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Thanks! I updated my comment at a few points. The numbers still don't quite add, given 24k bags sold + 634 cases of decaf still for sale (= 3804 bags) is still under the initial 30k bags. But I suppose 2k bags of decaf could have easil
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by timerol 4y ago
Great to see that all of these got sold! The numbers in this story don't exactly line up, in a way that tells a fun and clearly stressful story: (The cases have 6 bags each.) The intro to the blog post mentions 34k bags of coffee actua
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"Vulnerable" is an odd word to use there. "Ideological splitting" is the way humans have interacted since the Tower of Babel. Forcing everyone into the same conversation is a guaranteed way to produce conflict. I would s
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Late Feb 2020 until early April 2020 https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...
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There's an entire paragraph about why generalist instances are bad, but no reflection about how each of those faults exists in a worse way in any centralized social network.
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That is not accurate. The 4% withdrawal rate is based on the Trinity Study[1], which showed that it was unlikely to exhaust retirement funds over a 30 year retirement. It already includes compounding and draw down calculations. There's
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One fun repository of logic operations like this is https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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Good to know my siblings are representative: we're 3 of 5 living within 10 miles of where we grew up. I'm 2000 miles away (other coast), and the youngest sibling is about 500 miles away. This (likely) works even given the 26 years
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In the beginning, everything good correlated with more transistors: decreased pitch led to lower power per transistor, faster clock frequency (implying faster RAM), more RAM, and lower cost per transistor. In the decades since pretty much e
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The Apollo Guidance Computer was a 16 bit computer operating at 2 MHz in 1966, costing $200,000 per unit. It was made out of many individual ICs, based on fab limitations at the time. A single IC today with the same functionality costs unde
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> such a basic fact As GP alluded to, memory in humans is not at all like memory in computers. Do you know a lot about Portugal or Uruguai as countries or cultures? Can you name any players on either of those teams? Could you draw the fl
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> Bank lends out Person A's money to Person B; Person B deposits their money at a bank You describe this as a two-step process, but it's actually one step, with no actual cash involved. If Person B gets a personal line of credi
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The thesis seems to be that America's recent civil unrest is not exceptional, and only continues the pattern that the founding of the CIA and NSA started. The implication seems to be that making federal agencies more transparent would
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There are definitely a number of installations where this could be useful. My favorite example is Antelope Valley in Southern CA, where the turbines stretch out as far as the eye can see. The scale is absurd. 3288 turbines are there, accord
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> we haven't even managed to stop (or greatly slow) the growth of global emissions We definitely have managed to greatly slow emissions growth, and it seems pretty likely that humanity's greatest carbon emitting year will happe
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I disagree that this is a modern thing. I think the usage of "tribe" in your comment is telling that this kind of thinking has long predated modern political interactions.
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That is the strategy of opening preparation. For the most common openings, GMs often have a 20 move sequence memorized. The time limit of chess matters a lot, so the strategy is to break your opponent out of their preparation with a move th
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Google maps already has it as Interstate 69 through Houston, and transitioning back to a state route north and south of the city. The actual numbering system is very simple, and explained at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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When I saw the title of this article, I assumed it had to be about Tree Style Tags. No other browser feature has so immediately become a feature I must have so quickly. Privacy and ad-blocking are great, but I could see myself being lazy an
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"git bisect --first-parent" gives most of the same benefits for teams that don't rebase/squash. At least until someone does a foxtrot merge and then it never works again
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Metal hydrides are a great way to store hydrogen that bypasses the alternatives of very highly compressed hydrogen or liquid hydrogen. However, storage is only part of the equation here.
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I assumed it was to help add legitimacy to the company. Some random company selling drugs for cheap on the internet? Sounds very sketchy, stick with your local pharmacy. That same company, run by a famous figure? Maybe worth giving a shot
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If a banana goes from costing $10 to costing $26, that's a $16, or 160%, rise in price.
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> Ask current Firefox users why they switched, and you’ll often hear “It’s not Chrome.” Pretty sure they covered that in the last reason of TFA
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> Of course, to get these new benefits, you need recent Intel processors with adequate AVX-512 support and, evidently, you also need relatively recent C++ processors. Some of the recent laptop-class Intel processors do not support AVX-51
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Third paragraph of TFA: > The research builds on previous breakthroughs from the team, including the ability to pull water out of the atmosphere[1] and the application of that technology to create self-watering soil[2]. However, these te
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In addition to the ones I had in my ears. It's not a normal thing for me to carry. I had thought I lost a pair of earbuds. I keep an extra set of cheap headphones at home, so I put them in my backpack. And then it turned out my main ea
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For day trips I brew coffee at home and carry it in a vacuum insulated bottle. The bottle smells like coffee even after cleaning, so I have one that I always use for the task. For multi-day trips I already have a small camping stove (MSR Po
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I find the anti-backpack mindset interesting, because I started urban walking after getting wilderness backpacking experience. I can't imagine walking around without a daypack, and I often bring it with me even when it's empty. On
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I would add that Keybase solved the identity issue across logins via PKI with a very neat UI. It's a shame that Zoom bought the team and de-emphasized the product.

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