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by cjensen 4y ago
This is a good first start, but won't work for everyone. E.g. we got a new roof with solar. The solar is tax deductible. But is the roof? My options are (a) no (b) the portion with solar on top (c) all. Asking around, different people
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At night and sometimes on weekends, the demographics shift on hn. Usually it's more of a subtle problem than this thread.
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"He only served as its director for 14 months in the 1970s" This is utter ignorance. He served at a critical time. Ford installed him very early after Nixon's resignation. It was a low time for the CIA having been blamed for
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by cjensen 4y ago
Why would they talk about this? The solution is obvious, and the US has practiced the solution for a very long time now: immigration at a sufficient rate to make up for the decline in population. This is really mostly a problem for Japan an
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by cjensen 4y ago
Don't dismiss too easily the real needs to homeschool for some people. I have a friend whose child had some learning disability. The school district's "solution" was to put them in the disabled class with an overwhelmed
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by cjensen 4y ago
In theory, productivity gains on automobiles leads to cheaper cars and increased car sales. So an increase in workers is possible. But I agree that looks like a questionable assumption. If the productivity improvement changes car prices fro
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by cjensen 4y ago
This is nonsensical. The Baumol effect is just supply and demand for labor. The monetary system in use does not change whether or not supply and demand work this way. You also appear to be conflating the notion of "hard" vs "
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by cjensen 4y ago
You seem to be arguing against something no one has suggested. No one has suggested they have to document every conversation or thought. However, if the conversation is chat/text/email then it is considered a written record that m
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by cjensen 4y ago
If the Bank is federally insured, it's not a problem that the bank won't be able to make it work. That's why generally speaking bank runs only happen on uninsured banks in the US. SVB is not, as far as I can see, insured and
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by cjensen 4y ago
AIS[1] is basically an airplane transponder, but for vessels and I think it broadcasts position along with identification. For safety alone, seems to me that any commercial vessel carrying paid passengers should have one. But the Reason art
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SCO the "cool UNIX vendor" was not the company that sued. In 2001, the cool UNIX vendor was struggling and sold its UNIX business to Caldera. Caldera renamed itself "the SCO Group" and filed the lawsuit. [1] [1] https:&
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by cjensen 4y ago
Personal favorites "Salt" about the salt ponds around the South Bay. https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/1999/01/08/s... "Drawbridge" about a ghost town in the marshes of
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by cjensen 4y ago
Composting does not sequester carbon. Yes it would replace mineral carbon, but that is not what sequester means.
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by cjensen 4y ago
I completely agree that a more advanced model would use confidence levels too. And I forgot to mention this isn't my idea at all. This framing of what is a prediction was invented at USGS. Mea Culpa.
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That's not a prediction that can be evaluated. For example, I could say "there will be a 7+ magnitude quake somewhere in the Pacific Rim tomorrow" and if I publish the same prediction every day it won't be long until my
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by cjensen 4y ago
Its assets. They claim to own so much commercial paper that they would be one of the top owners of the class, yet no one who sells paper for a living has heard of them. The kinds of audits it has had. The amount of regular money it has in t
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by cjensen 4y ago
Yes, but since Binance routinely lies about things, that doesn't mean much.
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by cjensen 4y ago
Indeed. Transmission failures, bearing failures, tire blowouts, and throwing a rod all can cause a car on a freeway to stop quickly. The onus of avoiding this is entirely on the following car.
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by cjensen 4y ago
Be aware that MacOS/Safari still has occasional bugs where the cursor shape gets stuck on whatever the web page switched it to. I know how to deal with that, but it's an annoyance when it happens.
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by cjensen 4y ago
I assume this van is meant to have shore power for AC and Heat. Bigger issue is the current range limit of 108 miles. Not really sure why they bothered to design an interior before solving that minor issue.
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by cjensen 4y ago
This paper starts by assuming that the different neuron density of birds vs non-avian reptiles is due to birds being endothermic. That's... quite an assumption. EVERYTHING about the evolution of birds is about flight. Specifically, it&
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by cjensen 4y ago
I agree with you. Apple making this an author choice avoids some authors being angry while enabling more sales for lower-volume books that as you point out, will otherwise not have an spoken version.
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by cjensen 4y ago
Much of the issue here is from using, in my opinion, terms that are misleading. The article defines resources as all known mineral deposits. It defines reserves as resources which are economically extractible. Here's the issue: when
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Amazon at one time tried to add voice reading to Kindle books. Authors were absolutely livid . Audiobooks are a significant income source, and taking that away from authors is going to make authors decline to sell digital books on your pla
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by cjensen 4y ago
Regarding where I'm "getting this," it's in the original tweet that this thread links to :-)
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No because it violates the WARN act. [1] IANAL but if they paid 60 days severance as Musk promised, that might legally be considered 60 days of employment and would not violate WARN. But they didn't actually do that despite Musk's
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by cjensen 4y ago
It will be 3 inches of rain on fully saturated soils. This will lead to 3 inches of pure runoff on a landscape that rarely experiences such runoff. So hillsides, channels, creeks, rivers, and so forth will all be experiencing record run-o
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"However it's not enough to sequence" I'm not sure what you mean by that. The nice thing about DNA is you can make more of it if you don't have enough. [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol
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by cjensen 4y ago
There is also a safety concern with overly cheap tools. For an example, the adjustable wrench in this article. What happens when you apply a lot of force on a stubborn nut? If the wrench experiences rapid unscheduled disassembly, you now ha
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by cjensen 4y ago
Yes it has made a difference. In white-collar crimes, prosecutors have to prove intent. That means they have to somehow find evidence that the defendant meant to do various things improperly. SBF has literally given interviews where he has

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