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by timerol 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. No comment on the applicability to the current art
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by timerol 4y ago
This is not accurate outside of a handful of broken housing markets. In Philadelphia[1] land is often 1/5 of the total value. There are definitely some parcels that are undeveloped[2] or underdeveloped[3], but most properties are more
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by timerol 4y ago
> Though also he should still be raked over the coals. I think GP's position on that question is abundantly clear
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by timerol 4y ago
Note that homelessness is a constant flow of people. The services and compulsion removing people from the streets is currently happening. The problem is that the housing market is dumping more new homeless onto the street than our current s
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by timerol 4y ago
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: https://homelessnesshousingproblem.com/ > Over the course of the book, the researchers illustrate how absolute rent levels and rental vacancy rates are associated with regional rates of
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by timerol 4y ago
Based on modern understanding of walking ergonomics, it would be better for you to go back to your 11 year old walking style
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by timerol 4y ago
I (almost) exclusively use the "Start (+30 s)" button to set time. It's very rare for me to microwave things more than 3 minutes (6 rapid button presses), I normally do 60 or 90 s. The microwave starts going as soon as the fi
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by timerol 4y ago
(2018), but reads like it was written yesterday
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by timerol 4y ago
No. (Channels patio11) As a society we have decided to delegate a bunch of responsibilities to the companies that move money. The most notable one is fraud protection. The companies that make this much money do so by pretending that a trans
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by timerol 4y ago
None of ADA_EXEMPT, IS_VEHICLE, or DISALLOW_IN_PARK can be easily formally defined. And the mere mention of "wheelchair" adds an additional ADA-related logic exemption. What about bicycles? Strollers? Unicycles? Shopping carts? Sk
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by timerol 4y ago
This character set was only added to Unicode last September, as mentioned on the page. I first learned about them via this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS6FfczH0Q
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by timerol 4y ago
It's perfectly reasonable for a user to pay a big company for hosting, and then delete their local copies, since they paid for hosting. And then assume that, because their data is publicly available, that they'll be able to downlo
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by timerol 4y ago
Also not noted: 320 TB in 40 M.2 drives will be extremely expensive. Newegg doesn't have any 8 TB M.2 SSDs under $1000. $0.12/GB is about twice as expensive as more normally-sized drives, to say nothing of the price of spinning ru
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by timerol 4y ago
I wonder how compactly you could represent most chess games. On a per-piece basis, each non-pawn would require 6 bits of location, plus 1 bit for whether it exists, for 16 * 7 = 112 bits. Each pawn can only access half of the squares at mos
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by timerol 4y ago
Nuclear is very bad at ramping all of the way off, but NuScale's reactors can go from full power to 25% of output power in 1 hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--FAVoAQvk&t=59s Nuclear power is used as base loa
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by timerol 4y ago
Producer price index on steel pipe and structural steel are bonkers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU3312103312100 and https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU33231233231211
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by timerol 4y ago
> Issue: fixed-route, fixed-schedule (FRFS) mass-transit systems are obsolete I doubt that I'm going to find much to agree with here. > Vision: variable-route, variable-schedule (VRVS) systems are sustainable Is this meant as a &
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by timerol 4y ago
Allow reversing transactions that are proven to be scams, as they are required by law to do. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulation-e.asp
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by timerol 4y ago
"Warning: This code is fucking awful. Do not expect the code to be stable under any modifications, but you can try if you want I guess. Also there are barely any comments sorry. I am in Electrical Engineering and I like writing shitty
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by timerol 4y ago
Based on the nearest numbers that floats represent, the two numbers are Y = 13.715999603271484375 ( https://float.exposed/0x415b74bc ) and X = 4.57200002670288085938 ( https://float.exposed/0x40924dd3 ). The di
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by timerol 4y ago
Even in the parts of the US that are unified grids, a kWh is not a kWh. Where you live determines how expensive your electricity is. Compare Cambridge, MA https://electricityrates.com/compare/electricity/02139&#x2F
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by timerol 4y ago
The "US Cancer Death Rate" talked about in the article is measured in deaths per 100,000 population, not deaths per detected cancer. So we are comparing apples to apples, but finding and treating cancers earlier could be helping t
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by timerol 4y ago
I'd prefer "Binance processes $12B in withdrawals in under 60 days". It's newsworthy both because total assets invested in crypto is falling, and because Binance is still processing withdrawals successfully after over 15
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by timerol 4y ago
This is a short article about allowing RAM sizes that aren't powers of 2, like 24 GB or 48 GB instead of just the steps 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB. I initially thought this was going to be about using multiple states on the data pins to encode
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by timerol 4y ago
It took me a surprisingly long time to realize that I was reading fiction. The example SHA sums even do work, it's just that they only start with 40 bits set to 0 (expect to require 10^12 operations to generate each randomly - about a
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by timerol 4y ago
That is a quote from the article - "Apartment vacancies are piling up." But no accompanying graphs or further discussion, other than that sentence itself.
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by timerol 4y ago
Another way to say that is that you installed solar panels and they paid for your new roof
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by timerol 4y ago
Really cool article, but it's sad to read through all of the spam in the comments section. There appear to be 2 legitimate comments out of a few hundred
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by timerol 4y ago
Putting the base at the South Pole of the moon is the current plan. But missions will want to go into craters, which will lead them to have to deal with the long nights
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by timerol 4y ago
I didn't mean it as the biggest success in terms of revenue or profit. I meant that this fiasco would set them up for such natural and smooth future growth that in a few years, when looking back, they would tell the story of Modest Cof

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