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by timerol 4y ago
I was disappointed when Flush, which seems like a neat service, linked to an app only available on Apple devices
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by timerol 4y ago
This is a repost from 2013, FYI. It got quite a bit of traction in Aug 2020, unsurprisingly. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nohello.com
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by timerol 4y ago
> As tax considerations with crypto are just getting off the ground This is very not true. Buying and selling anything has very clear tax implications. It's more that enforcement is slow, and people are willingly breaking the law be
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by timerol 4y ago
It is well known. "Matched components" are common in analog design. (No two things are ever identical, but things fabricated next to each other are more likely to be much closer, and you can get better tolerances if you're go
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by timerol 5y ago
Emailing HN moderators is the best way to reach (without loss of generality) dang
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by timerol 5y ago
In places with very high supply or very low demand, the price of housing can be far below the cost of construction, which comes with its own issues
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by timerol 5y ago
Masks always provided some benefit both ways, but the benefit is maximized if everyone is wearing them. N95s and similar have started to become more common, and those have substantial benefit to the wearer, even in a crowded room of unmaske
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by timerol 5y ago
It's worthwhile to note that there are currently driverless metro lines in the world. We do seem to be moving in that direction for automation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_train_system... As al
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by timerol 5y ago
> I traced it down to the several KA welding pulse that caused the ground fault interruptor to be EMP’d. Running the welder without ground took care of that. That's a solution, I suppose. Not one that I would pursue, but I'm
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by timerol 5y ago
ripgrep is noticeably faster than ag. I'm not sure what features you mention that ripgrep is missing, but I've been plenty happy with it for basic grepping around. I'm sure it's also partly because BurntSushi, the author
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by timerol 5y ago
Yeah. It's written to teach people who do not have (what some might consider) the standard prerequisite knowledge. I have no doubt the author understands algebra over a field. The author recommends teaching Geometric Algebra as a pedag
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by timerol 5y ago
I definitely thought the conclusion was going to be something like: "We need to loop over every day to count Thursdays, because of calendar shenanigans in August 1632 in Russia and February 1295 in the Holy Roman Empire, which caused t
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by timerol 5y ago
Bitcoin's price "in USD" makes more sense as a price "in USDT". It's completely unsurprising that Bitcoin went up relative to USDT after this news. The big question is when the peg of 1 USDT ~= 1 USD (or USDC)
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by timerol 5y ago
Gotta do it the old-fashioned way: 1) Find someone you know and trust who owns enough USDT. 2) Borrow their USDT, then immediately sell them for USD. 3) Pay some fee over time for the loan, and then have the contract expire at some point. Y
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by timerol 5y ago
Speed limits are a maximum, not a minimum. With limited visibility in fog or snow, it is extremely common to see cars going 10+ mph under the speed limit. The speed limit is supposed to be the maximum appropriate speed in ideal conditions.
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by timerol 5y ago
Downvotes are for comments that don't add to discussion, not for comments that are disagreed with. (For example, this comment I'm writing is off-topic for the current article, and so should probably be downvoted.) Stating a simple
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by timerol 5y ago
Where I grew up in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia, this phenomenon was well known and referred to as "soccer mom rush hour". It was a completely different set of congested streets than normal rush hour, as it was based on the
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by timerol 5y ago
The next paragraph explains the return on capital for the various projects. This varies per-project and whether you include societal benefit or not. From a strictly financial return on capital perspective, the figures range from 15% to 4%,
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by timerol 5y ago
- Building above ground is easier. But if you're building below ground, bedrock is easier than e.g. alluvial soil or sandy soil. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/11/23/more-on-statio... - NYC is a
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by timerol 5y ago
This is a long and poorly written article to point out that the 2M podcasts on Apple Podcast follow a power law. 26% of podcasts have only produced one episode, 37% have produced 2 or fewer episodes, 44% have produced 3 or fewer episodes. T
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by timerol 5y ago
In this context dropping means "leaving behind", as in "I dropped my water bottle in a trash can when I finished it." The author did not invent this terminology. He is explaining it to a wider audience.
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by timerol 5y ago
I think you're misreading the comment you replied to. "+/- 25% of a 11M of the population having been infected" means about 25% of 11M, or 2.75M, officially infected. 22k/2.75M would imply a 0.8% fatality rate.
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by timerol 6y ago
To use only integers, you generally try to express all numbers in units of the smallest quantity. So any money is in integer cents, any distance is in integer (spatial resolution size). It gets annoying with derived units: Time can be store
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by timerol 6y ago
See my sibling comment's edit. "I make no pretense at being a bitcoin expert" can mean both "I don't claim to be a bitcoin expert" and "I am an authentic bitcoin expert" depending on context.
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by timerol 6y ago
I think you've got it backwards. I'm counting it as a quadruple negative when considering "despise" and "pretense" meaning deception. "Make no pretense" means the same thing as "admit", not
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by timerol 6y ago
There are plenty of areas open to the public that are accessible to children: playgrounds, libraries, schoolyards, skateparks, large underused parking lots, malls, public pools. Some places have great nature nearby: beaches, creeks, rivers,
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by timerol 6y ago
> I’m simply wondering why [redacted]? It’s a sincere query. I like most of the article, but I've dealt with too many sealions online for that statement not to raise my defenses. At some point we decide to re-open things, or increme
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by timerol 6y ago
In a potentially deadly collision, what matters is the humans inside, not the car. Initial and final velocity are generally fixed, and the process of decelerating the human is what needs to be done safely. This is why cars have "crumpl
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by timerol 6y ago
Given the excessive hand-wringing around e-bikes that can go over 28 mph in NYC, someone would definitely notice
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by timerol 6y ago
The issue would occur if the auto-updater itself broke as a result of an OS upgrade

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