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by patentatt 4y ago
> vintage CD players Now I feel old. I remember the first time I saw and heard a Compact Disc. It was a rainbow colored object straight from the future. It was magical, the whole family gathered around the little boom box like thing play
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by patentatt 4y ago
The brigade of Elon Musk defenders in this very thread is a perfect example of how his skill lies in crafting his public persona.
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by patentatt 4y ago
And also that motor vehicle crash deaths were cut in half between ~2003 and ~2013 (eyeballed). That's a very significant development, I wonder what the specific causes were?
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by patentatt 4y ago
I didn't know that, and am glad that they do transcode on the fly when appropriate. Very impressive that it's seamless to the end user, I've never sat waiting for a YouTube clip to play even when it's definitely somethin
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by patentatt 4y ago
Just as an aside, it's absolutely astounding how much hardware Google must throw at YouTube to achieve this for any video anybody in the world wants to upload. The processing power to reencode to so many versions, and then to store all
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by patentatt 4y ago
Maybe in some libertarian dream land only, not in reality. You think a hospital will personally negotiate rates ahead of time with a single patient? Absolutely fictitious.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Can anyone recommend an x86 assembler to use in 2022? Is NASM still the default choice? Also, what about a modern x86 reference, most of what I have and pretty much stops at the pentium era. Any source for an authoritative reference that co
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by patentatt 4y ago
I wouldn't say it's 'light on software' in an absolute sense, but the Kia Niro EV/PHEV has an 'average' amount of gadget and doodad bs compared to a full 'Tesla' amount. About the same as any oth
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by patentatt 4y ago
One possible solution to the great filter is that we're 'first.' It usually gets dismissed out of hand as both improbable and egotistical (or whatever the whole species level equivalent is). But it's also not impossible,
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by patentatt 4y ago
Very anecdotally from my Chicago (close) suburb: a little bit screwed. The available inventory in my neighborhood is the lowest I've ever seen for early spring, there's just very little up for sale.
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by patentatt 4y ago
If it's for sale to the public it most likely means it's overpriced. Everyone who owns a share of it knows more about it than you, and the manufacturer itself has almost complete information. If they aren't buying it at this
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by patentatt 4y ago
But Musk had to cry about it and sued to be able to be called a co-founder: "A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves
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by patentatt 4y ago
Banking is highly regulated at both the state and federal levels, it astounds me that they're able to have such a blatantly consumer hostile clause in their terms. Either this is plainly unenforceable (which happens and companies do al
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by patentatt 4y ago
This has been beat to death, but another perspective is that the blue bubble indicates a better level of service, and is thus preferred. More reliable, faster, better media sharing, etc. Green bubble means the opposite because sms is a vast
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by patentatt 4y ago
The short answer is that's a political question along the same lines as what should the minimum wage be, or what should the rate of taxation be? There is no one right answer for all times and all situations, and it should be determined
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by patentatt 4y ago
I don't even want their 'charity,' I just want systems in place to prevent anyone from accumulating that amount of wealth in the first place. First, the basis of philanthropy is to have all the 'normals' grovel at t
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by patentatt 5y ago
I can understand each logical step of MAD, but if you look at the whole picture it really does seem kind of silly. Like, why not both agree to allow the other to place a stationary gigantic nuke in each major metro area under the control of
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by patentatt 5y ago
Amir over at ASR [1] tests single speakers and then will often do a short subjective listen at the end of his reviews. Sometimes he'll mention how enjoyable a single speaker can be and fill the room with music. For myself, I'm rar
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by patentatt 5y ago
It would be acceptable if windows search worked well and was fast -- but it's not. I search for something and it still churns the file system looking for my search query. What is the point of all that indexing if it still seems to alwa
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by patentatt 5y ago
Same here. My nanny makes more than I did at my first job out of college as an electrical engineer (wasn't long enough ago for inflation to have that large of an impact either). Childcare is our highest monthly expense, more so than
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by patentatt 5y ago
Your comment about the Shanghai subway sparked my curiosity. Wikipedia says the Shanghai metro consists of 396 stations across 19 lines, and has been operating since 1993. How does that square with "since [2012] the Shanghai subway sta
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by patentatt 5y ago
> On the other hand the olympics and the world cup does seem like a good venue for authoritarian regimes to create spectacles. Off the top of my head: recent Olympic host countries include Russia, China, and Brazil . World Cup hosts incl
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by patentatt 5y ago
I think that OP is referencing new taxes for existing schools. This happened a lot in my area, where schools that were built in the 60's and 70's get major renovations often including new athletic facilities. One common large expe
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by patentatt 5y ago
Very good point. I just want there to be a simple answer to stop the bloodshed, but there isn't one. The alternative, the reality, is just so gruesome I wished there was a way out of this for all involved.
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by patentatt 5y ago
That makes sense. It's all just pretext for aggression, and to provide a fig leaf for some idiots (like me) to see if they want to see if that way.
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by patentatt 5y ago
Yep, you're correct on all counts. I rescind my devils-advocate hypothetical. Thanks for laying that out so clearly.
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by patentatt 5y ago
Not a Russian apologist here, but is that the worst outcome? It does appear that there is some separatist movement in the disputed territories, right? In the spirit of self-determination, why shouldn't they be allowed to cleave off an
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by patentatt 5y ago
I'm still confused. Basements go below frost line, sure, but bedrock can be hundreds of feet below the surface. I don't know of any home I've ever seen that has piles driven down to bedrock. Is this just a regional thing? Wha
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by patentatt 5y ago
> Foundation footings set to bedrock and insulated above the freeze line Not knocking it, but is this normal for single family home construction? Is it possible with reasonable cost? Is it primarily for an earthquake-prone region? The id
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by patentatt 5y ago
> r cannot possibly be greater than g over the long term. Thomas Piketty would like to have a word with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

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