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bliteben··on Perceptually lossless (talking head) video compression at 22kbit/s
Wonder if its better than a single color channel hologram though
bliteben··on 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
I don't understand how it isn't fraud. I looked at an ambulance bill for my mom the other day:

$1798 total

-$388 Medicare paid

-$1324 Service adjustment

$86 Amount you owe.

I don't think dumb is sufficient to explain this. It's pretty easy for me to see how someone leaps from this de facto legal system to outright fraud, because the line between them is pretty thin.

bliteben··on Mexico's Floating Gardens
> Floating gardens using soil are practically impossible

but very cool when they do exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island

bliteben··on Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays
If tomorrow everyone switches to your proposed vegan diet, where does all the saved power, water and land go towards?

growing cattle keeps the land from turning into concrete. If you actually want to conserve land you want to use as much already deforested as possible for growing crops and then never deforest new land. Slowly you should work onto getting conservation NGOs to integrate it into government protected land.

Seems to me like a fools errand to optimize land use. The optimal use in the Americas for example was likely already there 14,000 years ago before humans arrived in Americas. We obviously can't go back, but we can improve land, but optimal ....

bliteben··on ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
I mean brass can be crazy hard to find, I'd bet if you did a geocaching experiment with brass picking a random spot within shotspotter's accuracy tolerances, you'd find the casing less than 50% of the time. Add in an hourly employee that is in no way motivated to find the casing and you'd prob drop to 10%.
bliteben··on Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home
What zwave devices have you been using? I have only used zwave (leviton, ge) and have only had to restart a switch 2-3 times. My biggest gripe with zwave was when home assistant switched the supported plugin.
bliteben··on What if climate change meant not doom – but abundance?
Over a long enough timespan we will eventually run into it happening in an instant.
bliteben··on ChatGPT’s system prompts
We could likely put 80% of cars on rails just as easily
bliteben··on Apocalypse Proof: 33 Thomas Street in New York City
i hope this isn't his last post
bliteben··on Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Photosynthesis turns carbon and energy into plants immediately.

Longer term the same processes that turned algae and other life forms into oil are still happening and try as we might we aren't going to stop them, but they proceed at what is likely a pace that will take long after humans are extinct to replenish what we have used.

bliteben··on Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
turns out that happens without human intervention
bliteben··on Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
the CO2 doesn't escape the atmosphere, it just doesn't recycle itself in a timeframe you are looking for
bliteben··on Google and The Online Slang Dictionary (2020)
https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/onlyfans-star-claims-she-had-s...
bliteben··on Tidal energy is not renewable
At some point unlimited growth would mean the heat death of earth. Remember all used energy no matter how green the source emits heat.

Even stars have limits to their energy. If you don't believe in limits then you aren't accepting physical reality.

bliteben··on Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
What you are asking for is a gabled roof. It's honestly a great design too if it will fit the site.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gable_roof

bliteben··on My Overkill Home Network
Many laptops have bad thermals in general under load and often even worse with case closed.
bliteben··on My Overkill Home Network
I would have disagreed on heat, but would love to hear what laptops that isn't an issue on.
bliteben··on My Overkill Home Network
Yeah pics did make it look like he could use a smaller truck
bliteben··on Big change for some CLEAR users: TSA will soon require you to show ID
Seems like paying to create two classes of citizens
bliteben··on Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro
Also hiding the cord for like 99% of the marketing
bliteben··on Want to buy a West Texas ghost town? Now’s your chance
Many mountain towns have insane valuations and are not near a university, and many have high radon levels. I think it really comes down to it isn't valuable because no one else thinks it is.
bliteben··on eBay’s Fast Billion-Scale Vector Similarity Engine
I find it very credible. Early ebay had very high fees on photos. They also would purge old auctions within at least 90 days. They still do purge old auctions which clearly would have some seo value. Also the whole way ebay motors was operated as essentially a separate site lends credibility as well.
bliteben··on Why are lithium prices collapsing?
I had a ge one loved it when it worked. The board died twice in 6 months.

The Bosch one probably would have worked fine but for whatever reason it wasn't the look the spouse wanted.

Even though I was fully onboard I could see the specific pan thing annoying some dedicated gas people.

I’m back to gas and no longer have people boiling water so I can boil water.

bliteben··on The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks
Corvettes had huds 20 years ago. I have never understood why it isn't mainstream.
bliteben··on The economics of thinness
McDonalds forces them to get a soda and fries?
bliteben··on Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-second DDoS attack
Most attacks are using a shotgun approach. DDOS generally are targeted but even then just badly behaved scrapers or vulnerability scanners can add up to be like a DDOS.
bliteben··on 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)
Calories are a unit of energy. You are arguing against chemistry and physics. Im sure you could find inaccuracies in calorie counts for various foods. Additionally Im sure some foods are more filling and/or healthy at different calorie counts.

Arguing that calories in doesn't matter is nearly on the level of Holocaust denialism, as the main picture evidence there is of the effects of calorie deficits.

bliteben··on 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Fractions are good for your brain and inherently more accurate.
bliteben··on 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
How many seconds are in a minute? How many hours are in a day?
bliteben··on New Mac Mini
its understandable for a laptop. I look forward to in 10 years when I no longer have a USB A device.
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