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Two Canadian cofounders want to start a company in the USA, is O-1 the only option? Is TN a possibility?

Why the lower bound on 0? Places with overproduction sometimes pay to curtail

I wish academic papers were more like Wikipedia articles. Currently what I'm working on is really "Building on" one pretty pivotal paper from the 90s, and there's a whole constellation of work that has spawned.

So much ink is spilled re-defining the problem, and reading any paper requires going through the system model every time because tons of arbitrary decisions may have been done different. It makes it hard to compare results, and makes almost every statement that reads "Over in this area we're not innovating on, we used the SOTA" wrong, because some other group is innovating in that corner.

If instead there was one canonical version of it with an edit history, and I could go try to just re-write one little para and argue in the talk section about it with the one-or-two other groups picking away at that, I feel like things could move faster and be done higher quality.

It'd also be a lot easier to peek at other areas. Currently if I have a question like "What's the latest in NeRFs underwater? I remember seeing a paper about that a while ago" I've basically got no idea.

I think there’s an appreciable gap between how applicable to the masses “if you have a niche but expensive problem, fix it, others may be excited to solve it with money” and “just sell $500 arduino advent calendars. when you’re famous you can raise half a million dollars on a 6 month waitlist for $200 wire coat hangers” is

it depends, if it was a currency exchange, it'll be labeled in one of 3 ways, either average rate per unit, absolute, or it'll be a reference to a MSSQL table containing exceptional spot transactions. Otherwise, a complete history of exchange rates is stored in KDB, most days you can take the average, and for small amounts on weekends or days the exchange is closed you can just interpolate, there's also a half dozen XLSXs full of certain exceptional days, so you'll have to check that you're not on one of those lists. Then if you're not dealing with USD->X or CAD->USD->X things start to get hairy.

Is it though? If it saves one engineer one afternoon that storage has paid for itself, and this thing has hundreds of thousands of downloads a day.

Wouldn’t it be more horrifying to force everybody who wants to use a prerelease to waste an afternoon getting it to build just to save half a hard drive?

Yes, these are the galvanic ones I was rounding up to $100. I was curious if some other technology or sensing technique I wasn't aware of existed that was less expensive, more reliable, or lasted longer.

I’ve never heard of any of these. What’s going on in low cost oxygen sensors? What should I google? I can only find $100+ galvanic sensors that need to be replaced after a few dozen months

parent comment said “every time it rains”… this article and your comment make it sound “pretty rare”.

I’ve heard of this for frost prevention, but never rain. Do you know of a specific vineyard doing this?

In a DC circuit, a capacitor looks like an open circuit because after it fills up it just sits still.

In an AC circuit, a capacitor looks like a resistor, it takes work to fill and empty it every cycle.

Transmission lines over the earth behave not just like wires, but also like capacitors. Higher voltage reduces resistive losses, but in AC they’re penalized by these “fill and empty a capacitor” ones, that DC doesn’t.

is there a 'thinking fast and slow: the reproducible bits' recut? I know with films there's fan made edits.

I wonder what other odd connections are made due to city-name almost certainly being the most common word next to sportsball-name.

Do the parameters think that Jazz musicians are mormon? Padres often surf? Wizards like the Lincoln Memorial?

I've always dreamed of trolley-bus like wires strung along interstates paired with robotic self-attaching trolley-poles.

In my head, semi-trucks (and maybe all cars?) only need 50-100 miles or so of range for low-speed (where batteries shine) warehouse/ports/downtown deliveries (or garage-charged commutes?).

Almost every trip I've ever taken beyond ~20 miles included at least some portion on a highway. Electric interstates could allow NY to LA in one shot and pulling off the highway with 100 miles to make the round-trip to wherever a load needed to be dropped off.

If attaching and detaching was automatic, there would be no need to electrify onramps or intersections or underpasses or anything expensive, just find the cheapest, straightest, easiest to electrify 80% of roads and slap up wires there.

Appliances that actually use energy should have this. I'd love to be able to put a wet load of laundry into my drier and press "make sure it's dry by tomorrow morning".

> The following recipe assumes you're very ambitious.

No reason why. PG isn't writing to you. If you've got hobbies that make you happy, relationships you love, and runs that keep you healthy, I'm sure PG would tell you not to change anything.