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by jfengel 6mo ago
I suspect he feels pretty good about it. That's the great thing about being stupid. You can be as loudly stupid as you want, and people calling you stupid just affirm that you were right in the first place.
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It's for "the grid", of which Maryland is a part, so it supposedly derives some benefit. And since the grid is being updated to accommodate new paying customers, Maryland will benefit from lower future prices. Right? Right?
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Frisbee and pickleball both have the nice property of being a mix of aerobic and anaerobic. They both reward bursts of power in addition to endurance. Ordinary running doesn't do that, though there is a practice called "fartlek&qu
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Usenet was full of people at their most, uh, uncivilized. It was there well before the Web. Its format was even sparser, pure text, with pictures crammed in there by brute force.
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Sometimes "best guess" is the contract. Obviously many applications can't tolerate that, but surprisingly many can. The user just needs to know what the trade-off is. And "best guess" can be hard to characterize, so
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This sentence beautifully encapsulates my point. I know that this is just ordinary jargon, but wow that's a lot all at once. And it does seem like something I need to know before I start.
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I don't work in that area, so I only touch AWS once in a while for personal fun projects. And every time it's a nightmare. I'm just banging out a server for my experimental card game, not setting up an new financial instituti
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by jfengel 6mo ago
The current web supports flat information delivery, and it's there if you want it. Wikipedia can be presented in pure text. If you write a story or an essay you can post it in many places, including your own web site. Perhaps what&#x27
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I can't imagine that it would have helped. Republicans routinely elect gross incompetents and clear offenders of all sorts, and "Clinton got a perfectly legal and consensual blow job two decades ago" is a meaningless excuse.
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I feel like that's not solving any of the problems I think of the Web as having. You can certainly make something with it, but I can't imagine most people finding a use for it.
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Thus far I haven't heard Democrats announce any policies about revamping the federal government. They absolutely should, and there are a lot of really obvious targets that would get widespread support, especially if they applied to the
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The vast majority of the people being swept up are not criminals. ICE has been extremely violent, including at least two dead American citizens. It has had an enormous terrorizing effect on all Latinos, including citizens. Latino voters swu
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To be fair, they are extremely competent at that.
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The yield rate does mater in that it's correlated to inflation. If the yield goes up, investors sell bonds, and prices go up. Modern Monetary Theory says that's OK. You stop the pretense of borrowing, then print as much money as y
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by jfengel 6mo ago
As the speaker in the video clearly articulates, a hybrid is a gas burning car. Full stop A gas burning car, albeit with somewhat better mileage than a non-hybrid car. A plugin hybrid really can leverage the power of electricity. And To
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by jfengel 6mo ago
The site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere.
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There's no decision to be made. It's a right you don't have. The decision is where people put their attention. It could be anywhere. Statistically speaking, it won't be you.
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People who believe they are being gang-stalked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking Wikipedia says right up front that this is delusional. They believe that they are being watched, not just by one person but by
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by jfengel 6mo ago
It's pretty much standard journalistic practice to describe women. Men only get their outfit described if it really stands out. Which seems to be the case here. Though I'm not sure what the difference is between a rosé and a rose
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by jfengel 6mo ago
You still have the right to speak. You don't have the right to an audience.
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And since delta-v is exponential to fuel, that's going to be much more than twice as much rocket. Plus you arrive faster, meaning that your payload on the far end needs even more fuel to slow down. TFA says that the next generation of
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by jfengel 6mo ago
If there is no way through, then I die. That's OK. I guess what the OP wants to know is when you decide to cut it short, and die sooner rather than later, or keep going in the hopes that it gets better. I don't have good advice fo
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by jfengel 6mo ago
If/when it does, it will likely be because of erratic behavior on the part of the government (especially the executive branch), rather than the absolute magnitude of the debt itself. Which is certainly high, especially given that the c
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Perseverance is overrated. If I have to persevere, then I do. It doesn't require inspiration. It's just doing whatever thing is mandatory. If it's not mandatory, then I take my best guess about the long-term outcome. And if t
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Wow, what a terrible example. Their "physics English" version doesn't mention North and South; it just introduces the word "pole" without defining it. The average word length is considerably longer. The actual verb
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I'd say "votes" rather than "money". A fair bit of coal comes from states that can be tipped by coal mining interests, including West Virginia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. Some of these were formerly Democratic stro
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It's a losing business for exactly the reason they sold us on deregulation in the first place: "Competition drives down prices". It's hard to understand why they fought so hard for it, because they got exactly what they
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Of course it has no value. It's a blog. The article links to its source, but I'm not clicking on the archive.is link. It could well be to somebody else's blog. The primary source is Dawkins' own article on Unherd. https
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The word "admits" is always a red flag. It's meant to suggest that somebody has been forced to reveal something they were hiding. The IPCC never said otherwise about the worst-case scenarios. They've always focused on th
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Thank you; that. I believe it's important to stress that this is not something being imposed on us from above. As a nation, we chose this. People's stated reasons for that were objectively stupid at the time. And it's very li

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