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by abakker 4y ago
Umm...it appears that Russia disabled Nordstream 1.
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by abakker 4y ago
Without the staff from TSMC, the Chinese Government probably can't run those facilities. I suspect there isn't much probability that china could mobilize and take those facilities as-is with no sabotage. The US has taken steps rec
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by abakker 4y ago
That what I meant when I said the decision would be weight to do that because in aggregate it pays off, but, the payoff for those one time things is not fully retroactive. E.g. for sold products it does nothing. For services, it can be much
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by abakker 4y ago
Absolutely! I hope my reply didn't imply that I thought there was no value in doing things more efficiently. There clearly is, and as consumers we love marginal gains in product quality, efficiency, and price. I'll nitpick a bit t
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by abakker 4y ago
Cutting costs is always a marginal thing, because businesses tend to value growth. Oversimplification: If you have a 50% margin business, the value of one more dollar of revenue is $.50. If you cut costs and change the margin to 55%, then y
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by abakker 4y ago
I think this is not too far wrong. I also think in addition that the really competitive job market of the last 2 years and the hiring they were doing inevitably resulted in some highly paid people who were not good fits or good at their job
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by abakker 4y ago
David Graeber, citing other researchers in his recent book The Origin of Everything, certainly believes this was true. I think the answer was that while subsistence farming was a lot of work, it also left much of the day and the year to wai
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by abakker 4y ago
Yes. Liquid cooling is surface area arbitrage. You turn small surface area into large area with a good conductor between them
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by abakker 4y ago
No tubing though. The pumps just circulate the swill.
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by abakker 4y ago
So, let’s assume that this hack is not meant to preserve money, but to destroy evidence. If you spread a lot of s** around and overwrite all this stuff with malware, does it create plausible deniability?
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by abakker 4y ago
Both the loss of capital and the inconvenience of an exchange rate?
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by abakker 4y ago
This is true but also useless. AC synchronous motors cannot be easily substituted for Permanent Magnet DC motors in all use cases. BLDC motors with permanent magnets are drastically more energy dense and are easier to control. We've ha
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by abakker 4y ago
What oils are not derived from seeds? Olive, Avocado, Canola, Safflower, Corn...All of these are seeds. Are you saying that we should not use vegetable oils? Just use butter / lard / tallow? Am I missing something?
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by abakker 4y ago
This is often called up or out, too. Many/ most consulting companies do it.
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by abakker 4y ago
if you glue them all together, it becomes a glulam! Though...a glulam made of knotty, warped, and chipped pine might not be structural.
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by abakker 4y ago
I made some toolbox organizer trays out of 2x12s, using a homemade CNC router to carve out the pockets. when the creative wells run dry, it's nice to just make functional, non aesthetic, basic projects to get organized.
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by abakker 4y ago
Sementics.
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by abakker 4y ago
so, you take a loan in...USD to actually transact, and then hold an asset? so, why BTC, which is backed by nothing, when you could do this with a big portfolio of stock? Bitcoin is not really unique if used this way. edit to add: owning bit
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by abakker 4y ago
please explain how inflation over the last 15 years has hurt you? How about the deflation in bitcoin? Have you bought stuff with bitcoin? Bitcoin is essentially useless as a currency because nothing you buy appreciates as much as bitcoin. F
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by abakker 4y ago
If you would like to compare to USD, then also compare the volume of transactions....Carbon / transaction is massively lower in USD than Bitcoin. Especially because bitcoin is rarely used to buy anything. its just a speculative asset.
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by abakker 4y ago
Proof of Steak?
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by abakker 4y ago
why does it matter who owns and sells a software package that is being bought and paid for by your employer?
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by abakker 4y ago
There have been very few “swings” at all. This response is case in point for “so measured it is probably not enough”. Policy has been incredibly stable in the last decade, and then we had a crazy pandemic and the fiscal policy response, in
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by abakker 4y ago
Agree. It’s important to look at retirement rates and numbers, too. It’s the end of the boomer generations workforce participation (except in the senate?). The following generations really are smaller. Couple that with actual crackdowns on
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by abakker 4y ago
Ever tried running while on vacation? I grew up in new england and always found that I had a lot of exercise intolerance. However, I could always do better when I was on vacation out west. Now that I live in CO, I find my exercise tolerance
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by abakker 4y ago
I had _a_ brake caliper jam on my tundra. Completely frozen sliders on the caliper. The good news about hydraulic brakes is that the other circuits on the brakes still worked fine! I actually didn't realize the caliper was dead for (li
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by abakker 4y ago
I don't think this is true. For heating and cooling you'd need to know surface area:volume ratios to tell. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/09/as-american... this article suggests
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by abakker 4y ago
many new houses are much more energy efficient, though. Modern building code basically guarantees that this is true. from an energy consumption POV, a bigger new, efficient house may be better. (within reason). OTOH, modern tax laws and lot
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(2020)
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by abakker 4y ago
It’s funny, I commented on the update release blog where they announced this, and the comment has been “awaiting moderation” ever since. I pay for fusion, and this really sucks. I’m happy to pay for a product I use, but I am not game to get

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