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by zaroth 4y ago
You go where the people who might know better talk about these things! AV forums for picking a TV or projector, cooking forums for picking a knife set, and HN, you know, for picking the contrast level of your <body> text.
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by zaroth 4y ago
I mean… just here in this comment section are suggestions for suppliers of premium LEDs that I would trust based on the karma rating of the people who posted the links. Googling for “premium LED high ratings 95 cri” or searching on Amazon
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by zaroth 4y ago
I suppose it depends on the extend of the impoverished-ness. The homeless certainly aren’t worried about lightbulbs but the 65% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck probably appreciate the savings.
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by zaroth 4y ago
Regarding the Tesla comments; Radar is back by the way, with an increased resolution that makes it more useful in highways where overhead signs false positive as a collision risk on the old sensor. The ultrasonic sensors IMO were basically
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by zaroth 4y ago
Cars are starting to move to 48V DC. My under cabinet lighting in the kitchen are powered by DC from a power supply in the basement. I could definitely see this becoming more common. Powering the ~100 watts of fixed lighting spread across m
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by zaroth 4y ago
Save on their electric bill with cheap LEDs that get the job done, while worrying about more important things than if the bulb flickers sometimes when you dim it?
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by zaroth 4y ago
The lifespan on incandescent isn’t a conspiracy. Cheap bright incandescents don’t last very long. The centennial light was neither cheap or bright - presently it’s about the strength of a 4-watt nightlight. You put enough power through a t
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by zaroth 4y ago
If you want nice things that engineers spent thousands of hours researching, designing, and tuning, you can do the research to find those brands and pay extra for them. Most people don’t want to pay the premium and don’t value the benefits
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by zaroth 4y ago
As long as the conversion was done at the exchange rate at the time the grant was given, I would say it doesn’t matter. But taking an ancient bounty and multiplying it by an exchange rate from years later would definitely be silly.
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by zaroth 4y ago
This is way beyond moral relativism and even ends justify the means type thinking… It makes no sense to equivocate over the bad things people do by asking everyone to assume the perp had a figurative gun to their head. What this dev did was
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by zaroth 4y ago
So they price in something like this happening every 4 years?
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by zaroth 4y ago
I fail to see the contradiction. The capital has already all fled Argentina, and higher rates aren’t going to entice many dollars back in.
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by zaroth 4y ago
It doesn’t boggle my mind at all. Session data appears, and is used to render the page. Do you verify every time the actual cookie and go back to the DB to see what user it pointed to? No, everyone assumes their session object is instantiat
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by zaroth 4y ago
Hundreds of things. Peyton just told you that. But you like the idea of Jobs being a “conman” better than the truth so why disabuse you of the notion? In case you’re wondering, filing a patent with an improperly listed inventor is fraud and
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by zaroth 4y ago
There are two different definitions of the same word. One is balance sheet insolvency, the other is cash flow insolvency. But it’s two forms of the same thing! Cash flow insolvency is usually a result of holding illiquid assets that can’t b
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by zaroth 4y ago
They’ve been insolvent for some time. The bank run didn’t cause the insolvency, the bank run exposed it, and laid it bare.
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by zaroth 4y ago
I have to disagree. Liquidity is the ability to sell, period. Not the ability to sell at a profit.
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by zaroth 4y ago
You think they didn’t do that on purpose for all the free news cycles they got? If I was launching AI, having it be just a bit unhinged is obviously the best way to get it to go viral.
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by zaroth 4y ago
Everything that Stripe does is part of running their business, that’s just a tautology.
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by zaroth 4y ago
No, they don’t. There’s an appreciable difference between a company selling newly issues shares to fund their corporate expenses, and arranging a liquidity event for your employees. That’s what they are explaining in that paragraph. Obvious
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by zaroth 4y ago
They aren’t raising the money to pay corporate taxes. They are doing this so their employees can pay taxes on otherwise illiquid shares (i.e. taxes the employees can’t afford).
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by zaroth 4y ago
Typical rule of thumb is 3 months OpEx for a small business’ checking account balance. A tiny $400k run-rate company should have $100k in the bank. Keep in mind we’re talking about expense run-rate not profit. The guy who owns 14 car dealer
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by zaroth 4y ago
Who is pretending what about some made up thing that didn’t happen? The failure of SVB had nothing to do with extending loans to their client base.
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by zaroth 4y ago
They told you, it’s a low quality article!
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by zaroth 4y ago
Keep in mind that SVB equity was totally wiped out. Everyone most certainly was not protected. The people who make the poor decisions absolutely took a hit. The Board and management of the bank all took a hit and lost their jobs. I don’t se
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by zaroth 4y ago
Why take a random small program being run at the bank, and imply that it was somehow linked to their failure, when their failure is well understood and has nothing to do with the Atlas program?
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by zaroth 4y ago
When the AI generated content outnumbers human content 10,000 to 1, and the quality is almost ridiculously varied and sometimes incredible, and no functional system can sustainably authenticate humans without being overrun by bots… Then the
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by zaroth 4y ago
There’s a 0% chance the Nordstream pipelines were disabled by a few scuba divers in a sailboat. I sail a 45’ boat. It would not be in any way possible to deploy 500kg of explosives over 100s of kilometers to a depth of 80m from my boat, eve
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by zaroth 4y ago
True! It eliminated balance billing for almost everything except for land ambulances. Got a $2,200 ambulance bill for taking my daughter 6 miles that was balance billed last year after insurance paid $600. Don’t know how land ambulances in
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by zaroth 4y ago
I don’t know about “astroturf” and I don’t use Brave or follow it particularly, but the qualms with Brave’s insertion of referral codes and the negative comments around their apology all seem to miss the mark or seem vendetta-ish / pol

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