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super sweet best pal posted:I've realized I forgot to grab something on the way home, I can't imagine having to worry it's too late for that while still in the store. If you live near multiple apple farms, there's very little difference in quality between the Farmer's market and any of the local supermarkets during apple season. The farmer's market is slightly cheaper and has some of the more obscure apple cultivars, but I can still get a very good honeycrisp from any local supermarket during peak apple season.
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Raldikuk posted:You can recycle or compost most kcups now though???? Reducing waste is way better than reusing or recycling.
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hobbesmaster posted:What's amazing is that you're apparently not allowed to sell your blood but the people you donate to can. Unscrupulous jerks profiting off a clean blood supply is apparently better than unscrupulous jerks contaminating the blood supply. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6159/691 Though some studies suggest that illiquid rewards for donating blood do not result in desperate, anemic, plague-ridden people lining up for blood donations. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6135/927.full
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self unaware posted:the reason it looks so dark is because of the poo poo video, she would have been perfectly visible to the naked eye from quite a distance This is closer to what it looks like to human eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0&t=32s
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:
Since it seems like most posters didn't see it, this is what that road looks like on a Pixel XL smartphone camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0#t=32s The road is what you'd expect for a metropolitan street at night. The streetlights are not bright enough to match the sun, but they are more than bright enough to drown out all the stars in the sky.
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Trevor Hale posted:Yes but self driving cars have the entire history of automotive safety to draw from. Early nuclear tests were literally called “tickling the dragon”. How do you find out the exact limits for a critical nuclear reaction in a variety of conditions? You do a bunch of experiments near the theoretical edge of critical reactions. At that point, any slight mistake in protocol or theory can cause the core to go critical.
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You weren't the only ones to do something like that. Just look at the Whiskey Rebellion during George Washington's administration. Using whiskey as cash doesn't work when the government desires to put a tax on whiskey that must be paid with hard cash.
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OctaMurk posted:China has a knockoff of the F-35 that is better than the F-35? Not yet. Making bleeding edge jet engines is hard, even if you have the full semantics. It's telling that the J31 still uses double Russian engines instead of Chinese tech.
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PT6A posted:Yeah, in Canada too. On a decent day, the flow of traffic can be 130 km/h on limited access highways, and there's nothing inherently unsafe about that speed. At the same time, you can't really say "well, they should make the speed limit 130 km/h" because then given the North American mindset, people will try to push it to 150-160 km/h and at that point it becomes unsafe. Highway speed limits should definitely go up, but it has to be accompanied by a change in driving habits and enforcement that says "hey, we've given you a new, higher limit, but it's actually a limit now and we expect you to not exceed it." I think conventional traffic engineer wisdom is the speed limit should be the 85th percentile. So you should expect 15% of all drivers to break the speed limit. But if 99% of all drivers are breaking the written limit, then the written limit is too low.
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silence_kit posted:I thought that the problem with quinoa was that when it first became a trendy health food in the first world, the price of quinoa skyrocketed. I would think that that would be good for the farmers there, but maybe not the other locals who temporarily couldn't afford to buy quinoa. Farmers in that regions stopped selling quinoa to local markets, and started exporting it. In place of quinoa, they buy and eat (mostly Asian) rice. This makes the farmers richer overall, but the day laborers just get screwed.
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On one hand, a self-driving car has some marginal costs like maintenance and gas costs. But on the other hand, people have a nasty habit of ignoring those costs which is a large part of why Uber and Lyft managed to get as far as they have today.
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America used to be a pork nation, kind of like China is now. But beef was associated with affluence and prosperity, and being able to replace pork with beef was a huge part of showing how you had made it. When you combine that with the growth of ranching and industrial meat packing as the west was capitalized, beef became king in America. Historically, chickens were raised more for eggs than for meat. People still ate chicken, but modern boiler breeds of chicken were only developed in the 1950s. These modern boiler chickens represent a revolution in chicken as a meat. They grow twice as fast and twice as big as historical breeds of chicken.
