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by jmyeet 6mo ago
As another commenter put it, a solar panel is a drill bit not oil. What's the alternative here? Are you arguing we maintaint the dependence on fossil fuels, which can be switched off any day, because of some hypothetical future where C
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For anyone that doesn't know, then president Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law in 1988 that banned all car imports into the US unless the car is at least 25 yaers old. Why? Because US Mercedez-Benz dealers were selling their cars at
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I've seen this succintly and accurately described this way: "No One Goes to War Over a Solar Panel" [1]. If you think about it, once you build a solar panel, it just produces power for the next 20-30 years. Then you buy anoth
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I'm reminded of the prescient 2005 commentary of George Carlin: "it's a big club and you ain't in it" [1]. Hollywood, in particular, is almost completely nepo baby captured. This is an oft-repeated trend where an in
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So I randomly ended up buying a lot of computer gear last year because I killed a perfectly fine 4 year old PC and couldn't decide what I wanted to replace it. I thought at the time "this is an expensive mistake" but you look
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
This touches on many issues. It's kind of a confused narrative. Predatory practices against minors (in particular), sign up dark patterns, addictive behavior (eg infinite scroll). I don't think you should bundle all of these toget
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Disney can do whatever it wants if it restores and releases a 4K version of the theatrical cuts of the original trilogy, something the fan base has wanted for decades at this point. I won't hold my breath. Very large companies are g
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
> Your analysis disregards the evidence of several decades in which the Internet existed, but gambling was still broadly illegal and getting around those laws was anything but trivial (since blocking financial flows is, or at least used
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The only baffling thing is taht it took this long. In the physical world, we can limit the types of businesses. We can limit access to them. Casinos, adult entertainment, drinking establishments, etc require efort to go to and there's
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Whenever you add a touchscreen to something it makes the UI/UX a software issue instead of a hardware issue. You can ship updates. You can cheap out on UI/UX designing because you can ship it later. So you find commonly used featu
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
The fearmongering around China is truly wild. If you buy a solar panel, it produces power for the next 20-50 years. It doesn't require constant flow from China. If China suddenly decides to stop buying solar panels (why would they?) th
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Another shining example of how the diaspora is a representative sample from whence they came (not). We've seen this with the Cuban diaspora, who were heavily anti-Castro. I mean let's just consider for a second who would flee a re
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I should've said post-1945. That was imprecise. My bad. Economic sanctions are largely a post-1945 tool. Sure there are examples like stopping oil exports to Imperial Japan but sanctions as an economic regime where a large part of the
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Excuse the pedantry but it's probably more accurate to describe Iran as a military dicatorship more than a theocracy. Yes, there's a Supreme Leader but the day-to-day government is really run by the IRGC. Not that one is necessari
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So in court there's the concept of hearsay, which generally makes certain statements inadmissble as evidence. The classic example is me testifying "Alice said Bob told her he did it". One of the exceptions to hearsay is calle
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Unfortunately, the USB label is trying to capture too many things and they really should've learned their lesson with USB 2.0 but they didn't. So USB 1.1 was 12Mbps (theoretical). USB 2.0 as 480Mbps (theoretical)... kind of. It go
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My Nethack story is that in the 1990s I once got fired from a job for downloading NetHack because, I kid you not, it hit some Web log filter for the word "hack". I got dragged into a meeting with three log entries in yellow highli
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
There's some mention of Apple silicon here but it's worth expanding upon. Macs have a unified memory architecture. So if you have a Mac with 64GB of memory then the GPU can use all of that. This is potentially quite useful but App
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
It's a fairly well-founded contention eg [1][2][3]. Here's a problem I often see when technical people, particular engineers, try to analyze legal issues: they tend to look for technical compliance (or noncompliance) or use stan
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Nothing will convince me that the likes of Tata and Infosys are a good use of H1Bs. And because they flood the system with H1B applications, other actually valuable positions go unfilled. If the customers for these bodyshops could save mone
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The specificied purpose of PERM is to to fill a position that otherwiswe can't be filled by a US LPR or citizen.. If you need to hide your job postings on an internal physical caulk board in a basement and post them in only physical co
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I beg to differ. The companies have made it difficult by doing constant rounds of layoffs. The state of unemployment in the sector is such that pretty much any vanilla position could be filled by a US LPR or citizen and the process is desig
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Generally lawyers need to be involved to make sure any rejections are compliant. There's a whole cottage industry around this. Personally, given the state of unemployment in the tech sector right now, I think it should be virtually imp
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
There's a site that summarizes bad air quality days in LA from 1980 to 2025 [1] and I would encourage you to compare 1985 to 2025. Note: LA numbers are skewed by wildfire too. In the 2020s, "Very Unhealthy" days was basically
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Well-meaning legislation (eg CEQA in CA) is effectively weaponized by NIMBYs who have outsized power to add years if not a decade or more to something getting built. There is also an overly naive, even performative opposition to anything fo
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
This is a really good overview of oil refining. I'll add a few things. 1. The light and heavy distinction is covered by a measure called API gravity [1]. The higher the API gravity, the lighter the crude; 2. Refiners mix different crud
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So I've never had a smart speaker in my house (Alexa, Apple, Google). I've just never been comfortable with the idea of having an always-on cloud-connected microphone in my house. Not because I thought these companies would delibe
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There are too many moving parts to predict this with any accuracy such as: 1. What happens with interest rates? Powell's replacement will be Kevin Warsh who has seemingly promised to lower interest rates in a short-term ploy aimed at t
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We're not seeing the true scope of just how bad things and are going to get. There are ~9 different oil "flavors" traded in large volume in the world. The big factors are primarily API gravity [1] and sulfur content. Low sulf
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I keep thinking about a comment I read on HN that described neurotypical-style communication as "tone poems" [1]. There was some other HN submission I annoyingly can't find now that talked about the issue of how this bias was

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