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by crmd 1y ago
1. I am rooting for wind and solar generation but I am skeptical that sodium ion battery production could ramp from today’s pilots to the >100 TWh needed for grid-scale alone in less than 20 years. There is also the issue of transmissio
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by crmd 1y ago
By far, my priority for energy policy, in the US where I live, is to lower the cost of energy. After reading Claim 11, starting on page 29, where the authors state that: >unsubsidized solar energy is now generally cheaper than fossil f
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by crmd 1y ago
>What I can’t live with is the new policy, implemented this year, where you must buy your drives from Synology. Used to do the same thing at EMC back in the 90s-early 2000s with Symmetrix. The cover story was that the EMc-branded drives,
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by crmd 1y ago
It sounds like somewhere around level 4-7 of an Autocratic Legalism [1] strategy. Absolutely insane to see this happening in my home country. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocratic_legalism
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by crmd 1y ago
> Three of the sources said officials at the Department of Defense had previously raised concerns about political donations made by Beck to Democrats. If true, this is insane. I don’t understand how the US government firing an employee f
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by crmd 1y ago
Well said, thank you
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by crmd 1y ago
So did I :-) but I think the concepts are related: Linus’ ability to shift into autocratic leadership mode when necessary seems to prevent issues like the 4 year indecisiveness on v2/core from compromising product quality to the point
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by crmd 1y ago
I had kidney stone surgery (laser lithotripsy) in Manhattan last Friday morning and literally the first thing I was given after changing into the paper gown was 2 500mg Tylenol pills and a cup of water. I don’t know if you’re a physician bu
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by crmd 1y ago
I am saying this as a lifelong supporter and user of open source software: issues like this are why governments and enterprises still run on Oracle and SQL Server. The author was able to rollback his changes, but in some industries an unpla
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by crmd 1y ago
As someone who’s likely soon wrapping up 18 years of psychodynamic-based therapy, where I learned to ask all right questions (and opportunity cost could have bought a brownstone in brooklyn), but didn’t get any actionable answers, I really
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by crmd 1y ago
Fark was great. All hail Drew!
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by crmd 1y ago
Back in the day I was mostly on slashdot, Reddit, digg, and metafilter. Digg was the first site where I started seeing brainrot nonsense content on the front page every day, with orders of magnitude larger than usual upvotes of tech news, f
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by crmd 1y ago
It’s not paid for “with their profits”, it’s a passthru charge directly onto customers’ monthly bills.
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by crmd 1y ago
One of my favorite things here in New York City is how Con Ed gets approval to pass infrastructure upgrade costs directly to consumers, but at the end of the financing period the asset is mysteriously owned by their board of directors, not
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by crmd 1y ago
To me Woz is a connection back to the hippy-libertarian utopian engineering roots of Silicon Valley, decades before the current leaders, who seem to be much more misanthropic and ethically challenged than the generation of CEOs before them.
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by crmd 1y ago
I remember this on Solaris 7! I thought it was the cutting edge of desktop computing
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by crmd 1y ago
This article brings back fond memories of the UNIX workstation days. The first time I used Photoshop was on an SGI Indy in college. Remembering those times is like a peak into an alternate timeline where Microsoft Windows fizzled out instea
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by crmd 1y ago
I’m in Park Slope and have a similar use case. Can you share the name of the company you went with?
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by crmd 1y ago
I assume when I’m using Tor that every packet is the under the highest level of collection/analysis priority. I think maybe sometimes it’s better to blend into in the crowd
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by crmd 1y ago
This question has been re-homed to a farm upstate with other retired questions, and never has to worry about being deleted.
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by crmd 1y ago
No, it would be a mixed economy, where private individuals and businesses provide most of the goods and services, and the government plays a significant role in regulating the market. Monopolized markets are almost always evidence of regula
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by crmd 1y ago
Another potential alternative is healthy capitalism, where a large number healthcare providers are in competition with each other to provide the best service at the lowest cost. In this model a hospital, for example, would be forbidden to b
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by crmd 1y ago
Thanks, that makes sense.
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by crmd 1y ago
I’m struggling to square Vance and the administration’s position here with the fact that the US IC uses GCHQ to collect on US persons since they’re not allowed to do so directly. Why wouldn’t they want it to be easier for NSA to spy on Amer
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by crmd 1y ago
In a healthy marketplace, customers stop using merchants that abuse customers, until they change their practices or go out of business and are replaced by more customer-responsive competitors. Here in the US, however, 5 hotel brands have be
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by crmd 1y ago
It’s been invaluable to me for market research related to starting a business. It’s like having a bright early career new hire research assistant/product manager “on staff” to collaborate with.
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by crmd 1y ago
The strategic objective here is to authenticate all web traffic.
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by crmd 1y ago
Remove the municipal revenue motive: no fines, only points on the license, with an option to plead not guilty in traffic court like a normal police interaction.
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by crmd 1y ago
Earlier in my career I worked for a tech industry-famous CEO who is long retired. One of the most unconventional things he taught me was that “our highest obligation is to employees and their families. Second is to investors. Third is to th
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by crmd 1y ago
I don’t remember when it became normalized for profitable companies to casually execute major layoffs. It used to be a “shameful” last resort that CEOs turned to as a last ditch effort to save a company facing bankruptcy. I suspect it’s rel

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