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Thetawaves
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Thetawaves
4y ago
I'm sure most autodidacts can appreciate this, but I can't help but consider: He is paid to teach - is he performing that role effectively if his students aren't learning?
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Faster growth is generally less dense growth as well. In the physical sense that is - tree rings are bigger, the material is lighter, and as you might guess - weaker.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Have you ever read the thing! Plenty of doom to go around.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
And before social media they were losing it on web forums, and before the web forums on the telephone, and before the telephone on the bible.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Not just forgettable, but vastly different meanings. And these meanings have changed between versions. You really have to get close to the spec to grok what is actually being conveyed.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
I considered the explanation was simply that diagrams created in UML are unreadable to lay persons. Excessive use of visual jargon, and changing standards combine to make everybody a lay person, even those versed in a particular version of
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Are you suggesting the vaccines have effects against bacterial infections?
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Linky? It seems preposterous to assume that we will be able to map the energy budget of earthlings over a thousand millennia.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Don't ignore the fact that uranium reserves would not last 100 years if we used it as our sole power source.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Hardly. The amount of energy trapped by the atmosphere is vastly greater than the heat capacity we would wish to be able to produce, and the corollary - the amount of energy irradiated by the earth into space is vastly greater than amount o
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Is this simply accounting for the additional labor required to prepare candied almonds?
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Thetawaves
4y ago
This is not how the US monetary system works at all. Money collected in taxes is DESTROYED. It will never enter the economy again.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
I'm going to repeat a perception I saw on here that seems to ring true. We all know Tesla/Elon is 69% full of shit.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Good thing you will never find out.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
This is literally exactly what would happen. It need not be blood thirst motivation; simple profit dynamics are enough to ensure this outcome.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
How do you stay at peace? A strong deterrence.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Eat the rich.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
I don't think you've addressed the subjective nature of this question. I have looked at prized code and found it full of problems. I have submitted perfect code (according to me) to have it shredded in code reviews. Code 'qua
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Thetawaves
4y ago
A mere 300b to obtain the cheapest energy in the world.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Downvote all you want - the evidence is widely distributed . Failure to acknowledge reality just makes you delusional. [ ] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252245
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Do you need proof that 1 + 1 = 2?
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Thetawaves
4y ago
> Supply of effectively every good is higher than prepandemic. How can you possibly claim this? Where have you been for the last year? Energy embargos, dramatic slow downs in trade with China, excruciating shortages of basic/fundame
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Having worked on both python and ruby applications in my professional life, I am shocked that anybody could claim that ruby is in any way ... readable.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Russia can't just sell the gas to somewhere else. The logistics issues prevent any wide scale utilization to the same level of a massive undersea pipeline.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
> If you believed in inflation north of 3%, why the hell would you own bonds? Inflation protected bonds earning nearly 10%?
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Thetawaves
4y ago
I did you a service, you should know how pathetic this sounds.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Your perspective just looks weak.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
ASN.1 has been around _dramatically_ longer than protobufs - I don't think I can take lack of libraries as a legitimate reason.
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Be careful ... its hard to become the embodiment of the thing you hate. Running an ISP can be rough on your reputation :)
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Thetawaves
4y ago
Imagine running a website that earns you millions and millions of dollars and it all gets taken out by a couple disk failures? Amateurs.
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