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by mac01021 5y ago
I would absolutely prefer school and business hours to change every month rather than have this 1-hour clock shift twice per year.
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by mac01021 5y ago
Can you just start waking up, going to work, going home, and going to sleep, an hour earlier (as measured by the new clock)? Maybe your boss (if you have one) would let you do it.
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by mac01021 5y ago
People say that but I'm not sure it's true. As long as they all agree about what time it is at any given moment (which is something we're not proposing to change) why do their business hours even have to line up perfectly? A
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by mac01021 5y ago
What if we kept standard time year round but you were allowed to change your work schedule from month to month as the seasons changed?
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by mac01021 5y ago
That's true, but does not contradict any of the above. First, because much of our energy use is currently not electric. Second, because we're concerned with the energy consumption that is currently _not_ accounted for by nuclear
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by mac01021 5y ago
This forbes article from 2 years ago ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/09/30/net-zero... ) explains that, to replace the world's fossil fuel consumption with nuclear power consumpti
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by mac01021 5y ago
To be pedantic, I think it's that inflation occurs when supply of dollars increases relative to the demand for dollars? I'm not sure what, if anything, it means for demand to exceed supply.
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by mac01021 5y ago
I work on my company-issued laptop. I do it sitting on my couch that I already had anyway, or at my kitchen table that I already had, or in my car that I already had, or in the public library where I can go for free, or in the shade of a tr
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by mac01021 5y ago
I could be wrong but I think that, once all the Indians who can do what I can do have been employed, there will still be someone left willing to pay me what I make now. Capable software engineers are just that valuable and that few.
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by mac01021 5y ago
I don't doubt that electrical service in nearly all the UK has _much_ higher uptime than the service here in Connecticut. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the infrastructure in the two places is built essentially the same way. I
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by mac01021 5y ago
I understand your point. I don't think of the infrastructure here as _bad_, though. We do have the occasional outage after a storm, as I described. But, even if the uptime were as low as 99%, which it is not, I would not want to pay
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by mac01021 5y ago
1. Here in CT with our abundance of trees, a large fraction of the state loses power for the better part of a week every couple of years when a windstorm comes up the coast. 2. Batteries need not just be for power outages. Net metering, g
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by mac01021 5y ago
2% of what? All the lithium in the world's oceans?
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by mac01021 5y ago
Kafka can replace a database in some cases, depending on your query patterns and ability to partition the data intelligently. It excels at write-heavy workloads and, if you're already using Kafka for streaming or message passing then y
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by mac01021 5y ago
A couple of jobs back, there was a day when our app stopped working. After poking around in the database a little bit I found out that most of our data had been deleted and replaced with a ransom demand including the address of a bitcoin w
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by mac01021 5y ago
You did this as an employee rather than a freelancer?
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by mac01021 5y ago
What does a cohort model look like? I've never heard of such a thing, at least not in software development.
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by mac01021 5y ago
That's not much of a prerequisite. My first programming class when I was in high school in 1998 had, as one of its in-class assignments to invent an algorithm for sorting an array of numbers and implement it in BASIC. I think most of
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by mac01021 5y ago
Hi slv77! I would love to ask you about a comment you made on another thread 5-6 years ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12367754 ). If you're willing to spend a minute or two on me, please say so. You can emai
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by mac01021 5y ago
Are they on the rise because of an increase in cyclists?
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by mac01021 5y ago
I won't entertain any offer that comes _after_ a so-called "final offer". That would signify that I regard lying as an acceptable business practice.
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by mac01021 5y ago
I searched the article for the work "dog" and did not find it. Was this comment intended for a different article?
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by mac01021 5y ago
If a large fraction of the dwellings are truly unoccupied then it is a bubble plain and simple. If it's just a matter of out-of-state money willing to pay a high price to own houses that they can then rent out for a high price after co
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by mac01021 5y ago
Are all those new houses occupied? Where are all the people coming from?
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by mac01021 5y ago
I'm not convinced that there's been a dramatic drop in living standards in the US over the last several decades (or that, where there has been, it's not mainly a matter of individual choice). Think about life in the USA 70 ye
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by mac01021 5y ago
Women joining the (paid) workforce happened smoothly over a few decades. And I believe the relevant economic effect was not so much an increase in the price of consumer goods but a suppression of wages, which otherwise might have been expec
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by mac01021 5y ago
I'm not super-knowledgable about cybersecurity, but shouldn't simply using TOR make it nearly impossible for the US government to track them down? If they want to go overkill, they can additionally use a public VPN account purchas
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by mac01021 5y ago
BitTorrent?
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by mac01021 5y ago
This is a very helpful comment, thank you! I agree that any blockchain has to be resistant to Sybil attacks. And that may be an insurmountable obstacle for my idea but, so far, I haven't let that stop me from thinking about it. There
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by mac01021 5y ago
I don't have a great grasp yet of how PoS and other non-PoW consensus protocols work. But if I ever grok the building blocks fully enough, I'd like to see if I can devise a system based on "proof of receipt" in which the

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