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by tempestn 1y ago
This is actually interesting. What would make you believe it? Is there any evidence at all? I agree that almost anything I can think of would be more likely some kind of trick. Or in the most extreme examples I'd have to assume there&#
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by tempestn 1y ago
Except for the actual logical reason presented in the post.
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by tempestn 1y ago
Base-60 for everyday life would be nuts; you really think it would be more convenient to have 60 independent digit symbols? There's an argument for 12 for sure, but I still think having a power of 2 would be more beneficial than having
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by tempestn 1y ago
The topic of this thread is why the base 10 number system is less than optimal, and a different base would be better. Obviously having to convert to other bases when we use a base 10 system normally is inconvenient, but that's not the
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by tempestn 1y ago
Or forget about the thumbs and just count fingers. 8 would be a better base than 10 for sure, and arguably better than 12. (Easier doubling and halving, easier binary conversions, but fewer integer factors and fewer digits.)
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by tempestn 1y ago
5 and 10 are arbitrary numbers though. Halving and doubling are really the only special operations, and base-8 or base-16 would be superior to 10 or 12 for those.
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by tempestn 1y ago
It's pretty relevant with computers. If we were used to working in base-8 or base-16 in everyday life, numerous aspects of programming would be simplified.
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by tempestn 1y ago
Better would be an even more fundamental change: instead of trying to standardize everything on base 10, recognize that base 8 or 16 is much more convenient in both computing and everyday life, and standardize around that.
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by tempestn 1y ago
Depends on your definition of work, I guess.
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by tempestn 1y ago
Hopefully Signal manages to turn all the recent press into a positive for user acquisition. It's a fantastic app and service. In an ideal world, laws could be updated for the digital age such that automated disappearing messages were n
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by tempestn 1y ago
Maybe they'd be willing to make an exception for someone doing this, especially if he'd already completed a lot of the journey and so had some credibility built up.
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FDA to limit Covid shot approval to elderly, those with medical conditions(washingtonpost.com)
29 points by tempestn 1y ago|2 comments
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by tempestn 1y ago
I think they're quibbling with the fact that this isn't technically the worst case scenario, but merely the worst known, historical case.
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by tempestn 1y ago
The problem I've always had when forwarding addresses, at least to my Gmail, is that Gmail seems to credit all forwarded spam to the forwarding address, so if your forwarded email gets a lot of spam, it quickly starts sending a large p
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by tempestn 1y ago
I think it's pretty well documented that Jobs had direct input into product design. But also, hiring and managing people effectively to produce novel products is part of producing those products.
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by tempestn 1y ago
You also see the opposite bump for most of the negative assessments. My assumption is that they're likely reading the question backwards. ie. "how unlikely" vs "how likely" or similar.
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by tempestn 1y ago
Interesting. Two things that jumped out to me were 1) why do the regions of the standardization line not overlap or at least meet? And 2) What's up with the small but clear minority of people who took all the 'unlikely' phras
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Ovarian Tissue Freezing Could Prevent Menopause–Possibly Forever (2024)(medicine.yale.edu)
6 points by tempestn 1y ago|0 comments
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by tempestn 1y ago
It is a critique of the article headline, not of the HN contributor.
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by tempestn 1y ago
Your parent's point is that it does not suddenly apply to the full value when exceeding 15% foreign content.
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by tempestn 1y ago
For driving offenses, it's exponentially cheaper and easier to revoke driving privilege than to imprison the offender. Of course if someone ignores the ban and continues driving without a license, consequences would then need to escala
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by tempestn 1y ago
Tariffs were done in the past because they were easier, but I think they distort less than an income tax. You're literally favoring domestic producers, right?
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by tempestn 1y ago
The problem is that you massively distort the economy, making it less efficient aka poorer. And that's even before considering the fact that other countries will retaliate.
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by tempestn 1y ago
Probably entirely placebo, but I just spun in my office chair until dizzy then pulled up a 100Hz tone, and as soon as it started playing the dizziness dropped noticeably. Again, I would guess placebo, but hey, if it works. Gotta try it on r
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by tempestn 2y ago
In the legal system, formation of a contract requires intent. If it can be demonstrated that there was no intent to form a provision of the contract, no "meeting of the minds", then I don't believe it is enforceable. (Though
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by tempestn 2y ago
I think it's both, just like we saw with the internet.
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by tempestn 2y ago
No, but at this point there should be mass protests. Deporting innocent people to El Salvadoran prison for life without due process? If people aren't (at least figuratively) up in arms about that, then what?
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by tempestn 2y ago
The trade deficit the US has with those countries, or the surplus they have with the US, as a percentage of the country's total exports to the US. It's an incredibly simplistic calculation that definitely doesn't equate to th
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by tempestn 2y ago
Half the voting population voted for Trump. Twice. You can't really paint it as a fringe minority.
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by tempestn 2y ago
Tariffs are on goods. Unless you're physically shipping software across the border it shouldn't affect you. You mean arbitrage, and yes, that definitely happens as a result of tariffs.

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