patejam

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by patejam 8y ago
Yeah I understand aerial lines carried by those large towers shown in that image, but utility poles that can get hit by trucks seems problematic. Partly for accidental incidents like a truck crash, but also partly because of how easily it c
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by patejam 8y ago
There are massively important fiber lines being hung from a utility pole?
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by patejam 8y ago
Unplug it?
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by patejam 8y ago
You mean like sunglasses?
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by patejam 9y ago
That's assuming pricing scales linearly. More likely, it takes a flat-ish $x to maintain the infrastructure, and the reduced usage means they can't reach that minimum $x threshold.
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by patejam 9y ago
I don't have kids, and I'm still pretty young (23), but one of my favorite things to do as a kid was go camping with my family. Have you thought about a "spontaneous" roadtrip and weekend camping trip somewhere with no r
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by patejam 9y ago
Is it fair to compare the US to Europe? US has an extremely different driving culture than Europe. ~13500miles/year for the US; ~8000miles/year for Europe. ~800 cars per 1000 people in the US; ~550-600 per 1000 in Europe. Also, a
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by patejam 9y ago
For me, two reasons: 1. If we're already going to do the journey to a far off planet, it'd be nice if we didn't have to have a huge amount of infrastructure to stay alive on the planet. 2. I feel like one of the ultimate goal
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by patejam 9y ago
...Or it's just a site to keep up with friends through messenger, events, pictures, etc? You just have to do a bit of work to filter out the crap from your timeline (unfollow/unfriending)
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by patejam 9y ago
I'm surprised David Chang let this burger onto his menu. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-meat-of-the-...
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by patejam 9y ago
Your comments sound like a PR statement, what goods? How do you know how close they are? Looks to me that they designed a mass-producible car outfitted with self-driving systems (which is very cool!). But they are only just starting to do
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by patejam 9y ago
I'm not sure why you think they're dead ends. Religion is often a lifelong thing and can be very beneficial for you and your community. Politics and history are important throughout your life. I hope I don't have to explain t
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by patejam 9y ago
Do you see no benefit in knowing pop culture? It's hugely important for socializing in the real world, and socializing is one of the main points of life. I'd even say I was stunted socially early on for not participating in much p
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by patejam 9y ago
What does it mean to be "addicted" to email? Emails are very important, but in an ideal world I'd spend as minimal time as possible handling emails.
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by patejam 9y ago
Map your Caps Lock button to ESC
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by patejam 9y ago
But his approach is boorrinnggg. It's just like any other school lesson. Throw some wheels and a motor on a board and create a simple abstract language: drive() stop() turn() wait() Boom, now you have them programming and have a freaki
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by patejam 9y ago
Are you serious with your ideas for an interview? You have: 1. Someone running linux? What about gamers who dual boot or VM into linux? What about people using the new windows+ubuntu thing? What about people who do windows/android&#x2F
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by patejam 9y ago
I feel like we shouldn't be expressed in dollars, but in percentage of total funds. In this case 16 million is about 1% of the total. This would be a $16 billion case if the US banking system was the target and used this technology.
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by patejam 9y ago
You can fly a plane into a restricted airspace and get off without criminal charges. It's completely unreasonable to expect a multi-decade sentence for something like this. I also dislike drones around people (I'm a climber, and
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by patejam 9y ago
I think there's such a pushback on the term "cheating death" because it sounds like "I should have died, but I didn't", when in reality that's not what the thought process is. The thought process is "
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by patejam 9y ago
By far the best article I've seen to supplement this: https://www.outsideonline.com/2190306/why-alex-honnolds-free... As a climber, there are very few people that I trust to have a more useful opinion on all this
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by patejam 9y ago
Would it even be possible to measure this?
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by patejam 9y ago
They're out on the ice the entire game, and usually the only person on the team that can play that position at any acceptable level. That on top of goalies being your last line of defense, having to take 25-35 shots per game. The same
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by patejam 9y ago
Even if they're taking huge risks going through a debris field, they're destroying the craft soon after anyway. If it actually is risky, it's probably worth the risk.
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by patejam 9y ago
To be fair, which side companies take on international disputes (in this case a border) sometimes matters. e.g. all the craziness over Taiwan being part of China or not.
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by patejam 9y ago
>“I don’t think it would be American Express,” one diner said. “I feel like that would be braggy, like I’m trying to prove I’m a big shot.” >Others nodded in agreement. “I’d probably use this,” said another, pulling out a blue-tinged
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by patejam 10y ago
Under a minute when I was practicing. I'm sure it'd take me 2-3 minutes now. My last algorithm switched the top right and top left edge pieces (as well as two corners which I'll ignore for this explanation). So I look as the
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by patejam 10y ago
This is also how people can solve Rubik's Cubes blindfolded: use algorithms that only move a couple pieces without changing the rest of the state. It's suddenly way easier to keep track the state when only a few pieces are moving
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by patejam 10y ago
I haven't had this experience at all. Prime ships in two days almost always. Same day prime does was it says. I've had refunds without having to ship back products, and when I did have to ship back a product (shoes) I got the refu
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by patejam 10y ago
You don't need "vision algorithms". Just average the color of a couple of pixels per square. The cube is always in the same place, no need to do anything fancy.

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