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by anamax 5y ago
It's not the power companies, it's the other customers of those power companies. Why should they pay to time-shift your energy production?
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by anamax 5y ago
> The app is a full-fat release, and is constantly being vetted by Apple. Huh? How does Apple know what your users want?
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by anamax 5y ago
> will address the needs of the community that it Serves How do you know that it does address their needs and how do you know that they care? > It's a free app, for a non-profit). And what makes doing it worth two years of your l
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by anamax 5y ago
> Or imagine robotic trucks full of sweet crude cruising down from Alberta. It's unlikely that robotic trucks can compete with Buffet's railroads. (According to industry definitions, Albert's crude is not "sweet&quot
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by anamax 5y ago
> They didn't fail, they quit. You can't build something as enormous and complex as a modern and performant web browser that keeps up with modern standards for only 3.5 years. Not so fast. Edge was more "performant"
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by anamax 5y ago
Full net metering is asking folks without solar to subsidize your "batteries", namely the power-grid. Your power bill is more than just generation costs. It's also distribution AND providing power 24/7, which household
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by anamax 5y ago
When digital designers talk to each other about state, they draw logic clouds and a box, with a clock input, that holds state. The logic clouds are disjoint - there's always a box between them. Yes, there are two kinds of boxes (flip-
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by anamax 5y ago
What's the relevance of "claim"? Thousands of people get "best grandma" coffee mugs each year. Logically, only one of them actually is, but who cares and why?
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by anamax 5y ago
The point is that a "destroyed credit rating" only matters if your credit rating matters. For many people, their credit rating is irrelevant. For folks with unpaid medical bills, their credit rating is often in the crapper anyway
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by anamax 5y ago
You're switching contexts. When you switched from burning lignin to solar, you reduced your carbon usage. However, what happened to the lignin that you stopped using? If it was burned somewhere else, the total carbon usage remained the
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by anamax 5y ago
The difference is a matter of a pinion - one has one more pinion feather than the other. No, I don't know which. Heck, I don't even know what distinguishes a pinion from other feathers on the wing.
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by anamax 5y ago
Credit ratings are only relevant when you're doing business with businesses that look at credit ratings. Most don't. Large fractions of the US economy run on cash. Debit cards and secured cards don't require a credit rating
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by anamax 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrg0X9H6FGU The folks in the uniforms, especially the ones playing instruments, in that video are world class. They're having the time of their professional lives.
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by anamax 5y ago
The data in that paper doesn't support the conclusion. Loss of income was the big problem, by far.
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by anamax 5y ago
> Isn’t medical bankruptcy the leading cause of bankruptcy? No. People go broke when they get sick because they can't work. Medical bills are the easiest to dodge.
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by anamax 5y ago
Huh? Where and when don't we allow children to wander around the city by themselves? In many large cities, kids are expected to use public transit to get to/from school. It's not unknown for parents to send kids on errands.
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by anamax 5y ago
Do we know whether "long covid" is actually Covid-19 specific or did folks who got SARv1 also get long covid? For that matter, do we know whether there's something like "long covid" for other coronaviruses or even o
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by anamax 5y ago
Section 230 actually protects two groups, "interactive computer services" (Facebook, Twitter, et al) and users from liability wrt content that they get from others. The "they can't do it at scale" argument applies t
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by anamax 5y ago
Get fired is "their own feelings get hurt"? The boss situation is a lousy experiment because its result tells us nothing about what the result should be in the situation we're discussing. (For one, my boss isn't going t
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by anamax 5y ago
I see your "move the goalposts" and raise a "mote and bailey". I'm describing cancel culture as it is, which is different from "calling your boss a fatty" (or a Nazi for that matter). We might well decide
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by anamax 5y ago
Yes, fundraising is a sales process. The key thing about sales is that it's about what the customer wants, not you. In addition, most investment pitches result in "no", so you need to get out of that expectation-path as quic
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by anamax 5y ago
> Y'all writing bash scripts without set -u and error checking? Just last week someone pointed to all of the cases where -u doesn't do what one would expect.
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by anamax 5y ago
The case we're talking about is I accuse you of calling me a fatty and get a bunch of people to tell your employer that they'll boycott, costing a bunch of people their income, people who didn't do anything, unless they fire
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by anamax 5y ago
A better alternative is to simply ignore how the companies arrive at a result and instead just look at what they do. Why do I care how Facebook implements their moderation? Their liability should be independent of their processes.
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by anamax 5y ago
My question is how different covid-19 is. One of the things that has come out of Covid-19 is how little was actually known about flus, despite the fact that flus have been killing 30-70k Americans each year for decades. This ignorance is &
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by anamax 5y ago
Do we know whether Covid-19 is different wrt heart and other effects than other corona viruses or even flu viruses in general? For example, how is Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 different from 2002-4's SARS-CoV-1 in this respect? I ask beca
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by anamax 5y ago
> So essentially I'm interesting in knowing how people find ways to reproduce the value these technologies offer, what they instead rely on, which things they leave on the table It's interesting that you're not interested
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by anamax 5y ago
This request for money was both too late (after you've been using the OSS project) and too early (before there was a concrete need). The latter is especially bad because if you haven't had a need yet, why do you think that there
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by anamax 5y ago
It should be easy to talk a pointy-haired boss (PHB, see Dilbert) into "readme-based development" (RBD). In fact, you can probably get funding for training, aka pizzas. That's because RBD is basically Amazon's "wri
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by anamax 5y ago
Multiple continuations is "multiple exit points". There aren't many languages which support multiple continuations and SQL isn't one of them.

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