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by p_j_w 3y ago
The cynicism may come from the fact that no one has been able to generate system level break even on a fusion plant in a lab setting after decades of work. How can one be anything but skeptical that it'll be commercially available five
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Am I naive to think that when you make $226 million in a year like Pichai that money should stop being your major driving force and that your reputation is more important? Perhaps it is, but your reputation among which group? HN users o
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by p_j_w 3y ago
The Pacific Surfliner can go faster than Brightline currently. It's also longer and has been in service for ages now. Florida isn't ahead of the game, they're playing catch up.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Man, "outside of science" is doing a lot of work here. We also don't see quantum mechanics "outside of science," why would they also not be fundamental? The fact of the matter is that there are A LOT of things we ca
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>See also his weirdly derogatory comments about disco. This won't be a surprise for anyone who knows much about him. Mark Mothersbaugh was a punk/new wave guy (though obviously not exclusively) and most punks had a visceral hat
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>Sometimes the computer is stupid. Then the police SWAT teams need to take this into account before they go making life and death decisions, don't they?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
If this little bit of so-called wisdom were true, one would expect Russia to be going through some good times now given the state of the Soviet Union in the late 70s until its dissolution. It seems about as realistic as one should expect su
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Oh boy, I don't know how I missed that detail. Sorry!
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Was it a Windows version or DOS version?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Those situations are both so far removed from "the ancestral environment" that it's borderline comical to even mention them in the same sentence as said environment. You may as well say that someone a mile away from you is fu
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Just one example: the firmware for some piece of hardware could control the DC biasing of the device. Set the bias incorrectly and now you're drawing more current than is safe for the hardware and drastically reduce the lifetime.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
2021 numbers show Austin having a higher murder rate with 7.7 per 100k. SF was 6.9. https://www.kxan.com/investigations/homicides-on-the-rise-ho...
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by p_j_w 4y ago
It's indicative of the exec's desire to actually engage on a topic with people who might disagree with them. That's a big issue with how much control they can potentially exert on this site.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
One person rehabbing doesn't invalidate the mountains of evidence the other way.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>rehabilitation effect of prison There is no such effect in the USA. Prisons are 100% not designed to rehabilitate anyone here.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
That sounds very hand wavy and not at all convincing. You could just as easily say that time is an emergent property of the universe, so the universe has always existed and needs no cause. The problem in doing that with God is you have some
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Activision-Blizzard, Epic, Microsoft, Take-Two, Electronic Arts, and Sony, as mentioned by the comment above you, aren't companies to be proud of, either.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
We don't go on screaming about how cancer is so much worse than it used to be either, though, do we?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
It doesn't sound to me like he's making the argument that you think he is. He's saying that being able to manipulate Chinese symbols per some instructions isn't sufficient to demonstrate understanding of Chinese. Okay, I
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>it has no endocrine system to produce more abstract feelings like fear or love Even if you assume an entirely Materialist philosophy, this is not a very defensible position to take. We have no way of knowing if there are other arrangeme
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>Finding issue with the later [cholesterol checks] falls a lot more into pop science than actual hard evidence based physical intervention. This statement is in opposition to the consensus of medical professionals. What reason is there f
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by p_j_w 4y ago
I don't think most Europeans believe we have no social safety net or public health care, just that it's woefully inadequate.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>I did get 2 or 3 of those brake slamming moments though (they keep it...interesting?). This is a really interesting way to call something dangerous.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
If efficiency is a deal breaker for someone, they're not going to be looking at a pickup truck in the first place.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
It doesn't matter. Their UI will never be as good as Android Auto or Car Play. They will simply never have the same app support.
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by p_j_w 4y ago
3 individual fingers. I haven't seen the bar plus one finger way of playing it, though I think I get that now. I'm going through some video lessons with a companion app and there have been zero bar chords so far. Might give it a t
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>I guess D would make more sense than E Just learning to play the guitar myself and at least personally, have found D to be a pain in the ass of a chord shape. I can switch between A, E, and G all day long, but throw a D in there and I h
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>If the cartels holding oligopolies on housing, healthcare, and education were disbanded life would be dare I say pleasant in America. These are three of the most important things one needs in life, though. If there are cartels holding o
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by p_j_w 4y ago
Sorry, what is ED in this context?
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by p_j_w 4y ago
>Literal terrorist financing. No one from HSBC went to jail, either.

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