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by beaned 2mo ago
Such reason deprives people of the passion to take sides and argue emotionally.
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by beaned 5mo ago
I'm surprised that better science never resulted from that lady who could smell it.
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by beaned 5mo ago
That's why people come here, they learn these things in the comments.
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by beaned 1y ago
There are rovers on Mars already that landed on the first try. The approach was rigorous planning and study with the highest standards. It doesn't mean the approach SpaceX is taking isn't valuable in some contexts, but it's c
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by beaned 1y ago
They said less than 1% of users were affected.
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by beaned 2y ago
As someone with no knowledge of the topic, why was electrical reform needed? Wouldn't one assume that either party motivated to do it while in power would be doing it with the goal of positively affecting the outcome for their party in
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by beaned 2y ago
Regardless of the hyperbole in the title, it's an interesting find. I wonder where they were going and what happened to them.
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by beaned 2y ago
On the other hand demand for premium seats would be down, lowering their price and making a nicer ride more accessible. Overall this would net to lower prices for the same distribution of amenities on a given plane ride. Supply and demand t
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by beaned 2y ago
I think that take is a little cynical. If it's only for the rich then the prices will be high. Meaning the capitalist mechanism of resource distribution will be even higher (more paid by the rich received as income by the non-rich). It
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by beaned 2y ago
There are many jobs where it isn't enforced.
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by beaned 2y ago
Language is for both. Every concept is tied to a label that is a word. We identify pieces of reality by their common attributes while omitting their specific measurements, and attach these identifications to a label which is a word. It is a
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by beaned 2y ago
Whatever happened to Fuchsia? Is that still a thing?
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by beaned 2y ago
And for every group there is an anti-group, another set of people for whom the group-included feel justified in feeling resentful towards in some way.
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by beaned 3y ago
The "big crunch" wikipedia says that it's an idea about the end of the universe, where expansion will reverse and everything will collapse back in on itself. That is not what I'm asking. I'm asking if expansion and
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by beaned 3y ago
Stupid question: how do we know that the universe is strictly exponentially expanding, and not both expanding and contracting in perpetuity like a sin wave? And could such an idea have anything to do with the Hubble tension?
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by beaned 3y ago
Completely agree with you. However, I think over time I've come to realize that those hacks that seem obscure, weird, and impossible are not perceived that way by the people who discover them. It's just their area of expertise, th
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by beaned 3y ago
The point of crypto isn't to force decentralization, it's to permit it. If you'd like to keep your crypto on a service like Coinbase, you have that freedom. Alternatively, if you'd like to self-host your crypto, you also
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by beaned 3y ago
Part of the danger is that the CIA does not represent the people. The leadership is unelected, and they basically have influence over policy within government, and increasingly the ability to shape the speech of citizens through private cor
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by beaned 3y ago
4 was rounding from 3.7, so I think that seems like a bit of a petty correction. Humans will not go extinct (I hope), but HN is full of some of the smartest people and these are their trends, and I hope that of the people who do reproduce,
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by beaned 3y ago
I think this is probably true. Historically children would provide for their elders, but that role is fulfilled now more by technology, so in practical terms, they are less needed. It's an emergent trend of humans+technology that acts
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by beaned 3y ago
I will admit that I was a bit off-the-cuff in terms of the Western aspect of my comment. There are lots of factors, of course, and the trend isn't limited to only the west. Though it has certainly become a more normal trend in develope
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by beaned 3y ago
It isn't a more difficult undertaking. It was never easy, we've just been raised softly and do not value children the same way previous generations did. An outlier in many places, but not most. Only in the Western first world is t
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by beaned 3y ago
True in a way, but Google certainly benefits from having their OS on the majority of the world's smartphones. A more apt comparison might be Microsoft, who has roughly the same market cap as Apple, while having their operating system b
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by beaned 3y ago
More Android phones sell than Apple, but I think most HN-ers would be hard-pressed to claim that Google is definitively the bigger, better, or more successful company overall.
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by beaned 3y ago
That seems even more monopolistic?
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by beaned 3y ago
Does this mean there are separate rulings for Google and Apple? Does that mean the law is inconsistent?
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by beaned 3y ago
> 93% of trips are less than 30 miles, but the vast majority of drivers take occasional trips But they still take these occasional trips, and getting there in an expected way is important to people. So I think the relevant statistic is n
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by beaned 3y ago
Yeah but they use it mostly to represent Bitcoin Cash. The history is irrelevant; bcash doesn't stand on its own legs and the misnomer is used to trick people. It's dishonest.
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by beaned 3y ago
Well what's BTC and what isn't? The bcash people still desperately cling to the r/btc handle for their subreddit.
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by beaned 3y ago
Increasing block size decreases decentralization. (Or rather, increases centralization.) Satoshi's true vision was that decentralization was a prerequisite for everything else. Block size increases presuppose infinite scaling of bandwi

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