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by nwiswell 3y ago
> But is it still worth 2c if you would have never paid $11k for the seat in the first place? Nope. I've even second guessed the Hyatt hotel reservations on this basis (I would likely have selected a different hotel). The whole thin
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> With a value of 2.00¢ per Chase point It's very unclear how you've obtained this value and it absolutely does not match my actual experience. I've exceeded 2 cents historically with a small number of redemptions (general
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> We have what, like 50+ years of certainty as to how dangerous people are as drivers Yes, the answer is "very". Over one percent (1 in 93, National Safety Council, 2021[1]) of Americans will die in a car crash. That is insane
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by nwiswell 3y ago
It's significantly more absurd to permit highly distractable, slow-reacting meatbags to operate the multi-ton high-velocity death barges in the close vicinity of pedestrians and other meatbags-cum-death-barge-pilots.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This is an extremely cynical take. (As usual, Hacker News!) > The implication that "if people just got off their asses and did some exercise they wouldn't be disabled!" is disgusting. I don't know how you got that imp
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> most would consider newbie gains exhausted once you can no longer linearly add weight/reps on a weekly basis This is likely to happen after about 3 months. I don't really agree that the kind of weights you can achieve after 3
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> You mention some pretty scary KG numbers there > I just wanted to mention to readers that even squatting a ‘measly’ 50KG or deadlifting 30KG Yes -- this is really important to contextualize. Barbell resistance training is actually t
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> this "feature" is literally only beneficial for the company Is this actually true? I don't know. I don't think consumer file hosting services would be viable at their present price points if they were storing every
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Not novel. Very much the opposite. The article mentions that the original Cu2S resistivity measurements date from 1951.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Amazon doesn’t actually own data centers; similar to how they don’t own warehouses. Are you certain they don't own at least a fraction of the facilities they use? Amazon has very good credit (AA or AA-), which in a lot of cases
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> I know everyone goes on about the famous Sunbeam toaster I think I must run in different circles.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
As I read this list, the rhythm to We Didn't Start the Fire spontaneously started playing in my head. Sorry not sorry if I just subjected you to the same.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
There are now several authentic videos of bits of rock (lead apatite) appearing to do things around magnets that they have no business doing. Maybe there's a lot of smoke and no fire, but there's videographic evidence of somethin
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> CPU heat output is limited by the resistance of the semiconductors. This is not true anymore. At leading edge process nodes (i.e., smaller conductor pitch), the bulk resistivity of copper changes dramatically because it is increasingly
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I think that's right. There's no indication that it's mechanically strong, so you'd have it wrapped in layers of rubber/epoxy and steel cables in order to suspend it between power poles or transmission pylons. YBCO
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by nwiswell 3y ago
That would likely be addressed by vacuum deposition techniques.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
It would be sub-10%* gold content. We're talking about gold doping, specifically substitution in the Pb(1) site, not an alloy. ETA: I was off by an order of magnitude (originally I said sub-1%) because the doping is extensive, and the
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> People care to such a small extent that most don’t even bother to vote. That isn't supported by the facts: > Approximately 240 million people were eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election and roughly 66.1% of them sub
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Generally that's prohibited by merchant agreements with the card networks. You will sometimes see "convenience fees" to use a card for large payments, which is equivalent.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
There is little question that, if this becomes the dominant way to settle payments, prevailing prices will decline by an amount proportional to the previous transaction costs. That is obviously a significant benefit to the consumer.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> to pay a person Not in the Bay Area
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by nwiswell 3y ago
In the industry they are very literally called "tools". No one calls them "machines". E.g., "the fab is ordering another six EUV tools". Similarly a lathe or vertical mill is "a machine tool". They&#x
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by nwiswell 3y ago
It's still significant if it means that your desalination plant is only active 50% of the time, since it means you need twice the capacity.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> But rings of superconducting magnets and their controllers, along with radioactive lithium blankets that have to be renewed and reprocessed regularly, or gigajoule banks of lasers and little ultra-precision gold-wrapped fuel pellets? N
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Sure, but are there examples besides aspirin and opiates? Unsurprisingly those are pain medications, since it was immediately obvious that they work. The other class of drug that would obviously be recognized as effective are psychoactives
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by nwiswell 3y ago
That gets pretty awkward the first time that a LLM turns out to have intentionally stalled a critical business process.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
That's a pretty cool artifact, but I don't think it has to be simultaneously worthless -- there are plenty of heirlooms that would be worth money at a pawn shop. I'd say an heirloom is any object that has a much greater value
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Why can’t we make popular open source video games? Well, there are some. Check out Bitburner, Battle for Wesnoth, 0 A.D, etc. The serious answer is that it's very hard work that requires a multi-year development cycle and a divers
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I see a lot of conspiracy theories like this one but zero explanation of motive. WHY would Musk act as a stooge for the Saudis in this way, at a cost of $44 billion? He's the richest man in the world, he doesn't have to do errands
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by nwiswell 3y ago
If you have a disaster, you just draw slightly more than 4% for that year. Ideally you have good and/or lean years, as well, but if you don't you might have to way to modestly supplement your income. Also, it's very unusual f

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