Arnt

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by Arnt 2y ago
Whatever's good enough to preserve the atmosphere is good enough.
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by Arnt 2y ago
In my experience, if you make someone two offers, they'll generally stop to consider which one is best for them.
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by Arnt 2y ago
It's oddly different. I think the reasons are subtle, but exist. I know one technical difference: if someone quote-tweets to dunk on you, you can stop it. There must be more like that, because the effect is readily noticeable.
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by Arnt 2y ago
"You can have the shares for €4m or the assets for €5m". Both sides have agency in a negotiation. AIUI the .de rules are intended for a somewhat different situation, perhaps more common. The article describes a situation where alm
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by Arnt 2y ago
JFYI that NZ graph looks like Denmark at the time: Slow groth, then high EV sales in the final few months of the subsidy, when people know the subsidies were to be discontinued, then very low sales in the first months after the end of the s
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by Arnt 2y ago
Could you elaborate on the plummeting? I remember that that happened in Denmark, but when I googled now, it seems EV sales started growing again almost at once and are now at about 57% of the market. Do you know some countries where EV sale
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by Arnt 2y ago
What strikes me is that then I've always been in good organisations, never in a bad one, and the article author seems to not realise that good organisations exist, or have any notion of what makes them good. I've been in one where
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by Arnt 2y ago
WAT. The first paragraph is from a different world than mine. «I’ve been in countless Scrum meetings that felt like a waste of time. You might relate - watching engineers zone out during standups, sprint planning meetings that drag on forev
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CATL Founder Burns Elon Musk(cleantechnica.com)
10 points by Arnt 2y ago|0 comments
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by Arnt 2y ago
Sometimes. In some cases. An airline incurs a giant cost at the moment it decides to fly a route, everything after that is almost pure income, with little or no associated cost. Consider Cuba Airlines, which I invented right now because Cub
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by Arnt 2y ago
I've heard that too. But I've also heard that it wasn't immeasurable and wasn't a large share of their income.
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by Arnt 2y ago
I think you can put it differently: Twitter has changed, the Guardian's target market remains the same. By by now there are so few educated middleclass people on Twitter that as a channel to that market, it's "simply not wort
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by Arnt 2y ago
I agree that the popular vote is a key metric, extremely important, perhaps even more than maintaining a close relationship between those elected and the voters, which is often the goal of the balancing rules. As for an example, look at Ger
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by Arnt 2y ago
One of my children is affected by a similar change. The number of foreign students grew to such a number that the admission threshold for locals exceeded the best possible grade (ie. my child would need perfect grades plus bonus points). Wh
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by Arnt 2y ago
Personally, I only know about one democracy where the popular vote is used to determine the outcome of elections. The others I know all use something moderately different. My home, for example, has two kinds of weighing, one for regional ba
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by Arnt 2y ago
No. Let's prosecute the bad actors and be done. I noticed the cock.li home page doesn't explain which users are targeted by what it calls crimes, or what these crimes are.
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by Arnt 2y ago
AIUI low-cost flights work best in an area where there's a lot of sizable city pairs about 1h-3h away from each other. Europe has more such pairs than the US, as indicated by the much higher population density.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Eight million in the labour force, that's quite a number.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Compare it to Germany, which is twice as big and does much the same, except that voting be mail has a different deadline. Germany typically delivers the results during the night after the election, but the votes are counted again in the fol
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by Arnt 2y ago
11… wow… is that everyone or just the ones that work legalish fulltime jobs?
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by Arnt 2y ago
I'd have a problem believing that too, because I see that my oldest child's math textbook (for the last year before starting university) is better than my own was. Not very much, but enough to give me the impression that the textb
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by Arnt 2y ago
No, one comment up. "No need for a calculus textbook printed after y2k" or words like that. I guess that's 23 years of use if you're pedantic enough, not 24. A textbook that's gone through five students will have en
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by Arnt 2y ago
A bad estimate is always somehow bad. The US is in the news now. It has something like five million illegal immigrants that work for next to nothing. Losing that source of cheap labour would be a wrenching change.
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by Arnt 2y ago
You can run 100m in nine seconds if you buy the shoes from Nike.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Mine didn't look very good after I'd worked through it. Good shelf life, but 24 years of use? Not a chance.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Time for HN = time to move a little. Done.
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by Arnt 2y ago
There's a timescale problem that you may be overlooking. One part of NATO is a quid pro quo: It's in the interest of the nuclear powers, most of all the US, that other countries don't build their own nuclear weapons. You migh
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by Arnt 2y ago
I clicked through, wondered what this is, found the FAQ, which mentions an online shop but gives a URL as text instead of as a link, went to that URL and got a 404. Thunderbird Mobile is good though. Have used it for a few days now, like it
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by Arnt 2y ago
Seems honest to me too, but really: When you're spending your savings and reserves as fast as the Russians are, the situation should look great, no matter how good or bad it really is.
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by Arnt 2y ago
By "now" you mean "starting in 2026". Which raises the question: how much warning do you think is reasonable?

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