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by derriz 2mo ago
What economic "just so" stories have I presented? You accept that economic capacity is not infinite, right? Then you need to tell me from which sector would you reallocate workers to doing the things you listed: producing cheap
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by derriz 2mo ago
Countries don’t have infinite supplies of labor and capital. The more of an economy dedicated to making cheap plastic toys or stitching tshirts, the less economic resources available for inventing the next iPhone. The very reason China is
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by derriz 2mo ago
We have all the technological tools available to largely decarbonize energy. We don’t have to wait for, nor have the time, to wait around for a deus-ex-machina. Given the dominance of state level actors in fossil fuel extraction (a role th
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by derriz 2mo ago
Why? The vast majority of fossil fuel production globally is through state-owned companies.
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by derriz 3mo ago
By "through metadata", you mean with some external separate mechanism unrelated to the XML spec? That's exactly the flaw of what's supposed to be a universal and general document representation. Both UTF-8 or UTF-16 are
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by derriz 3mo ago
I dislike it because it failed in such a fundamental way as a way to represent a document; you cannot, in general, reliably determine what characters the bytes in an XML file represent - the best a general XML processor can do is guess.
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by derriz 3mo ago
Yes. The power in wind is proportional to the cube of wind speed - which falls significantly as you get closer to the ground especially in a typical residential setting. Anything below 15m is going to struggle to deliver any kind of useful
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by derriz 3mo ago
I would have imagined that an influx of any type of money - not just foreign money - into a market with limited supply growth would push up prices. Probably I am getting overly sensitive about what seems to be creeping casual xenophobia eve
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by derriz 3mo ago
> You are arguing that he came to the "wrong" conclusions without actually arguing against those conclusions I am not. Benn claims that the papers say one thing when in fact, if you read them (even the abstracts), they mostly s
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by derriz 3mo ago
How? He carefully examines and actually reads all the papers referenced in the video and shows that they either don’t support Benn’s claims or completely contradict them? Drawing conclusions about Benn Jordan on this basis is not ad homin
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by derriz 3mo ago
I was a regular viewer of Benn Jordan until seeing one of his videos about how Apple sucked because the iPad was incompatible with so many MIDI and DAW controllers. He went through his devices one by one, plugging them into the iPad and th
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by derriz 4mo ago
I don't see how you can make such a binary claim - UK vs "the rest of Europe". Your map shows 6 broad categories of legal systems in use across Europe. Even if you put the 5 non-common law systems into one bucket, it still
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by derriz 4mo ago
Have you a source? Using IMF data for GDP per capita PPP, the UK's growth has underperformed that of France, Spain and Italy over the last 10 years. In 2016 the UK's per-capita GDP in international dollars exceeded that of Franc
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by derriz 4mo ago
But why is having a pair of separate independent operations, fork and exec, required to achieve this? A single fexec call could be implemented to work in the way you describe, no?
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by derriz 4mo ago
Even if only 30% of the population are citizens (like in Kuwait)?
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by derriz 5mo ago
Here's my small pushing back story. I was an independent contractor for a large bank. My contract kept getting rolled so I ended up there for a few years even if the original piece of work was an 8 month job. A new CIO was appointed
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by derriz 5mo ago
The only reason I learned to touch type was out of boredom and the fact that the only “game” for the TI99/4a system (it had an “extender” with floppy drive and ran some spreadsheet) that my dad brought home from work at weekends was a
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by derriz 5mo ago
VAT is the simplest of all taxes for businesses to deal with. VAT taxes business profits in a simple and completely unavoidable way before companies have a chance to throw their best accountants, lawyers and consultants at the task of min
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by derriz 5mo ago
VAT is trivial for businesses to deal with. You add x% onto every invoice you issue. The VAT due to be paid to the government is a simple sum of the amounts distinctly shown on each invoice you issue minus the sum of the VAT amounts on in
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by derriz 5mo ago
Probably it's just down to a different understanding of the word "internalize". I know how to _use_ bazel effectively to do my work. I'm comfortable with its well-designed surface but whenever I've tried to underst
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by derriz 5mo ago
How do you internalize it? Our bazel system is full of custom skylark code so understanding the build means effectively reading a bunch of ad-hoc code written with varying degrees of competence and with confusing dependencies. I’m kinda as
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by derriz 5mo ago
What acting have I been doing? Feels like a weasely way of accusing me of lying when I said I hated my experience of factory work. If you have had a different experience of factory work, let’s hear it. And preferably without the presumpt
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by derriz 5mo ago
You know nothing of my friends. Have you ever worked in a factory? I find the people most enthusiastic about manufacturing are the ones least likely to have stood at a station in a factory performing manufacturing "work" - the va
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by derriz 5mo ago
When people extol the virtues of manufacturing, I’m always reminded of the poll where 80% of Americans say that the country would benefit from a bigger manufacturing base but only 25% are interested in actually working in manufacturing. Th
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by derriz 5mo ago
There are just too many examples of political leaders who achieved beneficial results initially but as their reign extended into decades, things went sour. Putin, Mugabe, Erdogan, Ferdinand Marcos, Mubarak, Hugo Chavez, Castro and even th
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by derriz 5mo ago
Term limits encourage the development of robust laws, systems and institutions which provide a far more stable basis for running a society than having power structures that rely on the brilliance of an individual or individuals. Without te
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by derriz 5mo ago
I had a look at the reference and the Wikipedia creates a misleading picture. The source states > Ireland has very limited horticultural and grain production on account of its topography and climate, and it imports around 80 percent of
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by derriz 5mo ago
Why the reference to “modern Java” then? Writing adaptor classes is not “modern Java” nor does it involve using “a mix of interfaces and default methods implementations”. I was responding to your original claim and I’m well aware of such f
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by derriz 5mo ago
> Actually in modern Java you can simulate type classes approach with a mix of interfaces and default methods implementations. Can you? The beauty of traits/type classes is that you can attach them to any type - in a world where 90
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by derriz 5mo ago
The last new coal power plant to come on-line in the US was in 2013 at Sandy Creek - 13 years ago. The last new coal power station built in Australia - Bluewaters Power station was built in 2009 - 17 years ago. In Europe coal's share

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