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Some, but the sun isn't very dense. So sure if you were ever so slightly above escape velocity the consumed matter could slow you down.

A black hole the mass of the earth is 9mm. The weight of a cubic cm of sun is around 1.41 grams. The black hole isn't really going to notice.

The pass through the sun is around 1.39102e+11 cm * 1.41 grams per cm^3 = 139 million KG. So the earth weighs around 4.2* 10^16 more than what a black hole sized hole in the sun weighs.
They're owned by Match, so I wouldn't bet on it.
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Chrome Dev Tools are unusably slow. FF is much better, is it just me?
Has anyone else noticed that Chrome Dev Tools have gotten almost unusably slow for source-mapped debugging? Reached a breaking point (no pun intended) today where the console wouldn't start printing till several seconds after the page loaded.

Hitting a breakpoint takes several seconds before the page even let's you know it's hit breakpoint, then several more before the location loads in dev tools.

Switched to Firefox today, and damn Firefox feels like butter, clicking everything feels faster. Breakpoints load up pretty much instantly.
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Isn't there some way to stockpile the kinetic energy in several passes, instead of only one slingshot, then finally use all of that for a final throw?
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Generally by it's radiation signature. Black holes don't just swallow matter without a trace. As infalling matter is accelerated to immense speeds, the tidal forces rip it into atoms and internal friction heats it up to very high temperatures.

We'd basically see extremely energetic particles coming from a nearby source. Since no other known physical process can generate such high energy particles (not even fusion in main sequence stars), we'd have to conclude that there is probably some extremely dense object there.
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If the codebase is anything like drupal or joomla, it doesn't surprise me. Those old school php systems are textbook examples of spaghetti code and big ball of mud patterns.
Amazon US at one point offered insurance against this. Basically they would sent you your items and hope it would not get caught in customs. If it did, they would pay.

You don't see that many sites offering this anymore, but the rare wish.com competitor will have the option.
Same reason I'm ok with the government building a road even though I don't personally drive. It's an economic multiplier. It increases opportunity overall by facilitating more transactions than were previously possible, and the net economic growth can flow back to me even though I didn't directly use it.

I'm not universally in favor of subsidies, just in certain specific instances where the economic multiplier is high and a large fraction of the public benefits directly (usually infrastructure).
I’d like to stress the importance of exercising. I myself am trying to quit porn addiction, and have seen a lot of folks recommending exercising but wasn’t convinced. Only recently I started running regularly, and I’ve seen a lot of improvement, I feel less the need to watch porn. The thing is that the addiction takes a toll on your self-esteem while exercising increases your confidence, so it helps counter it.

Besides, depending on how tech savvy you are, content filters may or may not be effective. An unpopular but quite effective one for self control is Pluckeye. It works under linux and windows.

You can also seek an accountability partner.

Also, following the subreddit /r/NoFap might keep you motivated.
Here are some videos which motivate me personally :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-FbmLbpWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx-p9Wr6xg0
Also, on chrome if you reload when you're on a breakpoint, you have to crash the tab and create a new one or it will never load. Being able to re-load in the middle of debugging on Firefox and not re-create my whole tab is such a relief.
No, they will bill it like any other AWS service.
Both are true. Most people on dating sites are men, and the women that are there heavily skew towards a small portion of men.
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The lock is still in use but the vulnerability has been fixed in newer models and older models can be fixed by a part kit.
There are still ways you can patent software in New Zealand. I knew a guy who did it and IIRC it was granted on the basis of there being a comparatively small hardware component.
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If the door is open and that is an unusual occurance, sure, I would knock on the door frame and call out to make sure they are alright / didn't forget to close the door, etc. For every other situation, no, I wouldn't.
If that's the single biggest positive change then we're doomed.

1. Given the lack of other constraints, humans tend to use the maximal resources available. If the world population dropped to 10 million, but those 10 million people used the bounty left behind by the 7 billion and used private jets to go everywhere, we'd still be screwed.

2. The goal is net-zero by 2050. Without any other change, that means 0 humans by 2050? Stopping having babies isn't going to get anywhere near that. For population change to have any effect on the environment, it requires a drop in population into 9 figures in a decade or three. Nuclear war is the only way to achieve that, and that's not going to be too friendly to the environment...

