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by jlmorton 4y ago
Note that increased load from electric vehicles is helpful to the grid, not harmful. From a reliability perspective, all recurring load is beneficial, as it increases the overall capacity of the grid, insulating it from demand shocks, such
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Note that SpaceX has received ~$10 billion in total investment since inception, and receives about $2b in revenue annually from launches. We don't have insight into SpaceX finances, but this should give you an upper bound on how much m
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by jlmorton 4y ago
Make an actual falsifiable claim if you want to dispute something. Do you dispute the paper has not been peer-reviewed? Do you dispute the authors have no background in the field, despite making major heterodox claims? Do you dispute their
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That is absurd, and little more than a platitude. Let's set the stage here: * I am not an epidemiologist * The authors of this study are not epidemiologists * The paper has not been peer-reviewed * The authors invent a new st
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Two people who have never published in epidemiology stumble upon a new method for calculating excess deaths, at odds with all the existing sources, whether official sources like the WHO, domestic official government sources, or other indepe
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I don't know where you think someone was forced to take the vaccine. It was always optional. It's just that there were additional controls, like going to indoor restaurants -- one of the very highest risk activities for disease sp
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If the data was truly in dispute, it might be a worthwhile debate, but this paper is published by two people that have never published in the field before, and it's riddled with obvious and blatant errors. The fundamental claim, that t
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by jlmorton 4y ago
Your first stop when evaluating a massive and heterdox claim like this should be to double-check their fundamental data against other sources [1]. What you'll find is that other sources do not contain the same data at all. It's no
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Getting to 100% carbon-free generation is a goal of the President's Long Term Strategy [1]: > DECARBONIZE ELECTRICITY. Electricity delivers > diverse services to all sectors of the American > economy. The transition to a clean
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by jlmorton 4y ago
This is not exactly the first study on glyphosate. There are 857 studies on links on the links between glyphosate and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma alone. Pubmed finds 4,585 studies mentioning glyphosate, going back to 1975. It's an extr
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by jlmorton 4y ago
#1, it's not exactly cost-free to increase capacity at major airports. LAX currently operates near its maximum capacity. There's a $15 billion upgrade project, but it's not going to add all that much capacity. And given noise
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by jlmorton 4y ago
What you're describing is a monopsony, not a monopoly. And Apple is not by any contortion of the imagination a monopsony for chips. Apple and Samsung are the largest buyers, but they're barely cracking single digits market share.
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by jlmorton 4y ago
Note that when I say no homelessness, I don't mean literally zero. But Japan, for instance, has very, very nearly no homeless.
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> Homelessness is an ancient problem, noone was able to solve that yet. Out of curiosity, you do realize there are lots of countries without homelessness, right?
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by jlmorton 4y ago
I'm not accusing you of anything, but that graph stops 3 years ago, and there have been some big changes since that time. [1] [1] https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/06/may-housing-start...
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You're certainly right that there has been major housing inflation in almost all major urban areas with good transit in the US. Still, there are several cities that are still relatively affordable with good transit and walkable neighbo
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Came here to say this. Each update almost subtracts value. Updates should only contain information that has changed. Very frustrating when you're anxiously awaiting new information, and you have to do a word-by-word mental diff.
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That's not what that link says. It says that hybrids deliver a larger CO2 reduction per unit of battery, and because batteries are scarce, we would do better CO2 reduction by focusing limited battery capacity in hybrid vehicles, as thi
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Odd take given Boeing has the deeper order book.
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Yeah I agree with that. Uber Eats is really hurting their business by requiring drivers to buy the hot bags, assuming they're still doing that.
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> This writer, previously an avid Uber Eats user, now avoids it in almost all cases and instead, orders directly from restaurants, which have mostly built an online ordering systems. Going direct means your food isn’t ruined I don't
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> Lockheed is in charge of development, just like the SLS program Lockheed tried to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne a couple years ago, the maker of the Shuttle's RS-25 engines, which are being re-used on SLS, but abandoned the acquisition.
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by jlmorton 4y ago
It's admittedly a simplification and a best case. For AWS Lambda, the price is in GB-seconds, and the amount of CPU available to your function is itself a function of the memory allocated. The price is $0.0000166667 for every GB-second
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I'm a fan of boring technology too, but I would like to suggest to you that Serverless _is_ kind of boring. Essentially you just upload a ZIP of your application, and register a handler function that takes a JSON payload. Obviously thi
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Great point!
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Note that I do not claim that pro-life activists have no serious moral aversion to abortion. I believe that they do. I think pro-life activists believe unborn fetuses have certain rights worthy of protection. However, their rhetoric goes mu
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That's not remotely true. There were several million people involved in active efforts to undermine and end slavery through direct action, including through actions like the Underground Railroad, rebellions like Stono, and of course it
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Any political system that allows for the murder of half a million five year old children is very obviously not legitimate. If ever there were a justification for outright civil war, this would be it. It doesn't matter one bit whether i
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Exactly this, a hundred times. Their actions betray them. If they actually thought there were half a million babies being murdered every year, tens of millions since Roe, they would have done something actively to stop it. If there were 500
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One common thing I've seen is an attempt to de-duplicate a poorly-crafted cache. Let's say you have a cache with Map<Language, BusinessInfo>. After a while, the cache is quite large, and you want to reduce its memory usage.

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