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I really liked OpenSCAD, because I didn't feel like I had the dexterity or the mindset for regular 3d/cad software, going back to the 90s. Mouse interface for 3D design never worked for me. Designing physical things using a progra
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>a fine way for the wealthy to avoid traffic between their tower and the airport HeliNY says from NYC to the Hamptons is "Round Trip – $2,995" by chartered helicopter where each way is a little over half an hour. Ziprecruiter s
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>the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of >thing, it's not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital >donations to go to If I received a complaint along t
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>The best thing to do is to let the market forces work rather than placing a limit. Free markets, to paraphrase a famous saying about the US Constitution, are not a suicide pact. Price controls alone will increase demand, and therefore s
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>bringing high speed internet to millions in currently un-served areas around the world Not that that's bad in itself, but in today's news: "Elon Musk personally rejected a Ukrainian request to extend his satellite interne
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>there are early adopters, who will generally have many products that fail. The better people get at using data to optimize selling products, the more rewarding it is financially to tweak something established compared to investing in es
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> They're basically negative influencers. Anyone who tries new things (more than the average consumer) will find products that don't have traction yet, which in turn will be disproportionately likely to be discontinued. This lo
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I learned all I know about pitch decks by reading HN's favorite financial columnist, Matt Levine. He writes a column for Bloomberg you can subscribe to for free somehow or other. I mean, most of the time he's writing about other t
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Something can be a grift or a cult and still be based on life-and-death reality. If my doctor tells me I have to lose 100 lbs or I will die, then I can start counting calories, restrict myself to a certain number, and do it honestly or I
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Some people who seem to be experts have suggested that it could be a sort of trap. Not just because the judge will be really mad if he goes back on his word this time. But because there is a legal doctrine that prevents going back on his wo
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Do you think that it would be a good goal to work towards a world where all civilians are subject to military law exclusively? My impression is the first order of business is declaring an official emergency.
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>Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine are quite well known and relevant to current events. ;-) They can't be well known and relevant to the war. Has to be one or the other unless and until Western policy towards Ukraine is c
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>The folks working at Stadia should have seen the writing on the wall. I'm not sure that's fair. From not quite three weeks ago, on 9to5google regarding Stadia: "it’s really not normal for Google to “kill” products unless
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>renewable sources "Breeder reactors could, in principle, extract almost all of the energy contained in uranium or thorium, decreasing fuel requirements by a factor of 100 compared to widely used once-through light water reactors,
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> But I really doubt that this was malicious It wouldn't be malicious to force the company to honor their representation either.
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> sleep and hibernation have been fixed and broken again intermittently over several kernel versions How do people typically learn to debug kernel issues on their hardware? It seems like actively promoting widespread knowledge of the pra
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Well, you can always draw a distinction because every case is arguably unique. But there is research that indicate wrongful or negligent death is one of the leading causes of death in the US, up there with heart disease or cancer (now covid
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The intellectual geopolitical reasons for supporting Ukraine are one thing and the apparent emotional reactions are another. Questioning the latter doesn't necessarily mean attacking the former. When people say "current thing&quo
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>the internal voice when you think or read text A normal conversational speaking rate for English speakers in the US is said to be about 150 wpm. A typical novel is said to be about 95,000 words. Therefore anyone who can read a novel in
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>the $1.1 billion they’re entitled to receive You would agree this is not the norm for wrongful death lawsuits, yes? I mean, at the rate they occur, businesses would all be out of business if it cost $1B every time. Casually referring to
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>change the structure of society itself to provide more obvious value in public services than the free market provides privately Actual free markets that exist are "free" in the way that a wheel turns freely if it has good bear
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>Land is absolutely cheap in some places in the world, but any place you'd actually want to live in this house is going to have expensive land You are probably correct if you restrict to exactly $2K. However, right now on Zillow the
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Maybe not this prefabricated house, but in general it makes more sense to plop a trailer or something on your (large, inexpensive) property if it's way out and isolated, because it's harder to get materials and contractors to bu
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As far as I know, all the ETFs were bond funds, but maybe someone said they were propping up the stock market because ETFs are traded on stock exchanges, and then someone else interpreted that to mean they are buying stocks... https:/
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I got frustrated once that my local supermarkets carried all but one particular flavor of a certain (food) product. So I looked on Amazon, and somebody was selling a moderately large case at an inflated price, and I bought one, because ther
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by vba616 4y ago
In my dialect, which is some sort of American English, trying to snow someone means trying to BS or con them. Blindsiding someone means taking them unawares - hitting them when they aren't looking, physically or metaphorically. A speed
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>Nuclear is expensive, it's unsafe Both are true because "spent" fuel isn't reprocessed because mumble mumble nonproliferation, yes? In the mean time, obscene amounts are being spent on fusion, which will never even c
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>Coal (/oil/gas) burning releases CO2 that was previously safely stored in the ground and didn't affect the Earth atmosphere This sounds crazy to me. The whole issue with climate change and CO2 is there is too much on a gl
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Therefore...the people mucking about with production should not be called developers! Problem solved, next?
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>snowball them Could you define this phrase and what English dialect it's from?

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