew them in California, but my tree here in Vermont isn't bearing yet, so I'
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by nkurz 2y ago
The last paragraph of the article seems out of place: State transportation officials are also struggling with fake license plates. The company that operates automated enforcement cameras on a growing number of Colorado’s toll lanes has rec
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by nkurz 2y ago
I fear you've mistaken the use of a period as a decimal separator for a thousands separator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator . Your numbers are thus off by a factor of 1000. Cobalt is actually $24
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by nkurz 2y ago
It's a good argument, but is your math right? Texas looks to have a state tax of 20 cents a gallon, plus a federal tax of 18 cents a gallon. 12000 miles at 30 mpg is 400 gallons. The state portion is thus $80/year, and the combi
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The Limits of Arbitrage(rajivsethi.substack.com)
2 points by nkurz 2y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 2y ago
https://archive.is/38LNY
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by nkurz 2y ago
Decent article, but flagged for the misleading title change. The subtitle might be better: "Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one"
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by nkurz 2y ago
It's not the oddness that's the issue for me. The problem is that I read it as mocking and condescending. Do British readers see it otherwise?
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Anatomy of an internet argument(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
181 points by nkurz 2y ago|115 comments
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by nkurz 2y ago
Not a terrible thought, and loquats are highly variable in fruit quality, but loquats aren't citrus so there is no chance they will hybridize with it. It's in the rose family thus genetically closer to pears and apples, and (appa

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