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by runnerup 4y ago
I used to run a manufacturing plant that made millions of pounds of the precursor to vinyl chloride every day (EDC, ethylene di-chloride). The EDC was sent in a 3 mile long pipe to another unit which was run by my very best friends that I d
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by runnerup 4y ago
> The pressure differential between 2,200 ft and 775 ft is much smaller. Irrelevant. The cabin pressure is controlled independently of the Earth's environmental altitude pressure. > Probably the lower oxygen content. That's
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by runnerup 4y ago
Compaq has moved a few times since 1995 and being absorbed by another megacorp.
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by runnerup 4y ago
McKinsey is currently hiring a lot more for experience than they used to. My ex-wife works there as a manufacturing expert based on her decade of on-the-ground experience inside chemical plants. Internal teams really fight to get her on the
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by runnerup 4y ago
I follow most of my flights (especially takeoff/landing) with all the sensors in my smartphone. In flights without emergency events, the most useful for me is barometric pressure. When they suddenly drop the pressure by 20+% after achi
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by runnerup 4y ago
https://youtu.be/_kQBVneC30o
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by runnerup 4y ago
> Affordable housing would cease to exist. Because the guy you bought it from would have torn down the valuable house and then the kit would be left empty forever? That makes no sense. The unit would exist either way.
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Man I need about -15x the net wealth that I have today.
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by runnerup 4y ago
> Here's the paper: It's super-paywalled. Can you upload a copy of it somewhere?
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by runnerup 4y ago
I’m from the northern midwest (Michigan/Ohio) and Texas. We call people who do the farming “farmers” and the people who own the farms “farm owners”. We acknowledge that a lot of even the white families who live on the farm that they fa
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by runnerup 4y ago
> whose owners are the American middle class shareholder, farmers in Kansas. The top 10% of Americans own 90% of the shares. If by middle class you mean “above the labor class, below the ruling class”, then I … still dont agree because t
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by runnerup 4y ago
> AI trained on AI generated output becomes crap surprisingly quickly Yet GANs work quite well
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by runnerup 4y ago
Thank you. There's such scant citations across the whole article. There are countless factual assertions with no note about the source for the assertion, and absolutely no way for readers to validate any of the new information here.
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by runnerup 4y ago
> How about a torpedo? Likely pieces of the torpedo could be found and traced back to American manufacture.
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by runnerup 4y ago
GPL licensed so it seems relevant. For closed-source apps I wouldn't think these need to be in the release notes but for FLOSS apps, many "users" are developers.
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by runnerup 4y ago
"Welcome friends, family, and other creatures of the sea to another high-level game of Starcraft II!"
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by runnerup 4y ago
> And what exactly should be done about it? Historically for a large preponderance of cases, absolutely nothing. By law of international treaty that the USA signed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies
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by runnerup 4y ago
That’s a massive assumption. How efficient and rational does the stock market seem to you? With most of it driven by index funds and 401k contributions and even wall street traders jumping on bandwagons. Risk reduces alpha. Risk doesn’t inc
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by runnerup 4y ago
Does OpenAI have an API like this to get the embeddings of images?
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by runnerup 4y ago
> transaction fees operate the same as taxes. Absolutely. And for the colloquial English phrase "dead weight" that would correspond to the portion of these fees which go above and beyond the cost of running the (high-utility) t
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by runnerup 4y ago
> holding overnight confers more risk, which will be rewarded by the market with higher returns. That’s really not how risk works.
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by runnerup 4y ago
It says this existed for iOS. How was this loaded onto people's phones? Through the Apple App Store? How was it not banned, either immediately or at some point during an attorneys general investigation?
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by runnerup 4y ago
I think the “information wants to be free” crowd would be happier if all work was free to be stolen. GPL enforcement is currently necessary to make that happen. It would be better if it wasn’t.
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by runnerup 4y ago
Their discord is now 99% full of people complaining about the GPL violations. The voice.ai discord moderators are so far handling it with aplomb.
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by runnerup 4y ago
The ads could be slipped right into the chat itself.
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by runnerup 4y ago
What a truly wonderful "blog post" to read! It feels like much more than a blog post. A whole very short story. I hope this reaches many, many people on HN. I wish I had read this in high school so that I better understood what id
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That seems accurate.
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by runnerup 4y ago
They’re not googling. Google is useful but sometimes has incorrect answers. The truth is we probably won’t know the true first browser with tabs. It could have been before the one you found. These people are saying “I personally used browse
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by runnerup 4y ago
That wouldn’t inherently lead to CPI inflation though except that the supply of many, many things is so damned constrained. Even the feds own reports acknowledge that slightly over half of inflation is from lack of supply, not high wages. e
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by runnerup 4y ago
Would be nice if any parties which end up “using” HN to solve their customer service issues were somehow obligated to provide the community with a candid postmortem. That would be the right way to give back for customers using us as an ampl

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