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by axiolite 5y ago
> go up from the Sea of Cortez. Okay, so now it's an international construction project, with all the political barriers that brings. And running close to the Colorado river. > The alternative is, what, a toxic dust bowl It&#x27
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Another option would be a canal up to the Salton Sea. Obviously that's a much more major effort but it has nearly endless economic and ecological benefits. That would be an obscene undertaking... going a hundred miles THROUGH seve
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by axiolite 5y ago
If you didn't have to worry about money, you'd have ample time to find fulfilling hobbies to occupy your time. You could even do all the parts of your job that you enjoy, while skipping all the unpleasant parts of it.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Alcohol let our ancestors survive. Only true in dense cities and perhaps onboard seafaring vessels. Most of humanity could find unpolluted sources of water. You could also say that, without the crutch that was small beer, humanity mig
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Im thankful to have a job I think you've got that backwards. Everyone is thankful for money and possessions. A job is just how you happen to get them. Would you be unhappy to be very wealthy, without a job? > seeing the home
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by axiolite 5y ago
> but unlocking the bootloader requires visiting this website, entering your serial number, and voiding your warranty, which means most people won't do it. Now you're just moving the goal posts... With all listed phones, you ar
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by axiolite 5y ago
> but basically by this time nobody needed them anymore. Not quite. Broadband was getting significant adoption, but it was more expensive and not available everywhere, so most people stayed on dial-up for years to come. Visitors to thi
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by axiolite 5y ago
It is the COVID-19 virus that was massively disruptive to supply chains. If companies having to regularly test employees who chose not to get vaccinated, it very well could contain the outbreak and bring business back to normal much more q
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Ask HN: Help extract address lookup call from Spectrum's website?
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by axiolite 5y ago
From your link: "Serving fettuccine with butter and cheese was first mentioned in a 15th-century recipe"
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I suppose it also fails at "remote and north of the arctic circle/south of the antarctic circle" ones, but that's a pretty tiny rounding error of energy usage. On the contrary. Shipping diesel to remote Alaskan vill
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Though that pasta would be pretty bland without any tomato sauce! Fettuccine alfredo.
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by axiolite 5y ago
I previously explained why this is a terrible idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28058184
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by axiolite 5y ago
I bought the cheapest (Samsung) personal color laser printer I could find, and I would have to say it is, at worst, mediocre for photos. They come out a bit darker than one would like, and some of the colors can sometimes be shifted to a s
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by axiolite 5y ago
> It was popular with multi-line BBSes back in the day for its accessible multitasking of DOS -based software on x86-based systems. Xenix was originally developed by Microsoft. It offered DOS compatibility: https://news.yc
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by axiolite 5y ago
Screen blanking and DPMS power-off accomplish the same goals, with considerably less energy usage.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> OS/2 was very popular with multi-line BBSes back in the day for its accessible multitasking on x86-based systems (x86 Unix wasn't really a thing yet), It was before my time, but according to Wikipedia: "SCO XENIX for the
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Is there any other “technology” that’s so wasteful as-well as it’s completely useless? Screen savers?
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by axiolite 5y ago
That will collapse multiple spaces, but won't handle a mix of spaces and tabs, which awk will handle.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> does this apply to EV's, too? Not "pumping" losses, no. There is no intake air or exhaust gas to pump. EVs may experience an effect that is similar in practice, albeit much smaller... Things like headlights, HVAC, ente
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Funny, I thought it was the same as calling someone a hypocrite. And just where did you look-up that definition? May I point you to a few: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/virtue-signaling https://dic
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by axiolite 5y ago
It was an identification of a sub-group, not an insult. But as far as I can recall, it has always been fair game to criticize public figures for their espoused opinions and public actions. Being offended by everything, and making it everyo
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by axiolite 5y ago
> What is “pumping loss “? Unlike older scientific topics that have esoteric terminology, usually from the Latin, this one is pretty straight forward... It is the energy lost due to pumping. Basically, the overhead of keeping an engine
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by axiolite 5y ago
Coal is a fossil fuel. Returning ancient carbon to the atmosphere. Cattle is a bio-fuel. The methane/carbon they release was captured by the grains and grasses shortly before the cattle consumed it, and will continue growing after th
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by axiolite 5y ago
A mid-sized conventional gasoline car is more fuel efficient at 55MPH than at 45MPH. Pumping losses work that way. With improved aerodynamics, you could get that even higher. https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10312
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by axiolite 5y ago
An interesting read, but I just don't understand why ONIE was even desirable. Cheap OpenWRT switches+routers can do Wireguard as easily as any Linux system.
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by axiolite 5y ago
You should really read past the first sentence before replying. I have no problem with immigration, only the H1-B system.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Changing jobs on an H1-B is possible It's possible now (it previously was not), but it resets the H1-B worker's immigration process back to the start as well, leaving them in limbo for years longer. And they are taking a
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by axiolite 5y ago
> the “steal our jobs” rhetoric is based on the false counterfactual I didn't say "steal", but it's absolutely happening all the time: "Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being
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by axiolite 5y ago
> That's absurd Uhh, yes... What you said is certainly absurd. It has no relation to my comment, however. H1-B visas are being used very directly to drive down wages. US workers are fired from their jobs, replaced by H1-B visa &q

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