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by randerson 5mo ago
I live in the US and while most of us know about the more serious crimes that often get prosecuted, there is a long tail of crimes that no single person could memorize. Over 60,000 pages of federal laws alone.
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by randerson 5mo ago
Its one of the few places you can be fairly sure you're chatting to people, not bots, who have no agenda to sell you anything. Of course if it ever becomes popular, that will quickly change. But for now it is like early IRC.
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by randerson 5mo ago
I'm just expecting a reduction in volume, vibration, and unpleasant resonance. In any of these categories you can already find some machines are quieter than others despite comparable air flows. So its definitely possible to reduce n
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by randerson 5mo ago
I love Noctua, and just wish they'd branch out from PCs and build more types of fans. Our lives are filled with so much irritating noise from noisy fans. Air conditioners, kitchen extractors, hair dryers, box fans, air purifiers, vacuu
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by randerson 6mo ago
Perhaps there are others in your neighborhood in the same position, who would only get into it if there were other nodes. So be the first, get your friends into it, and maybe more nodes will follow. It's only $30 or so for a device. Th
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by randerson 6mo ago
Its optional but it helps to see where nodes are on a map, and would be useful in (for example) a search & rescue operation.
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by randerson 6mo ago
Coffee can do strange things to animals. There's a study where NASA gave various drugs to spiders to see how it affected their webs[0]. Coffee had a stranger effect on the web than marijuana. [0] https://web.archive.org&#x2F
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by randerson 6mo ago
I'm an immigrant to the US who still has a bank account in my home country. After I told that bank I'd moved abroad, they required me to fill out paperwork for FATCA and give them my US SSN. I also have to self-report all foreign
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by randerson 6mo ago
I'd love if it could tell when a plane is ascending or descending and then add the last known rate of change to the simulation. Then you could watch a plane land.
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by randerson 6mo ago
You still have to pay the interest from somewhere. And presumably you'd need to put the coins into some kind of escrow so that the lender can get their money back even if you conveniently forget your private key.
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by randerson 6mo ago
Legal or not, there are real safety reasons not to put a small child up front. I bet your car's user manual says not to put kids up front. The safety systems are designed with minimum height & weight assumptions. The front seat bel
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by randerson 7mo ago
I'm not even sure which of many questions to ask first.. - Are you a furry? - Do you tend to wander off and forget who you are? - Who would think to scan a human for a chip? - Is this a common thing to do and I just don't know it?
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by randerson 7mo ago
When I watch a film, I know it is fiction and special effects. But most of the fake AI-generated videos are being passed off as real on social media. It is exhausting (and increasingly difficult) to analyze every video on my feed to try fig
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by randerson 7mo ago
Doesn't the world only have about 50 years [0] worth of oil remaining in the ground? Climate change and war aside, it seems like that should be a major reason to accelerate the change to renewables. [0] https://www.worldomet
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by randerson 7mo ago
I wonder if they nerfed HDMI connectivity to get people to buy the expensive Apple Studio displays. I just bought myself a Studio XDR, and my MBP now wakes up in under 2 seconds, compared to about 30 seconds with my old Dell monitor.
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by randerson 7mo ago
> I don’t even think we have enough rare earth metals and electrical grid capacity to go even twice as fast in adoption I also have some concerns about our grid, but not from EVs. AI is already consuming more 5% of the grid, more than tw
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by randerson 7mo ago
Likewise, if you know you've already got the current quarter in the bag, but the next quarter is looking soft, you tell that truck driver to slow down!
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by randerson 7mo ago
I think UBI would have a similar effect just via increased demand instead of a decreased supply. When the poor and middle class are all getting supplemental income, and they're competing for the same rentals, the landlords will raise p
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by randerson 7mo ago
Oil is up due to shortages due to the war in Iran. RAM is up in price due to supply shortages due to AI. During COVID much of the early inflation was caused by supply shortages due to factories shutting down. Then house prices shot up in su
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by randerson 7mo ago
I can work from anywhere, but I like to live in a superstar city because I find it boring living in the suburbs. I want to be near my friends, near the live events, near the buzzing restaurants and art galleries and clothing stores where I
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by randerson 7mo ago
> You're failing to explain what dictates the price the market will bear. Most people like to live in the nicest place they can afford. This is a force pulling prices upward when many people with excess cash are competing for a limi
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by randerson 7mo ago
I see it more as, we should have taken their money sooner so that we don't have this problem now!
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by randerson 7mo ago
It would be in a sense, because that money is otherwise mostly hoarded by the wealthy, whose spending would look the same whether or not they are taxed. If money is saved and not spent, it is not really part of the economy in this sense. Bu
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by randerson 7mo ago
I'm UBI-curious, but surely inflation would be inevitable if everyone suddenly had $x more disposable income per year? Landlords and grocery stores and everyone else would raise prices because they know people can afford it. Obviously
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by randerson 7mo ago
A well moderated forum (like HN) is great. I don't have time for the signal-to-noise ratio of X. IMHO Reddit would be better if it had AI moderators that strictly follow a sub's policies. Users could read the policies upfront befo
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by randerson 7mo ago
You are lucky to get lo-bat. I get no-bat. Working perfectly one moment, not responding the next. Not so much as a popup telling me why my PC just got unresponsive.
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by randerson 7mo ago
I've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult li
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by randerson 7mo ago
Also got tinnitus here. Woke up with it about 5 years ago. I'd recently had COVID and was also on a strong medication. But I've been a lifelong insomniac so this article has me wondering. I can only sleep when there's another
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by randerson 7mo ago
Hypothetically if we had a choice between sending in humans to war or sending in fully autonomous drones that make decisions on par with humans, the moral choice might well be the drones - because it doesn't put our service members at
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by randerson 7mo ago
But there's practically zero enforcement and everyone knows it. You have the few law abiding people doing 25 while others are doing 50 while stoned and texting.. on the same road. Narrowing lanes creates new hazards because cars sold a

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