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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> This is such a bullshit argument it really paints the rest of your comment in a bad light. I responded to a comment stating that excess storage can be stored in batteries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249008
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> Modelling in Australia with simulations that multiply up current wind and solar (using real-time data of actual renewable generation) [1] showed that well over 99% of demand can be delivered with only about five hours of storage, so we
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Batteries aren't produced at remotely enough scale to be viable for grid storage. To put this in perspective, the world uses 60 TWh of electricity per day. By comparison global lithium ion battery production was 1.1 TWh [1]. Remember,
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Capacity factor is calculated in. But intermittency is not. The issue is that once demand is saturated during periods of peak production, the excess energy is wasted so the effective capacity factor drops as adoption grows. E.g. once you
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This doesn't do anything to disprove the above commenter's point. Land value taxes incentivize constructing denser housing, because that's the only way to stay profitable when owning valuable land. If there's 1 million p
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I thought adding a shroud to propellers increased efficiency? That's why we use turbofan engines instead of turboprops.
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I don't think the authors are calling for more spending. In fact they point out that funding is not a cure-all: > In 1985, based on the theory that funding would close education gaps, a judge ordered enormous spending increases in K
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From what I can glean, the Zizians were largely rejected by rationalists and ultimately had a falling out.
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You could replace the led with an IR led. That should have mostly the same electrical characteristics of an LED but emit no visible light
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> But what is the security concern with "owning foreign property is unfriendly countries"? They can take it from you? Exactly. Or rather, they can threaten to take it from you unless you do something (probably illegal) for said
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TS/SCI clearance is a lot more about truthfulness. The adjudicators are looking for secrets that can be used as leverage. Publicly writing reviews for cannabis strains is not a risk. A Mormon secretly hiding alcoholic tendencies could
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> Otherwise, in my opinion, a candidate pool that is 95% some demographic shows a severe deficiency in the ability to attract candidates. If the job in question is 95% one gender it does not at all show a deficiency in attracting candida
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> To give you a more solid answer, in our data we see that men are a bit overrepresented in our platform engineering roles, while women are within our data science and ML roles. General backend/frontend roles are fairly balanced. Ov
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> The diversity push could have been an attempt to encourage a wider range of people to consider the occupation. Except it was demonstrably of the opposite of this. The bigraphical questionnaire rejected 90% of applicants for no justifia
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They could replace the university name with things like the university's median SAT admissions score, and admissions rate. Previous work experience is relevant to the job, so it'd be hard to argue removing that information, and wo
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> Our guardrail is the assumption that our hiring process is blind, and our workforce demographics should closely mirror general population demographics as a result > If our demographics start to diverge, we re-eval our process to loo
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The DEI label has indeed been placed on overtly discriminatory practices. At 3 out of the 4 companies I've worked at carried out explicit discirmination under the banner of DEI. One such DEI policy was reserving a segment engineering h
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> he said to answer the question about how many sports you played in high school honestly, but that was one of the questions where some answers would give you more points than others. That's exactly what is alleged: Snow told appli
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Do you have the list of answers Snow told candidates to pick? It'd be simple to cross reference those with the biographical questionnaire weightings?
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> As the hiring wave approached, some of Reilly’s friends in the program encouraged her to join the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), telling her it would help improve her chances of being hired. She signed
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> I'm fairly certain this was an example of overfitting and Freedman's Paradox, not deliberate cheating. The answers to the biographical questionnaire - which screened out 90% of applicants - were leaked to ethnic affinity grou
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You could share data on the college, like the median SAT score of admits or the admissions rate. And I'm not entirely sure that omitting colleges entirely would be such a bad idea. Colleges apply selective admission criteria all the t
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Correct, and that's why hiding the fact that the candidate attended an HBCU would avert that kind of bias.
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> Demographics questions on job applications do not get shown to recruiters nor interviewers. But Recruiters can glean this information from names and other information on resumes. And yes, many do deliberately try to use this informatio
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> Taking old, resolved scandals The lawsuit is still ongoing. The scandal has not yet resolved.
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There are methods of practicing DEI that don't lower the bar. There are methods of DEI that do lower the bar. There's no single answer to that question, it depends on how DEI is implemented in that particular case.
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But "having their privilege taken away" is a vastly different thing than "answers to a multiple choice test are leaked to an ethnic affinity group". Furthermore, this also negatives impacted Latin and Asian people. And a
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For transparency, yes, I did remove that first sentence a few minutes after posting (but before the reply was posted). I felt it was too harsh in tone. I don't remember changing "biological" to "bigraphical"
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The undisputed facts at hand are: * The FAA introduced a bigraphical questionnaire which screened out 90% of applicants. * The answers to this questionnaire were distributed to members of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Emp
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> As phrased, I don't think the first would be illegal "Your performance review score is reduced if you don't meet a quota of X% women" You think this is legal ? > Now what if they are the same orchestra, that is,

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