aristophenes

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by aristophenes 3y ago
The photo of the wall in the article is obviously digitally altered, just to the left of the person walking. The rocks change into uniform smooth grey, and it doesn’t match the reflection in the water. Is it supposed to be the digital plan
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by aristophenes 3y ago
You should edit the code in your original comment, someone is bound to copy paste the code somewhere…
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by aristophenes 4y ago
What took down SVB was mortgage securities. In the USA mortgages are typically 30 years long, with a fixed rate the entire time. Actual average duration is only a few years in a declining rate environment and 5-6 years in flat rate environm
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by aristophenes 4y ago
I’m sorry, this was an utter mess, shouldn’t have happened and lots of people share blame. But I don’t think it was wrong for depositors to pull deposits from an insolvent (or nearly insolvent) bank. Neither is it wrong to encourage compani
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by aristophenes 4y ago
For one this article is now on the main page of hacker news and it reports four days since last Elon on hacker news :D Might just be that it hasn’t been on the front page long?
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by aristophenes 4y ago
As I’ve gotten older I’ve fallen into this problem but also climbed out of it. It is worrisome that it is permanent, but it likely isn’t. There were several things about my life that I changed that helped me regain my focus and deep concent
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by aristophenes 4y ago
It’s actually significantly less capable than the network being attempted by ASTS.
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by aristophenes 4y ago
Your argument basically boils down to you don’t really use your glove box and prefer the slightly cleaner aesthetics. In your case you might argue for a car that doesn’t have a glove box. But if the glove box is included it should be intend
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by aristophenes 4y ago
This is an amazing explanation, thanks
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by aristophenes 4y ago
This is the most common approach even if it isn’t done on purpose, and I think it should be formalized with terminology and studies. The current zeitgeist of immunity as understood by the general population and, importantly, politicians, ju
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by aristophenes 4y ago
Could you expound? Are you saying strong quads + weak hamstrings == knee pain? I recently started using an exercise bike in addition to squats and climbs in order to get in shape and found that I started having chronic knee pain for the fir
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by aristophenes 4y ago
These are some very smart academics who have figured out how to get their institutions to fund their parties, and probably became very popular in their social circles
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by aristophenes 4y ago
Yes, and the carbon storage of all the seagrass sugar in the world is roughly equivalent to one day of automobile driving in the USA. But everywhere in the article it is phrased to make it appear like a world changing amount of carbon. Why?
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by aristophenes 5y ago
I love how the article says that ground water and microbes are responsible for most of the degradation, then blithely quote the computational evolutionary biologist “This confirms the widely held suspicion that claims of DNA from dinosaurs
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by aristophenes 5y ago
I had to cancel my gym membership because I was moving, and it required me to send a physical letter. I did this, but found out later that somehow I owed like 2 dollars, so they didn’t count my cancellation request because my account wasn’t
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by aristophenes 5y ago
You’d have seven roommates and would also have no window. Looking at the layout, it’s like sharing a tiny apartment with 7 other people. This is the worst part, if you have one disruptive person out of eight, they are going to make everyone
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by aristophenes 5y ago
This is why I often read the comments more than the articles here on hacker news.
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by aristophenes 5y ago
Thermonuclear weapons use fission to ignite fusion, and is how modern nuclear weapons work. Developed in the early 1950’s.
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by aristophenes 5y ago
I don’t understand the appeal of this type of fusion (as opposed to the plasma reactor approach). We’ve known how to get positive energy out of fusion fuel since thermonuclear weapons in 1952. The really hard part would seem to be capturing
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by aristophenes 5y ago
Mozilla (the non-profit that makes the Firefox browser) has a VPN service and not only do I trust them more than these other private companies but I like supporting them as an organization. A VPN is the best thing for a crook or spy to run,
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by aristophenes 5y ago
I knew a guy who was Canadian, but had a summer job in the USA. Everyone got told they needed to register for the draft so he did and got drafted into the US military for the Vietnam war. Someone figured out he wasn’t American at some poin
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by aristophenes 5y ago
It's good to also think about security of paper ballots. Usually, in the United States, public observers from all political parties are allowed to be at all polling places and observe (and help count) all the votes. There is a limited
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by aristophenes 5y ago
You missed my point entirely. The fact that a "breach" could happen and is something that is dangerous means the conspiracy theorists are correct. They feel about the Secretary of State like you feel about the Mesa County Clerk. I
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by aristophenes 5y ago
Your implication is that whoever has the administrator passwords can tamper with the machine to affect the results. And that someone, who is not the general public, should have access to the passwords. How is that better? So certain chosen
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by aristophenes 5y ago
The Colorado Secretary of State is unintentionally showing the conspiracy theorists are correct. A single person having physical access to the voting machines, months before the election, who has different political views from the Secretary
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by aristophenes 5y ago
I got the vaccine, and recommend others to do so. The reason I have this debate is because the people who are so offended by anti-vaxxers constantly straw-man them instead of being sympathetic and trying to understand them. Like you are str
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by aristophenes 5y ago
That by not focusing on vaccinating only the most vulnerable, we are just selecting for strains that the vaccines are not effective against.
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by aristophenes 5y ago
I don't understand your first point, what does that have to do with the immune system getting geared up for an infection months or years later? The second point, your worst case scenario doesn't even address the worst concerns of
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by aristophenes 5y ago
Without time for a study, wouldn’t it make sense to assume the most common thing, that a natural infection provides more immunity than the vaccine? Taking the line of reasoning where we assume the worst case scenario until proven otherwise,
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by aristophenes 5y ago
> The “Sandia Cooler” architecture simultaneously eliminates all three of the drawbacks of conventional air-cooled heat exchanger technology ... and replaces them with brand new drawbacks that we aren’t sure how to mitigate

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