michael1999

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by michael1999 27d ago
This showed the same dynamics as most carbon-capture boondoggles. They can never work, and receive funding _because_ they distract from the core problems.
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by michael1999 1mo ago
A watch face would be fun.
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by michael1999 2mo ago
I don't see how that is relevant. I am not aware of any outsourced job where the American alternative would cost anything near the minimum wage. The overhead of outsourcing and supervision would dwarf the raw basic labour cost of the
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by michael1999 2mo ago
Your "often" is not borne out by actual econometric studies. The actual rate of minimum wage that produces dead-weight loss is much higher than most minimum wages in the USA. In any market, there is wide range of possible clearin
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by michael1999 2mo ago
Upthread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009120
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by michael1999 2mo ago
ctrl-F "standards" - zero results. The fine article was more about the effects of bad lighting, and the motivation to change. It does not discuss the engineering and insurance standards that generate the bad choices. Perhaps you
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by michael1999 2mo ago
We need much better engineering standards if we are going to fix night lighting. A simplistic lux-on-the-ground measure combined with cost minimization produces a few lights, with bare bulbs, up hight, with brutal intensity. These are all
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by michael1999 2mo ago
What fraction of investors who chose Nasdaq100 over SPY wouldn't have also wanted SpaceX? The whole point is hot and tech-heavy speculation.
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by michael1999 2mo ago
Fun! Thank you. I wonder if I can find Mac keycaps and swap those in software. Their Mac versions are all full-size.
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by michael1999 3mo ago
I wish I could find a Model M Space Saver with modern OS keys. I love the springs.
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by michael1999 3mo ago
It is not all obvious that consciousness precedes language. Hellen Keller provides a vivid description of her pre-verbal mental state as something less than reflective conscious. > Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am.
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by michael1999 3mo ago
Are there countries where trade unions are still active in training? Most places I see they are entirely focused on wage bargaining, and are happy to gut training for the young if they can maintain the generous pensions of the old.
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by michael1999 3mo ago
You do need to justify it. There is a great moral hazard prioritizing the driver's safety over pedestrians, since the driver is most in control of the danger. There is very little a pedestrian can do to protect themselves from a driv
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by michael1999 3mo ago
Hard to get a plate if there's no VIN.
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by michael1999 3mo ago
Info-minimized oidc handshakes with certified identity providers could verify age-category of a user with no other information shared. Consider "log in with apple" as it is today. Depending on what you share, a relying website mi
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by michael1999 3mo ago
Landmines are not illegal, except for signatories of the Ottawa Treaty.
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by michael1999 4mo ago
Yeah. iPhone and iPad have gone backwards for my mother every year. Losing the home button was a disaster. Every edge swipe, or double-click is more trouble. The new stuff is great for me, but the original skeuomorphic designs were so m
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by michael1999 5mo ago
They re-write many apps every few years as part of their major design changes. These re-writes inevitably introduce lots of little bugs in uncommon workflows, and they often jettison whole features like AppleScript integration that cause r
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by michael1999 5mo ago
You can't really hedge a true shortage. You'll get some money, but you can't pump money into a fuel tank.
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by michael1999 5mo ago
Bummer. I loved the glass bottles in the penguin, but I got tired fighting the durability problems. I got as far as researching custom gaskets and shims, and gave up.
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by michael1999 5mo ago
How's the durability of the Crystal? I had two of the original Penguin systems, and the seals broke down and the frame stretched. I'd prefer to go back to the glass bottles.
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by michael1999 5mo ago
The sharp points by the track-pad are bad design. Ive made some terrible decisions when he wanted to show off.
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by michael1999 5mo ago
This closes the DRM hole in Kindle. The newer Kindle DRM formats have been robust, but the old DX reader AWZ format was hacked ages ago. Anyone with an old device could download their books in the old DRM, and strip it with DeDRM. But th
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by michael1999 5mo ago
There are a lot of runners on mixed use paths wearing headphones these days. They are an absolute danger to overtaking bikes. A bell they would hear would be useful.
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by michael1999 6mo ago
That is a misleading headline. Italy refused landing to flights outside normal operations without a prior request. We don't know how the Italian government would respond to a request if the US took the time to make one.
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by michael1999 6mo ago
I have a buddy who used to call Weights and Measures on bars that passed off US customary pints as "pints". It is illegal, but enforced largely by complaint.
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by michael1999 6mo ago
The road network expansions and maintenance required to support the suburbs does. Ottawa has this exact problem. They are widening inner-suburb roads to satisfy demand created by outer-suburb development. A double-whammy.
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by michael1999 6mo ago
Spain didn't. https://www.ft.com/content/19f2ee15-dc86-4964-b23f-d644b18a7...
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by michael1999 6mo ago
I wind up using this kind of formatting while writing in Google Docs. It's easier to jump around with the nav bar if the structure is legible to the app. But it does make the document less readable.
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by michael1999 7mo ago
It can be - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash

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