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by timerol 1y ago
Imports do not subtract from GDP. Reasoning about the economy from an accounting identity does not lead to useful knowledge. Historically times of increasing imports are also times of increasing GDP. https://www.noahpinion.blog&#
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by timerol 1y ago
Good news! The average worker has gone from spending about 25% of their paycheck on food in 1930[1] to about 11% today[2]. This is during a time period where the average worker has decreased their total hours[3]. This is confounded by more
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by timerol 1y ago
The original article does not make this clear, but the concept of a Gruen transfer is distinct from the idea of consciously including them to maximize impulse shopping and retention. Faced with a sea of links to interesting content, I often
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by timerol 1y ago
This example illustrates potential confusion around non-square pixels. 5 football fields long makes perfect sense, but I'm not sure if 2 football fields wide means "twice the width of a football field" or "width equaling
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by timerol 1y ago
> Outside of dataless enums, this is the only datatype with this behaviour. Note that there are non-zero integer types that can also be used in this way, like NonZeroU8 https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/num/type.Non
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by timerol 1y ago
The combination of lockable bulletproof cockpit doors, and everyone realizing that a hostage situation on a plane means that everyone dies, helped make sure that 9/11 would not be repeated. The rest of it is security theater.
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by timerol 1y ago
The state of the art (not just for BYD) is to make sure you don't have to charge a cold battery by getting it to the right temperature before charging. One of the reasons that Tesla (and others) has navigation integrated into trip plan
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by timerol 1y ago
Is Britain really in such bad shape that the main way to conceptualize their problems are to say "look at America"? I know the memes about Civ-style America's Total Cultural Victory, but I'm kind of surprised to see it i
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by timerol 1y ago
I solved this in the worst way. Took a (correct) guess at what was meant by prefix, and then brute-forced a dozen of them. Did you know that zetta.ai is also an AI company?
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by timerol 1y ago
At what ambient humidity do you do this? Where I am we are having a dry day at 45% humidity today. Tomorrow it'll be over 90%, and it'll stay between 50% and 90% through the weekend. I would expect that you need a more consistentl
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by timerol 1y ago
Your body likes having water inside of it, and doesn't like having glass shards inside of it
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by timerol 1y ago
As an approximation, 10^0.5 = pi = 3, so $30k was what my mind immediately jumped to
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by timerol 1y ago
I could not disagree more strongly. I would be appalled at using an app for something better accomplished by a flyer or drinking coffee in front of my house. People live in physical space. "How do I talk to my next-door neighbor?"
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by timerol 1y ago
There is no way we would consider a manned flight to Mars outside of the "once per two years" launch window. Anyone following potential manned flights to Mars counts the windows. See https://www.reddit.com/r/S
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by timerol 2y ago
The term you're looking for is loitering munitions. From Wikipedia: "Some loitering munitions may return and be recovered by the operator if they are unused in an attack and have enough fuel"
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by timerol 2y ago
It's 1/100th of a hectare, and pronounced like the "are" in "hectare".
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by timerol 2y ago
This is an accurate summary of OpenAI, and makes it more likely that Baidu's model is being priced well below cost
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by timerol 2y ago
(2023)
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by timerol 2y ago
You can have one added after the fact, though http://philapark.org/wp-content/uploads/P.4.CarBoot.jpg
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by timerol 2y ago
Try https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=673035 . The project itself didn't get traction, but an article about the project did
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by timerol 2y ago
Already-built nuclear is cheap to keep running. Constructing new nuclear is what's expensive. Phasing out nuclear means that you already paid the big cost, but don't want to get the benefits
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by timerol 2y ago
It's already adjusted for inflation, like most economic statistics posted by non-cranks. "Real" means inflation adjusted, "nominal" means not adjusted
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by timerol 2y ago
Your original comment did not mention that your home folder was 165 GB, which is extremely relevant here
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by timerol 2y ago
> And 2 is just S(S(0)) This is a good example of why you need rules on which functions are allowed. Repeated application of the successor function makes the entire exercise trivial
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by timerol 2y ago
That same word is popular in Australia. In Polish, a similar insult (presumably) begins with the letter K
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by timerol 2y ago
The headline reads very oddly, and I was wondering how GPT4 got significantly less intelligent. It's that the cost of GPT4-level intelligence has dropped 1000x in 18 months
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by timerol 2y ago
Yes, but as mentioned in TFA, storing the difference would require an extra bit. The difference between two 32 bit numbers is in the range [-2^32 -1, 2^32-1], needing 33 bits to store. The XOR is the same size as the original pointer, simpl
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by timerol 2y ago
It's worth noting that for 2, projects are generally quoted in just "hours", with the storage capacity in MWh implied
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by timerol 2y ago
My first thought was that the was gonna be more like the defunct VC Fund My Life (vcfml.com), but I suppose growth-hacking startups that offer extravagant coupon codes for "Uber for naps" are so last decade. The new hit thing is a
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by timerol 2y ago
Yes, because people respond to incentives. A few dollars a month for parking is enough for people to junk their broken cars instead of leaving them on the street. A few dollars a day is enough to make people reconsider getting a second car.

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