andrewla

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by andrewla 4y ago
For most realistic conversations you'd be talking about the relative consumption of two devices. Watts/kW is totally fine for this. Regardless, head-math or otherwise, the vast majority of people will never do this calculation at
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by andrewla 4y ago
I'll take one more shot at explaining why this continues to be a strawman. Why would I be running the light all day? The assumptions being made here are unrealistic enough that the answer becomes meaningless. The realistic question her
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by andrewla 4y ago
The article is short and such an indication should be easy to cite directly. If I missed it, please let me know. As far as I can see, nowhere in the article does it give enough information (even if you take into account unit conversions) to
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by andrewla 4y ago
You're using a toy example to strawman the Joule counterpoint. How much do you use in a month, which is the typical billing cycle? Off-peak vs. on-peak cost?. In the end there's no practical utility to this. We just pretend that w
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by andrewla 4y ago
> The average lightning strike contains about 1 million joules, enough energy to fry the founding father in his boots. “The typical house in the U.S. has 100 amp service or about 28 horsepower,” says Kirtley. Boy do I get frustrated when
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by andrewla 4y ago
The chilling message has been sent. Assange has been confined without trial for various reasons for nearly ten years (minus the 6 months for the only crime he has been convicted of, bail violation). This extradition should have been done lo
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by andrewla 4y ago
So the UK would claim that Assange was acting as a UK diplomat when he committed the alleged offenses and thus had diplomatic immunity?
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UK interior minister approves Assange extradition(reuters.com)
4 points by andrewla 4y ago|1 comments
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by andrewla 4y ago
> There is no reason to expect it to crash by that much in the next few years, if ever. Was there a reason to expect it to happen in the first place? Aside from ex post facto reasoning? Housing is a tough market to crash because people n
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Bowl Stuck in Another Bowl(twitter.com)
5 points by andrewla 4y ago|0 comments
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by andrewla 4y ago
NYC schools are not funded by property taxes. The city and state fund the DoE and that money is disbursed to schools throughout the district without relationship to the geographic source of the funds. PTAs (especially in wealth neighborhood
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by andrewla 4y ago
These accounts are indeed free, but not without burdens. You need to give your address and agree to a bunch of terms in order to gain access at all, and then each time you request access to a specific piece of data you need to provide a jus
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by andrewla 4y ago
I don't see how this is relevant -- this is a statement of principle. The fact remains that to update the standard, the "timely adjustment" would be made by the legislative body. Don't let the passive voice fool you here
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by andrewla 4y ago
This is not correct so far as I can tell -- the amendment to directive 2014/53/EU [1] says > Hand-held mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld videogame consoles and portable speakers, in so far
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by andrewla 4y ago
Underlying tweet thread is here: https://twitter.com/crdudeyoutube/status/1529994566115348485 > How about "if you click a link in an email sent by your bank, make sure it goes to your bank's actual we
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by andrewla 4y ago
> You just need sufficient assets to cover them Oh, is that all? To have a zero-risk peg you need to have as much reserve currency as you have issued currency; if you issue 1e6 fun-bucks that are pegged at 1:1 with the USD, you need 1e6
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by andrewla 4y ago
One aspect of a Moral Maze is that it systematically removes slack: > A world without slack is not a place one wants to be. Mazes systematically erase all slack. Slack is evidence of not being fully committed, and given that everyone’s s
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by andrewla 4y ago
Related to the concept of efficiency / slack is the concept of a Moral Maze (from Robert Jackall) [1] or Immoral Maze (the same thing but renamed for clarity) [2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199729883 [2] htt
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by andrewla 5y ago
> Bitcoin is deflationary This is a claim made repeatedly by Bitcoin proponents and opponents, based on various ideological differences. But the statement is nonsensical. The statement "Bitcoin is deflationary" is exactly equiv
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by andrewla 5y ago
I can't speak for Rust or Zig, but for C I don't think this is true. If anything it's the opposite -- the C community is constantly writing replacements and enhancements to the standard library. C lacks good support for modul
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by andrewla 5y ago
I think there's a bit of the Copernican fallacy at play here; the assumption that things are getting worse is pretty dramatic but it's not clear that it's supported in any real way. We point to the riots last summer, and whil
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by andrewla 5y ago
To an extent the thesis here (that M*N is not insurmountable) has a grain of truth, but depends on the idea that an editor will support some specific protocol for that communications. From the article: > Rather, a language should impleme
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by andrewla 5y ago
I mean, this is theoretically true, if an editor provided a language-agnostic protocol for talking to potential semantic plugins. The article says > Rather, a language should implement a server which speaks some protocol, an editor needs
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by andrewla 5y ago
Unpopular opinion -- in the US, inflation is necessary. My feeling is that we have been in an immensely inflationary regimen in many ways for a long time. We see that in the money supply, and we see it in the credit market and the capital m
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by andrewla 5y ago
The existence of lobbying is in itself not interesting. Of course it is in their interest to protect their business, and it's reasonable for any company in a free market to oppose the government undermining or destroying their business
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by andrewla 5y ago
Agreed -- I usually phrase this as "there are an infinite number of odd numbers but none of them are even".
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by andrewla 5y ago
The "strength" of the evidence is arguable, but it is definitely evidence. If the risk calculus you did ended with you choosing donating, then you know that the probability is non-zero that each incarnation of you would choose to
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by andrewla 5y ago
I see a paper with this many graphs and you know that they are completely missing the point. They have tried to measure a phenomenon based on a reductive description of the problem. Defining "homelessness" to mean "not living
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by andrewla 5y ago
The underlying study, at http://vocabulary.ugent.be/ , gives nonsense words in addition to real words to establish a baseline.
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by andrewla 5y ago
A guard who adopts the heuristic "there are no robbers" can be replaced with a rock, but has adopted a heuristic that almost always works. Guards that do not adopt that heuristic cannot be replaced by that rock.

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