smileysteve

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by smileysteve 7d ago
They provide automatic saving of comments drafts in case you return. Is it possibly abused by analysis, sure. Do they let you know that they're saving drafts, pretty clearly. The standard html behavior of only an alert does not handle
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by smileysteve 3mo ago
It's especially interesting because prior to the time of the election, the administration approved food funding to states that GOP run states rejected.
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by smileysteve 3mo ago
This implies that the money saved by cutting research was fungible and not part of a still increasing deficit, that the government doesn't debt spend, and that there aren't positive externalities (including jobs, education, and s
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by smileysteve 4mo ago
Glass is 30% cheaper to make from recycled glass. But transport and sorting (glass is hard and sharp) eat into that margin, so presort
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by smileysteve 4mo ago
> it takes as much energy if not more than just making new. It saves 30% of the energy inputs to reuse slightly contaminated glass, especially when done locally. That's ignoring the energy inputs of mining and delivering the silica.
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by smileysteve 4mo ago
It's more hardware intense, but yes, add an rfid tag to each key, use a btle obd dongle, centralize computing in an arduino; phone home to a webserver the last logs. Then at the end of the month debit each account that used negative g
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by smileysteve 4mo ago
This is definitely ¾ of what you pay a mechanic to do; 1 publisher writes a maintenance manual for a car; mechanics all around the globe can use that to work on that specific car. It's the mechanics that don't reference Google or
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by smileysteve 5mo ago
Your comparison reads to suggest that Japan doesn't have Onsen culture or that sauna does not exist in Norway. That's to say, many cultures from around the globe have developed similar activities that heat the body.
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by smileysteve 5mo ago
40° internal body temperature is not the same as 40° weather. Yucatan is not the same as Dubai in Summer. Your body is under heat shock trying to keep up in a Sauna (that isn't considered warm until 60°). Versus a healthy body CAN keep
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by smileysteve 5mo ago
And if Sadam did, then by proxy the US did.
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by smileysteve 6mo ago
It's even worse when your goal is commercial viability of carrying a relatively flammable liquid. Tankers moving at a slow speed, across a narrow strait. They don't have to sink to not be commercially viable; a few deck fires nega
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
You and the poster above disagree about the state of Twitter. Twitter had been a growth company, it was early/missed the market with Vine, but was showing ad growth. Now, as a private company, backed by the world's richest man, so
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
> Did the maker movement end? I dont think so Bump. Because we had our first high profile murder using a 3d printed weapon just last year.
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
> But sure, let's not work on multiple paths. The article is about a sign of failure of one of the multiple paths that was pursued by Japan and Ca State subsidies that was attempted over the last 20 years. You can work on multiple p
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
I think you just described American cable boxes... Except they charge us a monthly fee and an additional monthly fee for the box. Or any smart tv with free ip tv.
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
It's metric chasing; If the metric is everyone passes, then you either taught really well or lowered the standard.
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
In context of the thread, that's because AI fixes the key problem with comments, because it maintains them when the code is updated.
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
> engineer that submitted it This is a poor metric as soon as you reach a scale where you've hired an additional engineer, where 10% annual employee turnover reflects > 1 employee, much less the scale where a layoff is possible.
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
To put this in perspective, there are huge issues recyling lead acid batteries exposed this year. I consider lead acid batteries relatively simple with all materials being large and not particularly binding. But it's somehow easy to ou
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by smileysteve 7mo ago
> when it was about differences in fiscal policy and taxation. It was never only about that. But they weren't saying the quiet part out loud.
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
Keeping a 1-2 car's length stopping distance is likely over a 50% reduction in at fault damages.
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
Many companies provide a life insurance benefit equal to 50%-150% of annual salary. If your sport has any mortality or long term risk (concussions, cardiac events) then this could be seen as a nice extra insurance policy.
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
S launched in 2012. X launched in 2016. Both launched with slow rollouts. Meanwhile, the average car in use today is 13 years old and getting older. (I currently drive a 22 year old car) It definitely turns me off buying a used model S to k
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
Alt; typical western coverage. Has completely ignored other journalists publishing of the plight fitness bands have caused in doctors "am I getting a cold, my watch/ring says I'm getting a cold, give me antibiotics now"
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
Because corn fed beef isn't as flavorful as grass fed beef. (Or healthy for the cattle)
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
Historically, this is called "fiber", and has already been regulated to be required in European breads
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
Only on a local level. And businesses can already expense that tax, so it's 20% off, while individuals have been subject to the SALT cap
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
So close to realizing the issues with the 2018 tax bill. - 20% maximum corporate tax - Personal Salt cap Made it less expensive for an llc to buy a home than for most individuals. To make individual ownership on par with corporate, individu
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
Anecdotally, only the "health focused" people around me understand that the food pyramid was for a different time and based on other interests. And I don't think adults on a grand scale question it, or process nutrition label
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by smileysteve 8mo ago
If the statistical "right area" is within 30%, then 60m is similarly in the correct area. But the context is most important, are AI's worst strategies worse than 30% off because of gross generalizations?

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