labawi

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by labawi 5y ago
Do child rapists deserve to be lined up against a wall? If I think it's a good idea, am I a violent jackboot that actively harms society? Am I worse than the rapists? BTW, I wouldn't line up "terrorists", as they may hav
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by labawi 5y ago
Assuming the fridge is made of metal, isn't is safer than a cabinet? Efficiency may be noticably worse, especially if poorly insulated, but I don't understand the safety aspect.
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by labawi 5y ago
Unlike sugar¹, salt is also necessary in small quantities. It is also quite useful/needed even in moderate quantities (say 1/10 - 1/2 teaspoon) in cases where it got flushed out. For example, you eat too much sugar/sacch
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by labawi 5y ago
Interesting concept. On the unconstructibility of efficiently running version, they scaled the 6" model to 3m while holding constant rpm to keep efficiency, and claim it's unconstructible because of tip speed. Shouldn't tip s
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by labawi 5y ago
When I grumble about collecting needless data, conditioning users to insecure practices or similar ethical concerns, my manager usually drops it. There - I think I've made some difference. If you have an source of developers, where you
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by labawi 5y ago
People will call them awful and disrespectful, for not providing explicit instructions to use a new or work account, and warning everything in the account may be impounded.
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by labawi 5y ago
Power plant waste: 60T/y for 1200 MWe = 50g / kWe·y = 1.6 mg/MJ Coal energy density: 24 MJ/kg = 0.024 MJ/g -> 42 g/MJ Not perfect, but depending on what the waste is, doesn't seem too bad.
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by labawi 5y ago
> demand smoothing installation Depending on definition of smoothing vs. shifting - yes, most of them are. Demand shifting with current batteries is not really workable at scale - neither economically nor practically.
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by labawi 5y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current : > HVDC transmission losses are quoted at [around] 3.5% per 1,000 km, about 50% less than AC (6.5%) lines at the same voltage 1000 km of HVDC has lower
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by labawi 5y ago
Did you just switch from solar / wind, which is totally workable and cheapest form of energy, to arguing about batteries? Batteries for storage are problematic, especially grid scale lithium - globally unfeasible regardless of nuclear.
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by labawi 5y ago
> monstrous transmission losses When people claim monstrous transmission losses, I'm not sure what to think of. Is it 80%? Maybe 50%? Is 30% too much of a hit for reliable clean power? Surely you're not hung up about 15% for a
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by labawi 5y ago
With higher temperatures come higher water concentrations, and I think more rainfall, it's just differently distributed in space and time. Also more volatile, which can be a detriment. Many places are ill equipped to absorb heavy short
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by labawi 5y ago
If someone made an open iPhone or ThinkPad clone, I'd cheer and be in awe. The value is not in making unique innovative hardware, but making it open and accessible. It can then be the basis of further development. Overall, nice to know
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by labawi 5y ago
It's fine as long as people keep using it.
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by labawi 5y ago
Delegating .dev was not fine. Does everything need to be for rent? The name system is a unique non-renewable resource. And it's not like ICANN gave people a lot of choice for unregistered domains. By your logic, I suppose .onion was no
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by labawi 5y ago
For Ω and other rarely used symbols, I just type: <Ctrl>+<Shift>+U 2126 <Space>. Works like a charm in pretty much any program and keyboard layout. For the more common acute/grave/.. letters, I use setxkbmap
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by labawi 5y ago
I wonder whether you interact with other people, and if you do, what's in your self interest WRT their material and emotional state, free time etc, and then their that of their contacts, etc. E.g. Is it in your self-interest, that peop
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by labawi 5y ago
AHV - quoting from your linked article: "in proportion to the settled AHV payroll of their employees" I'm not sure how you equate AHV with rent, as it seems to be a social security / retirement system, and furthermore I&
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by labawi 5y ago
Reading the linked document, why do you think it goes to insurance and rent? AFAICT, 1/3 is used for renovations and renewables. 2/3 is redistributed to residents and companies. Residents get their share via health insurance compa
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by labawi 5y ago
It should be noted that typical human conscious notion of 'now' is pretty much a figment of imagination, a strut for reasoning that falls apart when you start looking with sub-second precision. There is speculation, but also a lot
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by labawi 5y ago
IMO the crazy part is reusing the input directly, instead of normalizing, serializing, then verifing signature, deserializing and only ever trusting the deserialized verified data. This way you always accept as validated exactly the sam
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by labawi 5y ago
IMO, it should be advanceBy, if going backwards takes a negative interval. Shift by 10d isn't completely clear which on direction it would shift.
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by labawi 5y ago
If you want to upset the wealthy, institute a wealth tax (and redistribute as UBI). If you want to decrease asset prices, tax them (without loopholes) and see their valuation drop real fast, or slow - depending on tax rate. Just remember to
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by labawi 5y ago
Yes, please ruin functionality without javascript for the sake of gmail's nosiness. Comment about a form and PUT/POST is good - it will work by standards in any browser, even when gmail starts executing javascript. Add auto-submit
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by labawi 5y ago
It seems blocking/removing Pin 14 or cutting the wire should work [1] So yes, a simple passive HDMI ethernet filter should be possible. You can also buy cables without ethernet, but then you also need do verify it actually isn't p
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by labawi 5y ago
As services raise prices and/or quality suffers, the desirability falls, and so will the housing prices, unless the owners like a private resort. It may take time. Agree with the land value tax (if you don't have it) - it would fl
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by labawi 5y ago
Exports, tourists, buyers of inflated properties (income) CEOs, managers, capitalist rent-seekers (outflow)
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by labawi 5y ago
> 1.5x rate is costing them 1.5x of what base? Those people aren't working 80h because they like the pay. They need the money. Not necessarily all of it, but are dependent on the job. haven't had a pay raise in 10y. It would be
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by labawi 5y ago
Posted 12h earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858902 I would like to point out, the advice is dangerous, as it absolutely ignores any quoting and word/line boundaries.
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by labawi 5y ago
Pretty much all listed examples ignore quoting, especially the suggested replacements, proving opportunities for argument confusion and many are vulnerable to command injection. Piping data that may be hostile or just accidentally dangerous

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