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by timerol 2y ago
I'm sure there are HNers who built desktops with 8TB or 16TB hard drives, and have not (yet) needed the space for as many games and media as expected.
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by timerol 2y ago
He is also extremely active here, so there's a good chance he reads and responds to a random comment without an email. But email is the approved (and fastest) way to go about it
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by timerol 2y ago
Boston keeps a table of qualifying times that need to be hit. But it's such a popular race, that people train to hit that qualifying time, and they end up with too many runners. The solution is to use a cut-off time to adjust all of th
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by timerol 2y ago
Note that the exact version of this technique is used in chess for the endgame, referred to as a tablebase. Chess is solved once there are 7 pieces on the board, in an 18.4TB database, described here: https://lichess.org/@&#
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by timerol 2y ago
5 years has made a large difference in prices, as shown in this graph quoted in TFA: https://www.paulzimnisky.com/Price-Evolution-of-Lab-grown-Di... Assuming you mean "late 2018" by "about 5 years ago" (
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by timerol 2y ago
Better energy density, since there is no permanent anode structure needed. See chart "b" from the article
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by timerol 2y ago
The anode is the part of the battery that ions flow to when charging the battery. To save weight as much as possible, you can imagine a case where the anode is only the ions that moved to the anode. This is what "anode-free" means
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by timerol 2y ago
> In practice, this doesn't help housing crises very much, but it _does_ increase wealth disparity! Is your claim that LVT increases wealth disparity? Would it be accurate to assert the flip side of that, that laws like Prop 13 in C
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by timerol 2y ago
> checks are always worth the squeeze This is simply inaccurate. You can spend months and hundreds of millions of dollars running scanning electron microscopes over all of your parts - no one does this, because it's not "worth
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by timerol 2y ago
It's not just a geometric sequence that's convenient for base 10, it's the standard set of geometric sequences (that was chosen because they're convenient for base 10). The caption on the graph (and the paragraph before
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by timerol 2y ago
It's not a continuous piecewise linear approximation of the logarithm, it's a discrete piecewise linear approximation of the logarithm. You are correct that the blue lines aren't continuous, but incorrect about their inte
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by timerol 2y ago
This is a good post explaining a lot of interesting concepts, with a section that has surprisingly bad algebra. > The exact steps to go from the first form to this one are numerous to say the least, but I've included it in full for
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by timerol 2y ago
No idea, but the published url is much more normal: https://ben.page/forks
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by timerol 2y ago
Yep. Just for fun, I searched for "wool shirt", clicked the first result, opened the first men's shirt I found[1], and checked the fabric: 38% Montana Merino Wool, 50% American Polyester, 12% Modal (beech wood pulp). Half pla
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by timerol 2y ago
> Of course, you can get around production problem by buying used items. I could go to thrift stores and consignment shops and try to find the few things with all natural fibers, and just wear those, and I could learn how to mend and pat
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by timerol 2y ago
The heat pump version of this exists, but I'm not aware of a fridge. https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-hybrid-ac-dc-solar-air-condit...
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by timerol 2y ago
> Over 50% of Asian American women who have lung cancer have never smoked Is this really that surprising, considering that only 2.6%[1] of Asian American women smoke? If 0% of Asian American women smoked, then 100% of the lung cancer cas
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by timerol 2y ago
As I understand it, the unconstitutionality of the initial executive order was based on the balance of power in the US government. Doing this kind of thing by executive order is not allowed. Doing this kind of thing by passing a law through
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by timerol 2y ago
> Fuck this one particular subsidiary majority owned by a Chinese company rubs me the wrong way because China doesn't do this to us Unintentionally funny comment when positioned next to its sibling about this exact thing happening t
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by timerol 2y ago
Personally I go to mountain and beach towns as a place to stay while I go to the mountains (hiking or skiing) or the beach. I don't see how more development would get in the way of those activities. Especially not if it's denser d
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by timerol 2y ago
> According to Goodman, the Airbnb Effect is stronger in small communities, like mountain towns or beach towns, which tend to have limited housing stock, high home prices and little flexibility to adapt to fluctuations in housing availab
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by timerol 2y ago
10 MJ/kg is way overstated for batteries. Current Li-ion is around 1 MJ/kg (278 Wh/kg)
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by timerol 2y ago
The problem with this is that attempting a startup takes 2-10 years, while a poker hand takes a few minutes. Poker would be a lot more luck based if you only played 20 hands and then stopped.
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by timerol 3y ago
Your father is like you, except that you know he didn't get die before the age of 80. You might die a car crash at age 65. You father definitely didn't die in a car crash 15 years ago.
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by timerol 3y ago
The paper[1] ignores cycle life, and assumes that a 1 kWh LiS battery will last equivalently to a 1 kWh NMC battery. That's a big oversight, as the frequency that batteries will need to be replaced is a major factor in their environmen
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by timerol 3y ago
> Armor is an occasional expense ... Soldiers are a constant expense I'm not an expert, but it's worth considering that you can't ramp the production of armor in the same way you can ramp conscription. So to have enough ar
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by timerol 3y ago
TFA is about Intel's humbling not Intel's humility. If Intel was already humble, there would be no need for a humbling
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by timerol 3y ago
It's not punishment. The reason air travel is so safe is because every near-miss is root-caused and policies are put in place to prevent the same cause from resulting in a future accident.
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by timerol 3y ago
If I write you a $500 check and you accept it for $500 cash (or $500 of goods), you are extending me credit. You don't actually know that my account has the $500 until you cash the check. Someone has to pay that $500, even if I only ha
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by timerol 3y ago
The main motors of an EV are not powered off of the 48V system. EVs generally have 300-400 V main batteries, with discussion of 800 V on the table (someone may have already done it, I haven't been keeping track).

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