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by alwa 1y ago
HASS, Roon, a PIR, and Ride of the Valkyries … :s/would//
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by alwa 1y ago
Burning is the how, but turning it into useful energy is the what. When I think of burning waste, I think of burn pits: making the stuff go away, but not making anything new with it. This seems different from that (and even a clean, high-te
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by alwa 1y ago
> Is that really happening at any meaningful scale? Anecdotally: oh yes. I don’t know anybody who pays, although that may say more about the populations I work with and hang out with. I hear there’s plenty of headroom for the direct
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by alwa 1y ago
In fuel pellet form, isn’t it a more-or-less direct substitute for oil or coal that would have been burned anyway? So until the grid fully eliminates other petroleum products from the mix, isn’t this more or less a similar carbon cost, with
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by alwa 1y ago
https://archive.is/9tLpI
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by alwa 1y ago
Whose reaction to being caught being sloppy is, puzzlingly, to scramble for the righteous ground of victimhood… > Faris said she’d faced a wave of harassment online after the incident and has taken a step back from social media. “I’ve b
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by alwa 1y ago
https://archive.is/vtklf
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by alwa 1y ago
She co-founded it, didn’t she? Created it to operationalize her ideas, which, from the sound of her speech, confused people around her at the time? Or am I misunderstanding what you’re asking? > When we started Y Combinator, everyone tr
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by alwa 1y ago
Normally I’d think of “geez” as a low-effort reply, but my reaction is exactly the same… What on earth is the maintenance load like in that world these days? I wonder, do JavaScript people find LLMs helpful in migrating stuff to keep up?
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by alwa 1y ago
Ah, so it would need to be so steep as to be prohibitive for most small plaintiffs?
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by alwa 1y ago
> …some aspects of the story are baffling from the vantage point of trying to understand how Willy Wonka and his competitors act. First, given the value of the information inside the chocolate factory to Wonka‟s competitors, it is surpr
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by alwa 1y ago
> 70302. Restriction of funds No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction o
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by alwa 1y ago
In case you’re curious how they sound: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0DXyCiKbDI
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by alwa 1y ago
I imagine that’s where all the marginal production quota went…
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by alwa 1y ago
Why would they do anything about that? It’s their job to set and enforce quotas, not to ensure access. From their perspective, I’d imagine that tight quotas make them feel reassured that they’ve got a lid on diversion concerns. It does soun
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by alwa 1y ago
When I try to interpret this generously, I wonder if you’re suggesting that the Inuit languages in question would be less prone to crossover with other languages? I wonder how much linguistic distance there is between Inuit languages in the
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by alwa 1y ago
Here is his essay, if you’re wondering! It’s short and zippy and pretty fun—has the flavor of that slightly smug, sarcastic, sassy contrarianism of the New Atheists’ writing in that time— https://cslc.nd.edu/assets/141
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by alwa 1y ago
The changelog indicates: > * Fixed "Intimacy" count to always be an even number. The FTX polycule would like a word… Beautiful work!
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by alwa 1y ago
Oh! I have a relative who just installed one of those. It’s hands-down the most infuriating thing in the house. The gimmick is that touching anywhere on the faucet body or its handle toggles some kind of solenoid to cut or resume the flow.
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by alwa 1y ago
True, although I’m not sure I understand the comparison. Are there negative externalities to pine framing that other types of wood wouldn’t have? Or is the concern with wood framing in general, as opposed to some other kind of building syst
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by alwa 1y ago
Slogan: “May we live long and die out.” They don’t even call for suicide, much less murder. I am struck by the difference in tone (and militarism) between that early-Internet-era, un-self-serious, strident-but-just-an-argument venture and t
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by alwa 1y ago
You should check out Home Assistant and the vast range of ecosystems it integrates with! There a dazzling range of radio standards and manufacturers that have considered the problems you’re describing. You could (and I understand many peopl
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by alwa 1y ago
Dollar vans are real [0]. Real in the same sense as nutcrackers and bodega kitties: endemic, well-loved, and officially discouraged. [0] https://citylimits.org/how-nyc-dollar-vans-are-adapting-for-...
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by alwa 1y ago
I seem to remember Uber’s tilt to profitability coinciding with a move to extend their “dynamic pricing” to a driver-side reverse auction for fares, which they called “Trip Radar.” Mysteriously I’m having trouble finding much reference to i
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by alwa 1y ago
I remember being amused to learn that psychology folks call a real smile a “Duchenne” smile, and that the tell, to them, is that a Duchenne smile forms creases around the corners of the eyes. To hear Ekman, father of the Facial Action Codin
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by alwa 1y ago
There’s the evergreen genre of business-oriented instruments that are mainly cheery self-assessments (“I notice when people are feeling sad: agree, or strongly agree?”)—but I’m not sure how valid those get. As far as interesting efforts t
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by alwa 1y ago
True, but does that mean the solution is to force the starvation because their choice to alleviate it was insufficiently willing for our tastes? At least they’ll starve with two kidneys, and we hope the would-be kidney recipient can get by
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by alwa 1y ago
I agree! I think what rubbed me was the idea that the people taking Altman’s deal “do not know the consequences of what they are doing.” Down that road lies a paternalistic flavor of charity, a spirit of “protecting them from themselves.” A
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by alwa 1y ago
Most times I’ve been biometrically catalogued, I wasn’t paid for the privilege. The government just kind of said I had to, and I wasn’t in a position to argue. I guess I am in some sense compensated by the data brokers who psychometrically
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by alwa 1y ago
Is it certain that impoverished people would weigh those potential consequences more heavily than being paid today? For that matter, do we expect that the impoverished people the gp commenter refers to would resist, say, government-led effo

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