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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Also worth noting that it is only looking at percentages. If you rendered the size of the blue and red bars based on total admissions, all you'd see is a bunch of red until you zoomed in very closely.
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
If there are a small number of sellers and barriers to entry are high, we should expect at the bare minimum "tacit collusion": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Are there any animals which don’t need components from another organism? Isn’t heterotrophy one of the notable attributes of Animalia? There are the infamous sea slugs which eat algae then use the algae’s photosynthetic chloroplasts to phot
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
I don’t think a precise definition of life is particularly important or of particular interest to most biologists. This thing is life in the sense that it’s definitely in scope of being studied by biologists (same is true for viruses, of co
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
I'm asking why we shouldn't expect what is considered "the basics" to increase over time, as technology, aggregate wealth, etc. increases? An example to make this obvious: we should probably consider residential indoor p
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Why doesn't it make sense to expect (or at least hope) that the quality of life increases over time for all relative income/wealth brackets?
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Are you just referring to backporting?
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
This is how all static type checking works. What programming language do you have in mind that does static type checking and then also does the same type checking at runtime? And what would you expect this programming language to do at runt
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
> Most people think they pay $0 to garage their car, for instance, since the cost was rolled into the price of their house purchase and mostly invisible. But it isn't $0 to a business. And on the other hand, each Waymo parking spot
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
> The statistics about home-schooled children don't support the idea that they have horribly inaccurate models of the world guided mostly by religious thinking. I'd be surprised if any such statistics exist. I've seen stud
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
This is a common sentiment, but how much do you really know about the counterfactual? It's not obvious to me that you would have been unable to deal with people who didn't look like you if you had been homeschooled. It also seems
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
From what I can tell, it's a variable font, where the font developer can declare an axis (in this case "curve," or more likely "CURV") and the font user can control the value of that axis (e.g. via CSS) which contro
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
No, "honor system" is very frequently used and understood to refer to a system where there are explicit rules but where the rules are not enforced via active surveillance.
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
I have yet to understand when to use `?` versus `!quick`. The former is much less disruptive since it's very fast and displays an answer above the normal search results. And I haven't played with them enough to know what kinds of
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
If implemented with a modicum of competence (which is admittedly not a foregone conclusion) and over a sufficiently long period (probably at least longer than one or two 4-year terms), all of those things would almost certainly have positiv
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
> To be fair, the current Republican Party bears almost no resemblance to the "classic" Republican Party of....10 years ago. In other aspects, perhaps. But the "small government" or "pro-economy" branding of
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Massive media/telecom/tech companies get passed around between other massive media/telecom/tech companies so much that regardless of how much you saw the news at the time, a couple of years later it's tough to remem
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
It was so fun even just as a sandbox. Like Age of Empires 2, they somehow just got the feel of everything so perfect. Deploying G.I.'s in sandbags and getting them promoted to veteran, so fun! Chaining prism towers, how delightful!
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Then surely the same complaint could be made about some particular radio stations.
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
An older pattern (which is arguably more well-intended) is when a site transforms all links to first go to a splash screen that says "In 5 seconds you will leave this website, so please be careful and don't blame us if you see any
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
No, I’m talking about at the time. CD players were great at the time, so I don’t really see your analogy. Maybe the closest thing would be those brittle CD jewel cases, those always sucked!
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Nah, Flash was awful. Terrible performance on low end devices. Unforgivably terrible for web video. Nightmare on Linux. Nightmare in enterprise environments. There were cool games, but there still are cool games. And the indie/hacker&#
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
Doing the thing without preparing to do the thing is, depending on your exact definitions, either unwise or impossible.
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by tshaddox 11mo ago
> This is maybe the first dataset I've seen that clearly illustrates how margin (profit) is inversely correlated with value to humanity. Of course, this pretty closely matches the basic Econ 101 explanations of competition and free
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Yes, it's referencing a tweet which briefly made the rounds a few weeks ago: https://x.com/TukiFromKL/status/1981024017390731293 Many people believed that the author was claiming to have invented a particular
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by tshaddox 1y ago
If I was a conservative activist and I wanted to persuade you to join me, something I would consider is trying to use social media to convince you that my political opponents or society at large are your enemy.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Here's another old example of a "transpiler" disagreement subthread where all 4 commenters actually know the distinctions of what that word is trying to capture but 3-out-of-4 still think that extra word is unnecessary H
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by tshaddox 1y ago
HDCP is how modern digital displays (and digital display recorders) do it. You might be thinking of Macrovision, which was integrated in a lot of DVD players and would embed pulses into the vertical blanking interval of the analogy video ou
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by tshaddox 1y ago
That's pretty quick. I've heard that in ideal circumstances Wi-Fi 6 can get close to 5ms and Wi-Fi 7 can get down to 2ms. I's impressive if they're really able to get below 2ms motion-to-photon latency, given that modern
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by tshaddox 1y ago
This doesn’t feel that new or surprising to me, although I suppose it depends what you consider the line between “science experiment” and “engineering R&D” to be. Biotech has been a YC darling. Was Ginkgo Bioworks not doing science expe

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