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by smolder 3y ago
I don't think "hackernews is pro-regulation" is accurate, but that might be an easy mistake if you are "anti-regulation". I'm neither thing. I like regulation that works well and dislike it if it doesn't,
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by smolder 3y ago
The game "The Finals" has an impressively destructible world, and good quality graphics to boot. It just completed an open beta period, but will return soon for a full release.
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by smolder 3y ago
I should have been more clear in retrospect. There are definitely efficiency advantages to be had from moving things to the cloud, and I'm not against people moving workloads to data centers in general. I meant to point out that moving
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by smolder 3y ago
I intend to dig into this some more as I'm curious exactly how the European versions of normally BVO-featuring sodas are formulated. I believe many varieties of mountain dew are simply not available in Europe at all.
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by smolder 3y ago
Yep, PepsiCo announced they would remove BVO many years ago, after a public campaign to have it removed, and then simply didn't. Their behavior in this case is emblematic of US food giants' disdain for the general public. Who care
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by smolder 3y ago
> I'd love to see public transit's utility improved Me, too. For instance, I'd like to see some modern effort to reduce the effects of the tinnitus-causing screeching of rail cars on the MBTA. For daily commuters who take
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by smolder 3y ago
It just uses natural resources to outfit and power data center stuff to create heat and noise somewhere further away. Netflix... is fairly efficient, though being on-demand, perhaps much less so than broadcast TV.
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by smolder 3y ago
You're right that this kind of stuff is sort of par for the course. As in other cases, it's indicative of (IMO) a bad development process that they didn't budget the time to polish before shipping. I save my games budget for
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by smolder 3y ago
Mufflers? So there's actually some more nuance to this. Quiet mufflers on ICEs come with some efficiency cost, partly due to weight (for vehicles) and partly due to flow restriction of exhaust, particularly at higher flows, closer to t
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by smolder 3y ago
I think people should be allowed to have nice lawns. It'd be nice if they expended the resources to do it more sustainably with fewer externalities.
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by smolder 3y ago
Maybe it's worth rethinking what a "better neighborhood" is to exclude their use. Do appraisers put extra value in manicured lawns having pesticides in them and the leaves blown off? When someone says you can't have X on
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by smolder 3y ago
It's not the amount of regulation that matters, it's the intent. Is it written to benefit a greater good, or written to benefit a political party's benefactor? The same applies to removing regulations. Where did the intent li
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by smolder 3y ago
It makes more sense as "shareholders, over the long term, always want high short term growth". It's possible to be focused on short term growth in perpetuity. It's not rational for investors to make demands that harm the
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by smolder 3y ago
It seems possible we could improve swamp cooling with this, as with desalination, though in general you want to avoid putting energy into the system, I think. Powering a laser might overcome the benefits... unless you shot lasers in from ou
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by smolder 3y ago
Tech touches everything. So does law. Tech cos need lawyers. Lawyers need to understand and/or use technology. Or it's entertainment. Any reason is as good as the next.
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by smolder 3y ago
So maybe it would be better stated as 1.5 kilos per x joules of sunlight (or per area per day average? At the equator?) but as stated I can't make sense of it.
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by smolder 3y ago
They give current solar desalination efficiency as 1.5 kilos of water per square meter. Shouldn't there be a time component?
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by smolder 3y ago
Tracking cookies identify you across multiple sites. If some front-end JavaScript sets and checks a cookie for "has visited" on a single site, that's not considered tracking. It's non-identifying and harmless.
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by smolder 3y ago
> As to outlawing the return to the private sector, that makes it career suicide to touch a government job. I don't see how that will bring high quality candidates to these posts. This is an easier problem to solve than the one we s
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by smolder 3y ago
> Ideas are self replicators Maybe it's worth pointing out: That's a core idea of memetics, i.e. the study of memes, in the original sense of that word.
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by smolder 3y ago
> But it would be hard to shut this down because regulatory bodies need industry insiders working for them. You don’t want the agencies to be composed of people who couldn’t hack it in the private sector. I think this problem (the need f
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by smolder 3y ago
That's called A/B testing, like the parent mentioned, and yes, it's a popular technique predating YouTube and "creators" in the new sense of the word.
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by smolder 3y ago
I'm going to guess it went something like this: They kept on adding visual features that work independently, making all their own API calls, one after another, got it looking good, and moved on. That's as opposed to creating a c
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by smolder 3y ago
It seems like a nice bonus that hydrogen can also be used as fuel. All the hydrogen used for buoyancy control somewhat obviates the need to haul another liquid fuel or heavy batteries.
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by smolder 3y ago
Ah, okay. > I’m not sure what part of my comment is incoherent. You called a general concept a conspiracy theory. Who would be the conspirators in this conspiracy theory? It's like saying... Breakfast is a conspiracy theory.
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by smolder 3y ago
I just happen to have a friend with red-green blindness, who was my reference point in answering. It's good to point out there are different types with different impacts, though.
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by smolder 3y ago
That's interesting. I'd like to see how the "real tax rate" for each bracket has changed over time, if there were any way to arrive at such a number. It'd be difficult to fairly account for all the accounting tricks
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by smolder 3y ago
Yes. They can still drive fine, but don't get the benefits of color coding, like being able to infer whether red or green is lit from the light reflected off of other objects. That becomes somewhat important in low visibility situation
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by smolder 3y ago
There's some more nuance to efficiency than just max power at max load, of course. The Apple chips will likely have good efficiency compared to the lower core count (say, 32) TR because the watts per core gets high on those smaller TR
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by smolder 3y ago
I had forgotten all about The Palace. Very cool. (I assume you mean the visual chat client by that name?)

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