janef0421

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by janef0421 4y ago
For transoceanic shipping, direct use of nuclear power is more efficient. It also enables higher speeds more consistently and increases operational flexibility. The main cost is increased capital expenses, which should pay for themselves du
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by janef0421 4y ago
If wealth is assets that produce income for me without doing anything, then, logically, either someone else is doing work for which I receive some portion of the income, or I am benefitting from inflating asset prices, which make it harder
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by janef0421 4y ago
Most compiled languages will allow a project to be split into multiple modules, and an `internal` access modifier can then be used to limit the use of an element to that module.
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by janef0421 4y ago
It was actually fairly rare for people to spend their entire lives in their villages during the medieval era. People would regularly travel within their region, and it was typical for a person to undertake multiple longer journeys within th
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by janef0421 4y ago
I think an important thing to keep in mind when discussing monoliths or Microservices is that you can build modular code without needing multiple binaries, processes, or server instances. If you follow best practices when creating a monolit
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by janef0421 4y ago
They aren't, but our focus should be on mode shift, since it is a more efficient use of resources.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Electric cars are good if you actually need a car, but we currently use cars in far more situations than really need them. Shifting away from cars where they aren't needed will be far more effective than replacing gas cars with electri
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by janef0421 4y ago
That's the motivation to join the military, but people would be less willing to join and more interested in alternatives if the reality of war wasn't obscured by mass-media depictions.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Same issue in Wellington. Really grinds my gears.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Mandating buildings can sustainably regulate internal temperatures is a good policy, but I think mandating heat pumps in new builds is a bad way of doing that. There are other strategies that may be more effective, both in terms of cost and
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by janef0421 4y ago
I can't really judge them for doing this. Sanctions that target the ability to use the global financial system are overly broad and harm basic human rights; For instance, Iran experienced major medication shortages during the pandemic.
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by janef0421 4y ago
It's not "lost to the mists" of time. I just don't think researching it to satisfy an argumentative and presumptive person on a link-sharing website would be a good use of my time.
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by janef0421 4y ago
I never made any claim about ancestry, I was referencing a theory about Celtic languages in the British Isles being influenced by Semitic languages. And I don't think the lost tribes of Israel stuff is relevant, both because I'm n
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by janef0421 4y ago
By "Semitic population", I was referring to speakers of a language in the Semitic language group, which includes Arabic and other languages of the Near and Middle East. These groups would have migrated before the formation of the
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by janef0421 4y ago
This reminds me of a theory that some of the linguistic features shared between the extant Celtic languages and Semitic languages may be due to the existence of a semitic population in the British Isles that lived together with early Celtic
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by janef0421 4y ago
Market reforms are not intrinsically capitalist.
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by janef0421 4y ago
I don't think trying to control students is the right idea. Teenagers are their own people with their own values and desires. You aren't going to be able to have a productive relationship with them unless you respect that, and I t
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by janef0421 4y ago
I find this trend of opposing and banning smartphones reductive. Smartphones are just a tool, like any other, and can be used productively or unproductively. In my view, most of the unproductive use comes from the corporate apps and platfor
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by janef0421 4y ago
That is likely only a brief example of the general principle underlying the lawsuit.
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by janef0421 4y ago
If a government has a history of interfering in your internal affairs to cynically advance their interests, maintains harmful policies against you for not aligning with their interests, and has an aggressive diplomatic posture, then it is l
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by janef0421 4y ago
Not always, but the sanctions forbid ships from docking at both USA and Cuban ports, which presents a major obstacle to the import or export of physical goods.
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by janef0421 4y ago
That was likely true of models from the mid-2010s, but based on what I've seen of Hugh Jeffrey's work, most modern, high-end smartphones are held together with glue and require the disconnection of multiple fragile ribbon cables t
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by janef0421 4y ago
An interesting study, but I worry how this might be interpreted by those outside of academia. There are a lot of people who like to make normative health recommendations based on studies like this.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Maybe you could try routing the emails through an account registered in a country with stronger anti-spam protections?
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by janef0421 4y ago
I think a these countries would also benefit greatly from support to deploy nuclear energy.
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by janef0421 4y ago
I think the story is just that it's amusing.
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by janef0421 4y ago
I think it's more that the best practices are situational. Software development is a very diverse field, so it's hard to make any universal statement.
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by janef0421 4y ago
Technological improvements will likely continue to exert some downward pressure on prices. This might result in a modest reduction in price over time. I personally think that increasing raw material prices will be a greater influence and co
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by janef0421 4y ago
I think a lot of this stems from how our culture treats diagnosis. There is a strong pressure to conform to normative ways of being, and diagnosis with a "mental illness/disorder" is often the only way for non-normative ways
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by janef0421 4y ago
That is unlikely. The rapid price reductions in those areas have been due to technological maturation of the underlying technologies and scaling of the manufacturing processes. These processes are likely to complete soon, if they have not a

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