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901.
by robocat 1y ago
The issue is personally clearer with friends: most of us have friends (or ex friends) who are comparatively much better off or much worse off. It leads to weird strains, especially if the friendship is between male and female. Different peo
902.
by robocat 1y ago
Does anyone else have stories of successful ways to overcome overwhelming negative selftalk? Preferably personal, but alternatively something where you helped a friend or child or family member. Asking for a friend. There's a whole par
903.
by robocat 1y ago
All the milk I've seen in New Orleans is ultra-pasteurised) to increase its shelflife (in fridge), even expensive organic stuff. I haven't yet looked in speciality groceries. I've just given up on milk while I'm here, be
904.
by robocat 1y ago
The US military wants to have option to deploy anywhere in the world, so they also want to have comms everywhere. The starlink network surely has special features to support US military needs (resiliance, encryption, blocking enemy countrie
905.
by robocat 1y ago
Summary: it turns out to be quite profitable for prop firms to charge prospective prop traders non-refundable "evaluation fees" to try and join the firm - which only a single digit percentage of traders will pass. Even if a trader
906.
by robocat 1y ago
Lachwerkingenieur is a registered title in German that is related to your point. It is a little known fact that Germans have rigorous state controls over who can build humour for their media.
907.
by robocat 1y ago
> neither can nuclear Nuclear can load follow to some extent (my previous comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254716 But regulations and economics don't encourage it. Also note that NuScale appears to b
908.
by robocat 1y ago
> part of their retirement nest egg Which only works because there's a massive Ponzi scheme supported by fresh buyers. In New Zealand our demographics would lead to a crash (as seen in some places overseas), but we have a lot of imm
909.
by robocat 1y ago
Why would you pray for that? Do you not have some influence over your future morals? There's always a religious reference to say the same thing e.g "The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps"?
910.
by robocat 1y ago
On the flip side, if you don't want a contract job for whatever reason (your lifestyle, buyer seems difficult, timing), just 5x or 10x the price. It's easier to grit your teeth when you feel like you're getting overpaid!
911.
by robocat 1y ago
> due to more entrepreneurialism. We have three awesome control groups currently: (1) Retirees with skills don't suddenly decide to become entrepreneurs when they reach 65. (2) people on the dole don't suddenly become entrepren
912.
by robocat 1y ago
Hopefully someone who is about to go bankrupt in the US will write a 3 trillion dollar cheque/check to their government. ICE could ask nicely.
913.
by robocat 1y ago
What wierds me out personally is how much of human progress depends on statistically unlikely outliers... Maybe that is because I'm biased towards individual stories: statistical distributions and selection effects are hard to notice.
914.
by robocat 1y ago
"Ripple control" is vintage technology - hourly usage meters are not necessary. Everyone imagines that consumers would change their behaviour if they were given price information. In my experience, I've yet to see any good da
915.
by robocat 1y ago
Yeah... Unfortunately the link you chose is crappy. It is a qualitative study debunking the claim "some researchers have propagated a myth that lower sodium might increase the risk of CVD, This article analyzes the eight articles as a
916.
by robocat 1y ago
> You change the metering to follow supply, and everything else will follow naturally. Tell me your wonderland where this has happened . . . There are whole countries with wireless meters. There must be papers showing how much effect it
917.
by robocat 1y ago
> limit your salt There's some dissention as to whether this actually helps lengthen life for most people (the salt myth). You shouldn't ignore your doctor, but neither should you blindly accept poor science.
918.
by robocat 1y ago
Are we constrained by RAM production? RAM Price per GB Projected to decline at 15% per annum. That's quite a few years before you'll get double the RAM. For mobile I'm guessing power constraints matter too.
919.
by robocat 1y ago
> he bet nearly all of that money on SpaceX and Tesla, and that's why he's a billionaire There's a survivorship bias occurring too. You see the same selection going on with huge commercial real estate winners: they keep do
920.
by robocat 1y ago
Hopefully they also hook up the checkout operators. While waiting for the operator at Walmart to find the 4 digit code for an uncommon vegetable, I asked ChatGPT if it could lookup the code and it failed (I'm guessing they are not publ
921.
by robocat 1y ago
I too have had serious drug using friends that were no trouble to me personally. However, people in their social circle were seriously problematic. People users. One in particular was a sociopath (he proudly talked about the diagnosis and t
922.
by robocat 1y ago
There's no need to be rude. cycomanic knows stuff but their answer was basically contradicting chrneu, which nobody likes. It is counterintuitive to me (and I'm guessing cycomanic too) that the different bands should interact so m
923.
by robocat 1y ago
I first heard the Australian version of the urban legend: a chicken fired into a jet engine to test for bird strikes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/catapoultry/
924.
by robocat 1y ago
> do you mean the modem was so crappy > but I would assume the modems Your assumption is sometimes incorrect as cheap devices can share some RF front end. Also apparently resource contention can also occur due to CPU, thermal, and mem
925.
by robocat 1y ago
I have a similar set of questions about a different puzzle game. I've reached a point where I don't feel I'm improving and I'm not discovering any more tricks. Going online to find other people's solutions just feel
926.
by robocat 1y ago
New Zealand sold the national network to Toll of Australia, who slowly ran it into the ground (I suspect one underlying problem is that it just wasn't at all profitable). Labour later bought it back from Toll (costing about $550 per wo
927.
by robocat 1y ago
> restaurant menus/wine lists I wonder how much of that is due to the abnormal social pressure situation where your buying is public and you don't want to be seen as cheap. A similar dynamic might occur with a bunch of people
928.
by robocat 1y ago
Elasticity occurs in a competitive market with variable prices - it is a property that is measured as demand and supply vary. When a monopoly manufacturer sets the price of a good that has no equivalent, talking about elasticity makes no se
929.
by robocat 1y ago
> It is not the gears, motors and copper wire that are bottlenecking robots. It is those things that are bottlenecking the price of robots. The price of something tends towards the marginal cost, and the marginal cost of software is clos
930.
by robocat 1y ago
No point dunking on retirees. You'll understand when you retire (and become a boomer equivalent)

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