JPKab

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by JPKab 5y ago
It's too late already. I get what you were saying but the emotion and anger are going to be what people remember not what he did or said. He's tried to serve two masters and he can't. Either you stick to your guns on making
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by JPKab 5y ago
Yes it is. To put this in perspective as far as it's futility, in 2019 the United States was producing over 12 million barrels of oil a DAY. Opening up strategic reserves to reduce fuel prices undermines whatever reasoning he had to ha
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by JPKab 5y ago
My father had a mid-life crisis in the mid-90s and went from being an apocalyptic end-times Christian to being an apocalyptic environmentalist. The dress, fashion, and lingo of the nutbags that hung out at my house changed, but their person
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by JPKab 5y ago
Mainstream feminism and the activist reporters ignore the issue. It's inconvenient to the narrative they adhere to. The Google gender pay gap lawsuit was covered extensively a few years ago. It's outcome (men were actually under
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by JPKab 5y ago
Nobody looks at the imbalance in incarceration rates and assumes that police and the justice system are systemically sexist against men, but they certainly draw that conclusion along racial lines based on the same outcome.
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Vaex is amazing. I haven't used it in production but was blown away when I did some prototyping with it.
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by JPKab 5y ago
Spark is massive overkill for the vast majority of needs. Can't fit the data on a computer, like your use case? Yep, good for that. Anything else, and it's not worth the overhead. Dask doesn't require a JVM cluster with ex
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I'm not making any claims about dask being super reliable or easy to use, but let's not pretend that a spark cluster is a trivial thing to set up and deal with. I've had to administer spark clusters in the past, and there&#x2
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by JPKab 5y ago
Wait a minute now: I've been to Vancouver before, but I"m completely ignorant about the supply chain there. We're talking about a metropolis of 2.5 million people. What's the impact on food supplies, fuel, etc? Very cu
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by JPKab 5y ago
Appalachia was particularly favored amongst the Scots-Irish. Good point on the term "refugee". For the most part, they were certainly very poor, but I've never read Albion' Seed before. I have read a book that is cons
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Looking forward to reading it. My family on both sides come from West Virginia, and interestingly, all of Appalachia was settled by people fleeing the various religious wars in Europe in that time. Specifically, Appalachia was settled most
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Political Values as an Opimization Problem(andifortruth.substack.com)
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A big theme that I see in all of this is the fact that we have public health officials making proclamations with high certainty like "Natural immunity is inferior to vaccine induced immunity and therefore you need to get vaxxed even if
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by JPKab 5y ago
You mistake my disagreement with HOW to take care of those kids with whether or not I care about them, or want to help them. There are other solutions. I was one of those kids. My mother was a drug addict, I spent a large portion of my ch
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by JPKab 5y ago
Large orgs are large orgs. I avoid them like the plague these days. But man do I miss the cushy benefits and not feeling guilty about taking vacations.... at a startup you just feel like you got the world on your shoulders. Sucks that the
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by JPKab 5y ago
I live outside of Denver, and I find this concept to be extremely exciting at an architectural level. That being said, it will be interesting to see how well the greenery in the "crack" will hold up to the extremely dry climate, a
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by JPKab 5y ago
I have a good friend who is a super talented software engineer. She's at Google these days, but has been at a lot of cool startups. When I met her, she was working at NASA. A super brilliant person, who can basically solve any probl
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by JPKab 5y ago
Let me guess: You don't have kids in school, do you? It amazes me how many people with absolutely no skin in the game comment on this stuff.
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You are assuming that I am comparing the private school to a poor public school district. I'm not. I live in a wealthy public school district. There are zero impoverished kids in the public schools here, which I actually think really
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by JPKab 5y ago
Compared to other public school districts, they aren't bad. It's just that "other public school districts" isn't exactly a great baseline. The truth is that the school district personnel have very little to do wit
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm a parent of two kids and I couldn't agree more. I went to mostly black and poor public schools my entire childhood. Back then there were a few teachers who clearly didn't care and were never held accountable. Most of th
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by JPKab 5y ago
Yeah for a site that used to pride itself on nuanced conversation they've decided this is something too dangerous to discuss. The obsession amongst educated elites when it comes to second order effects of speech is really disgusting.
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by JPKab 5y ago
I sit in a weird place myself: My father is an extremely high risk individual who was vaccinated and then ended up having a breakthrough infection. I highly doubt he would be alive today if he had not been vaccinated. My mother-in-law who
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by JPKab 5y ago
This study result was posted to HN several days ago from a different source. There was an interesting and lengthy discussion in the comments and then the post was flagged. Many in the comments claimed it was misinformation with hand wavy g
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm not a troll, and in the early 2000s I worked on renewable energy installations (off-the grid solar and microhydroelectric) and during that time I lived for a 14 months in a self-sustaining, off-the-grid community (left when it got
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by JPKab 5y ago
They are welcome to use wool and invest in new methods of producing artificial fibers without using oil. They've had decades to work on this, never did. Let's not forget about the massive catalogs they used to ship out in the 90s
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by JPKab 5y ago
What is a responsible way to use oil based products, in the eyes of Patagonia and other moral posers? They refuse to sell apparel to oil companies. The apparel they refuse to sell is created with polyesters made from the the commodity the
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by JPKab 5y ago
Agree 100%. Patagonia could (and used to) make their products in the US, sell them for the same prices, and still make a profit. They don't, and instead chose to outsource their manufacturing to countries where environmental regulatio
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by JPKab 5y ago
I cleaned bathrooms (and buffed floors) for a Michael's hobby store many years ago. It was a morning job, every other day, and was a second job on top of my full-time job. I desperately needed more money, and made the choice to do th
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm a fan of anything that is rooted in reality and has been battle-tested. If it's theoretical, I don't care about it. Toyota didn't will lean into thin air out of nothing. It was evolved, tested, and refined in the

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