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by blackjack_ 7mo ago
Nuclear is near dead if the new geothermal tech from fracking works out.
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by blackjack_ 7mo ago
Seitan has 3x-5x the protein of beyond meat by weight. It sucks that your body processes it less. For me it’s usually a treat, and I’ve never noticed any digestive issues despite having issues with more whole wheat things (beer, more natura
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by blackjack_ 7mo ago
I'm like technically the exact demographic they should be chasing. Plant based eater who loves the taste of meat and just stopped eating it for ethical reasons. But like, I'm not gonna eat a heavily processed food often for the re
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by blackjack_ 7mo ago
Yeah one of my friends is bashing her head against the wall about this. She’s a small farmer up on the Olympic peninsula where there are no approved slaughterhouses for small farmers to use to process meat, so them selling the meat locally
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by blackjack_ 7mo ago
Just as the comment above says. This discussion is a lot of armchair software engineers who don't understand the processes arguing about things they don't have any actual insight into. Just normal HN pedantry and certainty in subj
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by blackjack_ 7mo ago
No... Orion has always been aiming for travel to Mars. The moon is a sales tactic and a gimmick that works as a stepping stone towards the larger mission goal.
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by blackjack_ 7mo ago
As someone who worked on Orion I find this comment section hilarious.
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by blackjack_ 8mo ago
Agreed, and he’s already behind in humanoid robots, so the hype there won’t last long. The problem is that China is obliterating him at every turn because they actually build things that work instead of just hyping things and saying fake nu
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by blackjack_ 8mo ago
Alito is one of the original proponents of the unitary executive theory (way before he was a Supreme Court justice). Everything he does should be looked at as an attempt to impose said theory and destroy America.
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by blackjack_ 8mo ago
Normal pro users aren't getting ads, yet .
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by blackjack_ 8mo ago
Because they want to build cool things or tasteful things or things that actually help people. I'm ex Lockheed, where I worked alongside the NASA software engineers building and testing and verifying software for human spaceflight in t
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by blackjack_ 8mo ago
You are arguing that everyone is as money driven as you are. Plenty of people who are more altruistic people take employment based on non money factors all the time. Plenty of people will also earn their chunk of change as an l5 at Amazon o
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by blackjack_ 9mo ago
Yeah but we are nowhere near the end of the scaling curve. For now, we can use the natgas plants during the unexpected outages while solving for green hydrogen / whatever backup plants. Like when a household has one EV and one gas car,
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by blackjack_ 9mo ago
The only reasonable conclusion at this point is that the fascists in the white house see their deep unpopularity, obvious loss of power in the near future (they have lost nearly every election in the past year by a landslide), and the Epste
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by blackjack_ 9mo ago
If the US had a competent government they would react by pulling the same playbook as China to compete. Heavily subsidize and incentivize production of EVs by new companies to replace the rotten core of existing US automakers to produce pri
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
Yes, there is a term for a system that handles a declarative state of infrastructure and does reconciliation versus current state; a control plane. We have been talking about control planes in devops/ SRE for a number of years now! Wel
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
You're being facetious I see, but I assume there will be litigation brought up against it being illegal, and then it will be stuck down as blatantly illegal in the next 6 months, and people involved will not get paid and be fired &#x2F
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
Did I miss congress passing a new set of laws creating the US Tech Force? I'm confused, as this seems like a direct and open violation of the Appointments Clause.
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
I see a lot of hand wringing about this; but for 99.99% of people the banking layer and bureaucracy of modern monetary systems is a feature that protects them from fraudulent transactions, people stealing their credit card number, and busin
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
Netflix could have built many franchises by now but instead burns them all in season 1 or season 2 and makes slop on purpose (i.e. explain what you are doing while you are doing it for the people not watching directly, etc). They also just
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
Yes to IPO you have to submit an S-1 form which requires the last 3 years of your full financials and much more. You can’t just IPO without disclosing how your business works and whether it makes or loses money and how much.
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
Things are visibly cooling up here in Marin, houses are actually sitting on the market (even just at the end of last year houses were generally scheduling offer dates and picking the best one). Some of this is just seasonal cooling, so I&#x
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
I ripped the wifi / onstar and gps antennas out of my 2020 Chevy Bolt the day after I bought it. Took me a couple of hours since the access was awful, but that's one time pain. No issues since, and I have a phone I use to drive th
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by blackjack_ 10mo ago
I can drop in replace LLMs in my everyday usage. If OpenAI introduces ads, I will switch and never look back. They have no Moat, and right now the Chinese companies catch up shortly after the models are released… All these arguments about a
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by blackjack_ 11mo ago
What particular issues do you have with it? My company uses it at scale (dozens of different instances, hundreds of workers, thousands of pipelines) to support thousands of applications and we are reasonably happy with it. DSL is incredibly
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by blackjack_ 11mo ago
My partner also has good qualifications and skills has been out of full time work for bordering on 2 years now. Similarly she has become depressed / nihilistic about the job market after hundreds and hundreds of applications and dozens
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by blackjack_ 11mo ago
That or the hiring pipeline broke, which is what we keep continually hearing from high ranking graduates of the past few years. It’s certainly possible the author is a bad candidate, but it seems in bad faith to first argue that the author
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by blackjack_ 1y ago
This is somewhat for a dumb reason, which is that we heavily subsidize meat and dairy in this country (and especially beef). We could move those subsidies to healthier and more environmentally friendly foods, like fruit and vegetables, and
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by blackjack_ 1y ago
Yeah so depends on your cost per kWh, and usage time versus production time. My 800W of balcony panels can theoretically produce 3-4 kWh per day (they peak at about 550w of actual production), but they generally produce a lot less than that
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by blackjack_ 1y ago
This was in California (greater Bay Area), and the hospital was in network, but some of the ER physicians ended up not being (not the source of this part of the bill). I had a high deductible plan (10k IIRC?) so that I could stock away cash

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