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by ttraub 5y ago
Raising budgets don't intrinsically guarantee better results. Would a larger staff of physicists etc. lead to more breakthroughs or quicker results? Or would it just be piddled away in frivolous experiments, nicer Aeron chairs and the
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by ttraub 5y ago
What happens if the expansion port itself becomes damaged? Would you need to change out the motherboard?
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by ttraub 5y ago
Yes, and weirdly, hyenas didn't get the sharp, retractable claws that all true cats possess. I wonder what advantage this adaptation gave them.
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by ttraub 5y ago
Eat well, sleep well, stay or become physically active, and try something new every day. Don't compare yourself to others. Rather, set goals for yourself that work best for you. But do keep learning and drawing inspiration from others.
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by ttraub 5y ago
Aliexpress is a terrible outlet for consumers. The buyer pays the return shipping which is often too expensive to be worth the trouble. At least Amazon/Ebay respect the consumer protection laws and make returns pretty easy. I'm de
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by ttraub 6y ago
Is 150,000 downloads enough to attain "hit" status in the iOS world? On Android, anything less than half a million or so is somewhat niche. 150K is a respectable number, but just saying. Also, was the takedown initiated by the Clu
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by ttraub 6y ago
So, create your own platform, like Parler tried to do?
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by ttraub 6y ago
Their algorithms seem to be looking for the words "black" and "white". I posted a comment to a YT video just today describing my daughter's experiences in high school, the school's recent heavy emphasis on blac
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by ttraub 6y ago
If network latency is a significant factor, and server storage and processing resources are sufficient, then the author's example of an 800 column table needs redesign. Break that monster into smaller, more manageable tables and archit
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by ttraub 6y ago
I don't see the privacy issue here. They're just measuring physical activity per quadrant. They can use it to study which products and product areas seem to be attracting the most interest. They specifically don't use photogr
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by ttraub 6y ago
According to the article, this particular system doesn't monitor the shopper, but rather the movements of products as they are picked up and examined. They specifically say they don't use cameras.
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by ttraub 6y ago
As I understand it, our immune systems are pretty busy even under today's sanitary conditions. We're constantly fighting off bacterial and viral invaders, 24x7. But, I guess we're just not as busy as we could be.
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by ttraub 6y ago
There are numerous accounts on the internet of medical tourists trekking to Southeast Asia or Mexico to acquire helminths or similar parasitical organisms reputed to calm down the body's immune response. Specifically, sufferers of Cro
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by ttraub 7y ago
Not mentioned in the article or in the comments thus far, is that massage therapy has an alleviative effect on clinical depression in some people.[1][2] It's not fully understood why massage (in particular, deep massage) might relieve
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by ttraub 7y ago
He shot at the police. They discovered narcotics needles in the house. This guy was likely on drugs, definitely armed and dangerous. How exactly were they supposed to de-escalate? If they backed off, he could have maybe slipped out the ba
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by ttraub 7y ago
> I presume that an officer doing their job would have been able to let the shoplifter run off and, because they'd identified him and the stolen car, they could issue a warrant and pick him up later. Let him run off? That's
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by ttraub 7y ago
"It is always good to keep yourself up to date with the hottest tech stacks." It’s good to be aware of new stuff, but it’s also a good practice to have a firm command of some well established technologies that have strong support
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by ttraub 7y ago
You make a couple of good points such as Google's about-face with regard to China, and you bemoan doxxing. Yet, you bitterly criticize Trump supporters. Trump supporters are the ones getting doxxed and cancelled on social media. The m
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by ttraub 7y ago
Is political activism such a widespread phenomenon in S.I. companies? I work in a more traditional company and never see this kind of thing, so I'm curious what it's like, how the management handles it etc. The most "activi
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by ttraub 7y ago
I'd be interested to hear what Googlers have to say about recent deals with the Chinese government. Any qualms about that, or is there more of a feeling of relief or "glad we're back in China"?
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by ttraub 7y ago
He's getting 80% of the gross = 48,000/month. That's impressive income, half a million a year for what amounts to a good idea implemented at the right time. I love reading stories like this, and it demonstrates that there ar
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by ttraub 7y ago
The secret to a good social network is reputation. Upvoted content floats to the top, while downvoted content is pushed out of sight. It's not always fair, and certainly does not always bring the best content to light, but it's a
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by ttraub 7y ago
Artificial voices must have improved a lot in the past 2-3 years. None of the ones I've ever heard would pass muster. Something weird in their intonation, a kind of sameness or monotony in their speech i.e. lack of excitability, a bi
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by ttraub 7y ago
A reasonable compromise might be one of the high efficiency shower heads that have been around for decades, e.g. the Delta. These gadgets have been around since at least the 1980s, come with an on-off switch to shut off the H2O while you so
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by ttraub 7y ago
Smart speakers are superfluous? Only if you don't find them useful. My wife comes downstairs every morning and says "okay Google what's the weather?" My daughter says "Alexa, play [some pop singer]". As a tech
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by ttraub 7y ago
Even in modern warfare, with its surgical accuracy to pinpoint and take out specific targets, hundreds if not thousands of troops will still die in the course of a major engagement, counting tactical errors, accidents, and friendly fire inc
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by ttraub 7y ago
Eventually, the Navy will be doing more than "dazzling" and "blinding" enemy optics. The Tactical High Energy Laser project[1] demonstrated that incoming mortars and Katyushas could be shot down. It seems unlikely that t
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by ttraub 7y ago
Buses are a relatively decent solution for a city lacking in public transportation infrastructure. For example, Phoenix (where I live) has a network of north-south and east-west buses that can get you, eventually, to anywhere in the vall
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by ttraub 7y ago
Car loans are a relatively small component of overall consumer debt in the U.S.[1] By far, the largest amount of money tied up in debt is in mortgages. The highest number of borrowers are credit card users. Underwater car loans are a proble
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by ttraub 7y ago
So, encourage lower consumption? Or just produce more goods domestically to reduce the need for international trade? Neither proposal sounds very practical. Maybe it's more realistic to focus on cleaner propulsion systems like electric

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