jfengel

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by jfengel 5mo ago
It's also great if boiling the planet is your actual goal. I wouldn't have thought that it would be so popular, but apparently it is, and people can't get t done fast enough. I'm kind of a misanthrope so philosophically
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Those are less of a problem. The heat was coming from the sun anyway. The water condenses out, so long as you haven't also increased the overall temperature in other ways. The CO2, by contrast, is the gift that keeps on giving. It abso
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Which is why we have just paid billions of dollars to cancel a renewable power project. And are imposing extra fees on cars that can be driven on renewable energy. So, now I'm focused. I'm very focused.
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You host your own global search engine? That's impressive.
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I don't think people much liked the pre-search-engine era. They used lousy search engines when they became available, and when a good one started they liked it so much that they verbed its name.
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I don't think people cared all that much about whether or not the content was citable. You can't cite Wikipedia, and that's not going anywhere. Facebook may well fail when people don't enjoy it. But all Google ever promi
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That's kind of the whole point of a stock market. If you already had a solid revenue stream, you wouldn't need investment. These numbers would be kind of typical for a software play, since the great thing about software is that yo
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by jfengel 5mo ago
(In French.) That could be a massive hassle for American tourists, who will still mostly have Visa and Mastercard. I'm sure that there will be some kind of solution -- I suspect Google Pay and Apple Pay will support the new network. Bu
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by jfengel 5mo ago
There's a tradition of saving the top tier of a wedding cake and eating it on your first anniversary. When I make wedding cakes, I'd rather they not have freezer-burned cake ruining their memory. I promise them a duplicate of the
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by jfengel 5mo ago
If other countries were that friendly to startups, people would already be doing it. Startups get done in the US because of the network effect: this is where the other startups are, and where the people who fund startups are. It's hard
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Star Wars movies were rarely well-written. As Harrison Ford said "George, you can type this s**, but you can't say it". Or something like that. I've been unable to fully authenticate the quote, or even find a definitive
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Ukraine will not be deterred, but their weapons suppliers are. They've limited how much and what kind of aid they give to Ukraine, seemingly out of some kind of calculus about what will push Russia over the edge. It's wildly uncle
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by jfengel 5mo ago
I really wanted to like Resident Alien, but it just didn't do it for me. I like the comparison to Northern Exposure; it's very astute. But somehow, I really just wanted Tudyk to start killing everyone.
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I got the impression at the time that Lynch was figuring it out as he went along. Some days that worked; some days it really didn't but mostly carried through on the strength of its performances. I admit I haven't seen it since th
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Ah. 2% real growth is fine. Not outstanding, but a reasonable level of gradual improvement for a developed economy. China's sustained growth from a developing economy points to a bright future where they install more up to date infrast
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by jfengel 5mo ago
What is a rollout in this context?
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by jfengel 5mo ago
The US GDP per capita is still well ahead of China. The fact that China is catching up is not a problem for the US. On its own terms, 2% isn't great. It's kind of the bare minimum. Anything less is losing ground in absolute terms,
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Layout design issues are orthogonal to choice of language and framework. You can apply the article's approach to plain static pages and to SPAs. I tend to work closer to the latter end and find that both React and Typescript are extrem
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by jfengel 5mo ago
I didn't realized DP was still around. I used to do it quite a bit, 15 years ago, but OCR has improved considerably since then.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Bankruptcy is a universal get-out-of-punishment free card. At least, if you're a corporation large enough and foresighted enough to shove your liabilities off onto a fictional subsidiary before starting.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
ABC's shareholders are Disney. Whatever Nate offered them isn't even a rounding error in Disney's $36 billion dollars in profits last year. The shareholders aren't going to care.
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Gamers are competitive, but so are lawyers, and you're playing on their turf. As with a boss fight, they stand a good chance of winning, especially the first time. (I would note that being called "racist, mysoginistic, rape apolog
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Do they need to put some funds in escrow? Or will they just shut down the entire company and let the players sue for it. (I know that big publishers won't do that, but I'm sure the lawyers could create shell corporations to solve
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by jfengel 5mo ago
Great, another opportunity for Democrats to listen even harder to Republicans. Meanwhile, nobody in Texas is calling Democrats to listen to them. It does bring up the great unifier of American politics: everybody blames Democrats for failin
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Except, of course, that Joe Biden wasn't an option. He dropped out of the race. Of course it was way easier to run against the guy who was retiring rather than the one who was actually running.
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Cutting off Israel would be very popular in some quarters, but absolutely impossible in others -- most notably, the political party currently in charge of the US. About half of that party is religious fanatics who are pushing Israel towards
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by jfengel 5mo ago
The TV industry has always been a beast to work in. Is it worse now? Or just a different kind of bad?
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The "highly stable" part should make it clear that it's intended sarcastically.
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It varies a lot from troop to troop. Some really play up the paramilitary and religious aspects. Atheism is still officially not tolerated, but lots of troops gloss over the "God" aspect sitting front-and-center in the Oath and
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That was nearly four years ago. Russia has lost a lot prosecuting this war since then: lives, money, infrastructure. Reports are that Putin is already losing support over it. I have no idea whether that has changed his mind about anything.

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