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by shard 5y ago
I like your solution of gathering subject matter experts and getting individual reports. Did the 3 of them cover all aspects of the house? I am not an expert so I don't know if anything is left out, does the structural engineer also co
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by shard 5y ago
That's an argument for not owning a car at all, actually.
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by shard 5y ago
I would imagine someone without a truck was let go instead. It's just the delta between a him and a truck-less employee, not a whole employee.
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by shard 5y ago
Yes, I recall a comedian saying that about driving on the highway, people who drive slower than him are idiots, and people who drive faster than him are nuts.
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by shard 5y ago
Sounds like a tradeoff between processing time and image clarity / cost, same as computational photography in smartphones. That looks like a win to me, hopefully we will see innovations in this area so cheap microscopes with great reso
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by shard 5y ago
From what I've heard, larger companies have stopped trying to prevent shoplifting under a certain amount, since they don't want the liability of their staff getting injured in any altercations. The companies are actively telling t
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by shard 5y ago
I think mountainethos's point is that would pedestrians and cyclists prefer sedans and SUVs to other pedestrians and cyclists, or even motorcyclists. The likelihood of serious injury or death is such a step function from one to the oth
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by shard 5y ago
This is also an argument against most people owning a car larger than a subcompact like the Honda Fit.
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by shard 5y ago
One thing I've noticed from doing WFH all this time during the pandemic is that I started noticing the inefficiencies of burning gasoline to move a one ton piece of metal to some store and do some minor thing like mail a package or buy
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by shard 5y ago
That would include most motor vehicles, due to brake dust, tire wear, and exhaust, since the alternative of using a bicycle is always available. If you need to travel long distances once in a while, you can always rent a car.
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by shard 5y ago
What if you shift the lens or sensor and capture multiple images, then process the result, would that be able to overcome chromatic abberation?
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by shard 5y ago
Considering the plummeting birth rate, I don't think it will be necessary to colonize new space to find space for more people, unless we start cloning people en mass.
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by shard 5y ago
Here is a place in Texas where you can rent a tank, drive it, and shoot it: https://www.drivetanks.com/ Here are the prices for the Sherman tank: SHERMAN TANK $1,850.00 – Drive the tank $950.00 – Ride the tank, driven by a
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by shard 5y ago
I recall there being glasses-less 3D displays about 10 years ago, when the TV industry was trying to make 3D displays the next new thing. I wonder if this is the same technology.
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by shard 5y ago
> A lot of the sustainability hype this year is about how continuing doing what you are already doing is now less impactful to the environment I completely agree. A blatant example is the smartphone market. Sure, not including chargers a
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by shard 5y ago
Aluminum could be better than plastics in the sense of less phyto-estrogens and endocrine disruptors being introduced into the environment and the users' bodies. I wouldn't be surpluses if a case can be made for most packaging mat
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by shard 5y ago
Is the word "geek" no longer used for what you are describing? Although there a lot of overlap, I thought nerd referred to strong interests in academic subjects and geek referred to niche cultural subjects.
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by shard 5y ago
That seems like the opposite game to me, I couldn't proceed without agreeing to provide personal information.
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by shard 5y ago
You also can't expect people to bother checking whether you are asking the question of the person you originally replied to. I actually thought about it myself for a second, and decided not to.
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by shard 5y ago
That's smart and sweet at the same time.
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by shard 5y ago
I suppose then you would need to have the transfer function of that specific observer's head and ears at that specific point. Perhaps some time in the future there will be personalization of the transfer function so that you can hear t
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by shard 5y ago
I don't think every person who replies to you needs to answer the exact question you asked. This is a general conversation, and people can talk about any interesting point in any part of the preceding text. Tangent conversations are ju
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by shard 5y ago
> it costs $10m to prosecute you and put you in jail for life, OR you are given $5m and told you get to keep it unless you commit another crime I don't think that would work simply because after that person spends the $5M, the gover
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by shard 5y ago
There are an infinite number of ways to make a project less fragile to changing market conditions. But you can't maximize all of it, it's all trade offs. Would making a project more resilient to semiconductor shortages increase vu
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by shard 5y ago
When it comes down to very simple microcontrollers with only a few pins, the package costs starts to dominate. Consider that each pin on an IC costs a few cents. If a small pincount MCU is replaced with a 555, some discrete logic, and passi
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by shard 5y ago
By making stock grants valuable and thus aligning the incentives of the employees with the company?
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by shard 5y ago
If it was the US tax jurisdiction that someone is trying to leave, then that person would need to give up their US citizenship, not create any suspicion that they are leaving due to tax reasons, and also pay taxes as if they have sold off e
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by shard 5y ago
> Our engineer slapped few 555s, flip flops, and registers in under an hour. Client engineers' jaws fell off. Sounds like it's more an issue of this work being outside the client engineer's competence than any kind of engi
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by shard 5y ago
It's not 100 different tasks. For example, online research into a topic could lead to a bunch of tabs with relevant info. If I am going to be using the results of the research in the next few weeks, I just leave the tabs open. I don&#x
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by shard 5y ago
Sounds like the solution is to both donate blood and get saline drips regularly.

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