new_realist

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by new_realist 5y ago
$125,000 for 7% is still exploitative, not even considering the inflation of the money supply we’re seen recently. So much money chasing deals and this term hasn’t budged.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Increasing housing supply is like building more roads to reduce traffic: it doesn’t work. Humans reproduce to fill all available habitat. More humans, no tangible benefit, worse Earth.
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by new_realist 5y ago
More housing decreases homelessness in the short term, but not in the long term. Humans breed and will always reproduce to fill all available habitat, like any animal. Building more housing reduces homelessness like building more highways r
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by new_realist 5y ago
Does Slicer work with range partitions?
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by new_realist 5y ago
Tesla's investor relations department leaks these sandbagged estimates to the press at the end of every quarter so that they can beat them. It's an old game.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Parts from Home Depot used just 15 months ago: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/36274/tesla-model-y-owners-fin...
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by new_realist 5y ago
Author is willing to use Windows, but no mention of macOS. This article reads like someone trying to convince you that vegan chicken tenders taste like regular chicken tenders.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Y Combinator managed to convince startups that would have been founded anyway to give up expensive equity to them. I'm not sure they would have failed without YC. Put another way, if you take a piece of every startup on the planet, can
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by new_realist 5y ago
Discord functionality is driven by market forces, which is more than I can say for FOSS. FOSS is less likely to offer a product that works for mainstream users.
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by new_realist 5y ago
More sermons, and it isn’t even Sunday.
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by new_realist 5y ago
It's shameful that Dell's 8K monitor is sabotaged by Apple.
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by new_realist 5y ago
“excluding mountains” Further, the aggregate for all of North America hardly excludes the possibility of regional snow drought.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Retirement is a near universal human goal. Why would people work instead of retire? That seems at odds with observed behavior.
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by new_realist 5y ago
The equivalent of universal basic income during the pandemic has caused the labor force to shrink, and inflation to increase.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Web 3.0 is a stock pump.
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by new_realist 5y ago
And barely innovating.
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by new_realist 5y ago
There's a renaissance in hobbyist ergo keyboards happening right now, and this is the best Kinesis could do?
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by new_realist 5y ago
Also, Birds Aren't Real.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Does this hold true for spilled wind and solar? Does the efficiency matter at all if it would otherwise be wasted?
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by new_realist 5y ago
Darwin, Apple's OS, is open source.
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by new_realist 5y ago
As soon as your router hands off packets to your ISP, packet handling is either closed source software, or closed source hardware, anyway. Even if your gateway is open source, the chips it uses are not.
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by new_realist 5y ago
It is an existence proof of two. People, in this case two people, did get it.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Interestingly, Massachusetts banned Christmas for over 20 years for being a pagan holiday.
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by new_realist 5y ago
The persecution of religious minorities in Europe resulted in a very secular Europe—-because many of them fled—-and a very religious America, because that’s where they all went.
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by new_realist 5y ago
That would be only temporary. Building more houses decreases prices like building more roads decreases traffic. It doesn’t. Humans are animals and, like any animal, will breed into any available habitat until it is full.
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by new_realist 5y ago
This is silly. We don’t need fewer time zones, we need more of them: one for each major metro. It’s not 1870 anymore. Time should jump by a few seconds every night at 3 a.m. so that sunrise is always at seven a.m.—no daylight savings nonsen
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by new_realist 5y ago
Electrical grids don't store energy. If you wanted to store just 10% of the U.S. electrical generation from summer to winter using lithium-ion batteries, it would cost roughly $42 trillion dollars. Yes, trillion. Storing 10% of the U.
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by new_realist 5y ago
In my experience, you overcommit virtual address space and have the compiler generate max stack size information. You then work to remove giant allocations. Not ideal, but the price for bespoke speed and debuggability.
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by new_realist 5y ago
In a world with smart clocks, every major metropolitan area should be in its own time zone, time should skew very slightly at three a.m. every morning, and sunrise should always be at seven a.m. DST can be improved.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Vaccines were not designed to prevent transmission, only hospitalization. They can’t create mucosal antibodies.

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