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by robocat 1y ago
The US Open is [edited] run by a nonprofit, the United States Tennis Association (USTA). Was Congress involved?
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by robocat 1y ago
When the vertigo is bad, you can't even go as a passenger in the car because the movement is literally sickening. Even driving with mild vertigo could be difficult because you want to restrict your head movement. Source: my dad gets Be
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by robocat 1y ago
There's a lot of people on HN that are not from the USA: at-will doesn't exist in many other wealthy countries. E.g. I'm from New Zealand, and at-will contracts are not legal for employees. A company can use contracts (employ
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by robocat 1y ago
> building a company that inspires There's a lot of grit-flavoured cool aid being sold by CEOs Here's one that came up recently selling work as the answer to life: https://joincolossus.com/article/the-amus
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by robocat 1y ago
I am not talking about empathy with friends (I'm not sure why you assumed that). I am certainly not saying "don't immunise". I suspect you're making assumptions about me, but to be clear I am strongly pro vaccinatio
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by robocat 1y ago
I wish I had your arrogant confidence. I'm a vaxer But one community I hang with is strongly antivax. Many of them have been very harmed even if they didn't take the vaccines. When something is that important to you (even for woow
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by robocat 1y ago
> use cases that benefit from actually disabling HT Other benefits: per-CPU software licencing sometimes, and security on servers that share CPU with multiple clients.
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by robocat 1y ago
I hadn't heard of "Xennial", but the existence of the word and defining yourself that way demonstrates the horror of generational labels.
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by robocat 1y ago
Starts with: I am against writing unit tests in general, since experience shows that they actually prevent high-quality code from emerging from development And the quality goes a long way downhill from there. Even if TDD generally le
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by robocat 1y ago
I would love to agree. Complex systems can be stable but close to collapse. Individually within we see stability and presume everything is fine while laughing at preppers. After a crash we can see all the signs that were there, and we retco
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by robocat 1y ago
> 129 brands in China were selling cars that ran mainly or entirely on electricity, and only 15 of them would be financially viable [in 5 years time] The brands really can't care about reliability if they know they'll be bust.
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by robocat 1y ago
AI is not expert system. Just asking Reddit would be a fairer comparison for what to expect from AI. A shame they didn't do a control: asking a random selection of people their suggestions how to react to "a fictional crisis situa
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by robocat 1y ago
Perhaps AI would usually suggest childish or uneducated spelling mistakes. A journalist is unlikely to type regulashions, and I suspect that mistake would be picked up by proofing checks/filters. Well educated people, and proofing sys
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by robocat 1y ago
Oversimplification to single causes is sign of poor thinking. Solar is also economically better for China. Secondly, I would strongly guess China ramped up production thinking that there would be more overseas demand. It isn't just low
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by robocat 1y ago
CNBC also says "illegally held a monopololy". When they can't spell, it's a sign the article was poorly rushed?
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by robocat 1y ago
The meaning of the labels is pretty unclear to many people outside the US. Boomer is often disparaging and used to mean anyone over middle-aged (and usually encompassing the silent generation too). As a GenX New Zealander, it's a pain
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by robocat 1y ago
> XSLT Very rarely used, so two better examples: * http:// Now mostly unusable. * Quirks mode Netscape navigator or Internet Explorer compatibility (no <!doctype html>). Still supported by browsers for rendering old pages
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by robocat 1y ago
ebikes do not solve the age issue: lack of oomph is only one part of aging. There's a lot of other reasons someone elderly might not be able to use a bicycle (or even trike) at all. The risks of damage from an unexpected fall go up wit
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by robocat 1y ago
Ships are fantastic for moving bulk goods between countries. I would guess they are not so useful in wartime because missiles and torpedoes are a lot cheaper than ships. Plus ships can no longer use obscurity for security against large coun
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by robocat 1y ago
We disbelieved in miasma during Covid: yet Covid turned out to be transmitted by "bad air" . . . regardless of how strongly it was argued against at the beginning of 2020. Even wrong theories can have a kernel of truth. https:&#x
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by robocat 1y ago
Marshmallow tests are about getting socially trained for compliance, not about self will. The test is performed by an authority figure, trying to manipulate a child. They are not about the child achieving what they want. Using Marshmallow m
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by robocat 1y ago
> No, the nature favors the fittest Actually nature favours selfish reproduction. Take care not to be distracted by "fitness" when looking at evolution. Fitness is only defined by reproductive success. Businesses compete for re
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by robocat 1y ago
It's a strawman to only mention downsides. People buy and use cars because the benefits exceed their costs. It isn't easy to value the benefits nor the externalities.
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by robocat 1y ago
Great article on this: https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/every-industry-is-an-ov... I hand the cashier my credit card. She looks at me like I’ve just asked her to barter goats for spices. “Can I have your name?”
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by robocat 1y ago
They care about whether the rewards exceed the costs; they don't give a shit what the actual cost is. If it costs them $1000 to grab a web page but they earn $1001 then they will do that again and again to earn that buck.
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by robocat 1y ago
AirBnB usability is terrible. Unfortunately that's where the listings are, so gotta go through the pain. However it doesn't do what I want, and it does a bunch of shit that I don't want (another dddamn notification asking if
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by robocat 1y ago
> but rather to "maintain your business." If banks want to keep a customer, you might think the most important thing is to just not annoy or screw over their customers. Why do they continually treat good customers like shit? I&
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by robocat 1y ago
As compared to Australian FRBs: https://www.planetary.org/articles/0417-the-cosmic-microwave...
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by robocat 1y ago
They have the appetite. They mostly don't live in economies that enables them to earn money. The US was a unique money-making machine... Although the gears seem to be getting looser and the machine is being broken. Personally I think t
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by robocat 1y ago
Good imperial bolts. Does the US make the machines that make the bolts any more? And what if you needed metric bolts? "I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment)" https://youtu.be/3ZTGwc

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