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by bequanna 4y ago
Bingo. It seems like people ignore the huge social risks that sending kinds to public entails and write it off as something children should “learn to deal with”. Do you know who your child is spending time with at school? I hope so, because
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by bequanna 4y ago
This is a good guess and if true, pretty damn smart. Essentially reverse engineering the spam model by brute force. If they are doing this at scale they can experiment with # of conversations, length, and other variables to see what is need
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by bequanna 4y ago
This has to do with (bad) estimates being based on a particularly wet period that occurred around the time of original dam construction.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Presumably their water sources are more sustainable. Or, at least much more sustainable than LA or Central Valley.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Laughing at the suffering of an animal that you caused isn’t exactly what I would call “dark humor”. It’s just wrong.
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by bequanna 4y ago
How exactly does one “overthrow the country”? You don’t magically become dictator of a country if you take over the Capitol building.
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by bequanna 4y ago
+ auto loans + home equity loans. Many, many people will max out the house they can afford and pile 2 car loans on top of that. That right there can be 40-50% pre tax income. We now have a public with only a fuzzy memory of what a real rece
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by bequanna 4y ago
LinkedIn is nothing more than public reputation polishing and virtue signaling. It is interesting/confounding to me because I think that most of us have some inkling that there is something valuable there. Some reason to maintain a pro
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by bequanna 4y ago
Imagined/fabricated grievances to underscore whatever point she is trying to make. It is unacceptable that accounts are locked or deleted by huge tech cos with no recourse. Sometimes there actually is a political agenda, more often it
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by bequanna 4y ago
Only if you can also make energy storage super small and portable for those times when the sun isn’t shining. Seems easier to invest in micro reactors.
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by bequanna 4y ago
The area I live in has experienced floods, tornados, blizzards, thunderstorms since time immemorial. The frequency and intensity of these events hasn't changed, but our ability to measure, capture and share the effects with a large aud
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by bequanna 4y ago
Not quite. Calling it "warming" was found to be inconvenient once the observations failed to confirm the models. "Climate chaos" is the new sexy, focus-group tested term. Not based on science, but a solid foundation of c
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by bequanna 4y ago
The upsides are seldom discussed but there seem to be many regions that would net benefit. For example, if average temps do indeed warm as some predict much of the Midwestern US and Canada would enjoy longer growing seasons which would resu
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by bequanna 4y ago
Right, the mechanism the Fed has available isn’t perfect, but it is a good tool. In general, lowering demand for goods will decrease upward price pressure. Unfortunately, rapid rate increases are needed. The downside will be painful. The cr
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by bequanna 4y ago
Sigh, just more #EverythingIDontLikeIsTrumpsFault Trump wasn’t president in 2021. Why didn’t the FED act to raise rates then?
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by bequanna 4y ago
This is a business. Yea, a shitty thing to do but they don’t owe those people a job. Unfortunately, I think we have a large contingent of people like yourself that haven’t been thru a deep downturn and have grown used to the endless perks t
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by bequanna 4y ago
Do you mean a billing service that connects to some internal project/time tracking software and automatically builds and sends an invoice?
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by bequanna 4y ago
“Pure market thinkers say that when you pollute a river, it will create a new market to clean up the river.” Surely there is no one this naive.
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by bequanna 4y ago
“Capitalism can’t solve externalities” Blanket statements like that are so clearly false and I’m not sure what you’re implying. What is communism’s record on environmental protection? Well, we can go to China or Russia for some clues. HUMAN
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by bequanna 4y ago
Regulation. If we're producing and consuming things that are found to be dangerous, we should regulate/ban and force quality improvements.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Devs pry aren’t the best people to ask about this because they will think about the 100 edge cases that won’t be well handled by your “nocode” solution. If you’ve identified a legit user pain and developing something that addresses that pai
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by bequanna 4y ago
I feel for you, I really do. It sounds like you're struggling and that is awful to hear. But I did ask the question above in good faith: What more could be done? For example, Exactly what is standing in the way between you and having a
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by bequanna 4y ago
> We have nothing and have to steal to survive Well, if I am picking on you specifically (apologies) it seems that you have: abundant time, access to the internet, a solid command of the english language, and if you're in the US acc
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by bequanna 4y ago
So, in your closing example Tennessee would be a “gated palace”? I don’t buy it and I sympathize with the people that are saying “enough”. Enough human shit on the sidewalks, enough destruction of our shared public spaces, enough not being
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by bequanna 4y ago
1. and 3. are the same thing: Corn. The trouble is that it is pretty damn tough to pivot from corn to some crop meant for direct human consumption. The machinery and infrastructure we have in place to grow, transport, and process corn is al
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by bequanna 4y ago
Yep. Membership only seems to require you cooperate with some pedantic, box-checking exercise.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Like most things in the real world, there is no smoking gun. It isn't cut and dry. You've got to look at the facts and context and make some judgement call. I don't think it is TOO cynical to assume that often people do thing
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by bequanna 4y ago
Ugh, please. There is no consistency in applying the standards that they themselves made up, which should tell you right away what a scam this is. Now they've weaponized it. The people pushing "ESG" anything only care about m
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by bequanna 4y ago
"ESG" is like "BLM" in that most all of us agree with the ideas those words represent. Of course, as organizations see the public associates value w/ those terms they co-opt them and slap them as a label on whatever
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by bequanna 4y ago
The weak attempt at justifying this move is telling and makes it very clear that this is political backlash in response to Musk going "off message". I doubt the intent is to quiet Elon but most likely meant as a warning to other P

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