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by positr0n 5y ago
I haven't looked in a long time, but it has high quality 4k rips with Atmos sound tracks like a Blu-ray would?
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by positr0n 5y ago
At first sure. But in this hypothetical future I think holodecks would eventually become widespread enough that an upstart vendor would differentiate itself by selling an unencumbered holodeck.
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by positr0n 5y ago
The limit is very high. Every kW generated by hydrogen fusion is a kW that, by the laws of physics, will eventually be dissipated. Enough exponential growth fusing hydrogen on this planet and the earth would quite literally become a mini su
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by positr0n 5y ago
I know someone who did this for a over a decade. Even got promoted to management in one of the two jobs! They would sometimes have to take calls from both jobs with one earbud in each ear connected to each laptop. The industry the companies
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by positr0n 5y ago
Maybe gumby is talking about the difference between 0.1s as a time duration vs the concept of time durations with tenths of a second precision? I have trouble parsing it too.
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by positr0n 5y ago
Because it is misinformation. An electric car on dirty power still produces less pollution than an ICE car. Power plants are very efficient. And even if they weren't the case it would still be a good strategy to tackle both problems si
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by positr0n 5y ago
Texas Property Code Section 202.010: HOAs and POAs cannot prohibit or restrict a property owner from installing a solar energy device I also live in Plano. This law was passed many many years ago, so if the HOA is really saying that they sh
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by positr0n 5y ago
It also has to make the networking part of Bitcoin fit within physics. From eyeballing the difficulty graph it looks like if you fixed the network difficulty in January 2010 then a new block would be mined every few picoseconds at the peak
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by positr0n 5y ago
I live in a suburb of a quarter million directly north of Dallas. They are building up some decently dense mixed-use areas along the 4 major highways that bound the city. Mostly on the north-west side (Legacy West) so far, but they are tryi
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by positr0n 5y ago
The most compliments I ever got on my spouses ring is in the couple months after our first child was born and her fingers were too swollen to wear the original wedding rings. She switched to a $10 Target ring with a huge fake diamond.
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by positr0n 5y ago
Offering to sell someone C4 who is seeking explosives for a concrete plan, and then arresting him after he purchases (which is what happened) is not anywhere close to entrapment. But anyway I agree that a few arrests a year like this are no
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by positr0n 5y ago
Based on the spelling of favour I am assuming you are not from the US. In the US, fixed rate mortgages for between 15-30 years are very much the norm, with 30 year mortgages much more common than 15. You can absolutely get a 30 year loan up
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by positr0n 6y ago
> As I understand it, there are two ways to purchase electricity in Texas: You are correct, but I feel this phrasing vastly overstates how common Griddy's real time pricing is (well... was). Griddy was a startup and the only provide
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by positr0n 6y ago
Exceptional as in "unusual, not typical" not as in "awesome, outstanding"
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by positr0n 6y ago
I didn't have time to dig in to the sources but I wonder if that fun fact is still true. Back in the day your VCR and TV used to consume a large amount of power in standby. These days a device on standby consumes pennies of power a yea
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by positr0n 6y ago
When did Jefferson sour on the French Revolution? I know he helped the Marquis de Lafayette write The Declaration of the Rights of Man. Granted that was very early in the revolution, before it turned on the liberal nobles like Lafayette. Fu
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by positr0n 6y ago
All the public does not reside on Twitter. Now I will grant you that 90% of my techie coworkers are heavy Twitter users, almost no one else I know in real life is on Twitter. I'm seeing stats online like "22% of US adults" an
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by positr0n 6y ago
I've experimented with putting some or all of my modifier keys under non-pinky keys like O on my ergodox. My problem with that is that it forces me to drastically slow down my typing. Otherwise typing a word like "word" will
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by positr0n 6y ago
I'm not going to say what this article describes is a power move, but sitting in silence when someone should be talking can absolutely be a power move. A few job changes ago I read (patio11 I think) that after both sides present oppo
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by positr0n 6y ago
Probably some grad student pipets a precise quantity of scorpian semen onto a slide, perhaps with a dye to aid the process, and manually counts the number of sperm with a microscope. Human sperm tests are done using a similar procedure depe
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by positr0n 6y ago
"when I look I just find shops with [...], egotistical pseudo-feudal lord bosses with an illusion of hierarchical dominance, [...]" The rest of the traits you list I can usually figure out, but how can you get at that one from jus
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by positr0n 6y ago
Seems this paper is already withdrawn. Underneath the summary: Comments: Paper is withdrawn because a counterexample was found to Theorem 1
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by positr0n 6y ago
Nubank has over ten million customers and undoubtedly many more people in their target market that know their brand. The only people that would recognize Cognitect are clojure developers or particularly hardcore fans.
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by positr0n 6y ago
It's common to "seed the tip jar" by transferring some of your own BTC from another wallet to the public facing one. So that number should be treated like a ceiling.
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by positr0n 6y ago
There's an xkcd what if that made me realize how deep/shallow the oceans are in various places. https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ Bonus - what happens to Mars if you dump all the water there: https://w
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by positr0n 6y ago
I'm not convinced that taking two of the hardest technical problems humanity has ever attempted (space flight and particle colliders) and trying to do them both at the same time will go well.
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by positr0n 6y ago
I am about as hardcore a vim user as they get and I would never edit Java without an IDE. That being said the first thing I do after installing IntelliJ is open the plugin settings and install IdeaVim.
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by positr0n 6y ago
> The taxes the government collects don't actually get recirculated back into the economy. I don't understand what you mean by this. Sure a small percentage of taxes go towards expenses in foreign countries or to foreign compan
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by positr0n 6y ago
If you build a versatile platform that can do everything you end up with Jira. Which many people love because it can do anything and many people hate for the same reason.
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by positr0n 7y ago
What's the difference that it is not equivalent to buying? Nothing is special tax-wise about those shares that they came from RSUs. If you got N shares at $X you've paid taxes on $X*N, she same if you bought those shares with cash

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