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by beerandt 5y ago
Only in a relatively few places. But it's not really necessary most of the time. It's often done more for political reasons than technical ones, because it's easier for the public to understand and trust UV disinfection than
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's performance based (not entirely timeclock based), so it's more useful as a relative metric. (Although, missed calls, etc, suggests actual availability problems separate from productivity.) Which doesn't necessarily mean
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Which means the other 650 employees they fired did not have productivity problems No- it just suggests/implies the remainder had an average productivity of greater than (2hrs-value/8hrs-pay). That doesn't mean they were
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Where did the vaporized rock and soil go? "What are you, the rock police? I put'em up on my a**. How's that?"
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by beerandt 5y ago
Big "if", but hypothetically, at least gas flows in a way that the pressure could be relieved. The whole reason supervolcanoes are what they are is that the material can't sufficiently flow faster than pressure builds. Conver
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yea- the more pertinent take is that the magma involved "flows" more like room temp glass than liquid water. It'd be like trying to suck a mix of layers of that boiling oatmeal and playdough through a straw.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Supervolcanoes generally aren't violent, though. Yes, they are. You're probably thinking of pyroclastic flow, which is also quite violent on its own. It's the waterfall of everything in the eruption column falling back to
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by beerandt 5y ago
Lookup pyroclastic flow.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>There's nothing "typical" about COVID19 yet. Corona viruses are a family of viruses that extends far beyond the particular virus responsible for the current pandemic/epidemic. Corona viruses are the #2 family respons
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by beerandt 5y ago
The buying boom caused by covid is cooling off.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I imagine it as a callback to some company wide training or team-building exercise or corporate culture story where the keynote/"message from our fearless leader" was some sort of dolphin parable. But maybe I'm giving h
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's in the context of having just gone on a massive hiring spree in the last year+, and the market starting to cool off. I had the same initial thought, but it sounds more like this was about measurement of the recent hirings, not ove
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by beerandt 5y ago
With volcanos, the more viscous the magma, the more energy gets stored before an eruption. Supervolcanos are the most viscous type, hence the massive explosion. Think boiling water vs thick oatmeal vs boiling a pressure cooker until it expl
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by beerandt 5y ago
>>Garg told Fortune that a month earlier, the company began to review employee productivity data, including missed telephone call rates, number of inbound and outbound calls, employees showing up late to meetings with a customer, and
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by beerandt 5y ago
Tesla's calculation comes out to about $200k for equivalent capacity solar plus battery. Even deducting $25k from that for the cost of the generator and another $10k in required electrical modifications, that would more than double ele
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by beerandt 5y ago
And it's highly taxed and highly regulated, compared to most retail items.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I'm taking about hiding downvotes and selectively disabling comments. (Ignoring for now the selective hiding of particular comments or blacklisted words) That's hiding information that's normally available due to the nature o
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by beerandt 5y ago
You need 13-15kw just to start a 5-ton AC unit. 4000 sqft house with high humidity 90 deg summer days (so anywhere in the SE US) will need at least 8-tons of AC, so 2 units, and that's ~24kw right there if you need to cool the whole ho
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's a copycat venture with a distinguishing characteristic the existing players won't want or be able to compete with. Yea, they still have to execute, but they're not exactly depending on any cutting edge technology or nove
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by beerandt 5y ago
Right- but you've still got to feed signal data (from the plane) into it. I guess my question is: In the case of flight 370, what radio transmissions (and recievers) are they (WSPR) using using? And then which transmissions (and reciev
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by beerandt 5y ago
I agree, but the reason I said "semi-independent" is that I'm not sure the data/ calculation is independent confirmation, so much as an "independent" re-calculation of the same underlying Inmarsat-derived data.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Oops, Yea- I fat fingered that from $50k. But that's still roughly double/triple or more what street parking will cost (where space efficiency approaches 100% since driveways and additional access pavement aren't needed). Co
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by beerandt 5y ago
Additionally, we've decided as a society that providing public access and right-of-way to private property is a somewhat fundamental function of government. Providing streets without places to stop or park would be like building inters
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by beerandt 5y ago
Right, but he states it as if his method is a trivial (or at least non-novel) solution that others have overlooked. "Why hasn't anyone else attempted using my obscure and unavailable software?" Others have taken the same appr
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by beerandt 5y ago
When it comes to censorship, I think at best it doesn't really matter why , and at worst it's fair to assume mal intent, even if it's not obvious or provable. Otherwise (and without an affirmative reason), why hide it? That&
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by beerandt 5y ago
It hasn't been done before because the "GDTAAA WSPR analysis software" he references is his own homebrew solution.
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by beerandt 5y ago
They didn't really stop it, but they raised the quality standards to be so high that no post-consumer plastics qualify. Something like less than 5% contamination. They do still accept "clean" plastic, like from industrial man
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by beerandt 5y ago
No- it's part of the consideration in exchange for the developer generating increased tax revenue and dedicating the right of way to the city. If that weren't the case, the developer would likely keep the parking and streets priva
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by beerandt 5y ago
Every development was new at some point. The space for parking wasn't public until the developer signed it over. And maintenance costs money, but the increased tax revenue from the development more than offsets that. Which is why the
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by beerandt 5y ago
Developers are typically required to include on street parking in their developments before the right-of-way is deeded over to the public. There's rarely any public subsidies for parking. That's largely a myth. It's paid for

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