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by elgenie 4y ago
This explanation for the technique’s general inapplicability is touched on in the article. It sounds like all of the HIV-cured were people that had a blood cancer that was, presumably, not responding to chemo, and for which they needed to g
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by elgenie 4y ago
Major chunks of Italy are basically outdoor museums that people happen to live in, so even if the math doesn't completely pencil out on these particular first generation panels, it still probably makes sense as a long-term investment t
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by elgenie 4y ago
The process you’re describing is demystifying computers, not computing. It’s the path of: “Here are basic building blocks, here’s the machine from them, here’s simple things you can do with it, here’s a bare metal language for it, here’s a
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by elgenie 4y ago
US Postal Service delivery trucks, which to a first approximation do exclusively stop-and-go driving block-to-block day-after-day, get only ~10 miles per gallon. FedEx / UPS / DHL / Amazon aren't much better. The biggest
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by elgenie 4y ago
Even the most efficient ICE engines are dramatically less efficient than the worst natural gas plants (like, on the scale of 25% versus 60%), the economies of scale at utilities allow for future improvements and pollution capture, and that&
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by elgenie 4y ago
The "reddit mod" the comment you're responding to would be one in charge of a particular subreddit, not of the entire network (the latter would be an "admin" in reddit parlance). A quick perusal of https:/&#x2
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by elgenie 4y ago
The main issue with right-sizing infrastructure solutions by devolving them to small communities is myopia with respect to unknown-unknowns and especially to the question of whether there should be a small community in that location at all.
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by elgenie 4y ago
It's also a matter of scale and returns. Were there a fleet of same-model ferries operating close together, then their repair and parts would be readily available nearby. Were it actually important economically for the town to be conti
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by elgenie 4y ago
The 1992 moratorium to allow the stocks to the recover is it being managed, correct. It’s an example of a coordination problem that that darn nanny state is decent at handling. But restarting fishing won’t help the outports much if at all
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by elgenie 4y ago
Silly lawmakers, thinking that a boat that sticks nets in the water is a different business with different concerns than an on-land factory that takes fish as an input. BTW, this is Newfoundland where, left to their own devices free from in
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by elgenie 4y ago
Even the intelligence community's own PR materials wouldn't put forward such a claim. Saying something like "can’t imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this" in the first place shows a misunderstanding of
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by elgenie 4y ago
It’s quite bad for the business as a going concern and its ability to serve customers and employ employees when it suddenly, and for no obvious reason, takes on tons of debt. Money isn’t free and loans demand payment. In Twitter’s case, its
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by elgenie 4y ago
2 hour round trip * 5 days/week * 48 working weeks/year * 20 years = 9,600 hours commuting. Assuming 16 hours awake per day, that's 600 days of your life over two decades. One might observe that if that's not an outlier,
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by elgenie 4y ago
The dude rolled in with an understanding of the space one would expect of a college sophomore doing just OK in an interview for a PM internship, but is somehow expecting everyone to be amazed by his keen insight. Being an engineer / co
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by elgenie 4y ago
Hate to break it you, but that particular Mike Jones (who?) masterwork is nearing voting age. Mr Jones also included the area code, didn’t repeat the number in the chorus, and didn’t put it in the song title; and “Back Then” also wasn’t nea
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by elgenie 4y ago
For anyone not getting the cultural reference, it's due to a 40 year old pop song that used that phone number (as one belonging to a Jenny to be called "for a good time"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTd
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by elgenie 4y ago
“Inflation” means “increase in price levels”. That’s it. “Inflation is transient” fits prices increasing and then leveling out, and does not imply that every bit of price increase is balanced out one-for-one by immediate deflation afterwar
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by elgenie 4y ago
Alternatively, a reasonable medical system might err on the side of a few more not entirely necessary C-sections as opposed to more not entirely necessary maternal and baby deaths. As a legacy of upright locomotion balanced with large crani
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by elgenie 4y ago
Right, the limited circumstances for termination were outlined in section 8.1 of the offer agreement: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522... “Pay $2B and out” was not a choice av
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by elgenie 4y ago
Nope. There was a provision that Musk would be on the hook for $1B if a third party (e.g. regulators) blew up the deal in a couple enumerated ways. No such option was available to Musk himself. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/
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by elgenie 4y ago
No, he signed a contract to buy something with no contingencies at what everyone quickly came to realize was 2x to 3x what it was worth. Twitter’s management, acting in the best interest of their shareholders, used the court to force him to
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by elgenie 4y ago
Grades from different schools are not remotely equivalent in representing material learned. However, they are comparable with respect to the hoop-jumping conscientiousness of the students involved, and there's a decent argument that it
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by elgenie 4y ago
Kids would instead be locked into shit schools because their parents aren't there, don't care, or simply don't have the time to research alternate schools, but (yay!) private and charter schools get to siphon off money from t
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by elgenie 4y ago
My mnemonic is "i.e." = "in essence" and "e.g." = "example given". The real phrases being abbreviated are, of course, the Latin ones.
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by elgenie 4y ago
Being able to build infrastructure is a core state/social capacity that has to be improved; there's nothing special about trains. There's also no alternative, because roads, bridges, pipes, water filtration plants, transmissi
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by elgenie 4y ago
That’s just Islamic aniconism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam Islamic religious art na look agnostic … if you don’t know what you’re looking at. Of course, without context Christian religious art is a
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by elgenie 4y ago
Willis has been confined to "geezer teasers" [1] for the last decade or so because he has progressive aphasia, a condition that made it very hard for him to learn and adequately deliver lines and has now forced him to step away fr
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by elgenie 4y ago
There are some individual governments that run like the mafia (Putin's Russia comes to mind), but the analogy doesn't really hold in the typical case.
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by elgenie 4y ago
It's a game of musical chairs; there's no solution to 40 years of a multi-thousand annual shortfall in new units that doesn't involve building those units or otherwise making the equivalent housing capacity available.
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by elgenie 4y ago
The point is that it’s the high per capita demand of only 5.5M people: ~83B kWH total. The absolute amount of capacity that has to come online for self-sufficiency would be a sliver of the demand of a more populous nation.

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