ArchStanton

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by ArchStanton 5y ago
Thank you for your valuable input.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
No mystery. You can simply make the claim that Apple would detect anything that's anti-Apple. Why not? It isn't like that the company has anything approaching morality, aside from perhaps the occasional craziness from the worke
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
>I think your perception of what qualifies as motoring performance is sadly lacking. lol. I think you'd be surprised. Mostly I'm referring to the mass-produced engine itself here, not the car. After all, we live in a world of
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
I'll have to look into it. Given both the financial value of image compression (given the amount of video shoved down the net) and the asymmetry of codec (it's OK to use resources to compress, not so much for decompress), I'd
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
Ideally the whole car collapses simultaneously.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
This seems like a pretty obvious thing to do for some small-run auto maker. Thinking out loud. At what point are legislative controls ever put on car performance, if ever? They've kind of hit the limits on ICE engines with the Hellca
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
I was thinking along the lines of getting city council members to agree with insane concepts. The committee all nodding at the wisdom of the new town monorail would be funny as hell.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
I'll improve that... ...detect people who might be unstable through paranoid ramblings about how Apple is out to _fill_in_the_blank_. The spice must flow to keep those stock options in Cupertino rising.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
Imagine how small the file would be if it were a couple of for loops. Compression can take advantage of the colors of adjacent/near by pixels, adjacent pixels in time (for video), less bits for more common situations, removing differe
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
I can imagine the advertising value of watching for depression and cognitive decline. In the latter case, you could probably sell a dozen extended warranties for the same item. EZ prediction of the day. Combine depression, cognitive declin
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
You know, a person could have a lot of fun cutting in their own video and audio on a talking head in one of these youtube council meetings.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
That's a good point, but do Catholics account for more than their share of births in Nigeria (5.5 children per woman, or, as we say in the brave new world, 'people who menstruate')? hah. Partly answered. https://p
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
One that isn't thrown into gmail's spam folder? I wish I were smart enough to self-host.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
Cool, thanks. I'll check it out. I've mostly been keeping an eye out on the aircooled VW conversions (or that EV 1968 Mustang on youtube). It'll really get interesting when you see more from-scratch cars that don't have
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
Fine. We'll design a control system for EVs where you can feel that a fake clutch actually does something. We can supply speakers and a simulated tach to give the full sports car experience. Really my own guess is that the manual tra
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
I'm speaking outside of my bailiwick here, but are browsers now the equivalent of Microsoft Windows? Great big, crufty, no-one-really-knows-how-they-work, security risk laden, feature-fat, clumps of software that everyone uses?
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
That may be, but is it better to be 'fair' or to save the world's ecology? The coral reefs don't much care if some places are poorer than others. Perhaps one answer would be to allow people to swap citizenships. If you
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
>someone driving a priceless exotic like a '69 Boss Mustang V8 could end up paying less tax and insurance than your Average Joe middle classer pays on his 10 year old 1.6L family econobox. lol. It's funny to think of them as a
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
>It's not hard to find highly opinionated people making assumptions while confidently believing they're right. If you look closely, you'll notice this all the time on HN and Reddit and basically anywhere that allows people
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
That makes sense. I keep wondering why we haven't seen an EV Miata, but you'd probably end up with a small, 4000lb car. Lacking significant battery improvements, I'm thinking the electric F150 is going to be the game changer
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
It doesn't seem to me that local populations or organizations have much say in the matter.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
To be fair, US Catholics appear to have roughly the same birthrate as US Evangelical Protestants, although that might change as Catholic demographics shift to Latino. What we (the world) will be awash in is Moslems and sub Saharan Africans
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
That's an argument that stems more from a concept of 'fairness' than one that might save the world.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
You'd have to ask what the Navajo did to the Pueblo People who they displaced.
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
>Europeans came and nearly wiped out the existing peoples The existing peoples wiped out the existing peoples in many cases. What this all rotates around is a simplistic (and Victorian) view of 'peoples'. 'Red' = the
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
>True, but if they all went Democratic, it would tip the scales considerably. It would be a tricky thing. You'd have to convince Catholics that Oregon-style abortion law (legal right up until birth) was reasonable and that the norm
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
>New coal plants aren't built The US isn't the world. https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
Considering that the US share of greenhouse gases is fairly small (15% of world total), has decreased quite a lot over time, and becomes harder on the margin, I'd say it's mostly just slinging words for political power at this poi
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
>Owing largely to the culture war, American Catholics have provided decisive support to the party that calls global warming a hoax. This isn't a political statement on my part, but just a statistical one. Than why are 44% of Catholi
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by ArchStanton 5y ago
Wait, what? Do people actually work in conditions like that article's picture shows? Good Lord.

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