floatrock

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by floatrock 8mo ago
I mean, you don't have zoning in space, but you have things like international agreements to avoid, you know, catastrophic human development situations like kessler syndrome. All satellites launched into orbit these days are required t
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by floatrock 8mo ago
Cadillac Desert is the usual recommendation on how f'd water deals are in the West, the Owens Valley landgrab is merely the opening chapter. No argument there. It's the urban/rural division subtext of the brown lawns and the
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by floatrock 8mo ago
Good catch. The shibboleth revealed the russian bot farmer.
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by floatrock 8mo ago
Here ya go with literally an order of magnitude fewer words: > The Salinas Valley cycles through wet and dry decades. Droughts cause ruin and exodus, yet people always forget the previous climate phase. I dunno, doesn't seem to have
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by floatrock 8mo ago
Yes, of course human activity causes some fires. Now do all the other ones started by lightning and lets have a complete list.
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by floatrock 8mo ago
Huge amount, but maybe not in the way you intended. Many of California's ecosystems have evolved to expect fires. Humans can't stand fires and aggressively put them out. So fuel that would be regularly burned off in mild wildfires
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by floatrock 8mo ago
If we're using the most extreme examples to distract using visceral disgust instead of addressing the core point of one-size-fits-all regulations tend to kick out the bottom rung of the economic opportunity ladder, might I offer a smal
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by floatrock 8mo ago
and to op's point about > Its military has force projection to nearly every point on the globe, with hundreds of global military bases How are the hosts to all those bases going to react when suddenly the guest acts belligerent? Whe
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by floatrock 8mo ago
It's not about cutting boards or temperature constraints. Yes, that applies at any scale. It's the stuff that legally mandates a minimum-size operation. Article talks about it: > Relatedly, our health code regulations also effe
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by floatrock 8mo ago
It's not about not meeting the standards of the town's health department, it's about having a 1-size-fits-all health standards. If you make a 5-seat japaneese-style neighborhood micro-eatery conform to the same cross-contamin
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by floatrock 8mo ago
from the article: > But the restaurant industry fights to limit food trucks. On average, food trucks must handle 45 separate regulatory procedures and spend $28,276 on associated fees. Lets napkin-math this. If we assume a food truck has
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by floatrock 8mo ago
I think you missed the whole point of the story about being able to open up a micro-eatery in front of your home. You know, where you live and want to build up a community. Back when we used to be great, didn't we idolize the local bar
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by floatrock 8mo ago
oh you sweet summer child... to see the world with your simple star-spangled eyes...
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by floatrock 8mo ago
Usually there's a bodies-in-the-streets phase... guillotine was theatrical, bolsheviks called it the red terror, nazis were well the nazis, italians strung em up on meathooks, tienamin used tanks (after the famines), baltics did straig
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by floatrock 8mo ago
Why does it have to be zero-sum? Why not commercial demand creates the economies of scale that bring the residential stuff down in price with them?
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by floatrock 8mo ago
It's "eh, we haven't gotten to this problem yet, lets just see where the possibilities take us (and our hype) first before we start to put in limits and constraints." All gas / no brakes and such. Safety standards a
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by floatrock 9mo ago
So you're saying I can't set an alert for these conditions and use the timing to place a quick bet on the geopolitical polymarket du-jour? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-polymarket-user-made-more...
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by floatrock 9mo ago
US car companies became banks that happen to make cars. How much would you like to pay for that 80k new truck? Sure, we can give you that monthly payment, lets just structure it as a 10-year loan where you end up paying twice that on a rapi
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by floatrock 9mo ago
I mean, so does at least GM, Kia, Subaru, and Mitsubishi. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driv... The American Way is to monetize this data with insurance companies as the buyers.
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by floatrock 9mo ago
right. I stopped reading at "ENSUE_API_KEY | Required. Get one at [dashboard](link to startup showing this is an ad)" First thought: why do I need an API key for what can be local markdown files. Make contents of CLAUDE.md be &quo
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by floatrock 9mo ago
I was simply just made uncomfortable by how much CYA the lawyers had to insert into a technical blog post. This is fun cool tech and I appreciate the insider look, but when the lawyers are peering over your shoulder so much that they need t
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by floatrock 9mo ago
I dunno, sounds like "rapid product iteration to find product-market fit" to me.
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by floatrock 9mo ago
And apparently implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency using TrumpCoin. > Backed by the White House, Tech Force will tackle the most complex and large-scale civic and defense challenges of our era – from administering critical fina
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by floatrock 9mo ago
Textbook PR. If your reputation went to shit, just rebrand it. See, for example, how the head of DOGE said "That wasn't a nazi salute, that was roman salute! It's a completely different thing."
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by floatrock 10mo ago
> My question is this: at what point, if at all, will self-driving get good enough to make automotive lidar redundant? By 2018, if you listen to certain circa-2015 full self-driving technologists.
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by floatrock 10mo ago
Lets hope they'll be tests.
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by floatrock 10mo ago
It's standard practice now to charge higher prices for cancellable reservations. Given all the asymmetric squeezing being done by corporate algorithms everywhere in the ruthless march towards economic efficiency, it's hard to feel
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by floatrock 10mo ago
Predates, sure. Is affected by? No idea, but I'm sure there's some cloudflare rep convincing you that you need cloudflare to make sure your high-availability stream stays highly available when just yesterday azure got a ddos measu
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by floatrock 10mo ago
What happens when a major CDN goes out? Or, god forbid, a major datacenter region has a DNS blip that apparently 1/3 of the internet depends on? Or, what if a hurricane or ice storm knocks out some internet connectivity? That would be
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by floatrock 10mo ago
Only about 30% of the energy in gasoline is converted to useful work in a gasoline car (the 'make metal box go forward' part). The remaining 70% is Rejected Energy (the steam you see going out the tail pipe in winter). Which (no

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