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by vanniv 7y ago
Cool! Will this mean that I'll lose access to my money if I like the wrong YouTube videos?
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by vanniv 7y ago
self-checkout does somewhat increase shrinkage. Many stores (Target, for one) combat this by having a screen right on the self-checkout machine that shows the camera footage of you checking out, to remind you that you're being watched
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by vanniv 7y ago
yet if there was no penalty for theft, there would be lots of theft. (Indeed, California recently reduced the penalty for theft -- making it a misdemeanor that is very rarely prosecuted for thefts under $950, and suddenly there's a mas
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by vanniv 7y ago
My state instead just automatically suspends your license and sends you a traffic ticket (of about $350) if you have any outstanding toll charge after 90 days.
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by vanniv 7y ago
My library (which does still have late fees) does this. You can get 5 books at a time, initially, and you can keep them for 21 days, and you can renew by phone once per book (so long as they're not on reserve for someone else). If you
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by vanniv 7y ago
So, I'm curious. Did they require that the books be returned in order to open up borrowing again? Like, just, "please bring the books back, we'll disappear the fees and just take 'em back and all is forgiven"? Or
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by vanniv 7y ago
Whose law was it again that if the headline asks a yes/no question, the answer is always 'no'?
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by vanniv 7y ago
In some ways, this might turn in to a good thing. Don't get me wrong, it's a terrible thing for all of the people involved. But, I'm going to put on my 'perennial optimist' hat -- a hat which I very rarely wear, m
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by vanniv 7y ago
lol, I'm not old enough to have ever actually encounter ^W. I learned about it from /.era who made fun of my 5-digit uid
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by vanniv 7y ago
The Softbank Vision fund is a very interesting and strange beast. Created by a risk junkie, funded mostly by governments hoping to mix profit with prestige, and ultimately likely to implode as part of the next tech bust.
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by vanniv 7y ago
The Earth is not nearly out of any such capacity. It might be running out of capacity to do so without changing in ways we care about. Possibly. But I do note that there is a distinct lack of interest in any attempts to solve that problem
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by vanniv 7y ago
We engineers sometimes love beauty too much. Sometimes, we build things that are technically beautiful because we appreciate them, even though they aren't actually the right solutions to the problems at hand.
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by vanniv 7y ago
On the XLR, you're right. I was misreading Wikipedia's capacity tables -- the XLR and the -200 are virtually identical in passenger capacity
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by vanniv 7y ago
Company mining towns all over again, eh?
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by vanniv 7y ago
LA Longshoremen have been fighting automation for my entire lifetime. Every five years, there's a rash of stories about it, and then Longshoremen eventually get even bigger guaranteed-pay-regardless-of-work deals, and the next token a
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by vanniv 7y ago
If you would like to read some sci-fi that plays with the idea of skipping through life via cryosleep, try The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card. It's one of his earliest works, so it isn't as well-produced as some of his later
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by vanniv 7y ago
get off my lawn^W^W^W^W I'm getting old, aren't I.
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by vanniv 7y ago
> 24. Productive coders write lots of code. I wish I could convince my employer of the low truth-value of that statement. (Instead, I make sure to have a reasonable number of easy large-code-volume tasks sitting in a backlog so that I
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by vanniv 7y ago
I also don't pretend to understand. It can't just be those two things, though, because it's really big in the U.S. right now on the political left , and especially that part of the far-left that relentlessly mock the right
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by vanniv 7y ago
Yep. That math teacher might reach more kids by adopting a different tone -- but the one who actually suffers is the kid who can't listen to harsh feedback.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Now if only we were less unsure of the accuracy of published results
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by vanniv 7y ago
I find it fascinating which instances of governments violently oppressing their own people get the press excited enough to report, and which the press just buries.
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by vanniv 7y ago
It amazes me that we are still talking about Malthus. There has been a Malthus in every generation since the one to actually carry the name, and they've ways had "compelling" arguments... ...and always, life has gotten bett
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by vanniv 7y ago
Malthus has been dead for a really long time.
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by vanniv 7y ago
This is the best argument for extensive research into life-span extension. One of the megatrends of the last 200 years has been a huge increase in the time horizon deemed acceptable for investment payoff. Generally, humans aren't will
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by vanniv 7y ago
757-200 has about 800 nautical miles more range than the longest-range 737NG. 737-900er, the longest-range 737NG only has 3000 nautical miles of range, which is just enough for TATL flights. The 757-200's slightly longer range opens
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by vanniv 7y ago
If you're referring to the MAX, it is actually the v3. The 737-700/800/900 you've been flying the last decade or two was already v2 (and a very successful v2)
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by vanniv 7y ago
If the 757 were still in production today, it would still sell OK. There is now a big demand for aircraft that size for certain routes (US transcontinental, and second-city Transatlantic, especially the transatlantic) What happened is that
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by vanniv 7y ago
I've seen several stories today on related concepts. This one, and another on apps like Waze advising people to drive through neighborhoods. It's starting to sound like some folks are questioning the wisdom of having public roads
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by vanniv 7y ago
Fortunately, indentured servitude was outlawed, along with slavery, by the passage of the 13th amendment. Of course, the constitution is only as powerful as we are willing to follow it -- but I'm pretty comfortable that the slope betwe

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