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by eloff 4y ago
That doesn't compute for me. You'd need to give an example for me to understand you.
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by eloff 4y ago
But increasing throughput. Given how shitty US public transport is in general, maybe that's the right tradeoff. New York is one of the best, but still shitty by EU standards.
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by eloff 4y ago
Yeah, I agree. What the parent said is akin to saying they could have donated an extra $10 million by taking it out of their R&D budget. If they thought they could cut an extra $10 million in costs somewhere, they would. That's bus
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by eloff 4y ago
Not really, because they would have spent the ad budget anyway, just without calling attention to the donation.
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by eloff 4y ago
That has yet to be proved viable. It might be competitive, it might not, we'll have to see. At any rate you could build nuclear faster than that will take to be ready for market in the best case.
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by eloff 4y ago
Trudeau's policy picks were to check boxes on unwritten gender and race quotas. They are unlikely to have been the best people for the positions, because that wasn't the criteria being applied. Some people might take umbrage at me
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by eloff 4y ago
Canada wants to implement this under the Trudeau liberal government. It's been a little disturbing to watch a Canadian liberal government take steps in the direction of totalitarian control since the beginning of the pandemic. When was
488.
by eloff 4y ago
That was Einstein's view, but it was disproved in the seventies by experimental measurements of Bell's inequality. I'm just a computer guy, so someone else can chime in with a more detailed explanation. It's also easy to
489.
by eloff 4y ago
I think the best he can hope for here is settle the lawsuit that will follow for buying twitter at a slightly reduced price. The amount he would pay to walk away is roughly equal to the current fair market value of Twitter. I wouldn't
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by eloff 4y ago
That's only in case he can't get financing. There's no option to pay $1B and walk away. Twitter can sue to force him to complete the deal under the contract they signed. However I suspect the lawsuit to be settled rather than
491.
by eloff 4y ago
Exactly this. I fixed a problem like this a week ago. I found some duplicated code, factored it out into one place by introducing an abstract base class (Python) and in the process discovered one of the duplicated methods had a logic error
492.
by eloff 4y ago
Crypto isn't big enough to do that on it's own.
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by eloff 4y ago
It's not window dressing, it address the symptoms, not the cause. But it's the symptoms that are causing the problem for us, it's enough to address them. We need to buy time to solve the root cause. Why would blocking sunligh
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by eloff 4y ago
This is a solution for climate change that's been tossed around for a while in various forms. I think it may just be one of the most viable thanks to SpaceX bringing down the cost of space launch. With starship this might just be one o
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by eloff 4y ago
I had to look that up, because I thought nobody could be that dumb. US lawmakers continue to surprise me!
496.
by eloff 4y ago
Ectopic pregnancies and other medical emergencies are usually excluded from abortion laws. Law makers could always do something dumb though, there's lots of precedent for that.
497.
by eloff 4y ago
I find the outcome unintuitive. Each person has the same starting conditions and then randomly gives away a dollar each round. There's no interest or compounding factors mentioned. My intuition is that, given enough rounds each person
498.
by eloff 4y ago
Only if you're searching for censored things.
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by eloff 4y ago
It's interesting that companies are these little island command economies inside the market economy. Is there a better way to organize them? Would democracy really work? In countries, many consider democracy to be actually worse than a
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by eloff 4y ago
I don't specifically mean why isn't more money in SpaceX in general, I want to know why there is so little money and companies actually innovating in important hard things like space, clean transportation, clean energy, etc. Imagi
501.
by eloff 4y ago
There are crypto companies valued around the level of SpaceX. It's insane where capital is being allocated. Despite his faults, I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk, because he's one of the few entrepreneurs with vision and courage to
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by eloff 4y ago
That's not by itself sufficient to explain the Fermi paradox. You can go into the math, and you can find people online who have. I don't have time to dig that up for you now though.
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by eloff 4y ago
My understanding is that heat pumps can be over 100% efficient because they're actually moving heat from A to B where one side is the outside environment. It doesn't violate thermodynamics if you view the Earth as a closed system.
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by eloff 4y ago
Presumably it would go towards defraying some of the costs of incarceration, which society pays for.
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by eloff 4y ago
Yeah, I don't see how to avoid that. It's probably a bad idea then. It's a bummer to waste good organs, but I see your point about the potential for abuse.
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by eloff 4y ago
Not if the judicial system is separate. I would say the problem here is stupid laws putting people in jail for being in possession of drugs for personal consumption. I think it's a separate concern.
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by eloff 4y ago
I think the problem here is in letting prisons have a say in laws that send people to prison.
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes
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by eloff 4y ago
I think that prisoners wronged society and owe society a debt. If their sentence includes work that benefits society in some way, that should be fair? I haven't thought about it too much, but it doesn't seem unreasonable on the su
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by eloff 4y ago
As long as prisons are separate from the judicial system, I don't see the connection. They can't actually send more people to prison.

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