crystalmeph

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by crystalmeph 2y ago
Chuck Schumer is trying to mollify his constituents. The one thing a politician can never tell his constituents is that they are being morons, even when it's true. Your last link has the officer claiming it doesn't give off heat
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
Rapid iteration at the component level would obviously require custom components, and maybe vertical integration, which clearly conflicts with point #1 about riding existing supply chains. But you can still iterate parts of the design that
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
Demoralization of the enemy. Every single Hezbollah member is now paranoid that every single surface they touch is either listening to them or trying to kill them.
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
They lose in the short term, but if you're buying and holding to maturity, you get that money back. If you're worried about losing "market value" in a rising interest rate regime, buy shorter-term bonds. You can buy sh
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
In five years you might be able to start teasing out the effects of the sudden rise in interest rates. Right now, we're still feeling echoes of the pandemic and subsequent "snap-back" in economic activity. Look at https:&#x
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
Does it matter? It's a wasteful process, and not the only one that has been introduced into the parent commenter's workflow. In a private company, you can just say "I don't care if we lose 1-cent screws, just order more
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox . "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." There are definitely companies that are winning from the tech you pointed out
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10/ Zoom out to "Max" to get the full 60 year history. You can clearly see a full four decades of declining interest rates running from 1981-2020. That very neatly
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
A large part of the United States' economic leadership is specifically concentrated in the tech startup sector. Whether or not you think any of the companies funded by YCombinator[0] are actually worth their valuation, you have to real
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
I wonder if something like Slashdot's metamoderation system could be used to tamp down such abuse. One problem with metamoderation is that once a particular forum becomes an echo chamber, even metamoderation will unconsciously but repe
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by crystalmeph 2y ago
> But also going to the dentist already isn't exactly pleasant, the pokes, scrapes, drill noises, etc. Maybe we improve that first before sticking it in a robot? From the article: > The machine's first specialty: preparing a
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by crystalmeph 3y ago
The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, has been raising interest rates very aggressively for the past year and a half to fight inflation. This has ended a very long-lived policy of near-zero interest rates which has bee
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
Designing a new product can often be thought of like one of these puzzles. E.g. designing an "integrated" traffic system for a city that balances use by pedestrians, cyclists, cars, and trolleys.
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
I was wondering why China wouldn’t include a self-destruct feature. My daughter pointed out that crashing into a US city, even unintentionally, would probably be seen as even more hostile than sending the balloon in the first place. You o
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
I don’t know exactly how fast the air currents at 40,000-60,000 feet will drive a balloon, but I would assume that this most recent balloon was already airborne by the time the previous one was discovered. As long as they don’t launch anym
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
I'm actually in agreement with you here, but I can see the other side. You have a substance that you know, for a fact, a certain proportion of the population will abuse, to the detriment of both themselves and society at large. If yo
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
Is the article wrong on the facts? That is the only thing that matters. Many Hacker News readers are in the same demographic that would be in contention for National Merit honors, so it seems pretty “on brand” for HN.
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
I would bet that there has literally never been a school that failed to notify the recipients before now. It is not just an honor for the student, but the school itself. Yes, now, the National Merit organization will probably come up with
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
Isn’t this basically what 4Chan did with the “OK” hand symbol?
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
At some point, weakness became a virtue.
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
It does seem silly that someone would advocate making the supreme law of the land easier to change at the same time there is widespread concern about the government becoming more authoritarian, or even tipping into dictatorship. It screams
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by crystalmeph 4y ago
Frame challenge - 2FA doesn’t solve any problems that are actually problems for the homeless. A homeless person has a vastly different cybersecurity paradigm, specifically, they don’t need much in the way of cybersecurity. Nobody is stea
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
At some point, I think we have to start asking if the addition of non-critical features like having a favicon for each radio station is worth the increased attack surface.
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
They probably gave the marketing department a QC reject to take pictures with, since marketing can't be bothered to worry about things like proper ESD protection =)
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
I read it as the phone itself.
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
I’m not the poster you’re asking this of, but the reasons why a seemingly empty universe are concerning basically all boil down to “it indicates that the universe is hostile to civilization specifically, or to life in general.” If the unive
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
“.. the right solution may be through regulations.” I’m unclear, are you saying that regulators should prevent Apple from doing client-side scanning? If so, that’s entirely unrealistic. Government regulators would love to require even mor
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
I’ve wondered about something like that. Lower population growth seems to be a direct consequence of modern liberal society, where women are allowed and encouraged to choose having a career over raising a family. And despite glib sound bit
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
I think they mean Dungeon Master, the architect / narrator of multiplayer role playing games. A good DM will guide the players through a well-planned story, in part by making the layers feel that they are in control of the story thems
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
The only way most people can time-shift charging their electric cars to the daytime is if their parking spot at their job has a charging station. Practically, that means a very large fraction of office building parking spots will need char

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