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baseethrowaway

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    Comment #17565255

    Natural satellite == moon. "Natural satellite" is a subset of "satellite", thus what you'd call them is correct by definition. Let's let the astronomers with credibility play and n…

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    Comment #17481031

    These works seem to disagree with you. Your turn. Please do try to disprove the law of conservation of energy. Swinburn B, Sacks G, Ravussin E. Increased food energy supply is more…

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    Comment #17419621

    How do they know who's friends with whom?

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    Comment #17162209

    Let alone scrolling.

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    Comment #17081327

    The CPU's heatspreader is not connected to any leads on the CPU. The case should be grounded through the power supply, therefore, it should be like touching ground with static char…

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    Comment #17080723

    It's very impractical/expensive for mass products to make the surfaces in question so flat that no thermal paste would be needed. Many tests and reviews have been done. Even if top…

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    Comment #17080696

    Blender might throttle. Does it come with benchmarks/tests that I could use to gauge thermal performance? The CPU is delidded! I've got another i3 4300 delidded as well running und…

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    Comment #17077173

    One can make a passive build much more powerful. NSG S0, once out, will most likely be the go-to case for such setups. Until then, an HDPLEX H5 is cool. My desk has a H5 on it, hou…

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    Comment #17075427

    Google does not hire AI people exclusively.

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    Comment #17000988

    Yes, an employer can mandate that employees use password managers for work-related accounts and are already doing it, from my experience. Also, for the precise reason you say, corp…

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    Ask HN: Does/did your job matter in the grand scheme of things?

    If so, I'd love to hear more about it and more about you. To be clear, I'd love to hear from people working on genuinely significant things in the modern/IT history of homo sapiens…

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    Comment #16947808

    In which category?

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    Comment #16808530

    The information does not start out in fewer bytes. It starts out in all the bytes that represent the 3D models of entities you're interacting with in your game and the textures to …

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    Comment #16593154

    Or for safety reasons? Easier to get out of the vehicle in case of emergencies, when the door is stuck, or easier to see which side of the vehicle is unsafe to exit, easier for hum…

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    Comment #16394015

    Look up Librem 5. Doesn't exist yet, but might soon.

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    Comment #16378614

    With so many satellites in the sky, I think those effects will be exactly as you said, a few (<10 ms) milliseconds in the worst case, depending on how aggressive the hopping from s…

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    Comment #16378506

    This is a very useful resource on the topic: https://smile.amazon.com/101-Fresh-Critical-Thinking-Activit...

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    Comment #16295737

    Accelerate the most demanding tasks of your server's workload. Crypto, audio/video encoding, compression, database lookups, neural network training, computational fluid dynamics, n…

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    Comment #16288997

    Not at all, if you take it into account.

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    Comment #16288995

    Which means that you would have to keep track of each pulse, if you have a comparatively inaccurate clock. Does not seem practical. EDIT: On second thought, using an accurate clock…

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    Comment #16271575

    Yeah, this is point on... no. Unless a price of a home is ridiculously cheap (under $100 a month?), and even then, people without any income and/or mentally unwell people will not …

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    Comment #16243965

    Why not share the numbers?

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    Comment #16233710

    So, you indeed have never worked at Google.

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    Comment #16219339

    Very relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/7h9tn2/i_sued_... Might be an insight into what happens when Equifax appeals.