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by yowzadave 3y ago
In large cities you have many small supermarkets within a short walking distance from your house. It takes 20 minutes to do a quick shopping run to pick up what's needed. It's true that groceries are more expensive than at Costco.
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Blue and green honey makes French beekeepers see red(reuters.com)
5 points by yowzadave 3y ago|1 comments
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by yowzadave 3y ago
It's a peeve of mine when people talk about the "CCP" like this, almost universally in a negative context--like they're trying to invoke the specter of communism in a scary way. Maybe you didn't mean it that way? Wh
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Interesting to hear that they serve a good American ice cream!
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Is it too much to hope that this is a natural experiment that we can learn from? Either Apple is right, and this will lead to worse security, a worse app ecosystem, and damaged business in the EU…or they are wrong, and their business and ec
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> They just use that language to make it more popular. I agree that sometimes issues are framed that way to get sympathy for a program’s beneficiaries, but I think it’s probably a bad tactic (from a marketing perspective) and an even wor
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by yowzadave 3y ago
The thing that bothers me about game interactions is that they are designed to provide quick and easy positive feedback loops, unlike most real-world skills. E.g., learning the piano requires a lot of difficult persistence with uncertain fe
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I feel this way about SQL—it's amazing to me that we're still using that same basic interface after 50 years; it’s so goofy and unpredictable, and I’m sure nobody today would design it that way if we were starting from scratch.
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by yowzadave 3y ago
The problem is, the algorithm that originally worked really well for Google (PageRank) ultimately contributed to turning the internet into SEO spam. How do you extract signal from noise in a way that doesn’t immediately make the noise probl
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by yowzadave 3y ago
The two biggest hurdles in doing office-to-residential conversions are: 1. The lease span (i.e., the distance from the core of the building to the windows) is typically much larger in an office building vs. a residential building (40ft vs 3
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I find it hard to believe that you were disallowed from writing these statements on Twitter before Musk took over.
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I actually love the youtube comments you see on old music videos--they are almost entirely aging people reminiscing about music from their era, recounting stories about people they knew and experiences they had while listening to the music.
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I don't think this is true in Japan? https://cheaphousesjapan.com/house-prices-in-japan/
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Maybe you should reconsider your priors. Is it possible that every article in a large publication cannot be mapped onto a simple liberal/conservative axis?
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> In particular, once you start writing your own patents (or having counsel write and you approve) then you'll have to answer questions about prior art, if anything is even close. Yes. I have found that pursuing patents is an enormo
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I don't think anyone is excusing Waymo or saying that an accident is acceptable in this situation--it's just an interesting engineering problem to speculate about, and people are trying to figure out what caused it to fail.
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Roads are among the worst conditions for corrosion. If you left your sink outside where it could be affected by salty sea spray, road salt or calcium chloride, with these chemicals sitting on the metal over time, it would also develop rust
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> I flag these articles but no one cares. Not sure what you mean--it seems like most articles that touch on politics get flagged (as this one did). Just like with upvoters, it is impossible to know whether those who flagged it did so bec
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by yowzadave 3y ago
It’s not really even an article—just a few-hundred-words snippet on the guy’s substack. I suspect it was posted to HN because of the context of the back-and-forth with Altman, rather than for its merits as an essay.
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Making these kinds of sweeping, counter-intuitive, absolute statements in all caps without any justification gives the impression of an analysis that may be colored by ideology rather than a clear look at the facts in question. If cities ar
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> we have just normalised this when we shouldn't have Yes, also the fact that prison rape is just assumed to be a thing that happens, and people seem to be OK with it--see thousands of comments when anybody is sent to prison along t
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> There can be a messy continuum between is and is not. Exactly--concepts like "life" were invented long before we had an inkling of what viruses were...is it surprising that it's not a perfect abstraction for what we find
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I don’t think anybody is upset by what you wrote, it just sounds like a nutty theory with no evidence, which doesn’t contribute to an informative discussion.
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I wonder why there weren't diseases endemic to the new world that would affect Europeans in the same way that smallpox did to the indigenous populations. Were diseases better able to spread in Europe due to city size/density/
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Ex-sheriff's deputy behind SF jail 'fight club' scandal to be rehired(missionlocal.org)
31 points by yowzadave 3y ago|8 comments
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Wouldn't a $25k EV be even lower-margin than their current offerings? It sounds like shares are dropping because investors think margins are too low because of price cuts--hard to see how an even-lower-cost model would help this.
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I think the odds that this gets built are slim to none--the economics won't make sense, because the property values in OKC don't warrant it. The only way it could happen is if the owner wanted to do it as a vanity project, and was
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by yowzadave 3y ago
The weird thing to me is that this hasn't happened to Zuckerberg—despite having more money than anyone can imagine, he's still plugging away, showing up to work, trying to juice the stock price of his corrosive adware company. Ama
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Oxman's dissertation was submitted to the architecture department. It's likely that none of her reviewers were actually equipped or motivated to know which aspects of it were nonsense. Architecture as an academic discipline suffer
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> social media apps that trick them into installing apps from outside Apple’s App Store Apple could make this against the terms of service for App Store apps, and ban any apps that violate them. If the sideloading option exists, then App

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