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by api_or_ipa 1y ago
Watching the video, when the rocket lifted-off, it stood on a couple small risers. When it landed, the risers were gone. Did someone run out there and grab them?
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by api_or_ipa 1y ago
One of the most mind bending facts I tell people, even sailors, is that sailboats are not limited to sailing at the true windspeed. Sails are wings, not bags. In fact, a boat's top speed is directly dictated by its ability to point in
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by api_or_ipa 1y ago
> What if, for example, tariffs incentivize technology development that allows hydroponic wine - making previously unviable land suddenly productive? This is a variant of the Import Substitution idea. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a gre
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Vancouver, IMO, is a far better developed city than Seattle. Vastly better transit, denser, more walkable neighbourhoods, and just overall very thoughtfully developed. It’s just an enormous shame it’s become grossly unaffordable— on an inco
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
With “adult” (meaning violate, dilute, or extramaritally fornicate) Person that does adultering: adulterer Thing that does adultering: adulterant
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
As of Oct 2024, there are zero coal power plants in Britain. It’s quite a remarkable feat. https://www.wri.org/news/statement-uk-eliminates-coal-power-...
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Pedantically, the formal name of Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or United States (of) Mexico. USians would then be ambiguous.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
The name predates Mexico by 200 years. The name refers to the city of Mexico, smack dab in the middle of the gulf.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
8km really isn’t too bad. Millions of people do the 8 week couch2 5k program, once you’re at 5km/half hour, scaling to 8km is easy, like a couple more weeks tops. Also, running (rather, jogging) isn’t terrible aerobically taxing, if
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
> I didn't want to buy a checkbook, stamps, and envelopes just for this one bill. How much is a checkbook? My bank (FRB, RIP :( ) gave me, for free, like 8 years ago, an enormous box of checks that I have hardly made a dent in. Dome
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Every era has it's Malthusian alarmists and without fail, each has been proven wrong by exactly the same thing the author decries and says won't work this time: technological change and adaption. There's no reason to think th
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
It's interesting to see the federal government taking a strong industrial policy approach to AI through this executive order as well as physical computing via the CHIPS act. Couple concerns: - I loath to believe in silver bullets. The
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Babbage podcast from the Economist had a great episode recently on it. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LCTSD4k9bNDn6i8DzLv9r?si=D...
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Respectfully, the Canadian accent (really, Canadian English) is noticeable and distinct from US English, in its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Yes, there is a lot in common with US English, but calling them the same loses an enormou
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
I'm a Canadian living in the states. The joke I tell my family is that I go to Canada to hear about US news. The other joke I have goes like this: the problem with Canada is that America thinks Canada is Europe, Europe thinks it&#x27
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
PB Blaster is the product everyone thinks WD-40 is. Even still, I wouldn’t use it in the place of real oil/grease/lubricant but in a pinch it’s far better than WD-40 for those odd chores.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
> But we’re not there yet, and according to projections we also won’t reach it this century The best projections we have say our population will likely inflect downwards by the end of this century. In other words, we probably won’t even
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Canadians have elevated Clamato juice with the Caesar, the purest nectar of the gods. Mexicans come close with micheladas and Americans have bloody Mary’s but nothing compares to a proper Caesar. I think I might need to have one today.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
You can easily do the same with most (all?) routers using middleware. Whether you get it slotted in your roadmap is a different story.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Bowling has been in a long decline. If I had money to get into the PE game, I probably wouldn't choose to invest in bowling, but hey, if someone wants to shovel a bunch of investor money into renovating bowling alleys, that can only b
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Maybe, but it’s also remarkable Canada hasn’t had a bank failure in >100 years. It’s a safe, peaceful and prosperous developed country. Hard to argue that Canada hasn’t done fairly well. I still agree it’s perhaps too risk averse, but I
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Wait, you’re missing the important linkage. Urbanization facilitates specialization only because it produces excess productivity. Growth it’s very self produces inequality when the benefits of increased productivity are not evenly distribut
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Love it. I hate loom. Dark patterns abound. Its time we have a better orientated replay alternative (but I’m still waiting for a widely adopted true session replay alternative)
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
There are about 200,000 gas stations in the US. At one per day, it would take >500 years to rebuild the network. 1 super charger station per day is pitiful, you don’t need to be Elon to realize that is nowhere near fast enough to transi
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
On the contrary, it’s hard not to be impressed with Tesla. They moved more Model Y cars than any other car the world over. They unseated Toyota Corolla as the best selling car. That’s just incredible.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Unconstructive comment. OpenAI is the golden standard for an llm: if you cared to dig deeper you’d realize that that you really could incorporate another llm with little effort.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Many empires were either founded or strongly assisted by unifying trade. It’s a straightforward way of capturing value accruing from comparative advantage.
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
Trust in the recursion
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
So sad. I just listened to an interview he gave to Babbage podcast from the Economist. Highly recommend listening to his thoughts, he was an incredible luminary. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qNJBiPgkgf29cqpAcPfvf
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by api_or_ipa 2y ago
To be entirely fair, that’s a single image, and, it’s a marketing website. Of course they’re going to show a luxurious seat. The truth is that the interior will probably look like Concorde: more spartan than luxury.

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