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by bequanna 2y ago
Modern "stick built" homes in the US are well insulated and actually quite efficient. Stone walls would be a poor choice in most areas in the US due to extreme conditions. As you mention, once a stone house heats up in the summer,
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by bequanna 2y ago
Houston city government is largely comprised on Democrats and has been for some time. Also, California has dealt with issues related to electric reliability and is by no means a conservative state.
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by bequanna 2y ago
Underground electric distribution is considerably more reliable than overhead lines. Animals digging up the wire is much more rare than an outage created by an animal crawling up a pole and grabbing the line/transformer. Underground el
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by bequanna 2y ago
Wealthfront partners with Greendot. I believe deposits are FDIC insured thru Greendot. https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600441608...
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by bequanna 2y ago
I’ve had good results with Whisper. You can use the OpenAI API and it is also open source: https://github.com/openai/whisper
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by bequanna 2y ago
Well, good answers to that question here will be tomorrow’s valuable Google search results.
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by bequanna 2y ago
This doesn't appear to recognize any existing 'Don't allow' selections and fails when you've already disallowed some advertisers.
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by bequanna 2y ago
Why? Assuming this is real and not exaggerated propaganda, does China think IP theft is a one way street?
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by bequanna 2y ago
It has never been easier to show people your creative works whether you paint, make music etc. The barriers are pretty small. The real issue for creatives is there is too much competition. Too much to choose from. Supply up, demand is large
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by bequanna 2y ago
This is a feature, not a bug. In our system, capital tends to concentrate and flow to people who are good stewards of it. Many of the rich train their children to provide value and allocate capital efficiently. This is somehow a bad thing?
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by bequanna 2y ago
Central planning of anything is generally very inefficient and results in the concentration of power. So far, we haven’t been able to find a way to concentrate power without corruption. The lesson is: only give the government as much contr
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by bequanna 2y ago
> Your wealth likely derives from a mixture of raw talent, hard work, luck, and preferential attachment This is a disturbing viewpoint to see on HN. We already went down this path (a few times) and it resulted in >100 million deaths i
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by bequanna 2y ago
Occupying Taiwan only burn bridges with the West. Other than China asserting themselves, what is the point?
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by bequanna 2y ago
Yep. Coming from everywhere and moving outward in all directions at all times and ‘absorbed’ or ‘blocked’ by mass
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by bequanna 2y ago
China has an extremely narrow window if they want to engage the US in a hot war. Their population demographics have turned negative, GDP growth has slowed considerably and the West has decoupled much quicker than they anticipated. Good luck
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by bequanna 2y ago
As a layperson, that makes sense to me. It also explains the time dilation effect when near a large mass.
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by bequanna 2y ago
Options wheel strategy implementation from the ‘Theta Gang’ on Reddit: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/thetagang?tab=readme-ov-file
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by bequanna 2y ago
Sure, I follow you. But you need to actually have some hard skills in order for those to have any value, right?
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by bequanna 2y ago
The total number of children killed by gun violence in school in 2024 is... Zero. This is from a source that has a very liberal definition of "school shooting": https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interac
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by bequanna 2y ago
Parents bend over backwards making excuses for why their kids need phones. The real reason: Phones keep kids distracted so parents are then free to browse TikTok/IG/FB/etc themselves.
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by bequanna 2y ago
I guess the exact same argument could have been made in the 40s-50s for adding additional lanes on roads just for horse powered passengers. Some people enjoy the nostalgia, sure, but we’ve moved on and have better options. The US will likel
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by bequanna 2y ago
Even if there was a ~25% decrease in Amtrack trip length, would there be any meaningful increase in use? I’ve looked at longer Amtrack trips and the time it takes to travel across just a few states relative to flying just doesn’t make sense
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by bequanna 2y ago
> …and even undercut fossil fuels on price with the addition of energy storage, in some cases. We should try to do apples to apples here. To match the reliability provided by traditional sources, we need storage. Any comparison between i
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by bequanna 2y ago
Credit cards are still alive and well and are primarily used for consumable/depreciating products.
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by bequanna 2y ago
Well, station wagons and minivans still exist—-we now just call them “crossover” SUVs. And I’ve looked at those options: the storage, seating and safety is just not the same as a large SUV. If you are using the word “safety” to mean safety
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by bequanna 2y ago
Living in a somewhat rural area, I have no choice but to own a car. And since I have a family, I want to drive the safest, most practical car possible that can handle frequent needs like transporting children, pets, luggage, etc all at the
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by bequanna 2y ago
Wells Fargo has a giant mortgage processing division with floors of people who have nothing to do since there are few new mortgages and virtually no refinance activity. They are likely actively looking for people to fire.
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by bequanna 2y ago
Economics is not a hard science. Obvious evidence of this can be seen by the Fed actions the past few years and the disastrous consequences. Some of the smartest economists in the world work for the Fed and still made huge errors.
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by bequanna 2y ago
I don’t follow. By pretty much every measure, Biden appears to be the establishment candidate. Who is out to get him?
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by bequanna 2y ago
The dude is a pure academic and just trying to sell socialism with hand waving. I look at it differently: His ideas are so weak and removed from reality that they can’t even stand up to a Yahoo Finance article. We should be careful taking p

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