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by rz2k 8y ago
If you are including the boot loader, don't leave out the file systems.
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by rz2k 8y ago
A new equilibrium with a smaller population, after the problem of an old population had passed, would still imply less room for specialization, and therefore less per capita productivity, and ultimately lower quality of life. Instead of mor
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by rz2k 8y ago
An easy way to contribute a small amount is through Amazon Smile (0.5% of your Amazon purchases): https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/homepage/ref=smi_se_scyc_sr...
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by rz2k 8y ago
"Do things that don't scale"[1] references Stripe specifically for actively recruiting users, but your description of the Atlas program makes it sound like an extension of that strategy. Whereas launching in a single tiny ove
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by rz2k 8y ago
I had a Creative Nomad before the first iPod came out, which also had about 4GB of storage. 1. The Creative Nomad had a slow-refresh screen with mushy buttons, vs a wheel on smooth ball-bearings and a quickly refreshing screen and intuitive
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by rz2k 8y ago
It's a content-free statement, so it always makes jump to thinking about a sad distant future instead. Like a heat death of the universe, or when there is just a decline in economies of scale, the next phone might cease being the best
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by rz2k 8y ago
I think that Mercedes is aware of this, and implemented a long term strategy of acquiring dealerships from their owners a few years ago. "Through the grapevine": they have mandated costly architectural redesigns, and they have had
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by rz2k 8y ago
One of the lines I disagreed with from the otherwise excellent column: > Schools and universities ought to help us to understand that no book that talks about a book says more than the book in question, but instead they do their level be
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by rz2k 8y ago
Does Home Assistant let you make all IOT devices safer? For example, I imagine the business plan for products like Hue involves selling information to data brokers, but after glancing at the Hue section[1], I couldn't quickly tell whet
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by rz2k 8y ago
It wasn't only confinement. One general appears to have been tortured to death, and many others had to be hospitalized and showed signs of torture. https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/14/saudi-arabia-al
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by rz2k 8y ago
How about their credit card processor? And, then if the credit card processor incentivizes merchants to share the names of products sold rather than just the total charged? Especially if they give you a point of sale system, and it automati
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by rz2k 8y ago
Search: “Pain is the fifth vital sign” There was a very strong campaign to re-educate physicians to not consider pain as only a symptom. It was suggested that there was liability in not treating pain for the sake of getting rid of pain alon
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by rz2k 8y ago
I don't know why there aren't docks on the market. The Henge USB-C dock has been pre-order for two years, so I just made my own in an afternoon by cutting a slot into a 4x4, and drilling a couple holes for a usb hub cable and a mo
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by rz2k 8y ago
In biology thin would imply a high surface area to volume ratio, and great performance if you're trying to get rid of internally generated heat. Here, I guess we're talking about room for cooling systems so as to avoid blistering
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by rz2k 8y ago
I found SoftEther easy to install on a bargain VPS. Supposedly it has much better throughput than OpenVPN, but I am not certain that it has had enough scrutiny to insure that it as worthy of trust as OpenVPN. Since I don't really know
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by rz2k 8y ago
Why wouldn't it have the opposite effect? Patients aren't price sensitive when their insurance provider is paying. It creates a suboptimal three (or four) party pricing problem. It seems like it would be preferable if patients cho
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by rz2k 8y ago
It weighs half a pound less, and each extra charger you get costs $30 rather than $80.
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by rz2k 8y ago
I understand why one would think that the federal government does these things, but the District of Columbia and other analogs to state governments do generally serve these purposes. There are things like a "Consular Report of Birth Ab
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by rz2k 8y ago
My guesses offhand would be marriage licenses, birth and death certificates. States register real estate and collect property taxes, and you need a state to allow you to incorporate a business.
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by rz2k 8y ago
Complex key behaviors can be defined with Karabiner-Elements.[1] There are tons of settings posted on Github, and I just modified someone else's to get: {"description":"Change right_shift alone to delete_forward&qu
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by rz2k 8y ago
I do caps lock to control, and control to escape. I also set right_shift when pressed alone and not a modifier to forward_delete.
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by rz2k 8y ago
I wonder if it has something to do with trackbacks. I thought it was a little silly when Hacker News began hiding points, but I think it has a lot to do with how Hacker News hasn't turned into a game about scoring points rather than pe
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by rz2k 8y ago
Take a look at the US Census Bureau's methodology page for the Building Permits Survey.[1] They statistically impute the numbers from a subset of 20,100 building permit issuing authorities, because they cannot collect all of the distin
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by rz2k 8y ago
People do make career choices based on whether they'll be able to have a family and support them. I can't imagine how the military would have the same talent pool to draw from if there weren't measures to make having a family
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by rz2k 8y ago
Check out the top comment to April 2015: Scientists skeptical about Theranos blood test (businessinsider.com) : [1] > What stops the skeptics from doing their own tests by walking into a service center and having their blood analyzed fo
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by rz2k 8y ago
Removing the 3.5mm jack from phones was an exasperating way to push air pods, but they didn’t do the same thing to their laptops. You can plug headphones into the latest MacBook Pros without any sort of adapter.
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by rz2k 8y ago
Elon Musk as manager of a firm or manager of a household? There is social utility in the efficient allocation of labor. While there are plenty of justifications for devoting resources to help people find new jobs, and reduce frictional unem
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by rz2k 8y ago
Malthus had an interesting idea about some resources growing geometrically and others growing arithmetically. There wasn't real world data to back up the supposition. His conclusions seem to have been based on naive mathematical unders
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by rz2k 8y ago
What are the limiting factors contributing to quality of life? Raw natural resources or post-processing and value added by people to those resources? The idea back in the twentieth century that overpopulation underlaid all problems seemed
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by rz2k 8y ago
Some of the terms to explore include "group selection" and "multilevel selection" if you are interested in models where altruism could create an evolutionary advantage. Here's a toy model: self-replicating automaton

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