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by smcin 2y ago
It's pretty obvious (and research showed) that heavier trucks/cars are more dangerous/lethal to pedestrians/cyclists/other drivers, but mindblowing that IIHS only in 2023(!) started estimating the [very different]
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by smcin 2y ago
It's not so important these days since most ceramics don't shatter much. But is said to still be a class marker.
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by smcin 2y ago
Wasn't there some HN post on rule-of-thumb from 1980s Japan about some threshold % of GDP activity or disposable income for first-time homebuyers or starter home cost in terms of years-of-salary that determines when housing market star
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by smcin 2y ago
Fixed the URL: https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2024/08/... Archive: https://archive.ph/tVYOx
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by smcin 2y ago
What do small/big UFOs look like...?
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by smcin 2y ago
GDP-per-capita is a meaningless comparison tool (especially for the US because it neglects healthcare costs in retirement), look at PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) and quality-of-life metrics. Also, for stats on the US, there's so much v
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by smcin 2y ago
Can you put a screenshot/animated GIF in the README.md to help people decide if its worth installing...?
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by smcin 2y ago
South Park says otherwise.
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by smcin 2y ago
Specifically Windows 11? Is that due to bugs, or intentional redesign?
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by smcin 2y ago
- 8/2025 Venus flyby - 2nd and 3rd Earth flybys 9/2026 and 1/2029 - 7/2031 arrives Jupiter; Jupiter orbit insertion and apocentre reduction with multiple Ganymede gravity assists - 1/2032 .. 11/2034 Reduction o
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by smcin 2y ago
It's worse than that, it's like burying a double or even triple lede: - it's not just that the hospital told her family totally the wrong thing for a day or a year... - or even negligently cremated or buried her in a pauper&#
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by smcin 2y ago
This on the same day that the SF Bay Area pulled its $20 billion housing bond from the November ballot [0], after objectors claimed the published costings were inaccurate. ( SJMercuryNews: "The total cost, including principal and inter
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by smcin 2y ago
Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184420
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by smcin 2y ago
Yes but it's depressing how it only takes a tiny $4.5 million in (direct) political contributions in 2019/2020 election cycle to control the ~$100 billion CA rental industry: Special Investigation: California Apartment Association
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by smcin 2y ago
Politicians are merely responding to where the money and power increasingly is: California Apartment Association [commercial landlord lobby group] has given $26.7 million to 936 different filers [politicians] over the last 26 years: look a
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by smcin 2y ago
Agreed. The ironic downside of not having Windows-style telemetry is you can't prove how rarely-used obscure old packages are, or identify the small set of people still using them a decade after everyone else stopped. (You can search g
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by smcin 2y ago
But that's not "break at every Python update", I asked you to substantiate your claim "breaks at every Python update". distutils was deprecated and being phased out since 2014 [ https://peps.python.org&#x2
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by smcin 2y ago
Which libraries are you claiming break at every Python update? (3.12 or later)
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by smcin 2y ago
Who's banning Indian school children?
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by smcin 2y ago
"Inert" goes further, it says the material is chemically unreactive. Whereas wood or fabric could be flammable or nonflammable depending on how it's coated or treated.
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by smcin 2y ago
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff have been attacking that trope as factually incorrect and unhelpful for almost a decade now: "Why It's a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence : A claim increasingly heard on campus will m
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by smcin 2y ago
https://archive.ph/AVRL9
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by smcin 2y ago
Ok but first you said "no one cares", I responded to that showing you that a medium-sized group of users or privacy-aware types care, now you change it to "most people who are not on HN do not care/cannot afford to care&
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by smcin 2y ago
https://archive.ph/DJx3G
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by smcin 2y ago
I thought this was only a recent thing and accelerated by Covid and cheaper drones, but it had already begun happening in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14928203
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by smcin 2y ago
That's a whole other debate and it's your subjective opinion, others may disagree. Since you push the point: - like many other apps, it forces you to turn on location while the app is in use (and will remain on until you kill it).
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by smcin 2y ago
They're a nudge to move users to install the app. Using the app to redeem a deal gives them much more data on individual customers than using a coupon.
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by smcin 2y ago
Transit in the Bay Area has very fragmented governance: 27 different transit agencies for 7.6m people in 9 counties with little coordination and no regional vision. By most measures, the Bay Area has the most fragmented public transit netw
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by smcin 2y ago
At first glance [0] Walz doesn't seem to have any stock holdings or reported trades, and his largest assets were a rental property and a state pension. As to wondering what his views on tech might be, IBTimes [1] only mentions the bill
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by smcin 2y ago
The very broad agreement not to sue anyone using Llama for IP infringement, even blatant copying, seems too permissive. Do they have any more cooperative approach to notifying them of copyright violations, for requesting takedown?

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