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Did they really make money off search? I was always under impression that search was only a gateway to their services ecosystem and its that what makes them money.

AFAIR it was there I saw that 50% of mafia members ann. earlings are less than $19500, with extra being assets I’ve mentioned above.

Crime doesn’t pay. If you look up earnings of US mafia members you’ll find that your average organisation has few people on top making ton of money they are just sitting on because its dirty money they can’t easily launder or spend, with under-bosses making middle-class money and everybody else scrapping by, with their possesions being in illiquid assets that are hard to turn into cash in time of need like stolen goods (electronics, clothes, cars etc. ect,) or property shares.

I wouldn’t call whole NYT evil, but it is notorious for making their subscription impossible to cancel, especially when you are living abroad.

I’m living in Poland which is known for notoriously hard driving exam (only one in three candidates pass on first try, you can fail exam at any time if examinator thinks you aren’t aware of cars surroundings). I’ve passed mine on sixth attempt.

We are also no. 2 most deadly country to drive in in EU.

Harder exams don’t improve road safety. Brutal penalties also don’t improve safety.

Looking at my country road safety is propably 1/3 infrastructure (awful road surface, bike lanes sandwiched between regular speed car lanes, 3-lane wide roads that require you to go from one edge lane to other on short distance to get to target) and 2/3 shitty driving culture.

Because its very hard and rare to be caught by police for dangerous driving (and there are plenty of yotube videos of police just ignoring dangerous driving or doing it themselves), people here are conditioned to drive in alternative and dangerous way. A saying goes that real drivers ed. starts when you are alone in your own car. And if you are fresh after exam and trying to drive legit, you will also be conditioned to drive shitty because alternative to not exceeding the speed limit yourself is having somebody else speeding drive into back of your car.

Running red light (called „late orange”) is also very common, and despite there being cameras on most of crossroads, those are used only to measure traffic and not for ticketing.

People force their way in traffic because yielding way to car that wants to change lane is very rare and considered dumb.

When people are stopped by police, they dismiss it as bad luck.

People only follow the limits when there is automated system in area for ticketing. Because they know there is no way to cheat the system.

Top app on Google Play is Janosik (named after polish Robin Hood countrpart) - navigation app that has warnings about speed cameras, police patrol routes and speed controls.

As a slav I find it amusing how free grain from gov was called by "dole" by Romans where we have concept of "dola" which used to be your patron spirit quietly influencing your life but in modern times its basically something you've got that you've deserved (according to higher force or destiny), be it thing, health, wealth or life experience.

If Polish-Russian gas trade is anything to go by, they won’t. They will just one day cut off deliveries and communicate that there is unknown technical difficulty and they are working on resolving it.

What are those reserves? How are they supposed to work? Can you store enough reserves to power the town?

I am yet to see systemic renewable power source that is available to country like Germany (or Poland where we also have discussion about going nuclear).

All renewables available to us are considered supplementary (they generate power when conditions are favorable, eg. wind blows, sun is shining). But this means they can’t be used to maintain power grid.

Ofc you can try hydro or geothermal, but those depend on your river network, underground warm waters availability, as well as population density around country. Those work for country like Norway but in practice German increasingly relies on French nuclear power as systemic source to maintain their grid, and Poland (sadly) sticks to coal and gas.

We don’t have history of US severly limiting amount of LNG delivered without a warning in mid september due to some unspecified ooopsie thats never explained by their side.

Luckily „Faster CPython” is now a thing and even Guido participates in it.

Reasoning given for course correction was (AFAIR) that Python really could be faster for things like data science or ML.

For those not aware, vote on „Lex TVN” was lost by the ruling party, but then parliament’s marshall (person responsive for maintaining order of proceedings) announced that voting process was invalid and ran another voting over the law which made it pass the parliament and go to senate.

But if you are writing framework or library that has to deal with both, its:

    result = fn()
    if isawaitable(result):
        result = await result

And turns out isawaitable is not that fast so things like GraphQL libraries that run above logic thousands of times per request get noticeably slow.

This is only a meme.

Sseth is based in EU (and makes little secret on that), Mandalore is in US.

My opinion on SsethTzeentach changed when guy did two and half hours long presentation (and Q&A) on current state of and ongoing developments in oncology.

It was a joke, but apparently this is his real field of expertise and YouTube edgelord persona is what he does to wind down after work.

Here's recording of stream in question, potentially offensive and NSFW jokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRVQWfqjms

LHC does basic research which is opposite of what you are asking (applied research). They seek to increase our understanding on particle physics, not make our lifes directly better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research

Is it going to provide eye candy? I’ve heard it’s supposed to work in non-visible spectrum like infrared?

Can they force a blood test on you? I know in my country (Poland) they can arrest you and take you to lab for blood test if they have justified suspiction.

> make tradeoffs between realism and fun

Isn't part of goal for SC to be far more realistic because that's only way to be immersive?

I don't know how much truth there is in it, but I've read that there's a planet that has player spawn in one area, with space port where their space ship is being in other area, and you need to get to train station, wait for the train, ride the train to space port to get to your ship, entire process taking 10 minutes to complete?

Gearbox eventually released that game, and it was complete mess of outdated gameplay and unpolished things cobbled together to fill the game time somehow.

Sequel would break your heart even more, because it was going to be completely different animal with much more linear game and Xbox360 exclusivity.

In fact they are:

SpaceX does gov contracts for US defense and NASA.

Tesla is selling their carbon credits to other companies.

NASA is gov agency.

Boeing is doing both defense and civilian contracts for US gov.

Wild animals either shelter from thunderstorm, or they learn from each other differet behaviours (like making herd close-knit) to pull through.

> My 100% baseless opinion is that animal brains are fundamentally different from computers

You are correct in that opinion.

I’m not or specialist in the field, but FWIW key difference between neural circuit vs processor is that former is specialised and analog while latter is programmable and digital.

Your brain is not running any software, instead its hardwired to process series of electric signals („trains”). Neurons can be used to model logic gates, but nature uses different approach where there are „dumb” neurons that just transmit signals and then there are „functional” neurons that emit signal only if certain conditions have been met, be it right frequency of electric signals in „electric train”, current chemical state of neuron or number of received signals from other neurons at given time.

„It was found that John Doe took liquid-oxygen enema before run, unfairly improving his performance.”

Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What you are asking for is called "System Shock Enhanced Edition" and you can grab it on GoG. Runs on modern systems too.

Tracking cameras on civilian passenger plane seems like a whole lot extra stuff for operator to maintain and service compared to the benefit of capturing an UFO pictures once every few months.

It's a conspiracy theory saying that we know natural and effective cures to cancer, but those are ignored or shammed by Big Pharma and scientific world because they are conspiring to instead produce drugs that are costly and require taking for long periods of time because thats more profitable to them.

They would need to solve the problem that was easy on land: how do you release an energy from one resource to thermally pricess other resource (food at first but then metals).