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by usrusr 1y ago
Ads? Customers would not pay for ads, they would pay for getting convenient "truths" emphasized in the training material, and inconvenient ones deemphasized. Imagine Wikipedia with pay-to-edit.
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by usrusr 1y ago
The difference between .let{} and ?.let{} has great utility. You'd either have to give that up or promote let from regular code in the standard library to magic language feature. And you'd lose all those cases of extension methods
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by usrusr 1y ago
"Think of those souls!" reads to me cynically close to "don't think of those who ordered and executed those strikes". Almost like a deliberate distraction. When you turn forgiveness into a carte blanche for serial s
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by usrusr 1y ago
Except that Russia did not deliver (not any meaningful amount anyways), when the pipelines were still intact. And yes, they pretended to be willing, firing off a series of excuses sufficiently transparent to make it clear between the lines
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It would greatly reduce the barrier between receiving transfer money and earning for yourself that the existing need-based transfer system creates. This is a huge hindrance for jumping off the receiving end. Lump sum transfer also creates a
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by usrusr 1y ago
Yeah, for some things a bit of speculative imagination, thinking through possible outcomes isn't actually that bad compared to more evidence oriented alternatives. You can't really have a control group for community wide effects a
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by usrusr 1y ago
I imagine semiautonomous trailers that would just tag along in the slipstream within cable range for distances beyond your daily. With computer-fast reaction to brake and steering inputs of the lead car. Those would universally be rentals t
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by usrusr 1y ago
Lighter cars, really, that's it. Make vehicles that match the transportation case in question instead of palaces on wheels that carry battery sized for solving some once in a year use case. And/or make them go slower.
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by usrusr 1y ago
It's a terrible thing to happen to a person. Language that minimizes negativity has great value when talking about (or with) persons in the post accident state. But here in this context, where we are talking about the event, in the abs
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by usrusr 1y ago
Unfortunately, now that some people appear to think that annexations are something to be considered, this joke has a very unexpected element of not funny.
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by usrusr 2y ago
(OT, about hypothetical BEV rx trailers, moved to a self-replay to make it a little less bad): is this already a thing for caravan trailers? An oversized generator for off-grid camping paired with some battery for load smoothing and a downl
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by usrusr 2y ago
Sounds weird at first glance, as in throwing away the key USP servo brings to the table relative to the "browser bundled" alternatives like Electron. But if it can (one day) serve as plan B to counter platform webview uncertainty,
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Things like church taxes handled by the state in Germany (entirely opt-in, even when it's effectively opt-out for individuals opted in by their parents) have the opposite effect though, they make the churches boring institutions (excep
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by usrusr 2y ago
Google hits for last-century-modern.ttf appear completely unrelated. But I guess that album/track name is a bit self referential? (there's also a remix LCM following the pattern of the earlier GBI)
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by usrusr 2y ago
Not when it comes to religion though: the European way (and I feel very much like considering Canadians something like honorary Europeans these days) was forged in painful wars stemming from and fueled by influence of religion on politics,
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by usrusr 2y ago
Push notification is the big one. Yes, there is web push, but that's hardly scratching the surface of feature completeness. And incentives to change that aren't really there.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Buying time to get the rocket finished that he will ride escaping his creditors to Mars. That would be a badly written plot even by the standard of cheesy comic books, but somehow it all makes sense from that angle. (no, I don't believ
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by usrusr 2y ago
> so what is it that xai can do that justifies an $80 billion valuation? Crush every competitor through regulation?
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by usrusr 2y ago
PS: Sorry I think I was wrong, had an edit open but failed to submit: I believe that I was thinking of keyboards that did the same (in particular of Cherry keyboards), not Logi mice. The same, and for longer I think, because PS/2 held
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by usrusr 2y ago
Chances are there are other mice that support both protocols on the controller, but use a different USB-PS/2 pin mapping. My memory suggests that Logitech mice at the time had a PS/2 connector "natively" on the cable tha
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by usrusr 2y ago
Are you suggesting that the quality of treatment depends on the conveyance the doctor used to get to work? Have you even been to France, to dig into just one example?
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by usrusr 2y ago
Smartwatches include barometers because they enable elevation measurement far more accurate than than GNSS (GPS and GPS-alikes, they tend to be noticeably less accurate in the vertical than in the horizontal). In particular when both are co
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by usrusr 2y ago
And that zip file might be not the version you thought it was, if it's not from a build server it might include any number of uncommitted or gitignored changes, more transfer steps mean more things that can go wrong. These automations
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by usrusr 2y ago
> Because by this logic, polygamous religions would have overtaken monogamous ones Would they? Are societies where children are hardly more than a number to their fathers necessarily more successful, more stable? Unlike genetic traits, r
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by usrusr 2y ago
What's crazy about that? Religion used to be long term knowledge encoding (multigenerational). Evolved knowledge, the group that stumbled into a pig taboo just happened to be more successful than the group without. In an area where pi
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by usrusr 2y ago
Where the stationary work PC survives (I think): point of sale like desks that are half way between cash register (not personal at all) and notebook computer (each employee got their own). E.g. the computer feeding the screen at the hotel c
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by usrusr 2y ago
Had there been other Americans before them?
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Wow, that's ... ambitious. I'd imagine the extra mass to make an energyia-size tank+engines able to land horizontally to be enormous. It's not just wings (plus folding mechanism, if you believe that's worth saving a bit
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by usrusr 2y ago
How would Energyia become reusable? Tail landing? Is there more to this, something specific that would make Energyia a candidate for tail landing other than just "if F9 can do it, in theory every liquid fueled rocket could do it"?
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by usrusr 2y ago
The SRBs were collected from the sea for reused and the upper stage was reused after landing horizontally. The only thing not reused was the upper stage drop tank. That single use drop tank was rather big, true, but not a rocket, not a rock

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