hadleybelter

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by hadleybelter 4y ago
>Wind was one factor, but it did not suffer the largest outages of Texas's various electricity sources - someone in another comment shared a pretty good youtube video by Practical Engineering on this topic. And there really was a re
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by hadleybelter 4y ago
You mean the rest of the US that has been facing widespread threats of blackouts this summer? https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypnja/majority-of-us-power-... https://www.cnn.com/2022/05&#
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by hadleybelter 4y ago
The most recent issues for which the Texas electrical grid was in the news for, the near-blackouts earlier this month, were specifically because of unpredictably low wind speeds in west Texas which reduced Texas's expected wind generat
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by hadleybelter 4y ago
It was, and is, a hugely meaningful factor. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending that it's a republican smear campaign doesn't help. Texas has more wind power generation than any other state in the US by far . Texas is a
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by hadleybelter 4y ago
The big 4 accounting firms are also the big 4 consulting firms. Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG all have both large accounting arms as well as massive consulting arms. There's also the "Big 3" or "MBB" which refers to t
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by hadleybelter 4y ago
I know that some consulting shops are sweat shops like you describe, but not all are. I worked for one of the major consulting Big4s and my experience couldn't be more different (except for spending most weeks out of town). I was there
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by hadleybelter 4y ago
The large scale consulting firms collectively pull in hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue per year and they're mostly _okay_, you just don't hear about them because nobody writes a front page HN article about "that one
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by hadleybelter 4y ago
The point of this technology is that the 20 people behind cannot see the same thing you do. This isn't just "Jane is walking past, let's display Jane's information on the TV now". The point is that this technology h
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by hadleybelter 6y ago
>The right to peaceful assembly is not conditional on legitimate purpose; same as the right to free expression. Yes it absolutely is. I have no idea why you think otherwise. The right to "free expression" is conditional as well
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by hadleybelter 6y ago
"Staying healthy" can be done with zero equipment and no gym membership. If you think otherwise, then your goal isn't to "stay healthy", your goal is to show off at gym bunnies. And no, your showing off and vanity i
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by hadleybelter 6y ago
>I also don’t want them to shut down gyms, or voting, or churches, or any other peaceful reason (dumb) people wish to assemble. You are attempting to equate assembly for the purpose of fighting racism or exercising vitally important acti
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by hadleybelter 6y ago
I've worked for both a Big 4 as a tech consultant, as well as a FAANG. They both have their pros and cons. The first thing is that they really have two completely different cultures that appeal to completely different people. The way I