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by dv_dt 1y ago
I sure wish heat pumps were higher in my awareness when I had to replace an old AC/Gas central air stack - though that was many years ago before the efficiencies of heat pumps were quite as nice as the current generation.
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by dv_dt 1y ago
Looking it the first link https://www.lesswrong.com/w/epistemology - it has frankly a comically shallow description of the topic, same with https://www.lesswrong.com/w/priors . In just about every
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by dv_dt 1y ago
The rationalist discussions rarely consider what should be the baseline assumption of what if one or more of the logical assumptions or associations are wrong. They also tend to not systematically plan to validate. And in many domains - wh
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by dv_dt 1y ago
Not being able to use Firefox for banking or finance is something that hasn't happened to me in years. When it did happen, it was usually fixed with a simple workaround of sending a custom user agent string.
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by dv_dt 1y ago
That frankly sounds fascinating & amazing. Are the cultures used for grafting onto plants or something else entirely? I had an aunt that used to grow specialty crops and they were always rotating the varieties and raising different seed
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by dv_dt 1y ago
I too think it would be definitely more stable Linux Host with Win VM guests, but I can see the other way around being more convenient to get support for commercially. Though with the VMWare licensing changes, I think what is by default eas
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by dv_dt 1y ago
Retail shelves are a easy personally viewable measure, but a ramping logistics disruption & price increase on all sorts of processes we rely on daily may also be going on in parallel with more empty shelves. Parts for factories, cars, a
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by dv_dt 1y ago
I would think that renewable infrastructure could be the fix, at least if you start installing larger battery capacity to meet renewable store and usage shifts, the grid essentially is installing the resources that can also be used to respo
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by dv_dt 1y ago
Since the US never fixes problems like healthcare or housing costs, I wouldn't be surprised that any tech savings are more than swamped by the costs of keeping up with competitive wages and benefits. Good data analytical process still
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by dv_dt 2y ago
I don't know if its the best at this, but I've been listening to radio from around the world at https://radio.garden/
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Being ideals, all of those ideals in reality are implemented with different tradeoffs in different nations with different risks going forward. Discussing in more detail how one arrives at that particular choice of options is more interestin
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by dv_dt 2y ago
I think a lot of the decentralization also correlated up with a wide range of directions, with decisions to pursue activity made at much lower levels than happens today.
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by dv_dt 2y ago
France and Spain continue to exist and they were former hegemons. China has stably existed with long periods of turning inwards after more regional hedgemony.
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Though there could be some secondary downsides, this sounds like a nice opportunity for AMD too
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by dv_dt 2y ago
0 man + one accounts dept
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by dv_dt 2y ago
One use of antibiotics in the cattle industry is as a way of increasing weight in livestock. It's theoretically discouraged now for that purpose now in the US, but last I looked there were large loopholes for preventative health purpos
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by dv_dt 2y ago
I respect the requirement some have for a numpad. However, at this point, I don't even have a numpad for my desktop workstation. I like the shorter reach between the home keys and a mouse on the right.
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by dv_dt 2y ago
A more insidious aspect of grocery shoppings is that companies can pay for better placement on the store shelves & floor.
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Seems like it would be more like a revival of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Id agree with ten years to never for a 1:1 100% replacement - but Im not sure that is the required threshold for drones to replace a development budget item for upgrading to an next x-gen manned fighter.
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by dv_dt 2y ago
What you're describing isn't out of control, all businesses have income and expenses, good management is watching both sides and building the organization that connects the two in the middle. Sudden drastic moves if the business i
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by dv_dt 2y ago
If the layoffs are taking a company which could be stably growing to one which is going downhill - in that case the execs actually hurting their long term compensation. But i get it, it's like junk food for execs, easy to do, crisp in
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by dv_dt 2y ago
It may kill human piloted powered combat aircraft in favor of missiles and drones
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by dv_dt 2y ago
The big tech companies paying the largest salaries are raking in billions in profits. How does this square with the view that software development costs are out of control? Layoffs today seem more like execs following management fads for ea
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by dv_dt 2y ago
There is the question of if layoffs saved the company enough to save itself or improve? And with that data you could say layoffs by themselves don't. Today the question is why companies making good profits are making layoffs. And looki
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by dv_dt 2y ago
And a willingness to allow open ended exploration of wide of problems, combined with putting together all kinds of experts. Plenty of companies have this moat now but aren't willing to leave thins as open ended. Sadly our academic inst
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Thats good to know. On recycling or not, i dont think it will ever be a universal yes or no. But if the tech was there to reliably identify & pull out a processable stream that has concrete assessable value. Its probsbly a harder requi
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by dv_dt 2y ago
It would be great to sample plastic and get composition sufficient to determine a recycling category
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Because the paper and ink handling mechanicals are even less common than say PC grade electronics which are largely commoditized for an ecosystem of multiple designers. Eg Framework or MSI etc can design and build motherboards in the ecosys
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by dv_dt 2y ago
Fewer or shorter daily syncs is a plus

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