ctdonath

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by ctdonath 5y ago
The whole self-appointed "fact checker empowered to cancel" movement has to stop. Far too much fair disagreement, and objective truths, have been maliciously "cancelled" for not adhering to a given narrative on public fo
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’ve been blogging since before blogging was blogging. Personal blogs are now, on the whole, not viable. Twitter is among the best platforms for being heard by the most people with the least cost/effort. Yeah, I get your point - to wit
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by ctdonath 5y ago
No government agency attempted anything like the Branch Davidian raid for the next 15 years.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Amusing, but still problematic. Blue check was intended as neutral authentication. Turning it into a preferred faction indicator just serves to promote factional divisions - something Twitter could use a lot less of. …which brings us back t
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Interesting comparison: for the Left, you choose the qualifier “dirtbag” which presumably is a very small fraction of that faction ... while comparing that unpleasant small minority with the entire other half of the political spectrum . I
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by ctdonath 5y ago
There's a difference between government acting as an interested customer, vs government subsidizing something for political reasons. Government should not be just handing out money without getting at least that much value back. Governm
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Blue check used to mean "identity objectively verified", useful to confirm the twiterati using the name is the actual person/group others think they are. Then came the Great Bluecheck Purge, where anyone exhibiting opinions n
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Because it was the moment Twitter decisively shifted from an open fair neutral public forum, where contributor accounts could be neutrally & objectively confirmed to be who they claimed to be, to a biased forum which refused legitimate
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Indeed, Twitter was great. Until the Great Bluecheck Purge, which revoked the verified status of significant twitterati - not because of question about their identity, but because their politics were incorrect.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Yes; interesting that they never bring up the chart showing we’re at the peak of a natural 125,000 year temperature cycle.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
“Black Friday” = the day most realtors go from “in the red” to “in the black” financially for the year. Been interesting watching it mutate from merely the day customers start buying gifts en masse in earnest, to a real discount & deals
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Presumably there’s a stage between achieving sentience, and realizing the importance of protecting power sources.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
When there is nothing you can say which will improve the situation, don't say. When someone doesn't want to discuss an issue to mutual conclusion (if only agreeing to disagree), don't discuss. When someone's statement&#x
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by ctdonath 5y ago
You have deprived them of the opportunity & reasons for you to purchase it from them, which is their motive for creating it.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Positive should not mean compulsory. Compulsory does not mean good. Let people opt out of regulations as they see fit. Let me have a home, if regulations would make it unattainable.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
On a whim, I looked into poverty-level taxation by plugging $12,880 into various online tax [gu]estimate calculators. Results varied from -$114 to $1080 (FICA included). Short of running it thru a real tax program (which I will in due cours
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by ctdonath 5y ago
That's accounting for PPP adjustments. Poverty line is a published official statement. Percentile of world incomes, PPP adjusted, are easily found. Find and compare them.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Poverty line = $12,880/yr : https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/povert... "A $12,880 income in the United States has enough buying power to put you in the 84th percentile globally for p
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by ctdonath 5y ago
The "bubble" accusation works both ways. "Building codes" is used here in a very broad stroke. Yes, minimum wage is 10x that of India, which means the basic cost of construction labor is already 10x. If you're going
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by ctdonath 5y ago
US "poverty line" is at 80th percentile of world incomes.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Any hope of the Lisp community pulling a Swift and replacing the language with a drop-in-compatible new one built ground-up with lessons and sensibilities learned over decades?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Then the up-front purchase cost is being relocated to later during use, and Apple fairly wants in on that.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Apple takes 30% for the purchase of an app. Whether 30% is reasonable may be debatable, but that they get a cut is not (their App Store). The post-purchase 30% cut amounts to adding or enabling content/function to the app post-purchase
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I’ve seen that template applied to every technology now considered bog standard (utterly mundane & normal).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
"Listen to me, coppertop. We don't have time for twenty questions. Right now there's only one rule, our way or the highway." - Switch, _The_Matrix_
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Solved by Tesla building EVs to million-mile specs. Between lasting 3-4x longer with few repairs, and gas savings over long usage, TCO is far less than ICE. Running numbers, I'm seeing a "Tri+FSD" Cybertruck paying for itse
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Someone elaborated on the cultural marvel that is the humble American hamburger: that a food made of ground beef, bread, pickle, lettuce, tomato, and a couple sauces - most are rapidly perishable items - can be made on demand, year-round,
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by ctdonath 5y ago
System peaks around 57W, with battery charge rate limits and frequent environmental disruptions (clouds, angles, etc). Battery (Goal Zero Sherpa 100AC) shows output load. Lowest draw on MacBook Pro 15" is 7W, usually idling 10-15W, pul
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Between experience and math, my rule is: on average, buffered with a battery, you'll get 10 watts out of a 100 watt panel (i.e.: 10% efficiency, all common conditions considered).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
I do similar with gear from https://GoalZero.com , typically using a car-portable 100W panel + 100Wh battery with USB-C support when seriously traveling, and a briefcase-friendly 20W folding panel + same battery when mobile. Wait

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