Detrytus

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by Detrytus 3y ago
> you could argue that every employment arrangement is exploitative if the employer is making profit and thus could may employees more than they are. Employer is also bringing in the value to the relationship: most software projects, for
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> At least there exists a reason to prefer nuclear power plants from being farther away from you. Not at the distances this short. If anything happens to any of the nuclear plants in France the pollution will reach Germany within 24 hour
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Or they power up old coal and gas plants :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Or where one partner earns significantly more, like $150k vs $50k - joint filing still puts you in a lower tax bracket.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
And those who, thanks to WFH can handle two jobs at once.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Secure erase works on assumption that encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise AND that attacker cannot recover the encryption key. Insecure implementations of encryption will leave some way to recover/reverse engineer the
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Not really, no. The root of all evil is so called "limited liability". LLCs and Corporations should be illegal, only privately held companies where there's no boundary between what belongs to the owner and what to the company
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by Detrytus 3y ago
>> Communism pretty explicitly involves the proletariat seizing the means of production, but go on. So, by that definition, all publicly traded corporations are communist :) I mean, significant part of their shares is traded on stock
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by Detrytus 3y ago
CO2 certificates are not "dirt cheap", for Polish coal-based power plants they amount to 59% of the cost of producing electricity.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
>> Coal and gas plants are closing because they cannot compete on price with solar/wind + battery storage. First of all, I'm not aware of any large scale battery storage facilities anywhere, they are prohibitively expensive.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
>> I got approved for $250/month within 5 minutes So you just needed some spare change to spend in AppStore? Try adding one or two zeroes to it, and see if you get approved then :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Do people really do that? I mean use their credit card as an actual bank loan, paying off their credit cards in installments, with interests? I've been using credit cards for the past 15 years, and never paid a single cent of interests
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I think the question was "do you have similar ways of circumventing 'election silence'" :) ?
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by Detrytus 3y ago
But century is not an SI unit :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I always admired how simple, yet clever the SI prefix scheme is: use Roman numerals for sub-units (centi-, mili-), and Greek numerals for multiplies (deka-, hecto-, kilo-). Although I guess a century ago average well educated person was muc
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by Detrytus 3y ago
>> you cannot hold a blade in your hands steadily, at sub-mm precision, for more than one stroke That's what the guiding rails are for... So far whetstones with guiding rails are the best sharpening method I found. As you can see
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Razor-sharp knives are safer to use than dull ones. Earlier today I was invited to a dinner by a family member, and she cut her finger, because, in her own words, she had to apply some force to cut an onion and she lost control of the kni
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I used to own one, but I find the rods too short - it's good for small, 12-cm blades, but it's useless for anything bigger. Right now I switched to proper water stones :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Actually, intelligence is a hindrance, not help when fighting a lion. I mean, it's useful to have one smart person in the tribe, to invent all those weapons, but smart people tend to overthink everything, making them worse fighters&#x2
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by Detrytus 3y ago
We label batteries with capacity in cases where said capacity is tiny compared to user's needs. It allows user to guesstimate if their phone will last 1 or 2 days on a single charge. For AAA batteries, which in typical use last at leas
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Just because you are not on Twitter (or Facebook, or whatever) won't stop other people from tweeting lies about you. And the public image that you have on social media matters a lot in this society. See also: "Cancel culture"
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by Detrytus 3y ago
If you compare densities however, IBMs 2nm process claims 333MT, and the actual (not "estimated" as per article from 2021) density of TSMC 3nm is 215MT.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Yes, the F1 engines have pretty low volume 1.6 liters, V6. They burn around 140 liters of fuel during the whole race. Pretty easy to fit a big enough tank into the car.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> Supply is elastic. Increasing demand should indeed increase supply. That's some Keynesian bullshit, supply is constrained by a lot of factors, demand alone can't increase it. And even when it does, the intermediate step is, g
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by Detrytus 3y ago
> The relative significance of $2k is much greater to someone making <$2k (>2x increase) than someone making >$2k (<2x increase). That only works on individual level, in a world without inflation. it does not work when when y
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by Detrytus 3y ago
That inflation is indeed temporary - it fulfills its role once the prices reach the level when UBI becomes irrelevant. Imagine a country where average income is 2000 USD per month. Now, you give everyone UBI of 1000 USD per month, so the pr
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by Detrytus 3y ago
The problem is: those humans still need to rent apartments, pay their bills, buy some clothes and food. A person who has UBI + salary will always be able to outbid a person who only has UBI when buying all those goods and services (which ar
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Why would overloading repeat the code? It's typical to do it like that (in Java): public int doStuff(int a, int b) { //some code } public int doStuff(int a) { return doStuff(a, 7);} // so b=7 by default. No need to
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Also, there are governments and then there are governments. I would rather have a company keep zero-day a secret than disclose it to government run by assholes such as Victor Orban or Emmanuel Macron.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
No, you still misunderstand: "Basic Income" for some small groups of people works on a totally different principle than "Universal Basic Income" that applies to everyone. One is about giving a break to some unfortunate p

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