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  • 2010-04-12

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  • Only time I've eaten meat in the past ~30 years was when I ate some invasive fish that had been caught in a killathon to restore native habitat. Not that it's my role to "give you a pass," but I certainly do in this case!

  • Lambda Legal, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ rights, exceeded fundraising goal by $105M

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  • https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237395681

    That claims ~$420k compensation with ~$25k "other." If he is playing any substantial role in bringing in $100M+ funds for a good cause, I'd say this person's compensation isn't something I'm going to get worked up about. For VHCOL areas this is middle class household income (looks like they're based in NY NY, so...VHCOL).

  • 2010-04-12

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  • If you eat basically any form of meat, I have some bad news for you...

  • Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

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  • I'm too lazy to verify my hunch, but I'm guessing Texas is largely oil (exploiting natural resources), whereas California is largely intellectual output (tech, with some Hollywood and other sundry stuff), though California certainly does exploit its natural resources too (good farming conditions, some oil...).

  • Hell

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  • It's a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it's in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.

    If social anxiety is a factor, that's a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.

  • Iowa's new state motto? Spotted on the bike trail yesterday

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  • Well, yeah --- dude's brake cables are missing!

  • Happy Pride ✨️

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  • I HATE email

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  • I remember when phones used to be good.

    Telemarketers have been around for a long, long time (Wikipedia claim "...the practice of contacting potential customers by telephone originated in the late 19th century.").

    I personally recall a lot more telemarketing in the 90s, though I was a kid and just passed the phone to mom or dad. But that was also a time when caller ID was a luxury, and not everyone had answering machines.

  • The perfect offspring

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  • Inconceivable! Some also look like Winston Churchill.

  • this is my hole!

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  • Congratulations, homosexual!

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  • In my head it was definitely Cave.

  • Devices (fanmade, obviously)

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  • Some numbers are missing...[due to] out of memory error.

    The S7+ seems to have 6 or 8GB RAM, but the iPhone 7 only has 2, yet it seems the iPhone ran the test and the S7+ didn't. I wonder if the iOS implementation is that much better, or Android isn't set up with any swap, or...?

  • CPU in June rule

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  • I know the "attack helicopter" bit is a transphobic trope, but given how hard those fans are probably working, I think this computer might actually identify as one.

    (If this comment is offensive I can remove it/mod can obviously remove it --- not trying to be a dick!)

  • Hit it and quit it

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  • Human gestation is 10 months

    "Full term" pregnancy is ~40w from last menstrual period, or ~38w from conception. There are ~4.345 weeks/month, putting full term at ~8.75 to ~9.2 months. Note the 9.2 months includes ~2 weeks before fertilization.

    (Not sure if I'm being whooshed or not...)

  • Lab-grown diamonds have helped diamond prices plunge 60%, and former monopolist De Beers is in crisis mode. One day asteroid mining will do the same for gold.

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  • Would that really help though? Gold is super soft so I think it would need to get frequently coated/plated again --- and we already have pretty good and resistant marine paint.

    Titanium is very corrosion resistant, not to mention plastics/fiberglass/carbon fiber, as I understand.

    But yeah, cheap gold would be be great, just seems to me that the market would more be in e.g. electronics, where both corrosion resistance and electrical conductivity are required (something gold is fairly unique at).

  • Hit it and quit it

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  • People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that's neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don't see what all the fuss is about.

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • Yep, you're right --- I was just responding to parent's comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • That's...not really a cogent argument.

    Satellites connect to ground using radio/microwave (or even laser), all of which are electromagnetic radiation and travel at the speed of light (in vacuum).

    Light in a fiber travels much more slowly than in vacuum --- light in fiber travels at around 67% the speed of light in vacuum (depends on the fiber). In contrast, signals through cat7 twisted pair (Ethernet) can be north of 75%, and coaxial cable can be north of 80% (even higher for air dielectric). Note that these are all carrying electromagnetic waves, they're just a) not in free space and b) generally not optical frequency, so we don't call them light, but they are still governed by the same equations and limitations.

    If you want to get signals from point A to point B fastest (lowest latency), you don't use fiber, you probably use microwaves: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/private-microwave-networks-financial-hft/

    Finally, the reason fiber is so good is complicated, but has to do with the fact that "physics bandwidth" tends to care about fractional bandwidth ("delta frequency divided by frequency"), whereas "information bandwidth" cares about absolute bandwidth ("delta frequency"), all else being equal (looking at you, SNR). Fiber uses optical frequencies, which can be hundreds of THz --- so a tiny fractional bandwidth is a huge absolute bandwidth.

  • The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink

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  • 80% of the USA lives within urban areas (source). Urban "fiberization" is absolutely within reach.

    Agree that running fiber out to very remote areas is tricky, but even then it's probably not prohibitive for all but the most remote locations.