3. Net Zero is achievable without drastic solutions. There are lots of better options, but the backstop is carbon sequestration. At a cost of $100 - $300 per ton, that's tens of trillions for net zero. Incredibly expensive, but achievable for the modern economy. A lot easier than removing a few billion people from the planet in a few decades.
Could you elaborate? I was under the impression that LoRa's slow updates result in a large number of devices being able to operate smoothly. Also, while the ISM band may be considered "broad," in a sense, LoRa takes a small amount of the band's width (low bandwidth), which translates into a long-range.
> and aesthetics to run with RTX disabled

Did you mean to say "run with DLSS disabled"? RTX contains all the new features including ray tracing, which is not the same as DLSS. There are several games where many people feel they are indeed much better aesthetics-wise with RTX on, not off. At the very least it's a matter of preference, and not "better" in general to have RTX off.
>However dismissing meat is inevitable for a healthy diet.

On what do you base this bold claim?
we have "core" working times (roughly between 10:00 and 16:00), then it's up to you when to be present, most important is that you are available in that core time
I can’t agree with your assertion that “tape is inferior in every way to hard disks”. Tape is cheaper per TB than HDD; why put data on more expensive media if you don’t have to. Tape is also more reliable by orders of magnitude than disk. You are more likely to be eaten by a shark than suffer an unrecoverable error using LTO-8. Tape is more durable and portable than disk. It also requires no power at rest and can be used to create an air gap to thwart cyber attack and malware. Finally, tape areal densities for tape are increasing far more quickly than for disk due to superparamagnetism, which makes tape far better suited to storing archive data in the IoT era of Big Data. Tape is less ideal if you have very stringent RTO or an application that needs fast random access to first byte. But in most cases, for its core strength of longer term data archiving, tape is better than disk or cloud (although as you note, the irony is that tape underpins major cloud vendor archive tiers). Don’t be absolutist; use the right storage, for the right purpose, at the right tape.
I don't understand this obsession with the Confederacy in Texas or in the south in general. You don't see Germany having "Nazi Soldiers Day" or Hitler statues. And there's a damn good reason for that. That kind of heritage is damaging and holds our entire society back. It's one of the many things that essentially says "slavery was ok and racism definitely still is." It's frankly, fucking disgusting. What happened should be taught in schools, but it shouldn't be celebrated with holidays and statues like it's something to be proud of. It's shameful, disgusting, and ugly and it makes those who celebrate such things shameful, disgusting, and ugly too.
Is your question about how to avoid monthly fees with LoRa? You don't have to pay a third party if you've set up your own devices. Your private LoRa network would be akin to your private WiFi network.
TDD is not when you have a dedicated testing engineer. The whole idea is to write tests before developing even the smallest of units (functions, methods): unless everyone had their own test engineer to pair program with, just imagine the friction if someone else was writing tests for you.

If you are talking about decent test coverage, and explicitely about decent system test coverage, then yes, a dedicated test engineer can help a lot.
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The perfect solution to the noisy angle grinder.
Lobbying for preferred tax treatment.

If insurance costs $500/mo, either your company can pay the premium for you directly, with no taxable event for you; or, they can give you $500 more as a part of your salary, but the government will take $150 of that (or whatever, depending on your tax bracket), and then you have $350 to cover a $500 expense.

Individuals can deduct medical/insurance payments on their taxes every year, but: 1) the rules are complicated with some payment minimums that mean a lot of people couldn't take the deduction at all, and 2) you have to come up with the extra $150 every month for 12 months before you get that money back (since the US tax system is pay-as-you-go with per-paycheck withholding), which is a real burden for many Americans.

Alternatively, your company can give you $715 per month, the government will take $215 of that in taxes, and then you have $500 left over to pay your $500 insurance bill, but: 1) your company would very much rather pay $500 instead of give you $715, and 2) that $715 is actually not a hard number, but will vary depending on each employee's personal tax situation, which can change throughout the year, and your company likely doesn't care to deal with that (this is less of a big deal, since it could be outsourced to a piece of software written by a payroll company).

Why do Americans put up with this? Many of them (most?) just don't understand how this all works, and so don't even know they're getting screwed. Many have no concept of systems in other countries that handle this better, in part because they don't travel and don't have friends or family abroad, but more because of concerted misinformation campaigns around any kind of changes to our health care system that would threaten the incumbents.

I guess big business doesn't "prevent" alternative insurance companies; there are plenty of available options for insurance that individuals can purchase on their own. But it generally costs more (because you're not an HR benefits person negotiating on behalf of your 500-, 1000-, 50000-person company), and you end up with the bad tax consequences described above.

If you're an enterprising individual who wants to set up an alternative insurance company that charges very low premiums for great plans, you run into the problem of having no negotiating power with health care providers, who are used to charging high prices because the traditional insurers will pay them.
I was wondering about the necessary delta-v to do that vs. throwing it into the sun and found this [1] interesting table.

