Plasmoid

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by Plasmoid 8mo ago
We're actually not that far off. Right now, liquid fuels have about 10x the energy density of batteries. Which absolutely kills it for anything outside of extreme short hop flights. But electric engines are about 3x more efficient than
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by Plasmoid 8mo ago
It's not that outrageous. Apparently, 90% of India is living on less than $10 per day ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-living-with-less-th... )
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by Plasmoid 8mo ago
Even at a simple level, if it's between spending weeks going through purchasing or not asking too many questions and getting on with it. I can see a lot of people choosing option B.
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by Plasmoid 8mo ago
I'm not sure this is the first time this has happened. There was a major earthquake in SE Asia which wrecked chip production for a year and prices went up quite a lot.
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
I was actually looking at using this to replace our mongo disks so we could easily cold store our data
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
I think you're over-estimating how much slack there is in the organization. A rule of thumb is that benefits cost an employer 25-30% of salary. So you're already pushing to 50% of revenue going to direct salary costs. Then there a
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
You're trying to side-step the point by not understanding it. A VHS tape is capital in the same way that a machine or house is capital. They are capitalized goods that produce something of value on the other side. You still haven'
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
What? Of course they are. They just produce entertainment instead of housing-days. I think we're at the bottom of the discussion here. You've got your opinions but each time you've been pressed you don't really have a ju
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
That's too broad of a concept to be useful. If you applied it like that then quitting a job would be rent seeking for the same reason
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
But rent-seeking isn't renting. They're different terms that don't have anything to do with each anymore. > Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
Because: > Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions without creating new wealth. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking ) Given that rent
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
Let's expand on this. People assume that renting out property is rent-seeking literally only because they both have the word rent in them. I would note that people don't use the word rent-seeker (or parasite) when it comes to bank
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
Renting out property isn't rent seeking.
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by Plasmoid 9mo ago
CGP Grey once asked "What happens to humans when it becomes uneconomic to employ them?" eg, the value of their economic output is functionally zero.
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by Plasmoid 11mo ago
I bought a USB-C to 3.5mm jack for around $20. It works well but does tend to get caught on things more easily than a pure jack.
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
Your evidence (none) does not support your assertion. You're not even wrong.
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
What's the deal with the 'Who murdered Denise Robert?' ad?
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Debugging Equity(column.com)
7 points by Plasmoid 1y ago|0 comments
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
What an absolute sociopath
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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out(businessinsider.com)
5 points by Plasmoid 1y ago|0 comments
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
The FAA finally approved 100UL gas for small airplanes. I'm not sure how widely it's available now.
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
Those still exist but often have very high membership fees. Thousands per year plus minimum spend amounts
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
That's really interesting. Can you expand on why those are the correct answers?
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
I could see that, but given that jobs are all at-will it's hard to argue the employer would have any damages for a contract that can be terminated with literally zero notice.
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
> Answering "Yes" to 1 when you don't have a green card or US citizenship would be a way to guarantee that I would rescind your offer This might actually violate EEOC. You would discriminating on the basis on nationality.
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by Plasmoid 1y ago
They rotate those often enough.
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Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Plasmoid 2y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value(futurism.com)
32 points by Plasmoid 2y ago|3 comments
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by Plasmoid 2y ago
> whatever it costs This isn't an appropriate answer because it can't be applied to the whole of society. You can't spend an unlimited amount of money on everyone and suggesting shows a certain amount of naivete. Every med
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by Plasmoid 2y ago
There is just one thing missing from this. Name Constraints. This doesn't get brought up enough but a Name Constraint on a root cert lets you limit where the root cert can be signed to. So instead of this cert being able to impersonate

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