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by creato 5y ago
How is that different than 8 kw of solar panels in a utility scale solar installation that costs significantly less than your residential system? $0.94/W for utility scale [1], and $2.81/W for residential [2]. 1. https:/&#x2
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by creato 5y ago
Insider trading was already made illegal once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act We could just vote for politicians like those that passed that law the first time around. Defeatism in politics is really annoying.
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by creato 5y ago
This sounds possibly reasonable... If the price is low, the supply is high enough already, adding more supply might not be helping anyone, dentists nor patients.
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by creato 5y ago
Did I miss where this article explains why this should be the case? There's a lot of data here, but not much explanation of the methodology or why it makes sense. It's cheaper to build utility scale solar/wind, it's pr
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by creato 5y ago
I don't think that's the same thing. If you are a youtube creator and you want your videos to be monetized, you need advertisers to want to advertise on your content. As amply demonstrated by many youtube creators, you are free to
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by creato 5y ago
Many of the most serious recent incidents don't involve theft of end user data or impacting end users in any real way, unless you consider the "end users" of gas stations and ferry boats to be the victims of these attacks. Th
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by creato 5y ago
I think a big factor here is IT people jumping at the chance to say "I told you so! Triple my budget!" I agree the problem is that these criminals are sheltered from prosecution.
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by creato 5y ago
Of course, but it doesn't invalidate the point, banning cash would have similarly reduced muggings. Just like banning bitcoin will reduce ransomware activity.
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by creato 5y ago
It is not explicitly a class issue, it is insurance companies looking for any reason to get out of paying a claim, and testing positive for drugs is one of those reasons. My guess is this comes about because insurance companies will dodge c
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by creato 5y ago
Even if you don't trust police at all, it makes no sense for them to lie about this. The truth of the matter will come out in court, lying has no upside and significant downside.
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by creato 5y ago
In CO, Texans are the boogeyman
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DRAM manufacturers continue (knowingly at this point) to manufacture faulty products, and we should blame Intel?
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I agree. And I'm comparing car dealerships to Apple :)
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by creato 5y ago
> The auto industry has widespread part available for decades with no ill effects. That depends on who you ask. Car dealerships probably think they have suffered great ill effects from the existence of independent repair shops.
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by creato 5y ago
> I temporally lived in S. Korea for a few months and there were solid blocks of days the air quality was so bad you could barely be outside. Of course the pollution made its way down from China’s unregulated factories. I quickly realize
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> It's also not surprising, considering the gender balance of HR departments [2], and women tend to hold gender biased beliefs (female teachers in the UK mark boys worse for identical work, for example [3]). I agree it's not su
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I think there's less difference than you think. Big social networks employ moderators too. People complain about the moderators on small forums too. I think the only difference is that politicians don't even pretend to care about
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by creato 5y ago
> 1. I feel a 45% cut to YouTube is too big. Compare that to Patreon, which takes 5%. Granted YouTube offers a lot more for their cut, but the difference feels too big, especially given point 2 below. You can't be serious with this
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by creato 5y ago
One of the issues people have mentioned in this thread is that cards sold by miners are often burnt out or nearly burnt out. In that case, it seems like cutting off miners from the secondary market would be an improvement for the secondar
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by creato 5y ago
One could argue this is the exact same thing: protecting their long-time customers from a small number of big customers (datacenters) that can afford to dramatically out-price their gamer customers temporarily, but might disappear (if they
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by creato 5y ago
It is unfortunate, but it is less unfortunate than the behavior of crypto miners. Freedom is great when people aren't using their freedom to infringe on other people's freedom.
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by creato 5y ago
You're writing as if somehow general pandemic response has been deprioritized in favor investigating the lab leak theory, which is absurdly far from reality. This incident has cost millions of lives and possibly undone decades of progr
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by creato 5y ago
The same thing happens in nature too ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio... ). Capitalism isn't the cause of everything you don't like.
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by creato 5y ago
On one hand, Diesel seems too important to ban. On the other hand, I don't understand how it wasn't already illegal for a long time. I don't need to see a Diesel truck to know one is upwind within a few blocks because the exh
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by creato 5y ago
In this case: > Another man was seriously injured when the electric vehicle hit him as he was helping the truck driver out of the wreck.
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by creato 5y ago
Great points. This is why I didn't try to argue that claim. It just doesn't matter.
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by creato 5y ago
Written by a computer scientist and a naturopath, and the abstract says a lot of things that sound scary, but also apply to the virus itself (or any virus, including the viruses used in other types of vaccines). If I'm going to have my
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by creato 5y ago
I could see sqrtf(x) being faster than 1/rsqrt(x). An integer software implementation of sqrt and division will be similar (in fact, I think if implemented with Newton's method, sqrt will be significantly faster), and you still ha
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I think a more likely explanation is that they supported everything that fits in 128 bit registers (the same as ARM NEON). Trying to emulate code using 256 bit registers on a machine with 128 bit registers is probably difficult and patholog
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"There are clearly so many things that x86 does that no sane person would do if making a clean design today" and "x86 has been a continuously supported backwards compatible architecture for 35 years, and enabled the existence

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