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by cm2187 2y ago
There are people who are economically literate, and who recognise that the massive money printing under trump to deal with the covid shut down of the economy contributed to inflation, as did the war in ukraine and supply chain disruptions,
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by cm2187 2y ago
Agree with the Corbyn analogy, but let's not overstate Starmer's electoral appeal. He got less votes than Corbyn. What got him elected is that tory voters didn't show up to vote because of tory policies.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Don't think Trump is a great friend of Google
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by cm2187 2y ago
What do you audit if both the tally and the paper ballot are consistent? The only check possible is the voter checking themselves before they hand over the paper ballot.
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by cm2187 2y ago
If it was compromised, it wouldn't flip all the votes, it would flip just enough to change the result while staying credible. So the question is how many people double check the paper ballot. Because if it randomly flips, say 1 ballot
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by cm2187 2y ago
133kg to 93kg. But I am a big guy, 188cm, so I think my absolute min weight would be 87kg, perhaps a bit more now that I am older. To be honest I do the cardio mostly to stay healthy, I am not convinced it contributes much to the weight los
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by cm2187 2y ago
that would be a question for someone closer to the tech than me, but relevant wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc...
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Super Micro Computer stock tanks after accounting firm resigns(finance.yahoo.com)
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by cm2187 2y ago
I think you are confusing "dieting" and "sustainable lifestyle". Dieting is starving yourself to lose weight. That's not sustainable and those drugs help a lot. But once you are on target weight, you can switch to a
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by cm2187 2y ago
Though in the UK they cost something like £200 a month, I am saving that in food just by fasting while on those drugs, so it kinds of pays for itself.
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by cm2187 2y ago
...and?
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by cm2187 2y ago
It's down to how much of a diet you do (the drug only manages your appetite). I went hardcore and lost 40kg in 3 months, almost "effortlessly". One meal a day, no sugar, 45min cardio daily. Now trying to figure out where the
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by cm2187 2y ago
Yeah but you are not meant to do a diet your whole life either, they help you make a diet. If people revert to unhealthy habits after that it is on them. But there is a difference between fasting to lose weight (where you are hungry, very h
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by cm2187 2y ago
How is that different from covid vaccines? The long term risk wasn't known, but covid was super dangerous for a subset of the population, so for those it was absolutely a risk worth taking, and so is obesity.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Because what is implicit in saying that solar (or wind) is cheaper than nuclear per W produced is that it is a viable alternative to nuclear. But to be an alternative you need to be able to meet the demand whether there is light/wind o
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by cm2187 2y ago
That was true in the 70s. I think anything built in europe since the 80s can do load following and France does that every day. I think by regulation new plants must be able to adapt their production by something like 5% per 10min (or someth
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by cm2187 2y ago
I am using a 43 inch 4k monitor so I am allin on big screen real estate. But I find that even with a quarter of your screen area, I struggle to read the corners of the screen, the bottom is often obstructed by whatever is lying on my desk,
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by cm2187 2y ago
Well as long as you have vast amount of storage capacity + overprovision, or an alternative source of on-demand electricity, the cost of which I never see included when comparing to on-demand energy sources like nuclear of fossil fuels.
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by cm2187 2y ago
I remember the way we built wasp/hornet traps in the french countryside. Take a plastic bottle of water, cut it in two (top vs bottom), invert the top so the bottle opening is pointing toward the bottom, and fill the bottom of the bott
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by cm2187 2y ago
Animals have rights, but they are not treated as humans (in some jurisdictions you can even be jailed for mistreating certain animals). The anthropomorphisation of animals is kind of a childish behaviour that affects too many city kids.
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by cm2187 2y ago
If you are not doing gaming, there are still things that can make them obsolete. Driving big screens (like multiple 4k screens), hardware acceleration for video playback (hevc/av1 is on recent models only, you need hardware acceleratio
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by cm2187 2y ago
And passwords expiring every 48 hours…
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by cm2187 2y ago
And if you have a clustered index like in MS SQL Server, a non monotonic uuid results in inserting the data in the middle of the table (bad performance) rather than appending to the end.
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by cm2187 2y ago
C#'s "ToUpper" takes an optional CultureInfo argument if you want to play around with how to treat different languages. Again, solved problem decades ago.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Well pretty much every other more recent language solved that problem.
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by cm2187 2y ago
That explains why there are two functions, one for ascii and one for unicode. That doesn't explain why the unicode functions are hard to use (per the article).
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by cm2187 2y ago
I left facebook because it became a cesspool of memes and toxic political opinions about 8 years ago, and so did everyone I know. I never used twitter but I can certainly attest that you will bleed users if you push that, and probably users
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by cm2187 2y ago
If you buy your drives smartly that's amortised after 8 months. When you are looking at the cost over 5 years, it is hard to beat colocation for specialised hardware.
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by cm2187 2y ago
It depends what you do with it. If you only need a small VM to manage your emails nothing will beat a VPS. But I also use it for offsite backup, so need a bit of storage. When you add dozens of TB, dedicated quickly becomes way more expensi
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by cm2187 2y ago
Agree. I do weekly backups, the backup NAS is only switched on and off 52 times a year. After 5-6 years the disks are probably close to new in term of usage vs disks that have been running continuously over that same period. Which leads to

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