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by tzs 1y ago
It wasn't a mistake. In 2013, as in every year, there were plenty of speculative things you could have invested in without having any reasonable way of knowing if they would turn out to make a lot or lose a lot. There are probably 75 y
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by tzs 1y ago
> There are very few unbanked people in western countries, and so its natural that it would be unusual to come across those use cases there. In the US it is 6% of adults [1] overall. It is 23% of adults with family incomes below $25k. It
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by tzs 1y ago
How much of that is attributable to tech startups with global reach founded in the US in the last 30 years?
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by tzs 1y ago
> I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier Maybe because a few years ago it could be very annoying? It was mostly pretty good at rendering web pages but it had many UI problems that co
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by tzs 1y ago
> I mostly game in a Windows 10 VM running on my Linux desktop computer. Single keypress to switch to Linux workspace. > This is not because Linux gaming is horrible broken, but rather it gives me a fully separate leisure desktop, and
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by tzs 1y ago
I expect Apple will implement a general privacy-preserving arbitrary attribute proof, with age proof just one of the things it could be used for, probably using something similar to the library that Google recently released [1]. [1] https:
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by tzs 1y ago
Wait. So the voters who voted for Trump are to blame and the voters who did not vote for Trump are also to blame? How exactly do you think I should have cast my vote so as to not be blamed for Trump?
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by tzs 1y ago
Dynamic pressure of wind is 1/2 p v^2 where p is the air density and v is the velocity. At sea level p = 1.225 kg/m^3. It goes down as altitude goes up. At sea level the dynamic pressure at 800 km/hr would be about 4.4 PSI. A
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by tzs 1y ago
A majority of voters voted for candidates other than Trump.
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by tzs 1y ago
> British Airways 5390: An incorrect repair causes the windshield of a plane to be blown out mid flight. A pilot is nearly sucked out. This one is a good illustration of how better design can help prevent accidents or make them less seve
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by tzs 1y ago
> This is hyperbolic crap. Since at least the 70s boys have been growing up with access to adult images and it hasn't "destroyed their brains". In the '70s for most boys that meant finding an occasional issue of one o
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by tzs 1y ago
This has nothing to do with forgotten subscriptions or dark practices. Nearly any mandated changes to nearly any company's software no matter what business they are in will incur costs. The FTC is required to take extra care when regul
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by tzs 1y ago
> Based on my experience I highly recommend everyone buy any EV if you drive an ICE vehicle. Even charging at DC fast chargers still saves money, but if you can charge at home, you are really missing out on savings big time and it's
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by tzs 1y ago
> xAI released Grok 4 about a day after removing inappropriate posts by the chatbot on X, including antisemitic comments and replies to users. “Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok po
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by tzs 1y ago
> This program will vibrate with increase frequency using the Fibonacci numbers 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34.. No it won't. The sequence it follows is 2, 1, 1, 1, ... After spotting that I was curious if LLMs would also spot it. I asked P
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by tzs 1y ago
> If this $100 million in impact rule is the reason for the judgement, wouldn't that suggest that a scam that takes in more than $100 million would be protected? No. The $100 million rule doesn't say that things with more than
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by tzs 1y ago
Warning: a bit of a rant incoming... I've found Matter totally confusing. Given a device that supports Matter (e.g., a smart plug) and a set of devices I want to control that from (e.g., an Amazon Echo and an iPad) it is not clear to m
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by tzs 1y ago
...especially since no NYT employees will even see them. They will only be seen by outside lawyers the Times contracts with to handle the litigation, and maybe some outside experts those lawyers hire. The people who do see them won't e
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by tzs 1y ago
> This is a nuclear bomb sized development if it's true that all ChatGPT chats will be released to NYTimes lawyers to comb through Just to be clear, what NY Times lawyers means in this situation is the outside lawyers that the Times
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by tzs 1y ago
I'm familiar with that. We see that shortly after a split the edges of the two sides of the split match, as we would expect. As they separate water fills the gap so those matching edges and now also matching coastlines. Those two edges
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by tzs 1y ago
It would be interesting if one of those anti-aging moonshots succeeds but the treatment to stop aging only works if you had a pre-treatment that has to occur before puberty.
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by tzs 1y ago
Is the coastlines of South America and Africa looking like they fit together actually because of plate tectonics, or is it just a coincidence? The shape we see for the coastlines of South America and Africa is affected by sea level. Dependi
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by tzs 1y ago
> The public was fascinated by this technology and studios offered the public “views of their bones” and “shoe fitting” images For shoe fitting there were actually x-ray machines in shoe stores. They were widely used, especially when buy
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by tzs 1y ago
Instead of making a new party he should try to revive the pre-Trump Republican party. Here are some things from the 2008 Republican Party Platform [1] that illustrate what Republicans used to be for that Trump has completely reversed the cu
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by tzs 1y ago
Generally you don't want laws to work that way. You want to set the penalties so that they discourage violating the law. Setting the penalty to what it would have cost to obey the law in the first place does the opposite.
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by tzs 1y ago
He wasn't facing anywhere near that. When the DOJ charges someone with a set of charges they like to say in the press release that the person is facing N years, where they get N by simply adding up the maximums for each charge that it
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by tzs 1y ago
Hyundai Kona and Kia Niro have normal doorhandles.
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by tzs 1y ago
> It should have been simple to add a line about the "other important results" and not violate show not tell. Only a very tiny fraction of the publication's readers will have any idea what the heck the Mizohata-Takeuchi co
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by tzs 1y ago
From the first paragraph of the article: > "After months of trying to prove the result, I managed to understand why it was so difficult. I realized that if I used that information correctly, I might be able to refute the claim. Fina
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by tzs 1y ago
> And deaf people shouldn't be allowed to do either? That's a poor comparison, for a few reasons. 1. Headphones can prevent you from responding to outside sounds in at least two ways: (1) the sound from the headphones might mas

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