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by beezle 5y ago
I'm not mixing up anything. The primary input to the price of gasoline is..crude oil. Link below is gasoline futures back twenty plus years. Please tell me again that we have not previously had significantly higher prices for a signi
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by beezle 5y ago
The change really should be view on a 2 year basis as 2020 was an aberration in the other direction. However, exactly what part is here for good and what is transitory is next to impossible to guess. Are food prices up because of increase
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by beezle 5y ago
Please don't perpetuate they myth of energy prices being the source of inflation. To start, the price of WTI (US Crude) was well above $100 in 2008, peak over $140. The period from late 2010 to 2015 was spent between $80 and $110. As
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by beezle 5y ago
While Feynman is famous for his computational work at Project Y, perhaps his most important contribution was the Bethe-Feynman equation for the efficiency of a nuclear weapon.
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Intel Unveils Its Plans to Accelerate Moore’s Law at IEDM 2021(wccftech.com)
3 points by beezle 5y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 5y ago
Average temps in the northern half of VT and NH are just as cold as Duluth. Parts of Maine are probably colder.
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by beezle 5y ago
Was involved in replacing a large failing rail-tie retaining wall, roughly seven foot tall and 100 feet long. Had one engineer suggest unilock with geogrid but after watching a lot of youtubes of failed unilock walls we went with redirock.
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by beezle 5y ago
Not sure most people would consider venture capital funded startups as even close to the same as the large corporate basic R&D of the past. A better 'name' might be: niche short term applied r&d. Likewise, university &quo
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by beezle 5y ago
Two points: First, the way you phrase it is confusing and generally not how most would refer to that type of position. Better would be 'how I have been short Bitcoin for a long time'. Likewise 'I suspect no one offers very l
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by beezle 5y ago
The recent trend the capital component was a little light, labor was a bit more than usual. Its the 'mfp' that is really lagging. My speculation is business investment in r&d has vanished, in part because of stock buybacks an
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by beezle 5y ago
I wouldn't make that assumption at all. First, not all cameras are public and second, what makes you think people with access can be trusted?
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by beezle 5y ago
Crony capitalism, the best kind of capitalism eh?
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Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro Display Review: Questionable value OLED tech(xda-developers.com)
2 points by beezle 5y ago|1 comments
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by beezle 5y ago
From the data I have seen, it does not look exponential. Anyone interested in real estate should check out the CalculatedRisk blog (or substack for only realestate). Guy has been doing this stuff for a very long time. https://ca
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by beezle 5y ago
It would only be the perfect time to switch to Linux (or one of the BSD's) if most, if not all, the applications you use are available immediately. Expecting users to leave their desired/trusted applications behind (in most cases)
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by beezle 5y ago
I suppose he never considered that not all men are the bread winners of the family these days.
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by beezle 5y ago
And yet INTC net income is 3x NVDA, 21B vs 7B
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by beezle 5y ago
Just adding from an experience researching solar for a condo development - if you want the fire department to try to save your house, you need to be able to cut the panels off, grid connection or not. Likewise, putting panels on both sides
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If NASA green lights this interstellar mission, it could last 100 years(npr.org)
3 points by beezle 5y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 5y ago
No, was thinking how does the wall look after removal? Does the adhesive take paint or other parts of the surface off?
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by beezle 5y ago
The webstandard is to use a noscript tag with a message of some kind. A white screen is a white screen. It has more interpretations than you think, including a dead website.
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by beezle 5y ago
That's pretty neat. But I wonder what the surface looks like after removal?
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by beezle 5y ago
It starts with a blank white screen on Firefox with no-script. Author should have a check that js is enabled if website is completely dependent upon it. If it is not, an html message of some sort is standard.
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Painful Lessons from the Past Inform Labor Department’s $30M Computer Overhaul(sevendaysvt.com)
2 points by beezle 5y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 5y ago
Anyone interested in diagrams should consider reading "Drawing Theories Apart The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics" at some point. You don't have to be at an expert level (though it certainly helps) to under
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by beezle 5y ago
Related: https://www.amazon.com/Feynmans-Thesis-Approach-Quantum-Theo...
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by beezle 5y ago
An honest assesment acknowledges that current fusion research, like string theory and even HEP, has become an employment program. You can tell this is the case when 1) no efforts are made to change course once it is clear the current dogma
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by beezle 5y ago
Because the ultimate goal is a power plant, not just a paper saying that Q-Plasma of 1 (or 10) has been reached.
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by beezle 5y ago
Her point is that the "Q" that has been used to sell ITER leads the public and policy makers to believe it is Q-Total, not Q-Plasma.
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by beezle 5y ago
Growing up I lived near a Russian couple that had emigrated post revolution around the time of WWI. They had a good amount of property that they covered with various vegetables in the summer. Very industrious people. The husband despised th

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