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by bwanab 2y ago
When Alcoa built their aluminum plant in Tennessee in the early part of the 20th century they had to build a series of hydroelectric dams to power the plant. They were using far more power than nearby Knoxville. The headline is clickbait. N
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by bwanab 2y ago
Only two ways that I know of that can make it work: 1) one parent needs to stay at home, or 2) hire a nanny. Both of those come with considerable costs.
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by bwanab 2y ago
Part of the problem here is that not everyone has the same weekend arrangement. To work with that you need flexibility which causes UI complexity.
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by bwanab 2y ago
Probably not actually ICBM: "Two U.S. officials also told CBS News that Russia had fired a ballistic missile, not an ICBM on Thursday, with one saying it appeared to have been an intermediate range ballistic missile launched from just
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by bwanab 2y ago
I have to admit that going to the Museum of Bad Art always has had a similar effect on my very poor art eye as going to the Institute of Contemporary Art across town.
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by bwanab 2y ago
The fact that this song (and this incarnation of this group) has any association with "After Bathing At Baxters", "Surrealistic Pillow", "Crown of Creation" or "Blows Against the Empire" is somewhat t
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by bwanab 2y ago
> > Any sufficiently complicated startup or young company contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of 10% of Excel. Let's give Philip Greenspun due credit for this phrase. I'm going to guess
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by bwanab 2y ago
I'm not making any statement about any particular election. This statement is just as true for a conservative voter in Massachusetts as it is for a liberal voter in Tennessee.
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by bwanab 2y ago
There's no historical justification for that assertion as far as I'm aware. If you know of one, I'd love to see the reference. Preventing the tyranny of the majority is what the separation of powers to executive (President),
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by bwanab 2y ago
Historically the electoral college was a compromise that allowed for the counting of slaves as 3/5 of a person for the purpose of taxation and voting without having them vote. Consider a state like South Carolina which at the time had
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by bwanab 2y ago
I play in bands in a large metro area. 90% of our gigs are in smallish towns in the surrounding areas. I live in the center city and there are gigs one can attend, but compared to the population it's a really low number. Just in my imm
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by bwanab 2y ago
I really hate to make a political connection here, but it's hard not to notice that of those states exactly one didn't vote for the current President-elect.
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by bwanab 2y ago
Hayek wasn't a native English speaker so that could have something to do with the style.
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by bwanab 2y ago
The old housing stock certainly supports the notion that it was very wealthy at one point. NB reminds me of Troy, NY - another small but very wealthy city that fell on hard times when its main industries left. The presence of RPI seems to b
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by bwanab 2y ago
While I agree with your essential conclusions, I don't think the automobile companies really fit. Many of the early 1900s companies (e.g. Ford, GM, Mercedes, even Chrysler) are still among the largest auto companies in the world.
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by bwanab 2y ago
>> I do wonder if the choice to use the Model 3 sedan was the right one I don't think you need to wonder. I have one and I love it, but if I were a cop, it wouldn't be my choice. I don't even think the Model Y would cut
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by bwanab 2y ago
I'm sure you know this, but I think "the author" Marvin Minsky should be mentioned by name since he was one of the foundational theorists in the field of AI in general, but particularly in NNs.
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by bwanab 2y ago
It's possible they mean the sound as opposed to the look.
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by bwanab 2y ago
I remember the first time I tried a pizza with anchovies. I thought this was the stupidest pizza topping I'd ever heard of, but I gave it a try - OMG, what a metanoia!
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by bwanab 2y ago
Agreed. That is the goal. The lessons of history are abundant, but many people don't seem to be able to heed them.
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by bwanab 2y ago
And you would imagine that quality of life would be better if the U.S. found itself on the losing side of a major war? Your premise that there seems to be hopelessness is more of a media driven phenomenon than reality. There is just no evid
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by bwanab 2y ago
> I think this is a win for national security. I think that's largely the point. Obviously, it's a balancing act, but when market forces create a situation that is incompatible with national security it really is the government
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by bwanab 2y ago
Most of the kids the author is talking about aren't going to ever code for a living - they're going to code to get their job done. It's a very different mindset.
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by bwanab 2y ago
True, but given the fact that Brazil has in recent years voted the left in, then the right, and now the left again it doesn't strike me that a dictatorship has been established.
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by bwanab 2y ago
I'm not sure it's bias, just sloppy reporting. I've been a Tesla driver for 5.5 years and had similar experience. I think I've had twice as many problems though (2 times in 5.5 years and had to move 10 feet). The only ti
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by bwanab 2y ago
I can't even imagine the number of times I've been reading an article about some event that takes place in a very specific area for which understanding that area is crucial to understanding the story and yet - no map! Nada. Nothin
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by bwanab 2y ago
Aren't you still fighting the fact that the frets themselves are tuned as 12TET?
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by bwanab 2y ago
As a newish resident who signed up a couple of months back, I've been amazed at the civilized tone in FPF. I think the article overstates the part about politics, though - it just doesn't seen like that frequent a topic of discuss
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by bwanab 2y ago
It was more like the merger of Boeing - a long time high level engineering company and McDonnell-Douglas - a company that specialized in getting contracts was really a hostile takeover by MD. https://qz.com/1776080/how-
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by bwanab 2y ago
No, but looks interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

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