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I can't believe this works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eL_al_m7Q Me: What's the difference between 99 smartphones being pulled in a toy wagon and 30 android users stuck in a traffic jam? Google Maps: They're the same thing.
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Google and all the traditional car companies are scared poo poo-less of the legal ramifications of level 3 self-driving cars, to the point where they all want to skip straight to level 4 self-driving cars. Meanwhile, Tesla's attitude towards the same thing is summarized as Bring It On. https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528508/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-first-reaction-video quote:For now, FSD("Full Self-Driving") is only available to Tesla owners in the company’s early access beta-testing program, but Musk has said he expects a “wide release” before the end of 2020. The risk, obviously, is that Tesla’s customers will ignore the company’s warnings and misuse FSD to record themselves performing dangerous stunts
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We have a new and superior competitor to the hyperloop. http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=54867 The South Koreans are seriously working on a supersonic train for a Seoul to Busan route.
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Google and Facebook aren't just the core of the adtech Panaopticon, Google is also a classic monopoly. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1358907018975838208
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Once you start having enough hubs, choosing which hubs to link becomes a nontrival question.
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We need energy storage to transition away from fossil fuels, but not storage built by Tesla. https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/fire-breaks-out-during-testing-of-victorian-big-battery-near-geelong-20210730-p58eh4.html quote:“It only started operating under 24 hours ago,” he said. “It’s not been a great start.”
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Arsenic Lupin posted:You are aware that technology has been destroying nature pretty much forever? Like, England used to be wall-to-wall forest. English Wolves were hunted to extinction in the late 1400s. I'm sticking to England because that's the case I know off the top of my head. People are bad at ecology, because killing the thing that is eating my sheep is what will keep me from starving this winter. Yep.  Also https://phys.org/news/2019-05-roman-polluted-european-air-heavily.html
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https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1432825970403205124 https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1432830993770041346 https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1432831136506396680 Fully Automated Space Racism, here only at Tesla.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I use Newpipe. It's a free, open source YouTube app without ads. And it can play with the screen off. Newpipe is legit. I can't imagine going back to using the YT app on my phone.
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Clarste posted:I mean, afaik they keep losing money on all these other games while supporting themselves with FFXIV, so it's just good business sense to cut off the unnecessary parts that are bleeding money? If you look at the history of Square, it's a history of making absolutely boneheaded decisions only to be saved from bankruptcy at the last minute by a world famous game pulled from their rear end. So this is totally normal for them.
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And Twitter still needs money. Twitter's current business plans aren't good, but they occasionally turn a tiny (relative to their size) profit in a few lucky quarters. Musk's plans for funding twitter are much dumber, and he'd likely run it into bankruptcy or at least into regular bailout territory if he gets control.
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https://twitter.com/nichcarlson/status/1527413649584836634 And his response means it's not the only case by far. The dam opens, and his dirty laundry comes out. https://twitter.com/tysonbrody/status/1527422747139260416
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Musk needs validation like the man-child he is. He used to get it at his companies, but he was removed as Chairman of Tesla in 2018. It just so happens that he also tripled his average twitter activity in 2018 and never slowed down his tweeting since then. So he used to be able to get his ego stroked at board meetings, but everyone, even SpaceX and Tesla, couldn't take it anymore and removed him from day-to-day operations. So he's spent the last four years being even more online.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Tesla will be bankrupt within a year after any employee still hanging on leaves. And they have to worry about the F-150 electric coming out, and GM is lowering prices for the Chevy Bolt despite rising commodity costs and the chip shortage. Elon is having his meltdown right when the older car manufacturers are finally putting real effort into the electric car market. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/01/gm-slashes-prices-of-chevy-bolt-evs-despite-rising-commodity-costs.html
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Smaller layoffs, sure. But 75% will gut the company. It will quickly become a situation where every technical issue causes the whole service to go down for days because everyone who knew how it worked is gone, and everyone who is left is too demoralized to relearn how it works.
