roarcher

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by roarcher 3y ago
I agree, that is suspicious.
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by roarcher 3y ago
Or likewise, you can get away with a whole lot of violence by claiming it was all done by saboteurs.
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by roarcher 3y ago
I see this claim every time the riots of 2020 are brought up, but have seen little evidence for it. Are we to assume that anyone who misbehaves at these events is a saboteur? That seems awfully convenient.
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by roarcher 3y ago
"per hour" vs "per mile" is an odd comparison. A car probably travels 60 miles in that hour.
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by roarcher 3y ago
> except for CO2 Considering this entire thread is only about CO2, not air quality, perhaps that would have been worth mentioning in your original comment.
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by roarcher 3y ago
> Even though efficiency has improved, in 2016 California reported that just 1 hour of a gas-powered leaf blower was the equivalent of taking a Camry from LA to Denver. That cannot possibly be true. That's a 16 hour drive through 10
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by roarcher 3y ago
Interesting, the devices in both those videos are made by the same company that makes the handheld launcher from the article.
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by roarcher 3y ago
> it also has the potential to reduce the number of dangerous pursuits. I agree that it does in concept, I just can't see them reliably tagging vehicles with a launcher as anemic as this one. The speed and range of the projectile is
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by roarcher 3y ago
The only thing this seems likely to hit is the ground.
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by roarcher 3y ago
> > That projectile travels at a claimed 37 miles per hour, and has a straight-forward range of 35 feet — though the company claims that, with an arc, it can theoretically reach 60 feet. This launcher doesn't seem very capable of
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by roarcher 3y ago
Prediction: the NYPD is never going to actually use this thing. Maybe some vastly improved future iteration, but not this one. > the NYPD has invested $19,500 on the Guardian-HX venture. That's pocket change to the NYPD. It's n
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by roarcher 4y ago
Caprica isn't woke from what I recall, it just isn't as good as BSG. Still worth watching for the backstory though.
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by roarcher 4y ago
> It’s just they are outnumbered 1000:1 by some of the worst engineers I’ve encountered. That's because a lot of the Indian consulting firms will take pretty much anyone off the street, put them through a 1-week "boot camp&quot
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by roarcher 4y ago
Firearms are designed to kill, lethality is kind of the point. A 9mm does literally every single thing they describe as being part of this "blast effect" (which is not a term in ballistics), and so does pretty much every other car
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by roarcher 4y ago
Now that I'm actually putting this code into an editor to try your suggestion, I'm noticing the embarrassing nested `impl Point`, which is sadly no longer editable. Oh, well. Test your code, kids. Is this what you had in mind?
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by roarcher 4y ago
Oh I know, it's just an idea of a possible syntax. Something like that might look a little funny but it doesn't seem too terrible to me. Anyway, thanks for the work you do on Rust! It's always my first choice of language when
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by roarcher 4y ago
> Putting “here’s the fields I’m borrowing in the body” into the signature, in order to conform with the Golden Rule, looks very odd. Do you mean something like this (using destructuring in arguments)? struct Point { x: i32
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by roarcher 4y ago
> He was not asked for evidence. Think why. Because he has none, obviously. I'm sorry, was this supposed to be witty? If the author's conclusions are so obvious then presenting evidence should be easy. > Many people do. You
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by roarcher 4y ago
The editing process is a collaboration with the author. This is entirely one-sided.
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by roarcher 4y ago
> the owner could have totally kept their original business model without pricing out the locals Their costs are increasing like everyone else's, especially if they're leasing the building. They may have no choice but to raise
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by roarcher 4y ago
Notice how the author puts "disagreeable" and "dominant" people in the same bucket as "manipulative" and "exploitative". That says a lot about his world view. Having leadership abilities and not being
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by roarcher 4y ago
> start reading a bit of what Dan Held has to say. Okay, I read the article. And it's an exemplar of the comical reasoning that characterizes cryptocurrency. First he compares it to Ford's and Edison's idea of using "
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by roarcher 4y ago
> Bitcoin has been using ASICs for over 9 years now. Uhh...okay? My point is obviously that it's a waste of energy. If someone manages to mine it using vacuum tubes powered by an ox on a treadmill, do I have to mention that too? &g
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by roarcher 4y ago
I do, actually. I never said there was a mechanism that induces swings--there doesn't need to be one. The users do it through speculation, just like with any other asset, only it's worse with Bitcoin because it isn't tied to
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by roarcher 4y ago
Yes, and its voters vote for their own profits, which makes it swing wildly. Being "democratic" doesn't make something immune to greed.
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by roarcher 4y ago
> The interviewee thinks so. And he also provided no evidence. He cites a few facts about climate change and then makes a massive logical leap to "everyone needs to move to the city". No attempt to imagine how current lifestyle
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by roarcher 4y ago
> The point is that sprawl is bad for the humanity, but if you see humanity as blight then letting it sprawl is probably the faster way to exterminate it. Where is your evidence for this? This is nothing but a supposition. > They alre
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by roarcher 4y ago
> Now, apparently there are people who consider abandoning plastic straws absolutely hands-down unthinkable sacrilege. It's not an "unthinkable sacrilege", it's a fart in the wind. It's something that politicians
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by roarcher 4y ago
Maybe I worded things poorly, but I understood your point: everyone would want to live in high-density housing if only they were better informed of how great it is. My point is that that's flat out wrong. Many people know from experien
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by roarcher 4y ago
For sure. I realize that my moving to the country to get some space means that the people who were here before me have a little less of it. And the people who come after me mean that I'll have less. It's human nature to say "

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