Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 5d ago
A thought is that from 'their' perspective the potential loss of power and status on the tip top of things is to them existential. Consider a certain Senator being wheeled into the Senate to vote. Why even subject ones self to tha
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by Gibbon1 9d ago
The problem is with wealth comes the power to change the rules to your advantage. This is already happening for instance the large difference between capital gains tax rates and earned income ones.
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by Gibbon1 11d ago
> Ugliness has become a cultural norm in order to suit the modern economy. I read someone's argument that the ugliness results in market failure. Because the ugly results in not only local opposition to building renewable it results
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by Gibbon1 12d ago
God sent Captain Crunch to warn mankind of the dangers of in band signaling but they did not heed his warning and continued to sin.
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by Gibbon1 12d ago
Worth pointing out that uninsured motorists coverage in California is quite inexpensive. And that is NOT true of Florida. Where I disagree with the point of the article is insurance is a last resort thing. If you want to reduce traffic deat
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by Gibbon1 13d ago
Because of Prop 103 California has reasonable insurance rates especially considering cost of living. California's laws and regulations are oriented around forcing people to have at least some coverage. I suspect that the laws annoy ins
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by Gibbon1 13d ago
Something people that bitch about the high cost of California vs Florida won't mention is how high auto and home owners insurance is in Florida. Florida is a high risk state with a lot of fraud.
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by Gibbon1 15d ago
US lost 2500 soldiers in Afghanistan between 2001 and when Trump betrayed his country to appease Putin. Okinawa alone cost 12,000 US soldiers. With 100,000 to 150,000 civilian deaths.
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by Gibbon1 15d ago
Considering that US houses usually either have a crawl space, basement, or are on a slab the lack of a drain is weird when you think about it. You would think wet locations would be required to have a drain. I think a lot of European houses
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by Gibbon1 17d ago
I'm reminded of thermoluminescence for dating objects. Radiation creates defects in the material over time. When heated the defects release light. Imprecise but will fink on ceramics that were fired 30 years ago vs 3000 years ago. Diff
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by Gibbon1 19d ago
We need a HIPAA for consumer devices.
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by Gibbon1 20d ago
There are a number of efforts to grow vat grown protein. That's producing food without plants even.
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by Gibbon1 22d ago
People are working on solid state batteries which puts you at 500-600 wh/kg. For cars the economics is a dicey proposition. Because $/wh is important. The extra range (dubious) or lower weight has to cover the cost difference. But
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by Gibbon1 23d ago
There are maybe some advantages to a hybrid system. The higher reliability of electric. Losing an turbine engine doesn't mean asymmetrical thrust. Plane still flies normally. Losing an engine on takeoff you still have full power. Elect
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by Gibbon1 24d ago
TDS220 Cute little thing. The reality is you hope that's all you need.
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by Gibbon1 26d ago
I remember when my friends were singing the praises of Chrome and Gmail and I was telling them it's a trap. Google has consistently sad they want to stop exposing url's. That's 100% them wanting to prevent people from bypassi
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by Gibbon1 26d ago
That's the thing, like the used to be very expensive swing compressor ice chests that you can buy in the US for $150. You'd only need a 100 amp hour battery and a 100W solar panel to power it.
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by Gibbon1 26d ago
Solar panels I think are too high tech for them. I remember reading about low tech efficient cook stoves for poor countries and thinking the misses would rather have an induction burner, microwave, and an ice chest running off a solar panel
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by Gibbon1 26d ago
In C you can do that. printf ("Things:\n" " thing1=%u\n" " thing2=%u\n" " thing3=%u\n", thing1, thing2, thing3);
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by Gibbon1 27d ago
Up the Organization by Robert Townsend had this gem, not the exact quote but: big companies didn't get big by acting like big companies.
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by Gibbon1 1mo ago
The neo Calvinism runs deep. People think fixing problems involves austerity and take aways for the unelect. It's a real problem because it has really bad political optics. And results in obsessing about 'fixing' inconsequent
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by Gibbon1 1mo ago
The EU's ISM limits are trash. Really there should be a world wide 900-1000MHz ISM band.
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by Gibbon1 1mo ago
Just through this out again, biofuels are dumb. Per acre a solar farm produces 30 times the energy per year as corn without most of the environmental concerns that growing corn has. You don't have pesticide or fertilizer runoff from so
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by Gibbon1 1mo ago
Immune therapy is hit or miss. Friends lung cancer was exquisitely sensitive to it. Stage 4 to no sign of disease. Another friend with melanoma immune therapy didn't seem to help at all. Melanoma is usually completely resistant to trad
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by Gibbon1 1mo ago
Electric vehicles are stills cars. But better than gasoline and especially diesel cars. So yeah. That said not clear to me about PM2.5 is I've never seen anything legit seeming that tries to characterize the harm based on the type&#x2F
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by Gibbon1 1mo ago
That's what it felt to me like. With non split stacks you're mixing return addresses with potentially entrusted data. You're already living in sin. With split stacks a trampoline wouldn't be a problem.
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by Gibbon1 1mo ago
I've been wondering about that, South Africa has a lot of coal to gasoline/diesel. Developed during the apartheid era to bypass international oil embargoes. Places with good insolation could probably use green hydrogen + coal to p
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
Once you crush the red and blue pills and snort them you can't unsee the environmental damage of agriculture.
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
A friend that has a degree in engineering and law who works as a patent lawyer had this to say. Interesting physical real world problems are NP hard. That's why we have patents. Software? You can work backwards from the requirements to
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by Gibbon1 2mo ago
I saw a string of emoji that supposedly when copied to a file and renamed .exe prints out hello when run.

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