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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Calling public schools a welfare program disproportionately allocated to the poor seems like a stretch too. It's not he's saying. He's saying that public schools should be considered part of the "welfare program&quo
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Imagine you have a company that goes slower and slower every quarter, and then you confront the shareholders with the statement, that the way to solve it, is to do absolutely no new features for a quarter or two, refactor the code, lea
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by IMTDb 5y ago
No, because at the currency level, the pandemic has proven that the government ability to inject cash in the economy when needed through stimulus checks or temporary unemployed benefits is absolutely essential. At the industrial level, I am
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by IMTDb 5y ago
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
How this guy think he is able to spin this in any kind of "positive" fashion is beyond me. He just made the math and proved how completely crazy bitcoin is from an energy consumption POV and somehow tries to flip the story
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> If people are nice to each other in a way that makes them hard for you to beat, surely it is you who are playing the worse strategy by not doing the same? If the arguments that underly the strategy decisions taken during the game purel
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by IMTDb 5y ago
No: close by. As in : within 30 minutes of (electric) biking distance.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Looks to me that you are not. using Lighthouse for the right reasons. Lighthouse isn't there to improve your SEO. It's just a set of heuristics that make you website performance - as perceived by end users - measurable, and thus i
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by IMTDb 5y ago
That wife that was shot due to domestic violence recently. That’s how bad working from home is. People who insist we stay home have blood on their hands. Yep, that sounds as ridiculous as your statement.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Detractors cite electricity usage, but overall it uses much less electricity than the traditional banking system The traditional banking handles thousands of transfer per seconds, and many many many more assets and assets types than
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by IMTDb 5y ago
I love the fact that in the "explore further" section at the end of the post, the first recommended article is "5 different ways to fix a pothole".
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> music videos which account for a large percentage of YouTube’s videos views I don't really think people actually watch the video that much. The number one requested feature for the YouTube player was "let me hear the music
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> [After being convicted for wire fraud] When he informed [his mother] that the fines and disgorgements totaled more than $60 million, she replied, “Oh, dear. You did well, Sung Kook. Our America is going through a difficult time. Consid
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by IMTDb 5y ago
If they are a CEO and they do that just before a big investment meeting to the point that everyone notices something is wrong and someone else has to take over the lead. All of that when you know your current investors are trying to reduce
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by IMTDb 6y ago
It also works when buying successful startup shares. In fact, it applies to almost everything that is successful: get in early and reap the benefit.
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by IMTDb 6y ago
The difference is that the energy used by Netflix to stream content is a mean to an end. Find a way to reduce the energy cost and you can provide the same value for less cost. It is possible to both increase the value provided by Netflix an
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AppTweak's $22M Series B(apptweak.com)
1 points by IMTDb 6y ago|0 comments
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by IMTDb 6y ago
Another encrypted config file. Obviously.
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by IMTDb 6y ago
> Paul Berg, an open-source licensing consultant, told The Register in an email that while this is a difficult situation, the developers involved appear to be handling it well. From a lawyer/licensing POV they handled it well. From
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by IMTDb 6y ago
The vast difference here is that the energy consumption required by Bitcoin is integral to its model. The stated goal is to make massive amount of otherwise useless computations. If there was any way to stream porn using less electricity, w
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by IMTDb 6y ago
After Brexit, the COVID crisis was seen by the EU commission as well as the new EU president as a way to prove the value of the EU. As a consequence, the EU imposed that the commission would lead the vaccine acquisition negociation. The pla
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by IMTDb 6y ago
If you need to build a gas power plant to compensate for the production solar and wind can't give when you need it, the price per watt of electricity explodes . Picture this: It's 9PM on a cold winter day, sun has been down for h
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by IMTDb 6y ago
What do you do when it's winter, and there hasn't been any significant wind for several days and batteries are empty ? All these prices are computed "when there are enough supplies", which is easier to guarantee with coa
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by IMTDb 6y ago
The EU was super happy on the negociations on the vaccine prices with AstraZeneca. They claimed that the grouped buy was a major reason why they were able to get such a cheap price (Around $2.15 / dose). The US and UK pays around $3 to
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by IMTDb 6y ago
Solar, like wind, is not an energy source you can control. It's nice when it's there, but it can't be the backbone of your energy mix without controllable energy sources, like coal
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FAA Fines Boeing $6.6M over Compliance and Quality-Control Lapses(nbcchicago.com)
3 points by IMTDb 6y ago|0 comments
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by IMTDb 6y ago
Great ! Can we now remove all these cookie banners that have been plaguing the web since a pencil pusher in the EU thought it would a great idea to force every single website to display an annoying popup.
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by IMTDb 6y ago
So people are going to build entire data centers to look for combination of bytes that yield a hash that is funny looking. And when it doesn't become profitable to do so anymore, the e-waste issue it generates is somehow the fault on t
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by IMTDb 6y ago
Supplier selection is an integral part of the manufacturing process. When you make and sell a plane, everything inside becomes your responsibility. When my web app crashes, I don't get to say "No worries guys, the DB had an issue
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by IMTDb 6y ago
That's new "you have made it when"...they need to change the browser engine for your website.

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