carbonguy

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by carbonguy 5y ago
> When it comes down to the meat and potatoes, they do not know jack shit. Don't forget to tell the kids to get off your lawn after you're done shaking your fist at that cloud. I find it pretty difficult to believe that, in the
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> ... I wouldn't call this unanticipated adoption. The work was explicitly commissioned, purchased in advance. Fair enough - certainly in his own time he was known to the Church thus his commissions were not "unanticipated,&quo
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> ... academic anthropology has a history of making wildly universal claims that turn out to only apply to the WEIRD demographics that they have studied. A very fair point indeed. It would certainly be unusual to have the opposite be tru
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by carbonguy 5y ago
If the thesis of this book is, as the article summarizes: > ... artistic success owes little to vision and purpose, more to self-promotion, but most to unanticipated adoption by bigger systems with other aims, principally oriented towa
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by carbonguy 5y ago
Your original comment: > .. as soon as the very generous unemployment came out she had dozens of people quitting. A lot of people prefer unemployment to menial jobs. This comment: > ...after last March they furloughed (laid off? not
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> It can also be done by the employees by slacking off on surplus. Can't argue with that, given that we're having this conversation while I, at least, am on the clock. However, I suspect my bosses have a much greater capacity t
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by carbonguy 5y ago
I think you're on to something important here - the word "efficiency" is used to describe optimization in two different mental regimes: one, "how to meet a given quality of work with the minimum of friction/wastage&
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by carbonguy 5y ago
> Who exactly is the target audience of this article? If I had to guess, it would probably be most useful for those companies that have not yet reached the stage where they can serve as the venue for the executive-musical-chairs stage of
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by carbonguy 5y ago
One of the quotes suggests that DeMarco (the author of the book under discussion in this post) himself views 'slack' somewhat negatively: > “Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term healt
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by carbonguy 5y ago
- The wizard hat says "su," naturally - The "shell process" (visual pun! I love it) is "outputting to null" - The hat ribbon has the initials "dmr," "kt," and "bwk" - presumably De
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by carbonguy 6y ago
The assembly bug bit me again a few months back, but instead of writing it I had a grand time hand-disassembling some ARMv4T binaries - scratched something of the same itch as solving a sudoku.
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by carbonguy 6y ago
For me the article was well worth it; where else but in ISA discussions can you find gems like the following? > Does a non-instruction that is non-defined and unofficially guaranteed to non-execute exactly as if it had never been in the
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by carbonguy 6y ago
I have been looking for this exact short story since I first encountered it via a now long-forgotten HN comment - thank you, djoldman, for bringing it back to my attention! I'll make sure to bookmark it this time :)
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by carbonguy 6y ago
Who would have guessed - an article that seems to consist mainly of quotes from hedge fund managers reaches the conclusion that passive investment is bad not just for them personally but for the entire economy! I wonder if it's occurre
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by carbonguy 6y ago
The article you link fails to mention that McDonald's also spent about 8.5 billion on stock buybacks and dividends in 2018, which would have been enough to give every one of their 210,000 employees an extra 40,000 dollars that year o
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by carbonguy 6y ago
While it's true that very few people earn exactly the federal minimum wage, which is what your source is discussing, it's probably worth mentioning that "Currently, 29 states and D.C. have minimum wages above the federal
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by carbonguy 6y ago
Interesting that the author didn't really discuss WHY programming is hard; I agree that it is, but if their concern is that beginners are being misled into thinking it's easy then I would have expected they'd spend some time
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> Not increasing its power is not undermining it. This might be true if you were describing a situation with three parties: a company, a union, and you - affiliated with neither. But as almost all unionization takes place after people
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> JFC talk about a "you're with us or against us" mentality... your rhetoric has pushed me further towards unions being bad. It's a remarkably odd choice to refer to OP's comment as "rhetoric" in this c
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> You don’t imagine that “unions are good because of X, Y, and Z facts” is a more compelling argument to anyone anywhere in the middle spectrum than “if you don’t like unions, you’re a selfish asshole” or “if you’re not with us, you’re a
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> I think the author doesn't appreciate that the debt is being repaid... #1 we are doing gargantuan "stimulus" transfers of money... #2... IF any issuer of debt, like a bank, gets in trouble, like in 2008 or March 2020, th
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by carbonguy 6y ago
Are you making the argument that "people who think it's a good idea to start restaurants" are representative of "grown-ups?" I think you're right insofar as you point out that opening a restaurant is a fraught
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by carbonguy 6y ago
This article is referring to the effect of a class of compounds called "aerosols," which does not include CO2. Aerosols do prevent some fraction of solar energy from reaching Earth's surface, but this is separate from the ef
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by carbonguy 6y ago
From my understanding of the period, one might describe WWI as "anticipated, but not comprehended;" one of the catalysts for the war was a general understanding on the European continent that France and Germany were going to re-li
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by carbonguy 6y ago
I'm no engineer; that said, I think you're being slightly unfair to the Carbon Engineering folks, as paper [3] that OP linked states that CE's design reflects "reflects roughly 100 person-years of development." That
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> It's a cliche but if we spent 10% of of what we spend on Nukes or drug enforcement on this it would be a game changer. > > I think people that say things like this overestimate how much we spend on things like this and under
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> Breaking oxygen bonds produces no energy and in fact requires energy And this, in turn, is a specific example of a general principle: breaking any chemical bond always requires energy, while forming any bond always releases ene
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> But is that maintenance lower than the existing maintenance burden? While I haven't looked up the data yet, it seems plausible to assume that maintenance on photovoltaic electric generation is not only lower but significantly lowe
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by carbonguy 6y ago
I think what you're describing is "moral competence" as the article frames it. That is to say: your efforts are not directed to the end of "how can I be seen as working to support raptor conservation" but rather
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by carbonguy 6y ago
It's possible that Thompson means "information" in the more technical, information-theoretic sense, which we might qualify as " useful information" - signal as opposed to noise or "misinformation." In th

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