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by jhayward 7y ago
Please provide some support for your assertion that environmental laws are the reason for the decline of US manufacturing. In my view this is just a right-wing talking point to try to destroy our ability to keep clean the commons in a worki
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by jhayward 7y ago
> If you dismiss them out of hand (and I find that these dismissals typically have an emotional and sanctimonious undertones), then I'm going to have to conclude that you don't want to solve the problem you profess to care abo
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by jhayward 7y ago
There is a very large industry focused on "re-associating" so-called anonymized information back to PII. Store visits are very easy to re-associate, and ad targeting can be used to de-anonymize people as well. It is virtually imp
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by jhayward 7y ago
If that's what you mean, then say "coal ash ponds emit more radiation than can be measured outside spent fuel cooling pools". "Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear (power) waste" is a completely difference fact
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by jhayward 7y ago
> coal ash is literally more radioactive than some nuclear waste Please do not repeat this nonsense. It either compares non-power-plant waste (lab gloves used in isotope labelling, for instance), or is so wrong as to be ludicrous. Use
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by jhayward 7y ago
California is an outlier, having the advantage of being a low-demand (per capita) state with access to abundant hydro power from the NW area. As well as some of the highest power costs in the US.
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by jhayward 7y ago
How can this be asserted in a transparent way? Are you aware of any of Google's internal practices and use of data that have been audited by an external entity and published for review? How would you rate Google's use of Location
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by jhayward 7y ago
The problem with acting on that statement is the assumption that Google will use their knowledge of security to protect everything their customers / service consumers want protected, such as privacy. Google has a very fundamental confl
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by jhayward 7y ago
Is that a definition, or a statement that financial engineering has nothing in common with fraud, or some other statement? From my view the greater the degree of 'financial engineering' in a company's P/L the greater the
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by jhayward 7y ago
No one pays that. This is the realtime spot price, which is only paid by retailers who have an "oh shit" problem with their advanced purchasing. (I should note, there are actually retailers who will sell you spot priced power, s
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by jhayward 7y ago
Not for 90 minutes per year.
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by jhayward 7y ago
Commercial solar plants in Texas take advantage of the market by aligning themselves a few degrees off the optimum for total power, so that they can produce better in the heavier demand/higher spot market rate time periods in the eveni
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by jhayward 7y ago
While we're doing asides: In days gone by I worked with a person who was regularly 2 or more full window switches ahead of Emacs. Meaning, they could type a switch window command and using their memory of the code and point there type
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by jhayward 7y ago
I appreciate the "I've had contact with <technology>" phrasing used here. It gives just the right characterization of qualification - "I've used it and been paid. I'm not necessarily an expert"
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by jhayward 7y ago
I agree, and would add that a case where the UI is evolving and you want to be able to ship functional updates and changes easily is another 'use a touch screen' indicator.
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by jhayward 7y ago
A geomagnetic storm is not an EMP. They are completely different phenomena. A geomagnetic storm is a very long duration, low frequency event that causes movement in the magnetic field of the earth. This can induce a voltage on large condu
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by jhayward 7y ago
I've done a fair amount of work with GPS and precise positioning, and I'm aware of all the dynamics of earth, orbit, and electron path that are involved. I've never before seen a claim of 1cm being some kind of physical limi
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by jhayward 7y ago
There are Python idioms for exactness, and idioms for truthiness. When in a situation where it's possibly ambiguous to test truthiness 'if x is None:' or 'if x is True': is completely unambiguous. Most code doesn&#
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by jhayward 7y ago
Wouldn't the above description also fit flow batteries?
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by jhayward 7y ago
Is there any storage mechanism whose costs don't increase in the same way?
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by jhayward 7y ago
What do you have in mind that is better than GPS?
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by jhayward 7y ago
ECEF is a Cartesian (x,y,z) not spherical (𝞺, θ, 𝜑) coordinate system. Units in ECEF are in meters from (0,0,0).
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by jhayward 7y ago
Vincenty's formula has some instabilities/failure to converge at certain areas of the globe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae
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by jhayward 7y ago
There are large networks of GPS monitoring sites that regularly report their positions, including movement, down well below centimeters.
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by jhayward 7y ago
Much, perhaps most, of the effect we have as individuals in large organizations is indirect and hard to see or quantify. It's not always as simple as we think and changing course of a group almost always takes time, education, repetit
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by jhayward 7y ago
In a gold rush the miners go broke but the hardware store makes boatloads of cash.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> Two wires run to it, the hot and the neutral Standard US residential is 240V split phase, with two hot and one neutral conductor from the transformer. So three wires, minimum. Unless you have a very old feed.
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by jhayward 7y ago
If the EGC is floating, it's not an EGC. EGC is tied back to Neutral at the distribution point. Its sole purpose is to carry fault current.
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by jhayward 7y ago
As part of Edward Snowden's explanation of his radicalization he relates an anecdote of his work for the CIA in Switzerland. From the wiki page: Snowden described his CIA experience in Geneva as formative, stating that the CIA deliber
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The article notes that this uses the same balloon technology that Google's project loon uses.

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