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https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1586539695491624960 https://twitter.com/BananaEsq/status/1586557617337401346 Twitter's old execs won't get the termination benefits. Instead they get the chance to sue Musk for hundreds of millions of dollars, and almost certainly win in court.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/elon-musk-has-pulled-more-than-50-tesla-engineers-into-twitter.html 12 hour, 7 days a week shifts with impossible deadlines on ridiculous tasks while the CEO openly talks about how he wants to fire most of the employees without severance on both internal company documents and public record. This is an employment lawyer's wet dream. Every single employment lawyer in San Francisco should be standing in front of an Twitter office right now waiting for thousands of easy slam dunk court cases brewing inside those offices.
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Mourning Due posted:This all sounds amazing and makes me wish every game used this AI. That's why Microsoft is so invested in it. They don't believe that it's a magical tool that will replace everything. For them, ChatGPT is next-gen autocomplete that can rapidly spit out stock sentences more effectively than their current autocomplete. But it's still just better autocomplete.
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pumpinglemma posted:Google search is absolutely hosed. If they can get it to scale. Google search requires huge data centers to run, and the current version of ChatGPT requires more than 10x the power of Google search for each search. They say they can drop it down to only 3x-5x more expensive, depending on who you talk to. But that's still a lot of money at that scale.
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https://twitter.com/sindap/status/1635011855491162113 Wow, SVB was in a better shape than I thought, even after a $42 billion dollar one-day bank run (>20% of all their deposits), they still had enough to cover 100% of the insured deposits and ~95% of their uninsured assets. This is going to be an easy sale for the FDIC, because the remains of SVB has a lot of high quality assets. SVB made a lot of dumb decisions in 2021-2022. But there isn't a bank in the US that could withstand a >20% one-day bank run. No one keeps that high of a reserve around. In other words https://twitter.com/SMTuffy/status/1634914151905492999
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Jesus III posted:Everybody talks about remaking offices as apartments. Any clue on the cost of adding the plumbing for hundreds of apartments to a building not at all designed for that? Plus changing the air con and electrical layout and adding lots of walls with soundproofing. This sounds like a vast expense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNkLcD3PKyk The big issue here is deep floor plates (sq footage per floor). We as a society have decided that housing must have some sort of window for the bedroom. But office buildings don't have that limitation, so they are built deeper than residential buildings, especially newer ones. That means a office to residential conversion will have many units that zero outdoor windows, a big problem unless you can find people willing to live in 10 ft X 100 ft corridor apartments/condos AND you convince the local government to make it legal to build homes with no windows. And if you start to smash down walls to make extra windows, at that point the costs are high enough that you might as well smash everything and do a complete rebuild. There will still be some office buildings where it makes sense to rework it into condos/apartments. But for most of them you might as well demolish and rebuild completely. On another note, this is pure evil https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1679958794388873217
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BiggerBoat posted:
Sounds like a oversized boarding house for the homeless. Reasonable. But respectable people hate boarding houses so much. Even boarding houses for people with jobs and serious incomes are considered to be terrible blights. It is basically illegal to create new boarding houses most places. I can't even imagine the irrational opposition to a boarding house for the homeless.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-07/ai-fast-food-drive-thrus-need-human-workers-70-of-timequote:Checkers and Carl’s Jr. are among US fast-food chains hailing AI-powered drive-thrus as labor-zapping wizards that speed up service. But a popular provider of these systems recently revealed a crucial part of how it gets so many orders right: humans. "AI" company actually a stealth off-shoring company.
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There are also board games that integrate apps with the board game now, usually as a way to track hidden information. Some examples are Search for Planet X: a deduction board game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/279537/search-planet-x Alchemists: Fantasy academia where you publish or perish https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161970/alchemists XCOM: the board game https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163602/xcom-board-game Werewords: basically another mafia/werewolf/amongus variant https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/219215/werewords
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