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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Is there a reason you need fast internet connection in forrests/on the Arctic/while sailing in the middle of the ocean?[1] is there a reason you need fast internet at home? now imagine being some place that isn't home. &
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by sigstoat 7y ago
uh. not sure what claim you're trying to imply here? you've provided what I see as an even more profound example of selection bias. the folks who needed an oral tradition to stay alive, and were failed by said oral tradition _died
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by sigstoat 7y ago
seems like selection bias. we’ve no idea how much has been lost. or whether or not the oral historians of X thousand years ago would be satisfied with how their tales have made it down the ages.
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It’s still not the health care prices “2017 edition” (2020)(randomcriticalanalysis.com)
1 points by sigstoat 7y ago|0 comments
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> A similar situation plays out in cities like London - a ton of people move out to raise families; historically it's been possible for the middle class to have children and live a few zones out, but it's getting much harder fo
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by sigstoat 7y ago
having been involved in spacecraft operations, it has nothing to do with how the memory is wired up. there would've been a huge amount of knowledge about how to operate apollo spacecraft in general. there is no way it is preserved. and
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> NASA routinely launches things into space designed to last a few weeks that end up lasting for a decade or more because they are so amazingly overengineered. i worked on some of those. they're not overengineered, they're unde
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Drug makers feel burned by string of vaccine pleas(statnews.com)
63 points by sigstoat 7y ago|84 comments
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> It’s been a long time since a "new" city was created huh? the I-25 corridor north of Denver is sprinkled with towns and such that were nothing but an intersection and a gas station 20 (15?) years ago. right now they're b
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the data is divided up into torrents of a few GB to some dozens of GB. pick a few that you find numerologically interesting (i download ones with my birth year in their number) and back those up.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> The only things I can think of that might be special are things that would require a large amount of bandwidth (that most people won't be getting anyway). You can easily write such apps without actually having 5G at your disposal.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> The math looks easy enough, but I know nothing about music. Nothing. And I'd love to learn, of course, but I can see myself buying a keyboard and plinking out some of these transformations read musictheory.net, get musescore, and
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by sigstoat 7y ago
just fyi, they're in medium earth orbit, thousands of kilometers below geosynch. it's why you have to have an up to date almanac, to know which satellites you can see right now, and why cold starts used to take so damn long. (list
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by sigstoat 7y ago
ugh. so then employers will compete on other things, the same way they did the last time that garbage was tried.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
because you have to run lots of meetings and pay technical editors to go over them, produce diagrams, etc? i'm not arguing that any specific amount is appropriate, but "free" seems a little low.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
nice try, oregon
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Idk why this keeps getting tied back to paid/unpaid i was responding to a comment about engineering ethics. engineering is a profession. engineering ethics is taught to student engineers in the context of a job, where you're
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> I was taught that part of being an engineer taking a moral responsibility for the safety of your creations. almost certainly in the framework of being employed or contracted to do engineering work. go back and ask your teachers what th
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the hardware is going to use AES because their ASIC vendor will have well tested AES IP that they can just throw down on the chip. any other algorithm would require massive development effort for zero benefit. and by using AES they can prob
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> afaik, TSLA is pretty easy to short because it is owned by so many retail investors... i didn't think retail investor held stock was normally loaned out. in fact, i thought it was only loaned when you had it in a margin account, a
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> instead of just adding to the interest bill on the national debt. the billionaires are lowering the interest bill as they compete to purchase treasuries. (the money is borrowed from whoever will accept the lowest interest for it. see
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by sigstoat 7y ago
journalists compete with tech organizations for advertising dollars, so it isn't surprising they demonize their competitors.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
nothing about property management or property management in SF is "new". anybody who can afford to de-risk a real estate income stream can afford to just buy real estate themselves, they don't need yours. there's no mark
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Seems strange. Surely a management company would happily handle all that hassle and provide a secondary income stream. unfortunately management companies require managing themselves. even if you find a good one, they won't necessa
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by sigstoat 7y ago
as some of the comments on the article note, you've got natural churn in residency, uninhabitable structures, renovations, etc. also it's not like you can let someone live in a house for free and just call it a wash. anyone who ha
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by sigstoat 7y ago
culpability isn't zero-sum, everyone can have some. some entities deserve a lot, others deserve just a teeny tiny little bit. for purposes of keeping your data safe, your cloud provider is just one, single, copy of your data. all of th
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by sigstoat 7y ago
that was pretty clearly a joke you responded to. (because you can't put a sign on a gas distributed throughout the upper atmosphere even if you wanted to.)
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by sigstoat 7y ago
does SF only allow fancy restaurants to take reservations for 1/3rd of their tables?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
ignoring the matter of who was representing who, lawyers don't only represent people they like/agree with. (good news for criminal defendants!)
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Charities send mail because it helps them raise money not every activity that helps you raise money is something you should do, even if you're a charity. if they'd confine themselves to pestering donors who'd given them

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