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by kenneth 6y ago
The source article was a far more digestible read of the same content: https://www.invw.org/2020/08/20/who-killed-the-supergrid/
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Zürich Street Parade is almost as big, and equally fun. 1M attendees over 1 day in a city of 400k. It's insanity. Loved going a few years.
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It's not necessary to account for R&D costs if the R&D has other benefits (e.g. putting Airbus on the map as an alternative manufacturer to Boeing, giving Europe technology with military implications independent of its reliance
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by kenneth 6y ago
The jet cannot be carbon neutral. The operations of the jet can be if the operators choose to offset the carbon. Boom is not an airline, so it can't say whether or not the jets will be carbon neutral. It could contractually require buy
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by kenneth 6y ago
Europe being the only geo to actually deploy a supersonic jet commercially…
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It'll be a long time before China can produce planes domestically. COMAC doesn't even yet have a 737-class plane ready, nevermind anything more advanced.
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They do kind of punish you for being a dick though, very very harshly: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-robe... I was actually there when this was going on earlier this year. Could have easi
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by kenneth 6y ago
I left two years ago after a decade and it was the best decision I've ever made. Usually, the justification for living in SF is tech. With the pandemic, everything is online. I moved to Hong Kong (it has its own problems, but is still
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by kenneth 6y ago
It's the only direct democracy in the world, where the people really vote on issues instead of on representatives. For example, we don't really have a president. Laws written by parliament are put to quarterly nation-wide ballots.
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Democracies like… for example Belarus? I can't think of a single real democracy that isn't deeply flawed except for Switzerland.
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In the enterprise space, there is dedicated software for this function. It uses an UDP protocol designed directly for efficiency (less overhead, vs. TCP), and builds in resilience such that it'll work over connections with lots of pack
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by kenneth 6y ago
I have a 3 letter Twitter username (@kob) and the amount of spam I get is rather ridiculous. I've thought about changing it a few times but not yet.
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Thai youth challenging the monarchy is an incredibly dangerous moment(scmp.com)
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by kenneth 6y ago
Does not setting an alarm and walking up naturally help avoid waking up during the wrong part of the cycle?
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As an expat living in Hong Kong, I've noticed a clear change of mood since the ramming-through of the National Security Law last month. Protests have all but died, and people are genuinely aware of having lost their relative freedoms o
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by kenneth 6y ago
One small possibility for hope: Foxconn is a Taiwanese company with factories around China but that has also no expanded to other countries. Apple can (and is slowly) work with Foxconn to progressively move bits of its supply chain out of t
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The Libertarian party, which currently holds one Senate seat.
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Perhaps the US needs a law that states that a company cannot discriminate against users based in the US at the request of foreign governments or to abide by foreign laws.
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The workplace is not a soapbox for personal political opinion. I'm surprised Facebook hasn't taken a harsher stance on employees publicly criticizing their leadership. It takes a special level of entitlement to be able to expect t
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The CEO of the company is famously gay and traditionally gives the bulk of the keynote.
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I am rather amused that the same group is simultaneously calling for the tearing down of secessionist monuments and statues, while promoting a secession of their own. The cognitive dissonance is real.
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"Taken together, we argue that the results are most consistent with, but in no way proof of, tastebased discrimination among police officers who face convex costs of excessive use of force. Yet, the data does more to provide a more com
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Most of the time, the complaint is that black people are being killed by police disproportionally. It's not often explicitly said what they are killed disproportionally to, but it is usually implied as compared to demographics. This ch
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by kenneth 6y ago
I was wondering the same thing myself today. It'd be interesting to come up with a drone that's ideal for this purpose… that can quickly fly and relocate somewhere, but can land on any flat surface and record remotely. You could p
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by kenneth 6y ago
We (well, Europeans) explored the earth when it looked quite similar to space exploration today. Year-long journeys with very little chance of survival, and no idea what was waiting on the other side. We ended up making some amazing discove
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by kenneth 6y ago
Who knows, the situation is highly volatile and picking back up after a Wuhan-virus-induced lull. The CCP keeps escalating and people aren't taking it kindly. I don't see any de-escalation in the near future.
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I get why this is bad for universities. For students though, the solution seems simple: take a gap year if you're just about to start, or a semester off if you're already in school. Gap years are tremendously valuable life experie
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Having lived in HK throughout what's now been a full year of protests, I've been amazed at the resourcefulness of the protest movement there. They are leader-less and completely organic, but have self-organized all kinds of system
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14-20% unemployment in the matter of months is normal, then?
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I'll be based in Taipei for the next few months as a refugee of SG's repressive lockdown. A frequent visitor on quick trips, will be an interesting experience to get a bit more of the local expat experience.

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