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by hguant 5y ago
I don't want to say so, but...so? At Intel scale, they're able to buy carbon offsets or - gasp! - install their own solar/wind in their properties. The municipal and state governments are I'm sure bending over backwards
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by hguant 5y ago
There comes a point where the money just isn't a motivating factor anymore, and companies are struggling to figure out how to work in that environment. This bit from the author hits the nail on the head: >Is an extra $10k per year w
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by hguant 5y ago
>they have to solve all those solved problems again because companies that solved the problems won't share their solutions. ...because those solutions are the company's competitive advantage that China has tried to steal for ye
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by hguant 5y ago
Yes - basically, high quantities of volcanic ash act as a much stronger binder than is currently used/available now, and the chemistry of the cement they used meant that as it aged it got stronger. Tangentially - it's not that we
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by hguant 5y ago
I think writing down your master password, or the hard recovery keys, on a piece of paper, and storing that with your lawyer or in a safety deposit box accessible by your lawyer/executor of your estate is the correct way to go about th
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by hguant 5y ago
This is being pitched like it's a DC issue, but any one who lives in the area can tell you that the stretch of road they're talking about - Fredericksburg to Aquia, from what I can tell - is god awful, has been god awful, and from
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by hguant 5y ago
The accused's criminal history comes up more in sentencing than it does in actual criminal cases - in the US system you're being tried on the crime before the court, not anything from your past. There are obvious exceptions - some
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by hguant 5y ago
>but I don't see why the EU shouldn't be able to defend it's own territory in a conventional war. Because money spent in an efficient and effective system has more power than money spent in an ineffective and bloated syste
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by hguant 5y ago
>There really needs to be a term for this widespread inability to differentiate between 'the science' as in the correct application of the scientific method to arrive at empirical conclusions about the world around us and &#x27
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by hguant 5y ago
The UI issue is real, and is a problem, but the root cause of the 7th Fleet's crashes during that time period is lack of training and inadequate leadership, due to an operational tempo that's Thenot sustainable given current fundi
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by hguant 5y ago
A lot of research institutions will have a greater number of graduate students than undergraduate students, as grad students are (supposedly) the focus of the organization - they're the ones who are training to be members of the academ
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by hguant 5y ago
>they have some initial mission they can do efficiently Because the initial mission is still, by and large, done by volunteers and unpaid editors. Wikimedia is a bloated leech
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by hguant 5y ago
> There's a couple of things in there that are just correlated to the fact that the author is around young/wealthy people, like the low obesity rate The other issue is geographic - the author is a grad student in DC, which is o
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by hguant 5y ago
Literally everything you've said is is just patently false, and betrays a such severe lack of any sort of knowledge or understanding about the subject matter that one can only assume bad faith, or else that you're an object lesson
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by hguant 5y ago
There's "uranium in the planet" - lots! - and "uranium accessible to humans" - not so much. The other fuel used would be plutonium and thorium, I believe. My understanding (not a nuclear scientist) is that there&#x2
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by hguant 5y ago
I had a conversation with a co-worker who used to work for Toshiba heavy industries on their nuclear stuff - he made the interesting point that there's only so much accessible uranium on the planet, to the point where we'd use up
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by hguant 5y ago
>Honestly I think this is good and inevitable part of living with renewable energy. "It's good that the little people suffer, it will make them pay attention and live a more virtuous life."
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by hguant 5y ago
I mean, the quote and the article disagree with what you're saying - it's not the "invisible hand of the market", it's a policy choice by California to prioritize buying from renewables over "dirty" power.
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by hguant 5y ago
Most cities have comedy clubs; don't go to those. Go to the bars that do weekly standup, those are the places the comedy show folks go to try out new material, or where newer folks try to break into the scene. You get exposed to a lot
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by hguant 5y ago
> to having sparks generated by bullets hitting e.g. metal and even then, there's not a lot of sparks Just wanted to chime in on this - it's impossible for most bullets to cause a spark, unlike what TV and movies show. Most pro
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by hguant 5y ago
It doesn't have any impact on inflation beyond what's already happening, I think is a better way of phrasing things. The coin doesn't go into circulation, it just lets the member banks of the Federal Reserve have an asset (do
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by hguant 5y ago
Chomsky, again, finds what ever facts he can to fit his theories, and disregards everything else. He's a proponent of the sort of effete liberalism of the 80's and 90's, which says "well, if you're not perfect, then
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by hguant 5y ago
I think the key take away from the article is this line: >...higher-level innovation? Ironically, factory owners said that's happening where the industry is — overseas. I don't think there's anything ironic about this. Inn
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by hguant 5y ago
Does an instructor who trains someone who goes on to commit murder using the techniques they taught become legally culpable for the murder? If your company offers some service - consulting to set up their infrastructure, or helping them nav
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by hguant 5y ago
I was typing up a response, but "space enthusiast" on your profile sums it up - you're statements show your enthusiasm, but not any real understanding of the problem space. The statements above are wildly optimistic, and don&
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by hguant 5y ago
Right, but the timeline of getting a human certified flight vehicle for a mission of that duration, carrying the amount of fuel needed for the "back again" portion of the trip is probably equivalent to the (delayed and prolonged)
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by hguant 5y ago
I think one of the foremost solutions to this problem set is Substack. There are a non-trivial number of journalists on there who's pitch is "hey, I don't want to be part of an institution that has bias/that I don't
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by hguant 5y ago
>But actual certified N95 masks just became unavailable instead of having high prices. Part of that is because 3M has been incredibly good about not raising their prices, and has been very clear to its distributors that they're not
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by hguant 5y ago
>Now, more often than not, I work with teams that have been copy/pasting git commands not knowing what they do, that have never, ever looked the source code of their framework or don't know how to use a debugger. Thank you for
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by hguant 5y ago
My understanding is that this goes back to Rotterdam being a free or open port, since the late Renaissance period. The Netherlands has been a proponent of free trade and what we'd call international citizenship for a very long time

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