Quite informative, it seems like the naive approach of going straight into the sun is much more expensive (dv of 24.0 km/s) than escaping the solar system (dv of 8.8 km/s).

But, it seems that there is a trick where you use 8.8km/s to almost escape the solar system, then turn around with very little dv cost and plunge into the sun.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#Interplanetary
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Yes. So there's smaller difference in wind power generation total output when you sum across larger area. The same is true for solar generation to some extent, but of course it's dark in the night across the whole Europe.
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How are you vegetarian if you still eat meat occasionally?
> When you have a humanitarian catastrophe or a conflict first thing enemy does is cut out the energy. Bitcoins are useless.

As are your debit and credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay etc.
Yes, thank you.

So, it is just an access point and then some clients, basically?
Tea + lemon + sugar is the only way to drink it. True madness is milk in tea, those two liquids should just never go together. And coffee...I guess that's why the best most delicious coffee I buy is literally whatever is cheapest at Lidl - milk and sugar make all coffee taste acceptable.

//obviously, I realize that people around the world have different tastes :P Where I am from literally no one drinks tea with milk, but adding a slice of lemon is extremely popular(I can guarantee that if you order tea at a restaurant it will be served with a slice of lemon to the side), but in the UK it's the opposite - people look at you like you are some kind of demon for adding lemon to tea.
For a practical demonstration of what denoising can theoretically do I recommend Quake II RTX. There is a dev mode with a bunch of rendering settings, many more so than in an average game. They were added to it because this game is more of a tech demo of RTX at this point.

There is a switch where you can turn the denoising of the ray-traced output on/off: it shows tremendous difference, to a point where it's hard to even imagine looking at the noisy image that it is even possible to extract the denoised version.
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a display seems like the only way to go with something like this. having a camera is too invasive but having only audio seems like it would be very limiting.

at least with a display you can have a conversation with someone while you glance at it but having to listen to 2 things at the same time isn't something most people can do

intel's glasses seemed like the best compromise but it's been years since they announced them so I'm guessing it was only some sort of concept
Another factor that hasn't been mentioned yet is adverse selection.

Individual health insurance plans do exist, but few healthy people buy them, so the pool is sicker than average, so the insurance costs more, so even fewer healthy people buy the plans, and so on.

Employer group plans cost less in part because the pool is generally healthy.
That's actually pretty disappointing to hear. I wanted to try using long range ISM with seismometers. I guess I can use directional antennas though, as the units are stationary after all.
That's one dynamic. But there's also the opposite incentive of word of mouth from positive experiences.

When I hear of real people paying money on a dating site and finding what they want, that's a powerful motivator.

So we can only hypothesize whether a few desperate users do cough out more cash than a larger number of one-time subscribers would, but the later strategy is certainly more sustainable over the long term.
You're not going to get very far in diplomacy if you don't try to understand their point of view.
Not really. Surveillance capitalism is pretty-much always ugly and awful. What surprises me is that the restaurant didn't have a loyalty scheme, or a front-of-house incentivised to recognise repeat customers. These systems are cheaper, more flexible, have fewer gross externalities than facial recognition and inherently promote human interaction.
A decade or so ago I worked at AdultFriendFinder.com, then the largest dating site. We had 20 or so different properties, covering every niche from "jewishfriendfinder" to "alt.com"

On paper we had about 50 million users. The reality was that we were a porn site, and our business was entirely driven by porn site referrals. Our smarter referral partners would game the system to setup thousand of users to get extra bonuses, and we encouraged it, so that we could ethically claim that we didn't create the fake users.

These sorts of lies are pretty much status quo in the dating industry. Zoosk is far worse, I walked away from a contract there when I realized how much of a sleazeball their founder, Shayan Zadeh, really was/
Sure, if you want to do that, Bitcoin is one of the very few working solutions that have been found.

But do you actually want to do that? Who are you providing a service for by doing that?

We know the answer: Scammers and criminals, by and large. Everyone else is better served by a centralised service.
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OKCupid and Tinder, I think, are the only honest dating sites, and they've gotten far less so the past few years.
Not exclusively - it is also used for extortion, laundering money, and paying for illegal goods and services.
Beauty is one of the most subjective concepts a human can reason about. Who are you to tell anyone what is beautiful? Just because a bunch of techies here on HN find beauty in the engineering of a windmill, it doesn't mean everyone has to like them.

