URSpider94

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by URSpider94 5y ago
Tile never gained enough market traction for it to be an issue. No use using a system to track your stolen goods that can't provide you with a location because there's no phone running the Tile app within hailing distance.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Reading The Fine Manual here : ( https://blockprotocol.org/spec ) - blocks are expected to include code to render the block information in a displayable format. So, a block isn't just the data model, it's also the v
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I can see how, if you get to critical mass, the network effect will drive adoption. For example, building a Blocks-based project management system becomes much, much easier if it can tie into one of many (hypothetical) Blocks-based HR infor
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Check out https://helium.com - it's a blockchain-based LoRA network, where the blockchain is used to reward uptime and certainty of location of the base stations. Transmissions can be received from 10 miles or more away, if
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by URSpider94 5y ago
The thing that people are missing here is that these aren’t natural gas wells, they are oil wells. Natural gas is a byproduct of oil production (crude oil can have a lot of natural gas dissolved in it, which bubbles out when it’s pumped out
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Specifically, it needs to absorb/emit in a frequency range called the “sky window”, where the atmosphere is transparent. In this range, the object is basically seeing the cold of space at a few Kelvin, so that almost no energy is absor
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by URSpider94 5y ago
They don’t have to do this in most states. Only a few states have laws against selling cars factory-direct.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Car manufacturers contracted with car dealers back when the car business was uncertain - they needed a local dealer network to sell and service their cars. Once dealers were established, they lobbied to get laws in place to prevent them fro
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Not entirely true. Certain classes of jobs, like working in health care, have always mandated vaccination. Additionally, when most vaccines are given in childhood, making sure everyone is vaccinated in grade school has the effect of ensurin
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This. What’s your long-term business plan? If you plan to keep this business as a privately held enterprise in the long term, equity is basically useless and worthless. Are you planning to hand out equity to investors or employees? If not,
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by URSpider94 5y ago
The issue is, most of the things you mention never happened. Not even close.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
In most places in CA, the touchscreens spit out a marked paper ballot that is then counted and stored with the rest.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Can you please explain how criminalizing homelessness, for example by enforcing sit/lie ordinances, would help homeless people find homes? Likewise, getting people into mental health services is not likely to get them a place to live.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
There have actually been studies done on this. The estimate I’ve seen is that for every year of life that would be prolonged by mandating helmet use in NL, 25 years of life would be lost from the loss of exercise by people who don’t take bi
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I probably would have agreed with you until I spent a lot of time in the Netherlands. Imagine saying the same thing about pedestrians: “I think we should normalize walking among cars. Sidewalks just create the mindset that pedestrians shoul
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This is wrong on so many levels. I’ve spent years biking in the Netherlands. People from age 7 up into their 70s ride their bikes regularly and safely - so safely that bike helmets are a total rarity. People ride ebikes and even gas mopeds
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Not quite. It was called the Spanish Flu because the Spanish press, being neutral during WWI, were free to write about the flu epidemic, while wartime censors in every other major country blocked any mention of it. But nonetheless, it almos
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by URSpider94 5y ago
They aren’t spreading misinformation at all. They are merely pointing out that the placebo injection used in the study has almost exactly the same serious adverse event rate as the vaccine itself. People yearn to attribute every event to a
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I’m still learning, but the concept of “sterilizing immunity” has started to come up recently. What I infer from cursory reading is that “immunity” means the body will mount an immune response immediately upon exposure to the virus, but it
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Well, there’s nothing in their marketing copy that says that any of this is in doubt - it’s all in terms of what the car will do, not what it might do someday. This is all associated with Tesla’s $10k “full self driving” package that th
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Tesla represents that the current cars they are selling will achieve these functions with a software update to be delivered at some future date. I do not personally believe that to be true. To be clear, Tesla is representing that a car you
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by URSpider94 5y ago
OK. It is far more likely to happen by the programs being executed by companies like Waymo and Cruise, who are deploying vehicles with far more sensors and compute capability than Tesla, operated by trained safety drivers. Waymo has already
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Yes, you can, that’s called traffic aware cruise control (TACC), and is activated with a single pull on the stick. TACC absolutely does exactly what is mentioned in this article - it suffers from phantom braking where it hauls the car to a
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This is all written in terms of future capabilities of the system that it doesn’t have today, but that’s extremely unclear to many people who buy Tesla’s.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
You’ve fallen prey to a mathematical fallacy. Imagine a place where one person is born each year, and all of them die upon reaching age 10. The average age of that population is 5, while the expected lifespan is 10. At any given time, the e
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by URSpider94 5y ago
He didn’t say it has bad traffic, he said it’s dangerous. I grew up in a place like this - isolated houses along a 2-lane road through the countryside with no shoulder. It’s a local road, but the speed limit is typically 55 mph because the
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Most of us here in CA already start charging at midnight, because of time of use power incentives. However, after using an app that showed the carbon burden of my charging, I learned that charging at midnight means I’m using relatively dirt
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by URSpider94 5y ago
That is not what this link says. The landlord is legally required to mitigate damages - it says so clearly in the text. That means that they must try to find another tenant. If you hand the landlord applications from several qualified tenan
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Anyone who makes use of patented technology that has not been licensed by someone upstream can, indeed be sued, at least in principle. Consider the case of Innovatio, who tried to go after businesses who were providing WiFi for their custom
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by URSpider94 5y ago
So, from the Wikipedia entry, it seems that the use of lithium in nuclear weapon engineering was indeed a volume driver - in part, because only specific isotopes are used, meaning that lots and lots of lithium had to be mined and then separ

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