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by barbacoa 6y ago
Every region prepares for what they are likely to face. Florida prepares for hurricanes, California prepares for earthquakes. If a hurricane hit California, or a large earthquake hit Florida very bad things would happen. Likewise the averag
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Long ago man landed on the moon using 4 kb of ram. Today it takes 1 gb of RAM to open a chrome tab.
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NYT was once known as the paper of record decades ago. In the past recent years they have starting slipping on their journalist standards and reliability. They were pivotal in pushing the WMDs in iraq for example as well as russian collusi
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Electrical codes require grid-tie solar inverters to shut off if the utility power fails.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>renewables are like 4% of the total energy generation. Wind power is close to 25% of ercot grid.
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That's a good point, $40-60/hr is the pay for seniors level techs. Entry level techs are making much less and are employed through staffing companies.
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Samsung austin semiconductor (the name of the fab)
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Average salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime. >On a similar tangeant, how are these able to compete with similar manufacturing done in A
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Look at it from the local government prospective, they could get 0 in tax income or they can settle from the tax income of thousands of new high income jobs.
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As a side note. SAS recently bought 100s of acres around their property probably to expand parking.
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I see a lot of people in this thread who don't really know much about Samsung's semiconductor presence in the USA. This expansion has been in the works for years. Samsung has a 100k wafer per month fab in austin texas. They are ne
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Operation mockingbird never ended. https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-...
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Supreme court has found that first amendment rights extend to privately owned shopping malls. Don't think in the current atmosphere any court will rule this way, but I understand why people are frustrated that these principles are not
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by barbacoa 6y ago
The article people are outraged about was a Time article not from NYT. https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ >"That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election tol
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Here is an environmental impact study that Samsung had done a while back which shows the proposed expansion. https://www.swf.usace.army.mil/Portals/47/docs/regulatory/pu... Samsung's Texas fab produ
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>>So did Rachel Maddow devote hours and hours of air time repeating her conspiracy theory over and over and bring on multiple supposed experts to also reassert the claim even after it was debunked? Yes, literally. https://t
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Something else that is never mentioned in these resume resources is the role diversity plays in hiring decisions at big companies like google. If you are a minority or female include something in your resume such as "member of women in
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Everywhere I've worked it was company policy that you are not allowed to accept anything from vendors you purchased through due to conflict of interest. You could be fired or go to jail for even the appearance of impropriety. It blows
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They have 1tb going for $85 on amazon. You probably check their prices 3 months ago because SSDs have been dropping about 15% per quarter.
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In India this is done with a government decree, in the USA I suspect this would have been done with a off-the-record phone call. The key difference is that Twitter doesn't care about Indian politics. In the United States Twitter is pol
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>Point of Fact: 68% of voters had never heard of the Hunter Laptop on election day. Do you have a source for that? I'm interested to read more about that.
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https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/
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I imagine numerous cities have been spending countless millions on studies and consultants to figure out an answer to that one. Personally, it's the lifestyle they choose. They make little micro houses out of rubbish and tarps equipped
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There was always a homeless population but they would stay in shelters or camp deep in the woods and keep to themselves. Now homeless are leaving the shelters and choosing to live in the streets. since 2019 (when the camping ordinance was p
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Worth noting, before the city council legalized homeless camping there were literally zero tents.
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One the plus side facebook finally gave people the ability to permanently delete your account.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydroxychloroquine-given-early-... Not a doctor or well read on the subject but I have seen some studies claiming it does. Have also seen many studies saying there is no benefit too. Seeing
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>To buy Parler's contract claim, you'd have to believe that Amazon's lawyers are so stupid that they set out a TOS for the world's largest hosting provider that didn't give AWS the right to boot customers, which
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"Immigrants are just here to sign up for welfare" "People from the south are racist bigots" "Minorities are lazy criminals" "White people who disagree with my politics are white supremacists" These ar
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There are shitty people of all walks of life. I'm sorry to hear that you didn't have a good family/upbringing. Glad you found a place that you are more happy in. The media has spent the last 4 years portraying Trump and his v

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