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by xyzzyz 9mo ago
"Buy, borrow, die" is simply not a thing. It's a half-baked idea invented by academics, who don't realize that it's just not viable in practice. Billionaires do not actually utilize it[1]. [1] https://www
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by xyzzyz 10mo ago
Might be most devices by count, but certainly not by power consumption. EVs are the only major appliance that’s DC, and most people don’t even have them.
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by xyzzyz 10mo ago
No, it’s mentioned because “Asian and Pacific Islander” is a specific, separate category for government’s data collection purposes. It was created as a result of Pacific Islander lobby. You can look up all of this.
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by xyzzyz 10mo ago
You can progressively tax consumption by combining high, non-progressive consumption tax with negative income tax rates. Something like, everyone gets some small UBI, and also extra income for every dollar made. For example, let's intr
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by xyzzyz 10mo ago
Because if you're taxing income, you're discouraging production, and discouraging consumption is better than discouraging production.
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by xyzzyz 11mo ago
There is little point in inventing new protocols, given how low the overhead of UDP is. That's just 8 bytes per packet, and it enables going through NAT. Why come up with a new transport layer protocol, when you can just use UDP framin
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by xyzzyz 11mo ago
Sure, you can reimplement multiplexing on the application level, but it just makes more sense to do it on the transport level, so that people don't have to do it in JavaScript.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Ah sorry, I misread you. I meant “presumably Starshield”, I think autocorrect replaced it with Starlink.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
This is not the case with Starlink (and presumably Starlink) satellites. The ground stations use directional phased arrays. They can do it, because they keep good track of where each satellite is at any given moment, and do trajectory adjus
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Yeah, if you don't know the name of the thing you're looking for, you can spend weeks looking for it. If you just search for generic like "eigenvalue bound estimate", you'll find thousands of papers and hundreds of
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
There is no reason to expect that the test results would be the same across all demographic groups, and in fact, everything we know about psychometry (i.e. the science of mental testing) suggests that we should expect exactly opposite. See
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Anduril Anvil already has a munition variant, called Anvil-M.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
What you describe using many completely unnecessary mathematical terms is not only not found in “every real-world protocol”, but in fact is something virtually absent from overwhelming majority of actually used protocols, with a notable exc
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Granted, on paper it’s a cool feature. But I’ve never once seen an application that will actually preserve that property. Chances are, the author literally used software that does it as he wrote these words. This feature is critical to ho
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Ok, but what does all of this have to do with my, or raiyner’s comment? Are you really not familiar with the notion of “due process”? Is the legal system where you are from unable to distinguish between procedural rights and the morality of
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
All the while they keep blocking the most mundane acquisitions.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Trufuel is just normal fuel, premixed with other stuff.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Just for context, what Trump tries to (illegally) ban in US, flag desecration, is already a crime in most of Europe. You can get 3 years for burning the flag in Germany, 2 years in Portugal, 3 years in Switzerland, or 1 year in Poland. Wort
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
It’s really easy to see that such a vector field exists on odd dimensional spheres, though, by extending the construction on S^1: f(x, y) = (-y, x). In higher dimensions, you do the same thing, swap elements pair wise and multiply one of th
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Basically yes. I googled average lake evaporation rates, and did the same multiplications as Gemini.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Just for context, around 200 times that amount simply evaporates from the Lake Texoma’s surface every minute.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
This only apparently changed like 2 months, and so the author was entirely correct about how it had worked when the post was published. Your comment is extremely misleading and casts improper aspersions on the author.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
It's actually somewhat hard to hit that panic in a realistic scenario. This is because you are unlikely to be using slice indices that are not on a character boundary. Where would you even get them from? All the standard library functi
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Again, this paper just looks at the correlations, and does not touch causation at all. You can run a hundred studies, each of them finding high correlation between wet streets and having rained recently, but you cannot conclude from that th
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
As a matter of fact, you cannot do let s = “asd”; println!(“{}”, s[0]); You will get a compiler error telling you that you cannot index into &str.
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
Imagine that you're writing a function that'll walk the directory to copy some files somewhere else, and then delete the directory. Unfortunately, you hit this https://github.com/golang/go/issues/323
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
> If you use 3) to create a &str/String from invalid bytes, you can't safely use that string as the standard library is unfortunately designed around the assumption that only valid UTF-8 is stored. Yes, and that's a go
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
It's actually extremely hard to introduce problems like that, precisely because Rust's standard library is very well designed. Can you give an example scenario where it would be a problem?
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
You can easily treat `&str` as bytes, just call `.as_bytes()`, and you get `&[u8]`, no questions asked. The reason why you don't want to treat &str as just bytes by default is that it's almost always a wrong thing to d
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by xyzzyz 1y ago
> There are a lot of operations that are valid and well-defined on binary strings, such as (...), and so on. Every single thing you listed here is supported by &[u8] type. That's the point: if you want to operate on data without

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