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by SR2Z 1y ago
This is also heavily described in _Abundance_. I'm not an expert, but it is beyond doubt that this program did not produce any kind of meaningful results, despite having a moon-landing-sized budget. Even when it was created, Starlink
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> Another difficulty is that voters don’t reward Democratic Party for their efforts. It is worth noting that the Biden admin passed a $42B package of broadband rollout funds in 2021, and then connected ZERO people over the next few years
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Prisoners themselves are the ones choosing to work most of the time, and generally none of them are REQUIRED to work (they are required to either take job training or work). They choose to because extra money = extra commissary snacks and h
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by SR2Z 1y ago
How much demand do you think CAN be induced? Colorado has 2.6M housing units for ~6M people. If Denver builds 20k units a year for the next 5 years, that would represent the entire state growing by 4% (230k people) off the back of one city
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Basically everyone considers housing as a hedge - homes are expected to grow steadily in value or at the very least not depreciate. This is not a good policy goal, but the fact is that the wealth of the American middle class is mostly store
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Diesel will degrade with exposure to oxygen, but a diesel engine can burn pretty much any flammable liquid that you can meter out. It really comes down to the engine itself and if it can handle less-than-perfect fuel.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
The "suddenly" is likely because Trump took office and started making noises about paving Gaza over to build resorts. It was much easier for these countries to look the other way when the US was notionally holding Netanyahu'
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by SR2Z 1y ago
It's not completely in-use. The motivation for the entire state of Israel's existence is that the Jewish people need a homeland or else they will keep getting persecuted. That rules out a Muslim-majority state with a lot of Jews
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I'm not sure I see the value of doing an engine check while flying the plane, or flying carbureted engines without automatic mixture control in general. Pilots will understand their engines' quirks better, but those quirks are stu
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by SR2Z 1y ago
A Toyota Camry hybrid does not move 110mph at 22mpg with a 700mi range. Once you start moving fast the fact that it's a hybrid is irrelevant since the engine must provide 100% of the power. I personally don't see the point of comp
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> Secondly, expanding a class of vehicle that chews a lot of fossil fuel is going to worsen the already serious effects of climate change; and while short-range aircraft might well electrify you’re not going to fly at 250 knots for 1000
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> I will get a lot of heat for this but I think the FAA has killed a lot of people. On the balance, the FAA has saved more lives than it's cost just because big jetliners hold SO MANY PEOPLE. But otherwise I fully agree with you. It
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> And after being exposed, deciding they enjoy it, but would rather make a living elsewhere -- does that mean the hobby was a failure? If they try a hobby for a while and give up on it because they don't enjoy it enough, then yes.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
A kid will eventually need a job and it's the opposite of gross for them to turn a childhood hobby into a career. Much more gross to end up doing something they don't like because they never got to try it out...
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by SR2Z 1y ago
We certainly have more paper documents from 1000 years ago than PDFs from 1000 years ago! Clearly that's the fault of the PDFs.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I think it's perfectly reasonable to require firmware be open-source or permissively licensed to customers. It's pretty rare that firmware is a competitive advantage; companies just try to produce the bare minimum to get their de
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by SR2Z 1y ago
And how many of those people then proceed to type those links into their web browsers, shortened or not? Sure, contributing to link rot is bad, but in the same way that throwing out spoiled food is bad. Sometimes you've just gotta bre
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by SR2Z 1y ago
It really depends on which part of the process you focus on. CPU manufacturing is highly automated and not particularly logistically complex. You're correct that the machines used are just about the most sophisticated things ever bui
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> People used goo.gl because they largely are not tech specialists and aren't really aware of link rot or of a Google decision rendering those links unaccessible. Anyone who is savvy enough to put a link in a document is well-aware
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Politics seems to attract the rich even under systems where money isn't supposed to exist :)
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I find it amusing that you are complaining about not having a computer to click a link while glossing over the fact that you need a computer to use a link at all. This use case of "I have a paper journal and no PDF but a computer with
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Capitalism is not why this is broken...
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I've never seen a car where the hybrid and pure gas versions have the same size engine; the hybrid engine is almost always lighter and makes less power.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Name one "real problem" that isn't easier to solve if humans are spending less time on bullshit (read: easily automated) jobs.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
The answer is YES, and this type of shifter is a favorite among mountain bikers whose reliability needs and "field conditions" are already much more challenging than your average biker. There are plenty of examples of situations w
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I think you were deliberately being obtuse. Bezos' net worth is not realizable in full and what he does have is directly the result of Amazon being profitable as a business.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
We already have the EITC, which is frankly a better version of UBI (it incentivizes working more and literally goes up as you increase your earnings). Expand the EITC and tax capital gains as regular, inflation-adjusted income to pay for i
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Wow, that's a level of faith that even the people of Taiwan probably don't have in their neighbor :)
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by SR2Z 1y ago
If you pay for gas and then drive your car, both you and the oil company have benefitted from the pollution...
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Regardless of whether or not the code is correct, it's still defining the behavior of the system. If the customer would like to describe the ideal behavior of the system, the only way is to translate it into code.

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