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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It's very weak of them to do that, but when HR lackeys pay lip service to 'work life balance' and 'work life integration', it's easy to see where people get the idea. This is one of my favorite points of tensio
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Then why did he support another person's presidential run? And why is it a problem for him to concentrate power so long as the power transfer is consensual? or democratic?
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
He wants power to be as concentrated as it should be when people are free to gain and lose power as consequences of their decisions. That's contrasted with bureaucratic insulation whereby power isn't gained or lost with bad or goo
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Choose your own adventure on whether this is a good or bad thing. I'd defend the light industry as an example of creative destruction, candles and lanterns gave way to incandescent, florescent, and L.E.D. I have no doubt that someone n
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
> I don't think capitalism has a good answer to this problem. Let me put on my capitalist apologist hat. It used to be the case that people bought light bulbs regularly. When I grew up, my parents had a cache of incandescent light b
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
You're demanding that I defend claims I never made / claims you've accused me of making. I'm not going to do it and I'm not going to respond to your messages.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
>In just about every study, it's been shown that, no, the crime rates are not disproportionately higher. Are we even talking about the same thing? There are absolutely groups that commit more crimes than others. Do you honestly need
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I think it's murkier when one group commits a disproportionate amount of crime - accurate/percise coverage might look disproportionate even though it's actually representative. I agree that pointing things out can be bigoted,
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
>so that a 3rd party can take their nontrivial portion of the ad revenue The ad revenue is not the money at play here.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
>There's no onus on these privately owned web sites to be your definition (or mine) of "politically neutral." You're right. However when there are copyright violations on Reddit, they claim it's a platform and th
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Can you define "Islamophobia"? It's a serious question, I don't disagree that there's some prejudice against Islam on the western right. However, a lot of the top posts are ultimately factual claims. Sweden has a ri
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
They could, but they're functionally middlemen for Panasonic, LG, and Samsung (which are the 3 big EV battery manufacturers). I'm tangentially involved with hot rodders, and a lot of them have spent some time thinking about adding
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It's darn near the limit of what we can do with current tire technology, don't be surprised if this drops - all we need is a tire that can deal with it. You're right that it's absurd but most sports cars can do 60-0 in a
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
If this thing has torque vectoring and does a 9 second 1/4 mile, it's going to drop at wave 2. But wave 3 is already here - a lot of smaller companies are talking about making their own electric vehicles. If batteries become commo
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Are there any trains that use turbines? I was under the impression they're all diesel.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
You're conflating energy and power. Maybe the truck doesn't burn energy 20x as fast going down the road, but if we compare the fuel efficiency of cars to semi trucks, it's apparent that trucks burn at least 5x as much fuel as
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
A Tesla model 3 weighs 3,800 lbs. A fully loaded semi weighs 80,000 lbs. Let's just pretend that the energy requirements scale with weight - the semi needs 20x the battery just to go the same distance, if it needs to go ~3x as far, the
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It would free up weight / space for a turbine, it would mean Tesla needs fewer raw materials (and less cobalt) to make a truck. It's the difference between a hybrid and a battery electric vehicle - the hybrid needs a much smaller
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It would make a lot of sense, but Tesla already floated the idea and decided not to pursue it [0]. That seems like a lot of work just to make a bad technology 'good enough'. Swapping bad batteries for more charged bad batteries do
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
You're right that nearly anything could improve upon the status quo, but batteries are frankly a crappy technology and this seems to use batteries intensively for not a lot of benefit. If you can make your peace with short range, why n
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I hope to be proven wrong, but a battery-only truck seems incomplete. Trains use diesel engines to power the electric motors that spin the wheels. Electric motors rock compared to internal engines, but the batteries have terrible energy den
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I might have - give me a minute to check the owner's manual for my hypercomputer.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
More like a few decades, and California gets to exhibit an unusually slow and expensive train.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
What's disruptive about this? It's the same product, it's less money than some 'competitors' but it seems like comparable products at a comparable price are already available. What makes this special?
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
These articles always read like someone attacking a strawman. No college degree will make you rich. What a college degree offers is a change in how competitive you are for higher paying jobs. No one really gets wealthy working in STEM caree
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
But the legal system constrains what employers can consider in candidates. Perhaps these hires would have failed a cognitive test? Unfortunately, we'll never know because the courts read disparate impact as proof of discrimination. It&
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
We're having a conversation about this because of progressives. Fascists and communists didn't write the article about the poor kids getting kicked out of the mean conference.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Don't worry, the race of the conference attendees was also mentioned along with the race of the victims. It's to help progressives apportion blame.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
The guards were the ones who told the students they didn't belong there and the ones who made the determination to eject the students. Unless Salesforce commanded the guards to eject the students, the guards failed to use their judgeme
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
"The judiciary is a mechanism for allowing society to get along peacefully with one another" The Judiciary is much more than that. But even if that were the case, judges who make bad decisions impair the peace that they're ch

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