I don't dislike the design of wind farms, but sure as hell I'd prefer landscape unspoiled by a forest of big white rotating blades. Given the choice, I'd prefer a concentrated energy generator (whatever that might be), that can be hidden away. So in some sense, I do believe they are a blight on the landscape.
I'm not fluent in patent lawyer, so I must say you might be right. I read "subject identification" as an active process that was part of the claim, but it could refer to a pregenerated tag instead.

Which would make the patent even more laughable. "Wirelessly transfer all images I've tagged with 'Vacation 2017'" is patentable?
> I don't understand

There you have it
Why? I get you’re being flip, but I don’t get the connection? Politically, HN tends to be more libertarian (gross generalization, obviously).
I know plenty of straight couples who are married or in committed long term relationships and met on tinder.
However if it is a primordial blackhole it is probably not much rotating... thus no much energy to get by the Penrose process.

I thought that just by letting masses getting sucked in while pulling ropes tied to alternators we could generate electricity... is it too naive?
The amount of energy given by the fall into the blackhole would be superior than that used to bring the masses there in the first place.
I live in the Texas, my mother was born in Texas, my wife is from small town texas, as are her parents and grandparents. Many people in my family have this same obsession with the confederacy. I hear them talk about it, I've lived it, and I do not understand it either. It was a revolution to defend the right to own slaves (as we stated explicitly at the time: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.htm... ) so that we could do farming. mostly.

its not interesting, its disgusting, I do not see what there is to be proud of. Smart people try to explain and sound like idiots.

Yes, I'm not a diplomat.
>> just packaging an existing open/free thing up and selling access to it.

Just like Apple packaging up CPUs and memory chips. I think most people in tech having a hard time to understand that UX is everything. You can take the Athena example of AWS, even though it is just PrestoDB the difference of UX is enormous. A data scientist (end user) cannot download presto compile it, create a EC2 cluster with failover push it there, configure it, performance tune it and keep updating it but she/he can got to AWS console and pull up the Athena interface and type in a query. This is why "just packing" is very important and people are willing to pay for it.
The reality for someone like me, a very average looking guy, is then that I get zero messages. Doesn't really solve anything either.
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Honest people do need to be kept honest. Even the most saintly can be tempted.

If you found a twenty on the floor in an abandoned alleyway, would you hand it in to police, or would you steal that money?

If your first thought was "It's not stealing for such a small amount", or "It's clearly been abandoned, so it's ok to take it", then you're the target audience for being kept honest.

Your other point is spot on: the aim is to increase the friction of entry and raise a mental barrier in the mind of the subject which results in an outcome you would prefer (no break-in).
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Do you agree that:

1) Previous state was achieved by cooperation and that state was negative to the US because it was preferring shippers in China at the expense of the shippers in the United States?

2) The new state was achieved by throwing the weight around and it is less negative to the US because it will decrease the current preference for shippers to China as the expense of the shippers in the United States? The new state has been achieved by throwing the weight around.

That's what is at hand.

It is like bugs in code. One can either fix the bug therefore making the codebase less buggy or one can talk about having everyone agree that a bug needs to be fixed and not fixed the bug.

At the end, the customer does not care about how the bug is fixed, the customer wants a bug fixed.
Perhaps so that later on they can transition all OKC users onto Tinder and maintain only one product?
Not really. Alexa doesn't solve a problem that I have. I generally question the usefulness of solutions like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant. I'm sure they're useful to some people, but that pool of people seems to be rather small.

Speech as a means of controlling a device also seems down right stupid. Personally I don't see it being superior to a keyboard in any form. Certainly there are scenarios where voice commands are the better/safer choice, but again, those cases are extremely few and not something I encounter.

Honestly what's use case for Echo Frame, who seriously needs this?
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They do, and CloudFlare has historically been part of the reason why they have such high DDoS risks. There's a bunch of "booter" sites out there which effectively sell botnet-as-a-service DDoS attacks to gamers, and those sites have relied on CloudFlare to stay online. Without that protection their competitors would DDoS their websites offline most of the time. Also, most reputable hosting and CDN services don't allow booters because they're both highly illegal and disruptive to the entire internet. CloudFlare, on the other hand, openly permits them.
I think the last 30 years of development pushed us towards a inefficient high power usage direction that was not followed by a revolution in energy storage. The end result is that we charge our phones at least once a day. If energy storage was developing the same pace we would be charging once a year.
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gerund or present participle: rorting

engage in sharp practice.

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No, because it depends on how it's breaking down. If you have one cohesive sheet of plastic, it would be wrong to say that you have trillions of nanoparticles of plastic.

The concerns with plastics that break up into many smaller pieces and enter the body and wider ecosystem are different (and potentially worse) than the concerns of the impacts of a single macro piece.