throwway120385

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by throwway120385 3mo ago
I'd be okay with those if they were geofenced to be quiet in a 6 mile radius from my current GPS coordinates.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
My midlife crisis car is a Mercedes Sprinter.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
I wouldn't tolerate being "inconvenienced" by someone's broken sewer pipe I'd ask them to fix it.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
I don't think anyone objects to modding your street legal car to go 0-100 in 3 seconds as long as you're not interrupting every conversation for a quarter mile in any direction wherever you drive. But everywhere I go, no matter wh
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
If I called the county every time someone drove past my house with a loud modded exhaust it would consume my days and nights. The loud exhaust people are a scourge and I would love an easy way to get them to stop.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
IME you have to be true to what you predict. Whether you're predictably growing, predictably shrinking, or predictably flat if you blow your prediction that's when people start to worry that you don't know what you're do
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
The major egg supplier for most of the grocery stores decided not to buy as many pullets to replace the ones they culled from Avian Flu, and then the second and third largest also followed suit. As a result there was a bug supply crunch tha
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
In my experience, insurance issues are usually insurer and patient going back and forth and then patient getting 6 different answers from 6 different representatives, then reviewing the 3000 page plan document, finding the single line that
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
Even cash subsidies can be a kind of chain. Why wouldn't we just subsidize the whole thing for everyone then? And if the purpose of a health insurance plan is to collect groups of people into "risk pools," then why wouldn&#x2
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
Why wouldn't a single-payer solution work? The margin that the insurance companies take for themselves seems like a good place to start. From there it would spiral out to the third to half of time that all of the clinical staff spend j
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
For example, if you're sitting in your living room with a bunch of other people, many of whom know each other, and two people start fighting, you are all witnessing a crime and you can also all identify the two people fighting. It woul
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
It never priced flexibly because the company that makes it kept a total stranglehold on the IP through patents and basically requires you to buy both the panel and the controller from them. I think it's actually quite a simple technolo
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
The value of employee equity is approximately zero, but sometimes people get lucky. Don't let these arguments fool you into thinking you're definitely in that 5%, because in the absence of information about the market, the product
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
> Even if they somehow imagine themselves as philanthropists or minimalists, they tend to put off giving away too much too soon under the rationale that they'll be able to eventually share more if they hold out and use it more pract
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
Family apartments could be really desirable, but nobody builds them because of the building codes so people don't look for them. The point that a single-family home costs 1.5 million dollars is very applicable here, as the monthly paym
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
Or that time that we parked an army on the Rio Grande because a bunch of people from the US decided to settle in the Mexican territory of Texas? That was a whole thing and the President of the US at the time, James K. Polk, ran on a platfor
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
Yeah here's an example of an autonomous tractor: https://www.agxeed.com/ . You buy this and program it with what you're going to do. Right now you still have to keep it fed with seed, and I think you have to run sp
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
I believe that's covered under MIL-SPEC-M00-BAAA
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
That can be true in some cases, for sure. For example we probably don't want government-run fast food or government-run rental cars because of that "race to the bottom" you're citing. But there are also things where that
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
I always thought raw, unchecked Capitalism sucked. I've thought that my whole life. "Welcome to the asylum" and all that.
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
Next you'll tell me that doing something at cost as a public service is somehow better than getting the same thing but with a 20% margin tacked on for the shareholders.
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
Assuming a good enough LLM, you can say something like "Please find me a site with optimum growing conditions for beetroot in the next year and arrange to have the field planted and maintained until the harvest season for beetroot is o
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
If you've ever walked up to your neighbor and politely asked them to do or not do something then by that logic you're putting yourself at immense physical risk. I think the vast majority of people, even gun owners, are generally c
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
> I think a large amount of the danger American police face is due to how easily a single arrest can ruin your productive life. One facing the loss of their home, pets, job, important documents, sentimental items might not see the differ
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
It depends -- if you need something from someone else, setting a meeting and sitting with them until they give it to you can be really powerful.
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
Especially because if they had read about or studied this problem they would find tons of prior art where CRC32 was considered not secure for solving the problem. CRC32 solves a different problem -- how do you verify that the data that was
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
How do you know that values and judgements have anything to do with being conscious? A machine can act like it has values and judgements and we wouldn't attribute any consciousness to it. Or if you've seen a dog tear up a garbage
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
This is probably the most succinct explanation I've ever read of the differences and the advantages of one over the other. I've been trying to understand this from different sources for years now.
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
I'm going to replace the differential and the automatic transmission in my truck with a 4-cylinder engine and an electric transmission.
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by throwway120385 4mo ago
Wait a minute, are we the baddies?

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