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by johngalt 10y ago
But those numbers being moved around are not equivalent. A centralized power plant is vastly more efficient and clean than thousands of little gasoline engines. This is true even for coal. Not to mention it allows us to make policy decision
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> I ended up with a crushed wrist and internal bruising, and I was lucky I even lived. And I bet you wear a seat belt every day in your car as an adult. Invincibility is one of those myths you want to dispel when kids are young and the s
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I applaud anyone supporting the ACLU, but perhaps it would send a less partisan message if the YC also supported the NRA. Of course, YC may intend to send a partisan message. In that case I guess it's better to only defend the rights
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Considering your goals and price range. I'd recommend shopping the refurb market. Specifically business laptops that are off lease. Bigcorp IT departments tend to cycle their hardware every 3-4 years and flood the market with used chea
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The equity payday funnel looks bleak. 1. Will this company succeed? 2. Once it succeeds will my equity be valuable? 3. If my equity could be valuable, will it be diluted before I can get paid? 4. If not diluted will it ever be liquid? 5. If
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Think of it as structured vs unstructured if you can't avoid gettng hung up on the name. Basically this is talking about the net difference between what is locally optimal and globally optimal in a multi agent system.
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The FAA is an entirely different animal than municipal codes backing taxis. Uber's 'easier to get forgiveness than permission' model will not fly with the FAA.
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Sorry most of it is off the cuff. I always localize it to who they are and what they are working on in that instance. Since my audience is non technical, almost no one decides to just buckle down and 'learn excel'. Commonly this m
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Generic company sysadmin. I have a rotating list of power user tips. I'll pick one to show someone during a trouble call (provided no one is in a huge hurry). It has to be something cool that I can demonstrate/teach in seconds. Ex
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It doesn't account for obvious confounding factors to prove it's conclusions of stagflation. Comparing parents to children has a pile of variables during this time frame that the article doesn't examine in the slightest. For
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Everyone as a parent, but not everyone has a child. In both instances they are comparing "parents" a subset of the population. To "people" the total population. Economic pressures can affect the decision to have children
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I expect ARM to be a threat more as a scorched earth commoditization manner. It's not that ARM chip manufacturers will take over Intel's billions, but instead they will deflate the CPU balloon by allowing cheap and ubiquitous devi
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by johngalt 10y ago
It all depends on Zen providing real competition to Skylake. I am skeptical. Even if zen is a killer chip, it will land is a sparse environment. AMD needs a win on CPU and chipset. Most likely outcome: Zen is decent but not enough to make
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by johngalt 10y ago
Anecdata: I know a lot of well educated people who don't read. At all. What reading level would you expect for someone who got a degree in their early twenties then didn't read anything more complicated than People magazine for de
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by johngalt 10y ago
There are dozens of comments saying in effect "but politics are important!!!!" That could certainly be true, but does that mean that they are important and appropriate in all circumstances? Are no areas allowed to have a politics
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Before anyone looks down their nose at the UK. This is really common in the US as well. If the law is onerous, then there will be exceptions for the politically connected. If the law is helpful or permissive, then it will apply to the polit
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That's possible, but it will be because we chose not to. Not because we can't. Take every nation's budget and transpose the numbers under "space exploration" and "defense spending". Also change the risk pr
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What's the net energy on combusting hydrocarbon fuel when all your oxygen comes from breaking the oxygen bonded with H20? I'm betting it's not great.
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The problem isn't: "We are an exploited underclass unable to live in reasonable conditions." The problem is more along the lines of a gold rush type movement of people. Where large cities are attracting a large influx of peop
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There is an obvious legal gap at work here and it isnt just wells fargo exploiting it. Once a business has your info on file they can effectively open additional accounts or services for you at will. It can be difficult to seek any sort of
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They are trying to predict what types of html pages cause parsing problems. They have a set of variables that describe an html page. They are trying to figure out which variable or combination of variables predict a bad parsing outcome. Thi
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There used to be a similar theme in the US, but it slowly disappeared from 1990-2010. Primarily because they are so rare they are now more of a quaint oddity more than a sign of driving competence. The game theory on why manuals are disappe
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Governments standards change slower than technology. Automatics used to be slush boxes that robbed power while shifting at inappropriate times. Now they aren't. I love manuals, but I have to acknowledge modern automatic transmissions a
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Sounds reasonable to me. Consider where we were in year 1016 vs now, and the rate of change is increasing. If current trends continue, 1000 years seems long if anything. Even without terraforming, large enough domes would probably be good e
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Here are your options: Revoke local admin privileges. It will stop a lot of the click-click to install bullshit, but it also means you will get a lot of calls about "access denied" whenever they want to update an app that needs ad
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Makes sense to me. In the near term "space as industrial park" sounds more plausible than colonizing mars. Certainly we would want to live on other planets eventually but the economics have to catch up first.
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This smells like recruiters gaming the system while under pressure from the top to fill quotas. In the same vein as Wells Fargo. Hit this impossible target or you're fired. We can't tell you to lie/cheat people to hit the num
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The first time I saw this I was floored. After seeing it a few times, I was curious: "what establishes this pattern?", "how do people arrive at thinking of the trash folder as an archive?" In most cases they are using th
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For actionable advice on how to be kind while still capturing the lesson. I recommend this article by John Allspaw on blameless postmortems. https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
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Exactly, this is the most navel gazing fake moral dilemma. We already know that we could reduce fatalities on the road by reducing speeds and using different types of intersections. We choose to do neither with regularity. Because they woul

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