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by jbm 3y ago
> of the failure in managing oil countries It's always fun when we go masks off on HN.
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by jbm 3y ago
I saw a recent reappraisal of Freddy Got Fingered by Red Letter Media* that was very interesting; apparently it was also meant as a cash grab by studio execs, and Tom Green decided to make the weirdest movie he could possibly make. While I
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by jbm 3y ago
Putting experience and expertise about a matter of taste on a pedestal is nonsense. I don't share many values with movie critics. Here's an spicy example that will mark me as a philistine forever. I think Princess Mononoke was an
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by jbm 3y ago
Aum cannot be called Christian without truly tortured reasoning. However this is the internet so I'm not surprised. Here is the wikipedia page on their term (poa) for killing people. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jbm 3y ago
I spent nothing and instead choose not to mow my back yard. Bees and other insects enjoyed the products of my sloth. There is no need to consume product in order to do right by the environment.
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by jbm 3y ago
Is there a documented instance where this happened? I've heard of this but I've never actually seen this in person. A google, ddg, and even a leddit search doesn't bring up anything.
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by jbm 3y ago
You got me, that was a crazy train I would never ride and it paid off generously.
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by jbm 3y ago
Bed Bath and Beyond and Sears helped me realize that the cold eyes sanity of investors is often overstated. These were both bankrupt companies who developed stockholders with cultish beliefs around the company's ongoing viability. Wit
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by jbm 3y ago
Wouldn't these happen in the DB? I can see some algorithms for showing related articles being complex — but writing them in Assembly also invites other challenges (them being difficult to update and improve, concentrating on memory iss
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by jbm 3y ago
I don't understand — isn't the speed mostly limited by network or disk access? Is there a significant improvement by having the underlying code in Assembly? A very cool application regardless, I haven't seen Assembly since c
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by jbm 3y ago
This could be interesting (as I have also been looking for something to reduce CO2 and VOC in the home), but the important part is probably this: > only require a visible light source that also produces heat—such as a halogen or incandes
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by jbm 3y ago
Canada is easier to understand when you realize that there is a strong current of oligopoly behind many of its large businesses, including the news. A few out-of-touch boomer billionaire families who have the governance-as-a-service support
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by jbm 3y ago
WRT the tax point, I've heard this previously, but it doesn't make sense to me yet. For example, a person who owns multiple properties would be in a better place to absorb tax hikes by simply passing them along to renters. It wou
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by jbm 3y ago
This part particularly surprised me, as it flies in the face of a lot of confident-sounding opinions voiced here. > For example, proponents of the “supply-side” argument frequently point to low vacancy rates as an indication that supply
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There Is No Housing Crisis(thewalrus.ca)
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by jbm 3y ago
Yes this is definitely true. I did get the Hyundai battery down to 40 or 50% (when there was a > 1 day power failure, and I didn't trickle charge the day before; https://montreal.citynews.ca/2023/07/15&#x2F
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by jbm 3y ago
To confirm what the other commentator stated, it was 20-29 degrees Celsius, or 68-85 Fahrenheit. As such, yes, it is definitely feels deceptive, and this was apparently an issue from the beginning if the rental person was to be believed. I
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by jbm 3y ago
I think I left out important context here. I rented both for a week during July. The weather was worse during the Hyundai rental; it was in the 30s with high humidity, while the Model X struggled in the mid 20s. The range I quoted was fr
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by jbm 3y ago
I rented a Hyundai Ioniq5 and them a Model X while visiting family on two separate visits, two weeks apart. The Model X was a 2017 model, but I cannot believe the level of deterioration on the battery. I was barely able to do 200 km on a 9
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by jbm 3y ago
Forget about emails, this seems like it applies to banks directly (in Canada at least).
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by jbm 3y ago
It's interesting that I just watched a video[0][1] on Nickel-Hydrogen batteries for grid storage; there are nickel deposits in Japan, so if they really are viable, Japan would not be dependent on anyone for grid storage. Incidentally,
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by jbm 3y ago
Broken English in scientific papers are, if anything, a problem. I have a brother-in-law who doesn't speak English, but gets his papers translated into English to publish. There is no way for him to really know if they precise, accur
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by jbm 3y ago
I remember a lot of pushback in Japan about geothermal power and the impact it would have on hot springs in general. I wonder if this drilling method would affect their concerns?
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by jbm 3y ago
How does a 4000$+ ebike go bankrupt when they supposedly have too many orders? Is this a COVID supply chain problem or a management hiding real sales figures problem? -edit- > VanMoof bikes, however, offload many of their configuration
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by jbm 3y ago
Was this ever REALLY a problem? I've seen Japanese subtitles before (I mean Japanese language subtitles) and almost all subtext is lost regardless. Far worse than the english subtitles on anime. You might as well make the movie you wa
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by jbm 3y ago
The more disorder we see, the more people are going to reach for these extremist solutions. It's all scary - until one is the victim of a crime and the police don't think it's worth following up, or the presiding judge decide
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by jbm 3y ago
I'm sure I will not be the only one to remember the early Youtube classic "You suck at Photoshop". I assume it was inspired by this? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtjme5if5dJWtSoUUhXMiVvpO...
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by jbm 3y ago
> FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful. I still think Wing Commander 3 was an amazing game, to this day. (The 10 minute waits to launch a mission on my Pentium was
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by jbm 3y ago
For those, like me, who didn't know this term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance > The coefficient of performance or COP (sometimes CP or CoP) of a heat pump, refrigerator or air conditio
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by jbm 3y ago
I wasn't too clear about what I meant, but is storage even necessary here? For example, would there be an issue if the desalination process was left in an intermediate state for X hours / days while power is intermittent? I wonde

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