Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I remember what ten years ago in San Francisco the cops found a guy shot to death in Bayview. Cops suspicion was he broke into the wrong car and a gang member shot him. Guy had been arrested over a hundred times for breaking into cars in th
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
In the early 70's at the behest of airlines Congress passed a law that prevented Airports and State/Local governments from sharing cost of Municipal Rail lines. Which is why in the US if there is a rail connection it's always
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Civilians can absolutely be targeted if it fills a legitimate military objective. And Hamas doesn't follow the rules of war and doesn't distinguish between civilians and military objectives either. It's like how Hamas and Hez
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
A magic experience for me was sitting in a desert spring at dust with bats skimming the water to drink. Tip: In forests near a source of water you'll often see bats appear in the early evening. But only if you stand still for a few min
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
If you do the right kind of searches you'll see people are working on using cellulose as a chemical feedstock and for plastics. That sort of research was dead since after WWII until recently.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think they now use a polymer membrane that works better at keeping the two products separate.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
tl;dr: Marriage rate went from 7-8 per 1000 before the pandemic to 5.1 per 1000. But in 2022 rebounded to 6.2. Headline insinuates something different. tl;dr2: Divorce rate was 4 per 1000 in 2000. By 2022 dropped to 2.4 per 1,000. Out of my
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
In the Santa Clara Valley farmers pumped enough water out of the ground in the early 20th century the ground dropped a dozen feet in some areas. Bad thing too is that once an aquifer settles like that it's carrying capacity is permanen
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Firing up my neoliberal brain. We should just tax ad and spying on users bandwidth and front/backend end resource use.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think increasingly only 'whales' buy new. This is especially true for trucks. Whales don't do basic cost vs utility analysis, love bling, and make purchase decisions for socio-emotional reasons.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
It's true that batteries will never weigh as little as a 12 gallon gas tank. But that doesn't factor in the weight of the engine and drive train. Electric motors are lighter for the same torque and power than gas engines. And the
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Scuttlebutt I've been reading in the trade press is batteries are likely to outlast the car. Gas engines tend to be trashed after 180-250,000 miles. But batteries may last 500,000 miles or more. That's over 40 years of driving. Ot
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Why is that weird? The Ghostship was a nightmare firetrap that the code enforcement people knew about and did nothing. In a perfect world they'd have done their job and 36 people would still be a alive. In a less perfect world they&#x2
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> But the director took the staff's feedback to Intuit that Jeff is not building relationships at his level. Stack ranked, pipped and fired Jeff who single handedly kept a service alive. The irony is the director was the one complet
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The crackdown on all the spaces after the Ghostship fire basically obliterated it. Says something about the civic culture in the US that they chose to just wipe those spaces out instead of just making sure they were safe.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think we should modify the laws covering credit reporting agencies to cover these knuckleheads and add criminal penalties for non compliance.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Spray foam insulation: $27k Got to say using spray foam to insulate the wall cavities instead of using external insulation over the structural elements is about the worst idea ever. Also how much solar can you buy for $27k? Enough to supply
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> like in marketing, the stat that matters first is overall net profit. I have a take on that. The stat that matters is the profit per unit of non scalable business resource. As in how much management, marketing, sales, accounting, and e
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I feel instead of taxing it we should just make it illegal and toss people in prison for doing it. If it goes to another country that's their dead weight loss.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
If Russia uses nukes the president will order a non nuclear strike that kills Putin.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think VME busses were extended using high speed serial links in order to send data faster than you could using the 32 bit address/data bus.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think we need to go back to having Nurse Practitioners at schools.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I also think because it's lower level what functions are built on tend to be long term stable. Function was tested at one point and then used in production for a couple years. It works and will continue to work as long as no one messes
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
It's a pickle because any other conflict most of the civilians would have fled to refugee camps. The non boutique UN refugee organization is staffed with people who are very experienced in pulling that off. But the one specifically for
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I strongly believe (waves hands while making incoherent small brained primate noises) that discriminated union types would be fabo for C as well. Example why it would be sweet. Compiler could spit out a warning if it's not sure the cor
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Yeah and the mix varies daily and seasonally. During the day in California maybe 60% renewable. At night probably 80% natural gas.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
When I was living an working in San Francisco I drove a full sized passenger van that got 15mpg. Was okay since I was putting 4000 miles a year on it. Then my company moved. Running the numbers buying a used Prius was a small win based on g
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I'm with a basic knowledge of accounting an propaganda is useful. The big issue facing fossil fuel companies is their liabilities will exceed their assets making them at first accounting insolvent[1] then later functionally insolvent[2
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think women will choose to have children if they can do it on their own terms. The problem is systematic gender roles and the (word hate ahead) patriarchy still score a bullseye when it comes to motherhood.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I remember reading about an early hotel or some such. Passenger elevators weren't a thing but they knew they were coming so they designed in round elevator shafts. Which later they needed to make a custom elevator for. Because round. G

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