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JAlexoid
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JAlexoid
5y ago
No /s necessary. From startups to mega corporations - sexual predators and outright rapists are systemically protected. (I am aware of a few "hushed up" incidents personally here in NYC)
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5y ago
Oh.... I agree! That's why I'm an anarchist and I demand that all government be disbanded immediately, as it's the single most continuously corrupt institution that we experience. (Unless you're a hypocrite, that will su
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5y ago
You're right, I forgot that it was kWh already.
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5y ago
Wood walls are more complext to rearrange, than steel framed walls.(that is why offices have steel frames under that drywall - easy to install and move)
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JAlexoid
5y ago
It's not a case of "more western home". What you see as a "more western home" is a more energy efficient outer shell. Which just happens to be fairly universal.
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JAlexoid
5y ago
It doesn't matter that the others fell, we now know what definitely didn't fall - which is all we need to get to.
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JAlexoid
5y ago
I mean.... Cheap Old Houses had a 1000 year old house for sale not long ago. There's also plenty of timber buildings that last for millenia.
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5y ago
So... You want to tax people to get free electricity. Then you want to make laws against people who use "too much". Then you need to tax more, to hire people to enforce the rules that you created. When will "less is more"
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JAlexoid
5y ago
When you burn gas/coal/oil to heat your home that is also energy.
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5y ago
It has not had any link to power consumption, due to crypto mining. Electricity generation doesn't impact gasoline prices, as much as you'd think. If you wish to see evidence - then go check out the prices of natural gas(widely us
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5y ago
> 58,615,905 kWh of electricity in one month That's 80 kW of continuous power usage over a month.
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5y ago
Do they really know how bad they are? Because this common caricature of "smallpox blanket" is not based in verifiable historical fact. There's no clear evidence that Europeans were literally weaponizing smallpox to wipe out m
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5y ago
Capital costs and multiple other reasons. It's practically easier to mandate discounts or payouts to vulnerable households, than it is to artificially reduce price of electricity. If you're that avid about crypto mining - you may
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5y ago
You should understand the source of that exported electricity. Electricity is exported from the capacity that is inflexible, as you cannot scale it up/down. Common low flexibility electricity sources - coal, nuclear, hydro.
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5y ago
That's why one of the first things I check - proof of walking.
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5y ago
Well... Funny enough. The person that our team of Spark engineers is cleaning up after was - a C++ dev. For some reason we, Spark engineers, had to rewrite his all Spark application into different components with relevant tech. Thanks for g
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5y ago
I mean... There's plenty of android work available. The cost of switching domains is that you loose your "senior" status.
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5y ago
Actually, forklifts are rear wheel steering equipment. So your truck driving experience is not at all relevant... and may be a hindrance. From my perspective a HS graduate with a lot of hand-eye-coordination experience is a better choice -
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5y ago
There are massive differences between front-end and backend engineers. Backend engineers deal a lot less with network instability, than frontend engineers. Frontend engineers have multiple ways of dealing with failure. And frontend engineer
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5y ago
> Just be able to walk the walk after you talk the talk. Lucky you. You must not have been burned and haven't wasted your time on someone that couldn't walk the walk. I have wasted enough months of my life on people like that.
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5y ago
But you're failing to recognize that some tech is almost synonymous with a domain. In my experience I've seen very cocksure senior engineers come in with the mindset that "this is just another tech stack, that I can learn in
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5y ago
> The old phrase, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,” comes to mind. It's also applicable to training vs paying for experience. (paying for experience being the bird in your hand) It's always a tradeoff, that you hav
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5y ago
Sometimes the learning curve is so high, that you would rather pay extra for upfront experience.
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5y ago
That's not universal. The lat thing I need about any of my colleagues is to learning all gotchas, at the same time as integrating into our team. Some tech I'll argue against, other tech I will require. Some tech is fundamental to
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5y ago
Correct. There's a reason why you get geographically specialized pilots - little bits matter a lot
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5y ago
Know of and being proficient are two different things.
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5y ago
All home repairs - it's a damn nightmare. Home building - complex, slow and expensive RE agencies, seem to compete... but it's an oligopoly market. (just to stay in the RE segment) And all three have severe government monopoly pow
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5y ago
I watched the abridged intro video an I swear I thought it was a parody... Everything introduced seemed like a joke.
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5y ago
I would advise not eating any kind of concrete.
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5y ago
Please note that this is not automated yet. I bet that automation could make bamboo plywood cheaper than hardwood plywood... with the same level of quality. I mean... Some species are ready to harvest in 90 days(not sure if those are applic
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