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by gottorf 2y ago
It's true you can jump, but you do need to achieve 25,000 mph to truly "overcome" Earth's gravity ;-)
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by gottorf 2y ago
Ah, the physical equivalent of tech debt...
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by gottorf 2y ago
> We're better when things outside our control influence us at least a little. Could be a good argument for being religious.
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by gottorf 2y ago
Resume-driven development. Common antipattern.
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by gottorf 2y ago
From what I've seen of EVs currently on the market, level 1 charging (standard 15-amp 120V outlet) adds 2-5 miles of range per hour. For a typical commuter who returns home at 6pm and leaves home at 7am, that allows for 13 hours or 26-
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by gottorf 2y ago
> I think that's a decent yardstick I have relatives who suffered under imperial powers who to this day refuse to buy products made in that country, even though they're objectively good and in some cases the best in the market.
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by gottorf 2y ago
I was merely asking your question about what happens when a country fails. I have no expectation of Germany turning out like South Africa.
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by gottorf 2y ago
> their CEO throws Nazi salutes at political rallies Come now, even the Anti-Defamation League, hardly a habitual supporter of Musk, disagrees with this take. Your opinions are your own and you're free to believe he did Nazi salutes
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by gottorf 2y ago
This seems to be a problem especially concentrated in the Anglosphere. Britain[0], Canada, Australia, and to a lesser degree in the US due to its libertarian streak. I wonder why that's the case? [0]: https://ukfoundations.c
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by gottorf 2y ago
South Africa is a good example of a country that is currently in that trajectory.
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by gottorf 2y ago
Corvettes are niche cars, with only tens of thousands sold a year. Plus, I don't know when your friend got in that fender bender, but post-Covid supply chain issues meant that anybody in any newer car (with lots of electronics) who got
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by gottorf 2y ago
If you drive a new Tundra or 4runner with a lead foot in the city, you're probably going to get 10-ish mpg. Of course, that's just talking about stock vehicles. Plenty of modifications you can do a car to make it less fuel-efficie
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by gottorf 2y ago
> If other people embezzle as well, send them to prison, but there’s no universe in which Ghosn is clean. Well, selective justice is a form of injustice. I only have superficial knowledge of the Ghosn saga, but if what the GP alleges is
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by gottorf 2y ago
Property rights, of course, exist within the framework of a civilization that upholds the rule of law, and I agree with you on its fundamental importance as a building block of prosperity. I realize now that my comment didn't make this
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by gottorf 2y ago
To go further, I personally don't think the first settlers to a piece of land have a better or more special claim over it than any subsequent group. That line of thinking feels like an appeal to cosmic justice more than anything else.
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by gottorf 2y ago
What a blast from the past!
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by gottorf 2y ago
The average American utility company nets around 10% return on equity, IIRC. 30-year Treasury bonds can be had today around 4.6%, with none of the risk or headaches of operating a business. Hardly a bastion of profitability. I agree residen
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by gottorf 2y ago
I assume the same should apply to, say, USPS, and the residents of Alaska and Hawaii should stop being leeches who can get letters delivered to them below cost?
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by gottorf 2y ago
Usually, for a private company, there is a forcing function (profit and loss) that incentivizes the management to ensure the knives are at least functional. Public employment doesn't have the same forcing function, and runs the risk of
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by gottorf 2y ago
Mining rigs can be big! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
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by gottorf 2y ago
> if you can afford it just keep failing till something sticks. In the sense that infinite monkeys will eventually put out Shakespeare. In reality, money and time are both limited ;-)
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by gottorf 2y ago
> I just know that it can be corrosive for people in that position The reverse is also true: it can be corrosive for the people on the other side of that equation. Of course the 3rd generation "foreign" descendant had no choice
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by gottorf 2y ago
Yeah, you're probably right. To restate my point, it's that buying a cheap house in the US comes with risks to one's basic safety that you don't find in other developed countries.
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by gottorf 2y ago
> do you really think there has been a historical, society-wide attempt to deprive white people of the right to play basketball? You can remove white people from the equation entirely, if it makes it easier. Asians comprise 6% of the US
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by gottorf 2y ago
> the injustice is that the redlined family was denied that opportunity Right, but the median debate isn't about whether there was in fact past injustice done via discrimination on racial lines. The median person agrees. The debate
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by gottorf 2y ago
> But, group-level differences are probably caused by inequality of opportunity. There's no evidence that this is true. Even if you take the extreme position (against which there is plenty of data) that different ethnic groups are m
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by gottorf 2y ago
There's a white Korean member of the National Assembly[0], whose existence I find fascinating. I have no doubt that he would also get spoken to in English on the streets, if the speaker does not know who he is. And even more funnily, s
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by gottorf 2y ago
> there's a lot of crime This is maybe the biggest difference between America and other developed countries when it comes to this subject. You'll find that a fifth-percentile priced home in Spain, Korea, or Australia will be in
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by gottorf 2y ago
> the next government plans to continue doing it Asking as someone not that familiar with Canadian politics, is this "the next government" as in the Liberal one that would replace Trudeau after his resignation, or the (likely)
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Today's standards are indeed different The rulers of yesteryear are surely grateful that, in time, even the worst sins get washed away. "Politicians used to be honorable" must be as commonly said across generations as &q

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