LorenPechtel

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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Or because the wires don't support the demand. And note the second part of what I said--developers never bear the full cost of their infrastructure needs. Yeah, I'm going to oppose expanding a powerplant for AI, both because I do
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
It isn't NIMBY. The thing is it's not the data centers that are actually the issue. It's the power. Gas turbines are loud! And look at the news--many incidents of it being even louder than they had permits for. And the real
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
To lower spending. People always complain about taxes.
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
You do not understand what I'm saying. To illustrate, my numbers are not meant to be accurate. Population at large, 100 red marbles (heart), 80 black marbles (cancer), 80 blue marbles (everything else). Cancer is 80/260 of the t
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
This doesn't really say what it looks like it says. They don't have an above average risk of dying of cancer. Rather, if they die they are more likely than average to have died of cancer. Which is not exactly surprising given tha
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Government has a cost motive. Lower taxes. There is no such thing as non-profit, cost drives all organizations. And government can just lower the definition of acceptable service rather than provide any accountability for not providing it
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Lifestyle can help, it's not a cure-all. I'm one of the 20% with the lipoprotein A gene. Mimics high cholesterol. Diet and exercise still help but that just slows the clogging.
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Except this process is independent of whether there is overuse. It's always a pressure to lower costs, whether they are appropriate or not. Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare are all basically universal systems for segments of the populat
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Sex probably isn't that relevant--but being able to have sex says something about your health. Thus this very well might be a yardstick, not an actual benefit.
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
While they have no evidence of big problems this sort of thing causes issues. Idiots use the alert system for stupid things, people respond by blocking them. I've seen it locally, dodgy cell phone area, we were all being bombarded rep
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Yeah, people don't want to understand that your body structure messing with BMI is quite real but only a few points. It's unquestionably "wrong" in scoring me higher than my wife despite the fact that she's the one
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
Nobody gets rewarded for rejecting the newfangled thing. Even when the newfangled thing should be rejected. Same as scientific papers are very biased against reporting nulls.
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by LorenPechtel 1mo ago
But how do you prove causation? Criminal: Reasonable doubt certainly exists whether they scared her to death or not. Civil: Yes, but when an 98 year old in poor health dies you don't win much in a civil case.
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Sometimes things like that are intentionally designed to funnel payoffs to somebody.
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Arrest should always be the first choice. But it's not always viable, and taking up arms against the US makes them a legitimate target.
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
To take out just the room where the target is requires knowing what room the target is in. They usually do not have that kind of information. Hamas has been on the front lines for decades, they know about concealment.
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
It's around here. Doesn't look like much of anything, except an awful lot of fence for what looks like not much of anything. I've never seen movement. (The highest mountain in the area sticks up nearly two miles above the
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
I'm not sure about "well designed". Rather, my thought is that such a subsidy encourages sellers to raise the price of the unit while including something else along with the unit. Suppose they raise the price by that €5,000
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
I keep reading this same concept and I keep questioning whether they have the whole story. I'm definitely in the group where cracking gives temporarily increased mobility, but it's more than that. A joint which is bothering me wi
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
But do you actually need that at the consumer level? Make some properly formatted garbage, send it down the wire to the other end of the tester and see if you can read the result. It won't tell you if the cable is marginal, but how of
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
I would like to see some color band coding. Not logos--they're often done in a very hard to read fashion. And the way the USB spec works you can't make a does-everything cable. Maximum data rate is inversely related to length, f
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Yeah. I was expecting to be horrified but reading the article I find it entirely reasonable. Hey, that ground is burning! I was traveling at highway speed, I would have no way of knowing if it's something a hundred other people saw
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Yup. Someone clearly scraped my LinkedIn and sold the info as a bogus lead, I've been getting several texts/day about business financing, and the occasional call. Ironically, the calls were better--every caller understood they h
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Most unsolicited telemarketing is inefficient--and that means a high cost of making the sale, which means whatever they are offering is either too expensive, too low quality, or an outright scam.
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Google's mapper has an option for whether to minimize walking. Turned on, it will do things like this, prioritizing the route with the least walking. it would be quite willing to do this sort of thing. Turned off, it will prioritize
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
This whole thing has me thinking of that midair a while back, the helicopter avoided the wrong aircraft and flew right into the they were supposed to be avoiding. What if they actually never had a visual on the runway? It was a long ways a
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
And people have such a poor distinction of exactly where the limits lie. My mother was blind. I was able to teach her how to glue up PVC. (For those of you who don't know--it's a don't-touch, less than a minute of working t
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
And sometimes seriously non-trivial. When there is a substantial elevation difference you need a lot of ramp--which needs a lot of space. We already are seeing the problem with road construction--cities avoiding doing work that would requir
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Yup. My doc's appointment reminders come from some service in another state. It's a pool of numbers, sometimes they come up as suspected spam. I suspect the dodgy guys deliberately offer very good rates for things like this so
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Yeah. A few months ago my wife and I had a miscommunication that ended up with her one place without her phone and me waiting for her in a different place. Completely unknown number, but since it didn't come up as suspected spam I an

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