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by jcranmer 4y ago
If you have access to the raw data, then you should be able to quite easily provide a good estimate for what the article is trying to assess--what's the actual operational cost of bitcoin mining. Estimating the energy consumption is on
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by jcranmer 4y ago
GPA will typically matter for your first job--although that's more because there's precious little else on the résumé that indicates your suitability as opposed to being a good indicator in and of itself.
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> That's not the argument of peak oil. It's not about price or quantity of oil available in the planet. It's an argument about thermodynamics. ... that hasn't been the traditional argument behind peak oil, from its or
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Pruneyard is not relevant. There are three things that distinguish Pruneyard: 1. Pruneyard relied on a provision of the California state constitution. That provision is not in Texas's state constitution. 2. It was admitted by all parti
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Given the sheer number of pamphlets and broadsheets around that timeframe, there were probably far, far more printers then than you expect. Certainly, "the biggest local printer doesn't like your opinion" doesn't appear
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> No, the ruling claims the 1st Amendment is irrelevant in determining the regulation of censorship because censoring speech is not speech. This flies in the face of ample SCOTUS precedent--which the 5th Circuit is obliged to follow--tha
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by jcranmer 4y ago
There is no distinction between platform and publisher in §230. Your understanding of what you think it says is in fact closer to the state of affairs before §230, and the state of affairs that §230 was expressly designed to change. Bef
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by jcranmer 4y ago
You haven't provided the requested data. What's the energy consumption of "the total of electronics that are in standby in the US only"? Actually, let math out an estimate of what your claim amounts to. Bitcoin uses ~125
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Spawning a process consists of basically three steps: create a new process, twiddle attributes of the new process, and load the new process image. And for this, we (presently) have three choices: fork, vfork, and posix_spawn. The cost of fo
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I'll explain it in a different way than normal. We can define a notion of complexity for any given integer as being the size of the smallest program that returns that integer. Obviously, I'm being imprecise here, but it should hop
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> It's simply not the case that most bugs or even, as a fraction of bugs, almost any bugs are due to programmers rewriting existing code to run on new CPUs. If you really squint, you can see things like Android devices having lots o
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Even worse, it's been clear in several hearings that Musk's lawyers have squandered their credibility with McCormick--Musk has not generally been victorious in the discovery fights, and McCormick seems to be of the opinion that Mu
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I think that there are some features which can be said to be objectively more difficult than others. For example, all other things being equal, a language that had a larger phonemic inventory than a second would be objectively harder. Now d
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I don't know if the rules have changed (or if it was a state or federal rule), but when we lost water pressure due to a hurricane, the boil water advisory had to be maintained for 72 hours after pressure had been restored purely for re
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by jcranmer 4y ago
The US has 50 states, and there is wide variety in how each of those states handle counties. In one extreme, you have Virginia, where counties are the most local form of government (and cities are independent of counties, not to be confused
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by jcranmer 4y ago
After some thought, here is my stab at explaining what electricity "actually" is, at least in a way that works well for classical modelling. (There is a necessary amount of handwaving and inaccuracies by omission, but I'm try
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by jcranmer 4y ago
If you're looking at it narrowly in terms of US's actual invasions, perhaps. But the US foreign policy in the Middle East has generally been directed towards "keep the oil flowing" to such a degree that there's not
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I mean, one of the first rules of hiking that I learned was to have the slowest person lead the group... this shouldn't be rocket science.
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by jcranmer 4y ago
The opinion for this case appears to be accessible here: https://cite.case.law/f/209/589/ (it's 209 F. 589, for anyone who knows how to turn that cite into a usable opinion). From scanning the opinion, i
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I agree that IEEE 754 should define how FTZ/DAZ should work, given that it's a pretty common extension to floating-point processors, and language committees are unlikely to lift a finger to do anything floating-point related that
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Annoyingly, Clang seems unwilling to make any changes until gcc changes its mind.
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I don't know.
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> There's been sanctions (and coups, for the first two) against those. Not for moving away from USD, or merely talking about it. Indeed, of those examples you cited, trying to move oil sales away from USD happened after the US imp
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Do you want me to go alphabetically? Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan. There's 10 countries, I'm not even out of the B's yet, and this is still skipping any
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by jcranmer 4y ago
The only two countries that even come credibly close to this proposition are Libya and Iraq, and even there the evidence is paltry (in particular for Libya, Qaddafi had spouted rhetoric about abandoning pricing in dollars off and on for dec
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> That would indicate that there is a gas shortage in the UK right now which isn't true. In terms of staff the daily operations of a plant only requires a handful of people. There was I think only 2 control room operators on duty at
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> Just repeal the 16th amendment - the income tax is too intrusive Fun fact: the 16th Amendment does not give Congress the power to levy taxes on income. Congress already had that power. What the 16th Amendment does is directly overturn
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by jcranmer 4y ago
https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf , search for MXCSR (LDMXCSR and STMXCSR instructions). Keep in mind that twiddling these flags is going to require saving the MXCSR register to memory, or'ing o
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by jcranmer 4y ago
In my experience as a TA, cheaters are more than willing to do so even with a proctor standing right next to them staring at them. If anything, I suspect that on net a noisily invasive anti-cheating system would actually increase cheating
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> (and Swedish/Finnish membership is virtually assured). I believe Swedish/Finnish membership has been officially accepted by NATO. All that remains is collecting the official ratifications from the rest of NATO. (Currently, 8

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