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541.
by jpollock 10y ago
Or else they rewrite the legislation to say "You can't ever exceed X on emissions". Then they do two tests, one for the legislation, which is a random drive over a period of time from a randomly sampled vehicle, and a second
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by jpollock 10y ago
It makes it impossible to compare between models or even between model years. Since a key use of the information of for a consumer to compare between two cars to decide which they should purchase based on emissions and fuel economy, a repea
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by jpollock 10y ago
In the Bay Area, with traffic, an e-bike can be just as fast as driving. I used a Specialized for about a week, the level of effort was the same as walking, and almost as fast as driving (rush hour). Due to the rate limiter, it was <10%
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by jpollock 10y ago
Carriers price based on total revenue per subscriber, not just the profit per type of service. So, while the markup on SMS is high (might not actually be high), the RPU (revenue per user) covers total network costs. As a cost, legal interce
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by jpollock 10y ago
Legal intercept requirements cost money for the incumbents. Telcos have substantial legal intercept requirements in all markets. If new entrants do not need to meet regulatory requirements, they can have substantially lower costs than the i
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by jpollock 10y ago
I didn't understand why it would be NP-complete, dependencies represent an acyclic graph. However, this is the killer: "Two different versions of a package cannot be installed simultaneously." Get rid of that, and your proble
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by jpollock 10y ago
I was expecting a story about changing a coal fired plant for a gas turbine plant to reduce CO2 and particulate emissions. I was not expecting using old jet engines to blow away the coal exhaust! Guess this is a opex vs capex thing?
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by jpollock 10y ago
New Zealand has a trade surplus with China. NZ was in the TPPA, but already have a FTA with China. They were trying for one with the US, but the US preferred the TPPA. [1][2] Since the China FTA came into effect, China has replaced the US a
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by jpollock 10y ago
My understanding is that there is government mandated pricing for crop insurance in the USA, which includes a legislated discount for GMO crops (after lobbying from the seed production firms). So, it ends up being a subsidy from the governm
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by jpollock 10y ago
Then fine Ireland.
551.
by jpollock 10y ago
We already give pretty good indications on how much carbon something is producing based on the power/oil bill. If you act to reduce your total outgoings, you're probably heading in the right direction. Add insulation. If your ho
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by jpollock 10y ago
Paying for certification is what's required. Governments require various certifications to sell to them, and that certification costs money in consultancies. RHEL paid for the testing, they get a certification and access to the custome
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by jpollock 10y ago
Americans tend to be more litigious, and NAFTA is even more clear than the Chinese agreement [1], mentioning establishment and acquisition of investments. 1. Each Party shall accord to investors of another Party treatment no less favorable
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by jpollock 10y ago
The last paragraph indicates the precise problem with this policy - it isn't adhering to the terms of the free trade agreements that Canada has signed - both NAFTA and the "China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreeme
555.
by jpollock 10y ago
You are correct, in LA, it's broken out into a separate line item. From the DWP FAQ: "The Sewer Service Charge (SSC) is based on metered water use" https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/wcnav_externalId&
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by jpollock 10y ago
Doesn't the DWP price include procurement, treatment, delivery to a house and sewage treatment, whereas the Sorek price is only procurement. To compare them, it would have to be the price someone pays to obtain a kilolitre of untreated
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by jpollock 10y ago
I would expect this to run afoul of any investor-state dispute resolution agreements that Canada has signed with other countries (NAFTA, Canada/China have an ISDS as well) - since it is a stamp-duty rather than an import duty. Typical
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by jpollock 10y ago
What's stopping ivory farms from being opened in countries with local demand for ivory?
559.
by jpollock 10y ago
Too many teams in too short a period.
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by jpollock 10y ago
Since those are proxy caches, they don't provide repeatable builds. The referred to release can be changed without your knowledge and Nexus will happily serve that to you as correct.
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by jpollock 10y ago
I would recommend against depending on public repositories (of any form) as a backing store for repeatable builds. We've repeatedly seen public repositories remove packages, disappear entirely or otherwise make third party projects a r
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by jpollock 10y ago
All of the countries mentioned have royalty regimes which companies have to pay to extract natural resources. Oil extraction in Texas has a 25% royalty rate [2]. This is typically based off of the retail price, not some interim price too.
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by jpollock 10y ago
Please don't try to find out someone's "sexual alignment" in a job interview. That way leads to lawsuits. Please make sure to consult with an HR/hiring specialist before conducting interviews to tell what is legal
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by jpollock 10y ago
After the Microsoft anti-trust trial, people started to realize just how much information there was in an email history log. Later trials just hammered it home. In response, everyone added a chapter to their document retention policy to co
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by jpollock 10y ago
Having written several of these systems, there is nothing special about this software (NP databases). They maintain records of where a phone number is homed, nothing else. There is more information in the white pages. In fact, NP databases
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by jpollock 10y ago
Yeah, that's what it was!
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by jpollock 10y ago
My understanding is that the Therac-25 UI was essentially a CAD program that allowed the operator to design treatment programs. The software failed to prevent the operator from entering invalid treatment programs which then killed patients.
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by jpollock 10y ago
They're probably trying to minimize contact with the art - the same way that they don't allow flash photography of paintings.
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by jpollock 11y ago
This is very, very scary for a country where adultery is severely punished. Even with a cuckolding rate of <1% (1-2% in Belgium [1]), that's a lot of people in a population of 3.5m. [1] http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.
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by jpollock 11y ago
I don't have any experimental data, but my mental models pull up: 1) chucking a chicken bone into an insinkerator vs a penny. 2) a hunk of wood vs a hunk of wood with a nail through a wood chipper.

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