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by terryf 7y ago
"He broke the law a bunch of times" Kowing if he did that is dependent on there being a court decision. Look, I don't like that some probably innocent plane guy is in jail more than anyone else but judging people just becau
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by terryf 7y ago
This is probably the most balanced comment about meat-eating I've ever read. I think the tax thing is key - I eat meat and I fly a lot. I know both of those things contribute to the climate crisis - therefore I'd be completely ok
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by terryf 7y ago
The essay is just a long winded way of saying the quote from Eisenhower: "Plans are worthless, but planning is essential" Which is of course a short winded way of saying that the article makes a lot of sense. We for example have s
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by terryf 7y ago
Yeah, that is surprising. One could concoct a conspiracy theory but I guess submissions get overlooked sometimes...
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One Nation, Tracked(nytimes.com)
4 points by terryf 7y ago|3 comments
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by terryf 7y ago
I don't have many unused houses, however my family does have a tiny summer cottage that we don't use in the winter since it's not insulated and so on. Coming to it in the spring and finding that some kids decided to have a pa
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by terryf 7y ago
Quote from the article: "Needless to say, this kind of trespassing is usually bad, unless you’re breaking into one of Jeff Bezos’ homes." So it's ok to break into your house as long as you are very rich?
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by terryf 7y ago
I go fairly frequently these days and am not surprised by much any more ;)
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by terryf 7y ago
What you described is the exact impression I got when I first travelled to New York :) "Is it supposed to be this dirty?"
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by terryf 7y ago
One thing that's easy to overlook is risk. For example insurance - the hotel is basically liable for things that go wrong there. They also have insurance to make sure they can pay up when needed. Does your airbnb host have proper insur
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by terryf 7y ago
You make a good point - the "rent out my couch" type of thing and "rent out a whole separate house" admittedly break my argument a little bit. However there are still the questions of things like insurance coverage and o
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by terryf 7y ago
This is one of the reasons I don't stay in airbnbs - the system breaks the social contract. The reason hotels are more expensive is because they have to follow a bunch of rules that makes everyone's life a bit better by having ins
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by terryf 7y ago
I am old enough to have lived in soviet times for a short while. One thing I remember from back then - in order to get things done, you had to know someone. Perhaps your aunt's friend worked in the politbureau or your mom's classm
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by terryf 7y ago
The jack is back! Now I wish I hadn't bought the pixel 3 when it came out! Glad to see the voice of reason prevailing.
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by terryf 7y ago
Having slept in quite cold temperatures in cars during longer trips quite a lot of times, just having the car idle over-night has always been enough to keep the cabin warm enough to not even need a blanket. Not talking about luxury cars w
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by terryf 7y ago
Because they haven't cached out? If you don't cash out, then the point is something other than just getting the money. The amount seems excessive for someone that is just a researcher, so a state actor that is trying to destabilis
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by terryf 7y ago
That was a fun read - I'd hazard a guess that the load from memory is not cached and will get started, then the compare is speculatively executed, but then the conditional jump and whatever follows won't fit into the cpu pipeline
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by terryf 8y ago
Well, the virtual p-ap creation happens everywhere, all the time. Why aren't there a large number of photons happening everywhere all the time?
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by terryf 8y ago
Right, but the charges of particle-antiparticle pairs do cancel out, so there is no net energy produced. Quick thought experiment: two particle-antiparticle pairs get created: p1-ap1, p2-ap2 In regular space, after a very short amount of ti
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by terryf 8y ago
Ok, to be fair I'm not a physicist but it would seem to me that if you get a stream of mixed particles and anti-particles, they would annihilate, thus not producing a mass difference.
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by terryf 8y ago
It's more complex than that. If it was that simple, it would emit particles and antiparticles randomly which would not lead to losing mass.
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by terryf 8y ago
Not any more and the hungryness doesn't seem to be related to moods too much.
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by terryf 8y ago
It is probably traits - I'm one of those people that can eat almost endlessly (and yes, am not skinny). The problem is that I don't really feel full, no matter what or how much I eat. If I just continue, then I do get the uncomfor
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by terryf 8y ago
Yes. That's why a good language makes this explicit in the type. For example in Scala, this example would be that user is of type Option[User] and the name property would also be Option[String] for example. Then to safely get the name
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by terryf 8y ago
Right. But how much? I'm not from the US, but I know that the expectation is to tip. And I do. However, every time I leave some place I have this vague feeling of unease and guilt - technically I could have afforded to tip more. Was it
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by terryf 8y ago
I recommend http://inoreader.com/ - I'm not affiliated with it in any way, however I am a very happy user of it.
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by terryf 8y ago
Things would be a lot simpler if it were faster though :) Consider a modern cpu running at 3ghz. It can retire some instructions on every cycle. Light can travel one mm in that time. That means the part of the core that decodes the incoming
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by terryf 8y ago
I'm quite the person to say that it is useless to me. I also am quite free to have the opinion that a lot of content is simply a waste of time. I also propose the question of how much actual enjoyment it produces and the quality of sai
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by terryf 8y ago
I'm not saying it's navigational inefficiency - it's giving me useless stuff that's really hard to stay away from. I don't want a platform that gives me a free shot of opium every now and then just to get me to stay
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by terryf 8y ago
"As demonstrated by engagement" - isn't really true. It's more "As demonstrated by count of time spent in the app". I believe that is true. But it's also a worse experience. Those two really seem to contra

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