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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I would actually very strongly disagree with that assertion. Delivery robots are limited to certain college campuses, robotic waitresses are far from the mainstream, and self-checkout appears to still need 1-2 workers manning it for loss-
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Demand is a conveyer belt. Someone who has disposable income but doesn't care would buy normal eggs before, lowering the demand for regulation-compliant eggs. Now, the store only stocks regulation compliant eggs, so that's what th
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The criticism against Citizen (and vigilantism in general) is that average citizens aren't actually that good at detecting crime and instead rely stereotypes and hunches. This is bad because it generally creates an unspoken appearance-
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
One interesting concept is that falling inequality will look exactly like this. Wealthy people have gotten used to increasing the gap and therefore assume that trouble at the top is much worse below. But what’s actually panning out is tha
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Sure, totally agree that not all management is good management, but it does exist for a reason (and often that reason will always be unappreciated by those being managed).
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
This is a common thread in the current outside-in analysis of Twitter. Management exists to guide the priorities of those below them, so when management is gone, people feel liberated. But the point of managers was to keep them on the tas
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/8/2/1520-043... Luckily, the impact of lake-effect from the Great Salt Lake is much more of a talked about thing than a practical thing. Lake effect i
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>However, urban water use is not the problem even if it's what people see every day. The cities do not really need to stop growing (as a NYT piece earlier this year seemed to suggest). The urban areas account for only 9% of diverted
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I’m aware. You can even look in my comment history for many big discussions on why we should use a similar system in the US! Not every transaction needs the fraud protection that card networks charge for! But the lions share of fees you tal
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
There are constantly people getting older. That’s the thing we have an infinite supply of. They complain because 1) As someone who did it when they were younger, they expect all young people to do it for them now. 2) In general society is j
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>A lot of these threads devolve into "have you tried paying more" but I'd also like to highlight "have you actually tried telling Gen Z that". Trust me, once the all-in comp/lifestyle of a welder becomes bet
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Well they have to abide by the arbitration and any good arbitrator will put a good faith clause in the agreement.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I'm not saying attach the overheads to the light poles, I'm saying we do things of similar scale/difficulty all the time (while we are very far from at-scale battery based transport). Batteries are fun and all, but they are
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Would you believe that every house requires power lines to be run to it too? It only seems like a daunting problem on roads because we don't already do it.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Tramlining is when the topography of the road causes cars to move differently than how they are steered (somewhat similarly to tram tracks) and has nothing to do with overhead electric or actual trams. https://www.tirerack.com&
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>So, your solution for EVs is overheard wires I think that is a much more solvable problem than charging and batteries yes. Do I think it will happen in my lifetime? No. But there's a reason that we don't have battery-powered
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
This, This, This. We think "Well gas cars transport their own energy source, so electric cars must too" and that will probably be one of the things future generations laugh at us for (in the same way older generations thought flap
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> Oh, good grief. The second sentence of your cite is "Up to the early 1950s, the United States produced most of the energy in consumed." Let me repeat: The US was self-sufficient in oil until the 1960s. Good Greif to me?!?! Yo
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>I have no problem with raising lease rates for Federal land to market rates. I don't care what your opinion is. Again, just pointing out that it is a subsidy. >Oh, come now. It is a fact that, both historically and today, par
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The wording is bad. It’s moved the equivalent of that energy. Technology connections did a good video on this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Would you be surprised to learn that in the US, banks capture 85%+ of the fee you're talking about (in their roles as card issuers and merchant bankers). I'm serious, you can even do the math from Visa's disclosures - they ma
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Oh fun! I love when people Dunning-Kruger themselves on accounting (I literally just sat up straight in my chair!) Let's go through your argument (would you believe I did both read and understand the document I linked!?), but befor
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Would anyone like to subsidize my next restaurant visit by paying for my entree? No? But making someone unknown working class person pay for my $25,000 solar install through inflation is ok? It's amazing how ignorant people can be
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>In a non-fractional reserve system the banks would compete for deposits so they can earn money from loaning that back out. I understand these words but not how you’re putting them together. If banks are lending deposits, then definition
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
You can think of payments networks as secure messaging infrastructure where the operator says “you can trust us that this payment is legit” to varying degrees of certainty and with varying degrees of fraud protection. Debit networks (oversi
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Yeah, this whole “shopping trip” thing is probably just a courier leaving it in their car. Kind of an interesting world we live in where having anything packed by another person means that they could have full access to your location. I a
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The downside to making home ownership popular by making it a “no brainer” asset is that you have to keep making it a “no brainer” asset indefinitely. 2008 was people finding the boundaries of the equation (“just how quickly can we make
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Just to add color to the discussion above, what distinguishes a microcontroller from other chips is that the volatile memory is on the same piece of silicon as the processing cores. This allows for power saving because you don’t have to con
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Pedantic in this case means dull and unimaginative. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic Everyone else’s understanding of process seems fine.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Ok. And I think being able to fill up at a gas station in 5 minutes is one of the most critical features a car can have. Most drivers agree. The point of EVs for the time being is minimizing inconveniences (charging) and maximizing intangib

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