GhostVII

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by GhostVII 2y ago
If you are interested in more about how mechanical watches work in general this is a pretty amazing set of animations: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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by GhostVII 2y ago
Putting shifting controls on the screen was dumb for many reasons, but doesn't really cause a problem in this case - the cybertruck will disable the accelerator when you hit the brakes, accomplishing the same thing as putting it into n
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by GhostVII 3y ago
Instead of artificially boosting adoption, why not just price gas and electricity to match the negative externalities, and then people will just naturally choose the most efficient option. If heat pumps are cheaper, people will use them
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by GhostVII 3y ago
How are those relevant to this discussion?
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by GhostVII 3y ago
It's only been ~one year since input prices have fallen, according to the article - seems like thats not enough time for prices to stabilize. If margins stay higher than they have been historically, I'm sure some new competitors w
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by GhostVII 3y ago
Id imagine the marginal cost is a lot lower than that though
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by GhostVII 3y ago
How is this related to the transit in any way? It's solving for speed of delivery, not congestion...
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by GhostVII 3y ago
I also found it fun to ask it to write a python script to determine what car brand I should buy - it ended up telling me to buy a Chevrolet if my budget is between 25k and 30k, but not in any other case
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by GhostVII 3y ago
It's also useful if you restrict it to only providing information verbatim (ex. A link to a cars specifications) vs actually trying to generatively answer questions. Then it becomes more of a search tool than actually generating infor
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by GhostVII 3y ago
For me at least I do all of my development on the command line, so it's just much easier to use the git CLI instead of switching between applications. And regardless, basically all the commands I run (moving between commits and rebasin
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by GhostVII 3y ago
Having a person in the plane does make shooting it down (or not shooting it down) much more meaningful, which can be important. For example in the South China sea, flying a manned aircraft around is a much stronger statement than flying a d
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by GhostVII 3y ago
> only low-carbon in a marginal sense What's the issue with this? Cargo will always need to be shipped around so as long as the marginal impact is low that seems fine?
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by GhostVII 3y ago
> In a statement on Wednesday, the GM unit said that it did the recall even though it determined that a similar crash with a risk of serious injury could happen again every 10m to 100m miles without the update. This kind of misses the po
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by GhostVII 3y ago
If there is no limitation, why would anyone pay for the ebook though when they can just get it for free from the library indefinitely? I just don't get how this works from the authors side, are they supposed to just give away their boo
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by GhostVII 3y ago
I don't really get how a DRM free library works. Based on the article at least it seems like being DRM-free means people can keep the book as long as they want? What's the difference between that, and just letting anyone download
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by GhostVII 3y ago
I think the Internet is more like electricity vs vinyl. In the US at least, how we transmit electricity has been fairly consistent for around 100 years - a toaster from the 20s will still work today in the same outlets. I think the Internet
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by GhostVII 3y ago
But they still aren't anywhere close to level three self driving (let alone level 5, which Elon promised). What's the point of self driving if you have to constantly monitor it?
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by GhostVII 3y ago
Seems like this would just be a ban on having it on government owned devices? I feel like they should just have a blanket policy of not allowing any software that isn't explicitly approved and required for your job, if government emplo
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by GhostVII 3y ago
I don't think he really had special talent for business, he had strong beliefs that happened to line up with what was profitable at the time. I don't think when he invested in Tesla or started SpaceX he was thinking about whether
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by GhostVII 3y ago
That wouldn't work because the system relies on having a pressure differential across the membrane in order to function.
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by GhostVII 3y ago
Wouldn't pumping from 230 meters be exactly equivalent to just pumping through the membrane at sea level? If you have a pump 230 meters below sea level trying to push water up a pipe, to get water to the surface that pump must be exert
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by GhostVII 3y ago
Obesity is a massive and growing health crisis, just ignoring the problem by pretending that it's somehow OK for the majority of people to be obese is absurd. The article seems to be claiming that the health issues from obesity are mor
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Sure, so similar to in the US, where if the company changes your contract you are eligible for unemployment if you refuse.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
In the US this would probably be constructive dismissal, so similar to what would happen in Germany. And referring to slavery when talking about the current US laws seems somewhat irrelevant
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by GhostVII 5y ago
So it sounds like in Germany, you can fire people to hire another 200 cheaper, you just have to compensate them for that firing. Just like in the US if you fire someone without cause, they get unemployment payments funded by their previous
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by GhostVII 5y ago
There was pretty strong evidence she defrauded investors, lots of hard evidence of her making claims that we now know aren't true. I haven't heard much strong evidence that she intentionally defrauded patients though. I think it i
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by GhostVII 5y ago
The form makes it very clear that signing it is totally optional, and still requires the hospital to provide a cost estimate.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
This is what I don't really get about NFTs. Just because you own a token pointing to a particular object, doesn't mean you actually own that object unless someone in the real world enforces that link. And if someone in the real wo
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by GhostVII 5y ago
The book that documentary is based on is one of my favorites, second only to the making of the atomic bomb.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I hate touch screens in cars, but this isn't a win for fans of physical controls, despite what a bunch of other commenters seem to think - they aren't adding any new physical buttons, just disabling the touch screen and only allow

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