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by yason 11y ago
Being a foreigner I do recognize the dynamic described in the article on some level, merely by observing the American culture from the outside, but I hadn't realized it's such a serious and pervasive sentiment——or is it? Maybe the
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by yason 11y ago
I don't read news but I trust I'll hear about it if something truly remarkable does happen. You might call that social filtering. The reason I stopped reading news is that it's mostly noise: nothing in my life changed whether
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by yason 11y ago
While I've grown with people who spend their after-cinema time analyzing how realistic the film was, and do acknowledge it can be fun to some extent, it's just refitting the art into a whole another game and that's by definit
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by yason 11y ago
I think the only hint of truth in gateway drug theory is that once you're consuming something that's illegal you are more likely to end up dealing with people who are also selling other illegal drugs which, if you're into tha
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by yason 11y ago
Putting philosophical approaches on the scale of drunkenness allows me to consider possibly the most fascinating corollary I can think of this whole experiment, which is to try to deduce the general level of intoxication of the original phi
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by yason 11y ago
The only sensible prioritization you can do is to shift connections on the axis between (high latency, high throughput) and (low latency, low throughput). This basically reduces down to a scheduling problem: ISPs might be able to deduce the
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by yason 11y ago
The inefficiency of computing platforms is like the amount of congestion. Both expand to the level of being just barely bearable. If a computer is too slow nobody will use it; if it's only irritatingly slow, some will use it and; if it
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by yason 11y ago
until all functionality required to build apps is available to consumers — without having to write a line of code. All functionality required to build old apps, that is. This is nothing new: most people can build a website these days with
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A wise future programmer might want to ensure that the software he writes acts mostly like science――it can be used for good and it can be used for bad but isn't inherently neither――and will thus force outsourcing decisions about the fi
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by yason 11y ago
In this universe, for whatever its nature happens to be, where laws of entropy realize themselves relentlessly and indefinitely to increase chaos forever, bit by bit; where everything left to rot will eventually turn into pieces, shards, an
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by yason 11y ago
The fact that trade does take place proves that a market exists. Obviously it's a different market, selling to larger establishments or even countries versus selling to small retailers. Similarly goods markets and prices are slightly d
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by yason 11y ago
In Europe, the strictest interpretations of the directives regarding electric bicycles only allow for 250W of motor assistance at a maximum speed of 25 km/h, and only when the bike is pedalled at the same time. And bicycles are still
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by yason 11y ago
Instead of being paid the market price, pharma companies are paid the lowest-price they could absolutely tolerate. Isn't that the market price, then? Market price is the price at which trading happens——above and below that are prices
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by yason 11y ago
Victim blaming is an ideal that often forgets to factor in realities. Theoretically, you should be able to walk into a Hell's Angels biker bar at 11pm on a Saturday evening and shout aloud "Only assholes ride a Harley!", then
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by yason 11y ago
I believe I did not say stupidity was a crime. I suggested that it's stupid to carry large amounts of cash while smoking weed, because that can easily get you into a bigger trouble combined than merely carrying lots of cash or only smo
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by yason 11y ago
While the capability of the police to forfeit property is absolutely and completely unfair and, in an (supposedly) equal society, deeply questionable——as opposed to taking the property temporarily unless proven guilty——the unescapably stu
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by yason 11y ago
I would be interested in driving a big naturally aspirated diesel engine for its longevity and torque, but they don't make those anymore at least in Europe. (Pollution restrictions.) Diesels have gone from simple and nearly infinitely
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by yason 11y ago
By making automotive transport easier and more convenient, the obvious consequence is a general increase in automotive traffic. In city centers the worst externality of cars is the space they hog. Self-driving electric cars won't fix t
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If there had been charisma and enthusiasm propped up on the stage, I'd have suspected the Model X isn't that good after all. Elon just let the car speak for itself.
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by yason 11y ago
My new anti-loneliness antidote? I adopted a puppy. Scout demands that we get out of the house—multiple times a day. She happily makes friends with everyone she meets. And if the people we meet like Scout, it is a pretty good bet I will li
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by yason 11y ago
For masses, bikes work great if the daily operating radius where you go about is something like five kilometers. But in Silicon Valley, except for some minor villages in between, 5 kilometers is only a couple of blocks. And instead of snaki
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by yason 11y ago
I might say, though, myself: "When you're young, you think you want things. When you reach middle age, you want to think what you want."
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by yason 11y ago
If it's just published you can't be sure it's the same code that runs in the car. You should be able to compile the code and inject your locally compiled firmware to the ECU if you want to verify that the car engine is doing
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by yason 11y ago
The appeal of sharing cars is directly proportional to how ugly and soulless the new cars are designed to be. The world has been on that path for a couple of decades now, and it looks like we will hit the sharing economy precisely at the ti
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Oh and by the way people can just take money from your account via ACH transfer if they have the correct numbers. Is the ACH an internal network between banks or something that regular people could use, either directly online or by droppi
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The latency could be what it is but to clarify the core of my assumption is that: 1) sending money to anyone or receiving money from anyone happens mechanically (nobody will step in and say sending $200 to your friend will be cancelled beca
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by yason 11y ago
If I understood correctly, the whole damn scam is only possible because this Venmo's terms of service prohibit something called "merchant transactions" and allow for reversing or cancelling transfers if they deem or someone r
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by yason 11y ago
Flying to UK from where? When flying to the UK from Europe or USA nobody has ever asked me about the address where I would be spending the first night. USA does ask that.
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by yason 11y ago
To me it is obvious that the way to go would be to abstract out the power source by using an electric drivetrain regardless of the engine. When the car has electric motors connected directly to drive shafts you can eliminate lots of the mec
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by yason 11y ago
Warren Buffett is certainly not an introvert if you've ever seen him speak, and his history also suggests he's not an introvert. He was a door-to-door salesman as a young man. Introverts can be great speakers and very social bei

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