coryrc

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by coryrc 5mo ago
But do they get recycled? Or do they get burnt or mixed in with useful material and shipped off to be thrown in a river in SEA? Also, some of pizzas I get have a separate circle piece they sit on and the box doesn't get any grease on
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by coryrc 5mo ago
"Lucky bamboo" is actually a lily.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
It's First Pass the Post that causes that. We have maybe 30% is the population that wants guns highly restricted and a different 30% that wants abortions highly restricted. We have something like 52% that want Medicare4All. But we just
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by coryrc 5mo ago
There's already a revolution going on and we're losing. They stacked the courts. The blood of innocents in the streets and ICE prisons. Either we overhaul the system that got us to this point or we concede. I'm tired of dumba
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by coryrc 5mo ago
1. That doesn't solve the Senate problem. The Supreme Court has failed to uphold the 10th amendment and we should stop pretending we're actually 55 mini countries. 2. They're probably up for the challenge. But also, that stil
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Our systems are highly undemocratic. A vote in Wyoming is at least an order-of-magnitude more impactful than one in California. > all the incentives align towards pleasing extremists Systems create the incentive! Changing the system chan
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by coryrc 5mo ago
No. A language with checked arrays can never have a buffer overrun like C arrays can. Some things are better. Game theory demonstrates this.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Appalachian mountains.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Learning calculus is table stakes. While you're almost certainly wrong about "not learning calculus or chemistry better at MIT than in an unknown university", learning happens outside the classroom just as much as within it.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Our systems need to be MORE democratic! First Pass The Post is democratic, but the worst way of it. In most districts, 40-49% of voters are disenfranchised by gerrymandering. Mixed Member Proportional is far more representative. If you assu
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Hydrogen is used as feedstock for many industrial processes, but also converting it to methanol should be the way to go for seasonal storage, but getting cost-effective hydrogen is the harder step.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
I would say your question needs to be expanded to "Is this a valuable & efficient way to store energy which can be scaled to any location ?". The pumped options aren't. Batteries are cost-effective for time-of-day shifti
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by coryrc 5mo ago
It's an AND. The union is why administrations can't get rid of the problem employees. In Seattle, the police are "quiet quitting" (traffic ticketing is down 8x over ~10 years ago) and literally committing fraud and getti
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by coryrc 5mo ago
> What are you having trouble finding, out of curiosity? Five employees couldn't find the macarons (I found them next to the raw chicken!?) The snack bars are being moved around. Now some of the ones we buy are with the toothpaste!?
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by coryrc 5mo ago
> Wanting to actually know what the full picture is allows us to reproduce it. That's why there's an article, with text beyond the headline.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Don't be obtuse. You can quit a boss and never see them again.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
> simply stating "stayed in school" feels like an oversimplification of what was done here > Am I misunderstanding something here? "Stayed in school" is a clear, binary condition that's easily measured and has
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by coryrc 5mo ago
The "new" white Leviton is kinda nice. Or maybe I don't know what I'm missing!
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Buying the panel box which is unchanged from the last 70 years and costs $50 less than a nicer new style, but also our houses are big enough the panel is nearly always in a mechanical room so who cares what it looks like.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
> A robot to pull 100 acres of white mustard and weeds is what? Lets step back and say: could a bunch of humans with hand tools do this? Yes, they could. (As opposed to, say, eradicating horsetail: if we can't even do it ourselves,
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Too many, but at least some are directly on vehicles. Transit (in the USA, on the West coast) is funded >90% by taxes on income, property, vehicle registration, fuel, etc not by the people using it.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
Doesn't matter if there's only four people willing to ride on a given schedule.
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by coryrc 5mo ago
> in your comment you're excluding road cost Partially not, as gas taxes cover part of it. I think gas and diesel taxes should cover the full cost of roads, which would help. Still doesn't mean transit should be run so ineffici
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by coryrc 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927171
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by coryrc 6mo ago
Yes to the first half, for the most part.
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by coryrc 6mo ago
In Washington State, they're required to follow most car rules when in a lane, but not all (i.e. all stop signs are yield for cyclists). They also have a set of rules allowing for sidewalk usage when mounted; when dismounted, they fo
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by coryrc 6mo ago
I'll steelman it: previously there was no monetary gain to be made by messing with weather sensors. A market like this creates one, creating an externality on owners of weather sensors, on enforcers and courts to investigate and prosec
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by coryrc 6mo ago
They get used in burst cycles -- like 10 days straight at harvest time, other times not started for months. Battery cost per kwh used is very low amortized over its full lifespan, but if you only use it to 1% of its capability your costs ar
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by coryrc 6mo ago
And not enough share on the people who built on a tinderbox which historically regularly (every few years) had fires go through.
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by coryrc 6mo ago
Exactly. I've never not bought something because the website was temporarily down. I've even bought from b&h photo! Even if Amazon was down, if I was planning to buy, I'd wait. heck, I got a bunch of crap in my cart right

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