Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
How does domestic coal ash compare to this stuff? Do the higher temperatures and pressures in power station liberate more of the harmful stuff, or is it basically as bad? UK homes were commonly coal heated as late as the 1980s, a few still
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It can go either way. A top-down company can be interested or disinterested in culture. Some would argue that for a company to affect disinterest is an active and consequential choice. Consider the "bring your whole self to work"
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
All employment processes discriminate, the question is for and against what traits, and to the exclusion of what else? "Culture fit" is pretty much trading off communication efficiency and high trust against diversity of thought.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The main risk from aspirin isn't hemorrhagic strokes, it's GI bleeds. There are other blood thinners that are considered safer at an appropriate dose, including warfarin (the same stuff that, at higher doses, is used as rat pois
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Something I've been wondering is to what extent we're gut-efficiency-limited rather than calorie-limited. There's plenty of research showing that brain development and food preparation went hand in hand (cooking allows humans
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I can't speak for the US, but in Europe it's less rich/poor (though some country folk would like you to think so), and more rural conservative values vs city progressive values (which weirdly harbour some very religious-conse
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Guessing you're in good health, have some control over your working hours, and are able to maintain a pretty clean sleep/wake cycle. 7 quality, consistent hours of sleep is plenty enough for most people, sure, but that means being
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
If you're in a position to apply it, and not already applying it, this is excellent advice. (See how I just excluded 95%?)
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's about combinations of skills. 0.01%ers in one field tend towards monomaniacal obsession. Sometimes that's useful. But having mostly depth, and enough breadth to balance it out, is better in most cases than depth only. People
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
There are lots of obligations in life. And bros in their late 20s / early 30s (as I suspect the author is) tend to underestimate the extent to which that's true. Kids is the obvious one, but hidden claims on time and capacity ar
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yep, and some have a lot more or less potential ahead of them, as well as "soft power", social capital and so on. But in any case, with longer lifespans, many/most won't see inheritance until their 50s, 60s, even 70s, lo
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yep, that's a big part of why people aren't doing it. I guess with 2000€ income you can get a loan for 100K€ (certainly the case here), but it doesn't solve the problem of there being almost no work within a ~1hr drive in any
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The properties themselves are being effectively given away. Refurbishing them to a modern standard, of course, is quite a different story. Perhaps €100K EUR in a lot of cases.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
90th percentile 21-year-old has nothing. With college debt their assets are net negative. 90th percentile 65 year old has perhaps $1M+ in accumulated property wealth and retirement savings. There is some generational inequality at work, but
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It also depends on what being in the bottom 50% gives you a claim on. If you have no net wealth, but a Scandinavian-style social safety net (not just retirement income, but healthcare, free access to arts/culture/parks and so on),
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
And yet there's hundreds of entire villages in Mediterranean Europe that are empty apart from a few elderly people, lots of small rural towns with tracts of empty property. Usually because they're hours away from the nearest good
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Eggs were getting too expensive thanks to H5N1, so they thought they'd vote in a bunch of scientifically-illiterate antivax clowns. Think about it this way.. when tech folk got hooked up to mainline net access 24/7, it wasn't
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Is it possible to fully self-host the Atlassian suite with no external connectivity nowadays?
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That says T2D is bad (indeed, arguably a lot worse than popular understanding), not GLP-1's are candy. Have to wonder if people really understood the consequences, would they still allow themselves to get in that state? Then again, use
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The article posits that 80% of the top income quintile will be on this medication. I have to ask, why? (I'm not in the US, I should add). Like, sure, is the average American overweight? Yes. Are 80% of the top 20% of earners? Seems pre
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Depending on which CPU category. I think Intel HEDT stops at Cascade Lake, which is essentially Skylake-X Refresh from 2019? Whereas AMD has full-fat AVX512 even in gaming laptop CPUs.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Right, but a SIMD single precision mul is linear (or even sub linear) relative to it's scalar cousin. So a 16x32, 512-bit MUL won't be even 16x the cost of a scalar mul, the decoder has to do only the same amount of work for examp
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Mean _is_ average. You perhaps mean median? Even then though, in e.g. Victorian times, the median (50th percentile) gets skewed by horrendously high infant mortality. Looking at the 75th or 80th percentile, or the life expectancy for an 18
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It is. But if we can handle maritime oil and gas rigs, which load/unload to tankers, hydrogen isn't MUCH worse. It wouldn't be floating exactly though. Moored and piled into the sea bed, sitting above the waves like rigs and
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Certainly of course, but not while delivering maximum continuous energy from a kite to a turbine.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
If you fix your goalposts for long enough, cohort effects will move around them. I'm not sure how old your mom is, but 1000km drives aren't something most people want to be doing past 75 ish. And newer cohorts adapt their lifestyl
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The main issue is that prevailing winds have a direction, and there's not a continuous open ocean path other than the Southern Ocean which is harsh even by the standards of oceans. Sure you can steer along trade winds in the Atlantic o
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Ugh, turns out I suck at math too. At least attempting it before coffee. The ship's capacity in MWh is 18620t x 33MWh/t = 614460MWh. At 45MW generating capacity, an electric hydrolyser at 80% efficiency delivers hydrogen at a rate
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It strikes me that having the turbine and hydrolysis plant fixed in place, and having ships visit those sites to refuel, is probably an easier setup than mobile turbines. But I think your maths is wrong somewhere. Hydrogen supplies 33MWh&#x
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Already have, SpaceX have been doing a few NRO launches. Delta and Titan are retired, and Atlas is down to its last few.

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