Neeek

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by Neeek 8mo ago
Just to be clear, I don't think this is useful or good legislation. While the idea that the state is a shady body that's out to fleece an honest and unsuspecting peoples is a great story beat, I just don't think it's par
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by Neeek 8mo ago
Well over a decade actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_(gun) but of course just ignore the context of the parent comment about what's legally considered a firearm.
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by Neeek 8mo ago
I think the representatives pushing for this legislation is evidence that a significant portion of their polled constituents want restrictions on printed ghost guns. Is that more or less believable than a manufacturing lobby pushing legisla
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by Neeek 8mo ago
The only usable part a plastic 3D printer will make for you is the receiver, which is the whole point, to circumvent that very narrow legal classification. You're right about alternative lawmaking avenues, but given the 2a pushback on
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by Neeek 8mo ago
Did you mean to reply to the BYD lidar thread on the front page right now? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579927
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by Neeek 1y ago
The article's author co-wrote Abundance.
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by Neeek 2y ago
They couldn't "back then" either, I would argue.
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by Neeek 4y ago
Not being able to have multi-DPI in X is what moved me over. Scaling one display makes everything fuzzy and increased my idle load substantially, though maybe a different compositor might have given different results. EDIT: I should also me
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by Neeek 5y ago
From our experience here in Queensland, it's definitely not lost. We managed to get on top of a delta outbreak that peaked at NZ's current daily cases with a week of lockdown less than a month ago.
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by Neeek 6y ago
Of course! I should have mentioned that I absolutely agree with the thrust of your original comment :) I should have been less confrontational with my opening statement.
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by Neeek 6y ago
I'm a little confused, you seem to be using choice and environment like they are synonymous here. It's a small nitpick but, even if this is environmental or epigenetic it doesn't necessarily mean that people get to choose the
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by Neeek 6y ago
I believe the original assertion was that the word 'idiot' is often used as shorthand for people that have different priors and indoctrination as you, so to propose that engineers are somehow less susceptible to that seems like th
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by Neeek 6y ago
What, you've never met a stupid engineer?
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by Neeek 6y ago
Those societal advantages are only that way because of the defaults the article is describing. You could imagine a set of norms that better encourages and supports young parents (in child rearing as well as personal development).
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by Neeek 7y ago
It's also FUD, it's trivial to add a heater to the LEDs and still come in at a lower wattage than a tradition lamp.
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by Neeek 7y ago
This completely ignores the fact that below a certain line, B no longer gets to participate as freely as A in the space. A gets to demonstrate higher returns as well as higher losses and still be considered a better option even though in ab
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by Neeek 7y ago
That is assuming that the person that owns the wealth is the sole driver for growth of that wealth. Can we stop pretending that being wealthy is empirical evidence that you know how to grow an investment?
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by Neeek 7y ago
While it's true that methane only lasts for a decade in the atmosphere, it decays in to co2 and water vapor so it's not as though it is better in the long run. It's very bad short term and as bad long term.
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by Neeek 7y ago
Except it won't, dead plants decompose and release their carbon back in to the atmosphere whether you burn it or not. Coal comes from an age where atmospheric carbon was much higher and nothing had evolved to decompose wood, digging it
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by Neeek 7y ago
I think their point was that architectural decisions shouldn't be dictated by any one single engineer.
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by Neeek 7y ago
The light is emitted from an accretion disk, which does not envelope the entire sphere.
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by Neeek 8y ago
Kind of like soil growing?
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by Neeek 8y ago
It is a running theory that space time could be curved and wrap, or be more traditionally flat, or even be some kind of saddle that means it is still curved but never meets itself again like a sphere does. Recent studies point to it being f
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by Neeek 8y ago
There have been recent studies which show that universe is probably "flat" though.
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by Neeek 8y ago
In the full adder level, shouldn't the input/output table in the specification read 01 for the h/l on row 3? Had me a little confused trying to get my head around how the adder works. I'm really enjoying the whole thing
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by Neeek 8y ago
I might not be understanding your scenario correctly, but isn't it stated that UTC has 00:00 offset and should be stored that way? You would then add an offset based on current tzdata for that timezone string which would make it dynami
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by Neeek 8y ago
And then also goes in to detail about small scale iso-thermal setups that have negligible thermal losses. Apparently "author did not mention" actually means "I did not read the article".
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by Neeek 9y ago
Not to mention that you need to grow the grain to feed the beef if they aren't grass fed cattle.
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by Neeek 9y ago
We have the organs to reproduce provided that we, you know, exist... I'm not arguing how correct the definition is, more that it's what is 'textbook' from my understanding, and not really do do with the consume energy, p
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by Neeek 9y ago
Ingestion isn't really reproduction though, even if the dependency is there. I'm not saying it's a perfect definition, just pointing out that it's never been "consume energy, produce waste".

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