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by ubercore 10y ago
I feel like the concern there would directly be secondhand nicotine in the vapor, which is particularly neurotoxic to developing brains [1]. Feels like a pretty reasonable concern to me, with a child around? [1] http://www.ncbi.n
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by ubercore 10y ago
Not as a contractor he doesn't.
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by ubercore 11y ago
I think you're half there, but in the end I stand by it just being kind of poor writing. It's not so much a development of prose tending towards shorter sentences. Rather, the author is making a stylistic choice that uses longer s
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by ubercore 11y ago
Totally not true. I'm very capable of reading cogent long-form prose. Hell, I even made it through Gravity's Rainbow. This is not a question of lowered attention span.
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by ubercore 11y ago
I really can't make heads or tails of the writing here. I think the author is trying to present a stream of consciousness impressionist view, but it just makes me feel like I'm having a stroke and can't understand language.
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by ubercore 11y ago
I suspect this runs afoul of HN etiquette, but I had to comment on how amazing your ending paragraph was. Well done.
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by ubercore 11y ago
Funny timing on this story. Just last night my Nest "froze" the heat on. Heat was set to 68, thermostat read 73 and the Nest was still running the furnace (and the screen was orange, indicating the heat is on). Had to power cycle
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by ubercore 11y ago
The reason I say we don't get to judge it is because we don't know _anything_ outside of someone digging up two twitter posts. That's it. You're evaluating a strawman to subtly twist this.
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by ubercore 11y ago
We don't get to judge her financial acumen. She's young, she buys booze. Big whoop. Maybe it was for a present for a sibling's wedding. Maybe a close friend. Maybe she just makes bad financial choices. That's not the sto
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by ubercore 11y ago
This is just another form of victim blaming, isn't it?
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by ubercore 11y ago
It may not help that case in particular, but there's a _lot_ that ES6/ES2015 add to the table: http://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es2015/ A lot of things in there would need a library for cross-browser compati
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by ubercore 11y ago
I think javascript is intrinsically going to be one of the worst examples of that. Stemming back to the days when javascript programmers learned that using a library like (then jQuery) lodash is the _only_ way to correctly get your code to
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by ubercore 11y ago
Vox has been increasingly shrill in their headlines.
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by ubercore 11y ago
I agree with you about phone as a remote (lack of tactile feedback on button location pretty much kills it), but if you haven't used a chromecast extensively yet I'd urge you to withhold judgement. It's not so much that it us
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by ubercore 11y ago
I've been understanding the energy market problems in terms of OPEC manipulations (both artificially high and low prices) more than anything else. I think renewable energy is possibly bubbling, but still doing well?
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by ubercore 11y ago
Which was one of the original motivations for post-modernism. But it existed, so something else will.
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by ubercore 11y ago
I actually had a real-deal power struggle with an employee once about using hipchat instead of IRC. They refused to use hipchat, then left the company eventually. So it's not a game for everyone.
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by ubercore 11y ago
Yeah. The whole thing about these tests is that it's like testing whether you can tell a solid black box in an 8bit or 16bit png. Yeah there cases where you'll see the difference and ones that you won't. Why pick such limited
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by ubercore 11y ago
Depends on the kind of audiophile you're talking about I guess. I think the easily identified difference shows that 8bit just isn't enough, and audiophiles that say bit depth matters are validated. But 24bit just isn't necess
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by ubercore 11y ago
10/10 using the fade-out at the end. Choice of clip is a poor example of the benefits of higher sample depth, because the dynamics are relatively constant and there are a lot of noisy overtones. Having $700 headphones helps, too.
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by ubercore 11y ago
This is a great point. The model probably could have worked, it's just that the framework isn't very desirable. A really easy to point at example of why this is so hard to do: they implemented their own formula for inertial scroll
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by ubercore 11y ago
I think the impression lingers from the early days when MySQL with myisam was the scaling "secret sauce" for everyone, because it leaves behind so many features. I don't know that MySQL was ever significantly faster after Inn
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by ubercore 11y ago
I interpreted the opposition to using carrying capacity to mean that it's not helpful from the perspective of a technological species. If we had that many humans, the odds seem high that we would have a way to supplement resources avai
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by ubercore 11y ago
Isn't that addressed in the article?
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by ubercore 11y ago
My understanding was they weren't specifically a mercury-abatement crew, so they probably had detectors for a broad range of contaminants, but not specialized equipment for particular toxins. At least that's how I read it.
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by ubercore 11y ago
That's true, but also kind of the point. If reviewers can't figure out a review process that illustrates the issues, how useful are they, really, other than a look at features?
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by ubercore 11y ago
A closer analogy would be selling tires that spew asbestos as you drive. The consumer _is_ damaged by the sale because the cars are no longer legal to drive on roads. Even with good-faith doctrines that mean the consumer isn't in the w
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by ubercore 11y ago
Our now-maligned cheater TDI really doesn't sound any different than other 4 cylinder engines of its size and power. The exhaust does smell different, I prefer it to gasoline exhaust (don't _like_ it, but find it less offensive).
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by ubercore 11y ago
I don't know if it directly answers your question, but NOx emissions are dependent on combustion temperature I believe, so the ECU could potentially adjust fuel and timings to create conditions that don't spew NOx, but don't
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by ubercore 11y ago
It's not a disorder, like something that someone "has". It's a logical fallacy that affects most (all?) human brains to varying degrees.

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