KSteffensen

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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Because it sets up incentives for whoever benefits from the labor to lobby for stricter crime laws regardless of whether those stricter laws lead to less crime in the long term.
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' deals with this https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Well, it happens: https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/incident/chinese-serbian...
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
It's possible to work for someone else without being a mindless drone.
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Depends. Political harmony is a problem if forced, but a common vision shared by much of society is a strength if arrived at through healthy, intellectually honest debate. Political debate is fine and healthy, but it should not be possible
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Why is the direct flight to LA more expensive than the flight to San Jose with a stop in LA? You'd think the price for the San Jose flight would be the price of the LA flight plus the price of the LA to San Jose flight.
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Can't we fill the Sahara with solar panels? If transmission lines are problematic hydrogen or methane could be used to transfer the energy to where it needs to be used. This of course has a lot of political implications, but if we want
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
In all of the places I have worked both for pay and voluntarily money has very rarely been the problem, but it has always been the excuse. E.g. how many billions of euros were collected within a week after the Notre Dame burned? At the risk
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
The problem here is that it is much easier to create bullshit than it is to refute it. At some point you have to stop addressing the points of people who have repeatedly been incorrect, because there are better uses of your time.
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
A large part of the energy loss in electronics happens in switch-mode Buck-Boost DC-DC converters, as I understand it mainly due to internal resistance in the components used and due to the magnetic field not being directed enough to transf
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
We're going to need one big centrifuge to ball mill all the thousands of tonnes of soil that needs to be cleaned up. I wonder how long the steel balls will last?
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Terry Pratchett quote: "If you're building a house you want someone who's driven a few nails in their time"
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for official communication in the first place? At the very least if these sites are being used for official communication that might be critical to peoples safety some sort of
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
As a mid-level leader I personally rarely feel I have control or that I am doing a great job.
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by KSteffensen 3y ago
Shutting up and refusing to answer a question makes it very clear that you have something to hide, much more than a lie. I'm not sure whether that's good or bad. I guess it depends on what you are accused of.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
My understanding is that the distinction hinges on whether the data is available to a US based employee. Can the NSA show up at a US address and tell the people there to hand over the data? Can this data transfer happen without an EU based
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Didn't BetterPlace try to do battery swap and failed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
As I remember my education time from high-school onwards, all-nighters were usually a consequence of slacking off during school time. In college/university a fairly big part of the education was learning what was compulsory reading and
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Another aspect here is that there will be no change or evolution in society if no one dies from old age. Everything will be controlled by grumpy old men! They will look like they are 25, but the mindsets will be ossified. Let's make it
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
> requires high pressure systems, leaks are dangerously explosive Is this different in some way from natural gas? Why can't we use the existing storage and distribution infrastructure for natural gas for handling hydrogen?
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Minor nitpick, prescriptions are written by doctors, with a medical degree, rather than pharmacists with a degree in pharmaceutical science dealing mostly with analytical chemistry and biochemistry.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
I disagree that what you call internet literacy can be taught. In my opinion people fundamentally disagree what the 'reliable sources' are and some (many?) actively distrust the official recommendations. With that analysis interne
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
This also means that you the likelihood of ending up with insurmountable personal debt in case of a default on the mortgage is a lot smaller. In some cases the down payment can be a bank loan at significantly higher rates. I did this for m
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
> Or do we just blend the risk with everyone so if you always paid your loans on time, you pay the same rate as someone who has a loan write off and is 3 months behind in loan payments? This is how it works in Denmark for property mortg
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
The article doesn't state why they are using helium. Could the same be accomplished using some other cheaper, less leaky gas like N2? I'll speculate that since it's compression and decompression (as opposed to phase change) t
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
The people wearing these things are probably not at any risk, but producing these chemicals means that they eventually end up in nature, which means in ground water, farmland, etc. These flourinated organics don't break down in nature,
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Libertarians are typically against regulation. Where the boundary between regulatory red tape and anti-fraud legislation lies is a matter of taste.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Well, yeah as long as you trust the employees and they know what they are doing, sure. Otherwise, those 50 desks are going to be expensive.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
"questions I was never aware I needed to ask"
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
This can be intentional rather than a misunderstanding.

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