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by bruce511 1y ago
The problem is indeed not processed ingredients in cake. Unfortunately, in the US, those ingredients are not limited to cake. And yes, most industrial, chemical, ingredients are harmless. That said, around the world, there's a emphasis
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by bruce511 1y ago
Mate, you are so wrong here, but I completely accept that your belief here is not unique. Firstly, there's a lot wrong with using processed foods, but I'll skip over that. If processed food is now "traditional" then that
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by bruce511 1y ago
I think you and I have very different ideas of "helpless". :) "Oh no, the premix is a different size, no more cookies ever" - seems like a pretty helpless response to me. First World Problems I guess...
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by bruce511 1y ago
I really hope that's said somewhat sarcastically. I pessimistically assume not though. You're right. To do things you need tools. If you're gonna bake, a scale is a useful tool. It's a pretty small hurdle to jump. I gues
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by bruce511 1y ago
Same people who have flour, sugar, baking powder, eggs, milk ‐ pasta, rice, potatoes, ya know, food. I don't eat a whole bag of rice with every meal. I have a plastic tub. Buy rice, fill tub, remove potions as required, repeat. My pant
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by bruce511 1y ago
>> Various gums, starches, dextrins, mono- and di-glycerides, surfactants, encapsulated flavors, specific leavening ratios, basically the whole chemistry set. Um. Ok. You say this like it's a good thing? I'll be honest, your
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by bruce511 1y ago
I am not an academic, so I'll leave the formal stuff to others. However I have been running a residential dollar system for 2 years, and tracking the numbers, so here's my data for what it's worth. Firstly, as a return on cap
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While the backward compatibility of utf-8 is nice, and makes adoption much easier, the backward compatibility does not come at any cost to the elegance of the encoding. In other words, yes it's backward compatible, but utf-is also comp
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This is very creative, and I suspect would work. It does have the side effect of wasting the time of 1+n engineers for that hour. I might be able to rustle up a few in month 1, but I'm not going to ba able to do it monthly. Frankly, as
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by bruce511 1y ago
I think "promises" is the key word there. Data centre's want power, as you say, but they want it now, not 15 years from now. So yes, when SMR's are "off the shelf" (aka from "order" to producing) , in
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by bruce511 1y ago
You're looking at this from the consumer point of view. But consumers provide income, not capital. Consumers may, or may not, have a choice of power providers. They can choose to "accept" what is on offer, or remove themselve
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Of course electricity at night is highly desirable. But there are no economic incentives to build it. From a purely financial point of view, base load is not appealing. Whereas cheap solar is appealing. If I have a billion$ to invest, I kno
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by bruce511 1y ago
2 companies make airplanes. Around 10 make cars. Entertainment comes from a handful of streaming services. 2 make a phone OS. I could go on. I guess what I'm saying is that you're right. There's a limited number of AI provide
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Nuclear proponents argue that renewables (solar, wind) are not base-load, and nuclear is. They are correct. But the people building power generation are doing it on a for-profit basis. Since solar is cheaper to deploy, faster to deploy, sim
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Sure, Mars is really cold, so it's natural that this waste heat would be used constructively. There are communities in the Artic circle that do this. But that's not really the challenge I was referring to. The problem is less &quo
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Solar is likely what will power anything we put there, in the short term at least. But Mars only gets 43% of the solar energy that earth gets. So you need at least twice the panels. Not to mention the batteries. This is fine for "resid
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It's possible, although unlikely, that there are mineable deposits of uranium on Mars. There are trace amounts, but its unlikely that minable deposits formed.
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There is the small detail of heating the regolith to 1400c. It's not very clear where that energy comes from (at least not at scale). Burning fuels seems to be out. So I guess nuclear or solar? Mars solar is weaker than earth, but I gu
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There's an ultimate end-game here, but we're not culturally ready for it yet. Right now, we attach income to work. You get job, you get paid. The two are bound at the hip. For over 100 years we've been watching as machines ta
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Again it'll vary by area. For us the cash was a lot more expensive. (Banks charge to deposit cash, and many of our bank branches don't accept cash anyway, so we have to go a bit further.) Fortunately it was little enough that we d
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Yes, I'm sure it varies by area. But from a business point if view, cash is super expensive to deal with. As a side-effect of an acquisition we inherited a small number of customers that paid in cash. Turns out it's expensive to b
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To understand "generational" behavior it's helpful to understand the prevailing conditions at the time. Obviously these become somewhat sweeping generalizations but they largely hold. A concern either waste directly correlate
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The problem with this kind of regret is that it's all based on hindsight. And hindsight is a game you can't win. So sure, you made a choice and it didn't work out. But it could just as easily have been the other company that
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At some level all collecting is a "waste" of time and effort. The joy of collecting is in the hunt, not the meal. We collect because collecting is a hobby - it passes the time and provides enjoyment. 99% of collections have 0 in
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by bruce511 1y ago
Naive. Users who think a project that is Open Source will remain Open Source forever. Authors gave the right to change license to a proprietary one. Users being surprised by this are as equally naive as developers who think you can make mon
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I think this is fair, by both Bear and yourself. He's free to attach any license he likes, you are free to use it or not. Obviously the goal of Open Source licenses does not include making money. You might, or might not, but it's
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by bruce511 1y ago
Forgive me, but is Netflix asking for that? As I understand it, Netflix wishes to authenticate the device, and DRM their content. I'm not aware of anything beyond that (but I'm also not paying attention. ) Now you may have used th
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The amount of money you will get via donations will be either zero, or a rounding error from zero. Donations is not a business model. As you are a student, you may gain other benefits though. All programmers go through 3 stages; 1) you prog
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I agree. Plus, as alternate markets are developed, so that leverage drops even more. The US has made friends with a lot of countries based on the goodwill generated by strong trade ties. That goodwill is being eroded in the short term, and
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You're assuming US citizens stop buying Chinese goods, just because they got more expensive. That's unlikely to be true. They might buy less, but the numbers won't fall to zero. It also overlooks the detail that the component

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