parsimo2010

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by parsimo2010 7mo ago
North Dakota voted 67% overall for Trump, this is not too far from being representative of the general population. Considering that anyone who is openly hostile against energy companies is going to be removed during selection I don’t see th
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
Both of the examples you gave both fall under "a special keystroke combination," which I did list. Typing "--" is two keystrokes compared to one for an en-dash. The iOS example isn't just "long press the hyphen
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
I don’t think I’m judging shallowly- there is no em-dash on a standard keyboard. The one way it ends up in real writing is if you use a typesetting program like LaTeX, or Word changes an en-dash with auto formatting, or the user consciously
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
Mostly because when I see an em dash now, I assume that it was written by AI, not that the author is one of the people who puts enough effort into their product that they intentionally use specific sized dashes. AI might suck, but if the au
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
A major consideration is that the state holds a monopoly on violence. A single person defending their citizenship with a gun might be morally right, but they will end up physically dead. And a few hundred foreign-born citizens with guns mig
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
Cigarette companies were not penalized for making addictive drugs or doing generally immoral but technically legal things. They were penalized because the USA had set a minimum age for smoking cigarettes, and they were marketing directly to
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
I am generally displeased with the way social media has evolved, but I'm not in favor of this lawsuit. It seems like a way to blame tech companies for Congress' failure to regulate businesses properly. None of the engineers involv
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
I was getting ready to debate you, but I'll admit that I'm mostly wrong about title insurance. Special warranty deeds only cover the current seller, but title insurance can defend against prior ownership claims. I will note that j
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
Many people don't remember, but in early 2020 just prior to COVID shutting the world down the US and Iran were near war- the US even assassinated one of Iran's important military commanders https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
> how is ownership established if there is no single source of truth? Oh, boy, let me tell you it is very disconcerting to pay a title company to do a search of legal records on a property, and the only guarantee they offer in some state
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
You might have written software that is "done" if you compile it with a single compiler version and don't use any OS hooks/APIs and don't care if future changes breaks your software. I.e. it's done if you think
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
Thoughts: 1. What in the circular funding? This feels more like a financing scheme founding it under X/Twitter and then spinning it over to SpaceX. I suspect some debt is disappearing or taxes aren't getting assessed because of th
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by parsimo2010 8mo ago
I wouldn’t bet on it. If the baseband modem has access to location data then it could send it without the OS being able to intervene. I don’t know about Pixels, but many devices are highly integrated now that I would want some real thorough
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
A common approach to research is to do literature review first, and build up a library of citable material. Then when writing your article, you summarize the relevant past research and put in appropriate citations. To clarify, there is a di
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
> Tone policing isn’t helpful. Yes it is, these are YC alums. A significant portion of that program is learning how to pitch to investors. Are you saying that YC wastes this effort? The goal of this post might be to recruit engineers to
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
It’s not the engineers who have the money or the control of company decisions. The engineers might make recommendations to their PMs and director of whatever program, but when considered against the myriad other bus options in LEO, the deci
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
Congrats on having a successful mission, it seems quite successful for a first try, and you clearly have some talented people on your team. But I’m going to give you my unsolicited opinion on the writing style. The writing style sounds more
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
This is part of the same reason many people don't use Bitcoin- you can't actually do much with it because retailers don't accept it. But China is definitely thinking about how to fix that problem, and soon they will make it p
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
And to add on (rather than edit my comment), I think the saving grace that keeps USD around for a while longer is the last section of the article, "Deposit dollarization in emerging markets" A lot of growing economies don't&#
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
As time goes on, fewer people are alive that predate the EU and more people will perceive it as a lasting institution. Additionally, we've now seen the EU survive the departure of a major economic power (the UK). More people are certai
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
Both Adafruit and Sparkfun manufacturing quality is higher than generic manufacturing from China. I suspect that most of the Chinese alternatives meet their price point by using parts that are out of spec and were purchased at a discount by
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
This is very much a “would you like some coffee with all of your cream?” situation.
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by parsimo2010 9mo ago
You can’t write your magnum opus without any practice. Some people write every day, possibly without enjoyment, so that they can create something noteworthy after they have developed their writing skills to be capable of it.
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by parsimo2010 10mo ago
> most of tidyverse is pretty similar to and consistent with most base R functions What? The main tidyverse packages are popular because they are different from base R. If the packages duplicated base R functionality and usage was the sa
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by parsimo2010 10mo ago
I almost wish Hadley had forked R to make the tidyverse. What I usually see are people that start using tidy functions and coding style, but at some point they realize they don’t know how to do something the tidy way or something hasn’t bee
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by parsimo2010 10mo ago
The point is the original commenter said there’s a risk of these kinds of projects getting shut down. The creator chimed in and claimed there wasn’t much risk, and then someone posted comments from the same creator in the recent past talkin
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by parsimo2010 11mo ago
The article is paywalled, but remember that the USA’s business giants during the Cold War were ran quite different than businesses today, especially with the fact that they had major internal R&D labs that did novel research in-house an
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by parsimo2010 11mo ago
A lot of people are offering opinions on homeschooling. I'll throw in one anecdote from my past. I played tennis with a kid who was homeschooled through middle school but was sent to high school so he could graduate with a diploma inst
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by parsimo2010 11mo ago
It's great to do experimentation because you get to learn a lot, but at the end of the day stick with well-studied designs if you're making a something you want to use. The oscillators mentioned below all have well known strengths
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by parsimo2010 11mo ago
Step back and reconsider what a high school diploma means. You are not qualified to be a software engineer with a highschool diploma, don't set software engineer-level expectations for them. A high school diploma means you can particip

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