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by fatbird 3y ago
Here in British Columbia, we replaced our gas furnace with a heat pump and received $11,000 in rebates from the provincial and federal governments for doing so. We also replaced our electric stove (that we hated) with induction, not gas (w
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by fatbird 3y ago
Given how much is still unknown about the planets in our own solar system, I wonder why we haven't prioritized putting a satellite or two around each one, starting with Mars. We can obviously get the satellites there, and I'd ima
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by fatbird 3y ago
America had total control of Japan following their surrender, and the time/power/resources to rebuild Japan as they saw fit (which was to become an eastern bulwark of capitalist freedom, against China and Russia). Bombing Cambodia
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by fatbird 3y ago
They were about to laterally transfer to a new organization headed by the CEO they revered, with promises of no lost compensation. The only change would be the work address. Hardly a sacrifice sanctifying a principled position.
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by fatbird 3y ago
A decision with a cost is always more meaningful than one without.
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by fatbird 3y ago
The combined will of the employees is much less meaningful when they're saying "DO IT OR WE'LL TAKE AN ATTRACTIVE OFFER THAT'S ON THE TABLE." I'd have been more impressed by their unity if it would have meant a
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by fatbird 3y ago
It depends on your evaluation of his outcomes, but the scholarly opinion of him is that the legacy of his that endures is the death toll, while the geopolitical outcomes were bad for the U.S. (losing Vietname/Cambodia/Laos), tempo
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by fatbird 3y ago
This is actually not an uncommon situation among the lower classes. Even without high housing costs, the working poor often continue living together while divorcing because they can't afford to physically separate. My employer worked
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by fatbird 3y ago
Isn't "slow steaming" just what passenger airplanes do with cruising speed? There's an optimal point on the speed/fuel consumption curve that minimizes fuel use, and this is what ships are doing, isn't it? Or
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by fatbird 3y ago
JFC. At no time did the doctors say "we can keeping cutting it away, but who wants to wake up like that?" After the second surgery, was there even a remote chance he'd survive?
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by fatbird 3y ago
Adam D'Angelo is on the new board with Brett Taylor and Larry Summers. Tasha, Ilya and Helen are out. Still think D'Angelo wasn't the power player in the room?
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by fatbird 3y ago
It's quite common, actually.
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by fatbird 3y ago
Indeed, it is hilarious. The Foundation has nothing to do with MS and can't possibly be considered a competitor, acquisition target, supplier, or any other entity where a decision for the Foundation might materially harm MS (or the rev
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by fatbird 3y ago
Or it was recognized that Adam was the instigator and the real power player, and the force that Sam needed to come to an accommodation with. From everything I've heard about Toner, she's a very principled person who lent academic
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by fatbird 3y ago
She's an access journalist. She'll shill for the biggest voice who'll talk to her.
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by fatbird 3y ago
You're assuming the smears aren't deserved :) More anonymous voices have pointed out that Sam was effectively laying the groundwork for one or two more AI startups based on the work OpenAI was doing, without informing the board, a
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by fatbird 3y ago
You're assuming this story is legit. Anonymous sources have been all over the place, seeding the idea that that Sam will return; the board hasn't responded. Maybe it's as big a mess on the board's side as you say. May
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by fatbird 3y ago
True, to which I can only say "lol".
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by fatbird 3y ago
The comparison between South Korea and Israel isn't very strong. America fought the Korean War and still has 28,500 troops stationed there, along with a combined forces command. Some US soldiers are stationed right on the border with
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by fatbird 3y ago
Much progress has been made in mathematics by demonstrating that problems in one realm are logically equivalent to solved problems in another realm, allowing proofs from the other realm to support proofs in the first. The most obvious exam
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by fatbird 3y ago
His paragraph on git was a bit muddled because every goal he had for doing git as he says is achievable without following his rules. Arguably, squashing on merging and one commit per PR enhance readability and the comprehensibility of th
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by fatbird 3y ago
I’m friends with several university professors. One of them has a comment on RateMyProfessor that reads “She’s the dumbest smart person I’ve ever met.” I’ve also spent several years working with Honeywell, with a bunch of people with mast
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by fatbird 3y ago
Me too, since in _The Big Short_ he was so good at untangling a lot of complicated financial machinery to say “this is what was going wrong” in very tangible terms. That he doubts SBF et al actually committed a crime is boggling. The bes
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by fatbird 3y ago
A few years after the Warren Commission, Dan Rather and CBS News recreated the shooting with marksmen on a tower, and did use a moving target. Several hit with two shots; one with all three. Here's the video: https://www.yo
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by fatbird 3y ago
You realize, I hope, that all plastics are also petroleum products.
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by fatbird 3y ago
> whether it matters if a dye is water- or oil-soluble "Dyes are water soluble, and will not mix with oils." > what the difference is between a dye and a lake "Lakes are produced by coloring an aluminum salt... substrat
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by fatbird 3y ago
It was async that Justin and Thiago tried to add to vim, and spent several months wrestling with Bram to get their patch included. At the end, they concluded that they weren't going to get it in and that a fork was necessary. Includi
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by fatbird 3y ago
I don't think there was bad blood with Bram. Rather, vim was always Bram's baby, even with contributions from the community, and he was very opinionated about how things should be implemented. IIRC, he found the new features of
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by fatbird 3y ago
I'm not sure if the law is the same in Canada, but in the U.S., you are not legally liable for something you receive by failing to refuse delivery. This is a law put in place to protect businesses (or anyone) from being shipped someth
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by fatbird 3y ago
The genius of targetting "diversity" is that it's both intuitively easy to understand (whether you believe it), and absolutely unfalsifiable. There's no way to demonstrate that an influx of "diverse" people ar

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