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Funny. Contrary to everyone else worrying about the speakers and the PV's, I was thinking about the batteries failing fastest (assuming the thing keeps them to play at night). Lead-acids would be garbage after 5 years, unless they were
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Having done a 95%/5% or similar arrangement in the past, here are a few things I didn't consider: • Unless the company's already been generating substantial revenue, 5% is an implicit message that what you've brought to
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Hear hear. An interesting corner case is when the call is from your exact number. I wonder if the keepers of the POTS (plain old telephone system) can start putting in safeguards to curtail the ability to fake your source phone number. I
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A number of distinctions involved: • Instead of trying to build a robot to do everything, it's still a largely manual process, using low-priced labor (think a trailer out in the boonies with a disabled retiree running the thing content
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Run full out, it really depends on the printer, but the printers I employ can do about 20ppm double-sided. But as books are numbered, each sheet of paper ends up becoming 4 pages. So an 800 page book (close to the largest you can print wi
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In the end, the publishers have to exercise that control, by not putting all their eggs in one basket with a print house. Most authors are so put off by the entire publication process that they won't be bothered by this, even if this t
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PDF came out 25 years ago. Replace "PDF"/"Books" with "PNG"/"Photographs", or "MP3"/"Recordings", and you'll see how well that argument went over. One should m
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As we have seen Apple (and to a lesser extent its direct competitors) bury its old-fashioned record label competitors, I think the print media industry is due for a similar (if smaller) revolution. There's probably nobody more frustrat
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Don't reason with those contractors. As far as you both should be concerned, you've hired them to write bad code, and they think they're doing a great job. If your own internal organization is not too fat, dumb, and slow to b
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Trial by jury gets one set of 10 (12, whatever), whereas the consensus model described would have n sets of 10. I seriously doubt the wisdom of a crowd goes up when the total crowd size shrinks to 10. I suspect it plummets. This does call i
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No parole, but there is probation, halfway house, home confinement, supervised release, and even the occasional furlough. And his gripes about parole can certainly apply to US Probation Officers, US Marshalls, and other BOP designates, depe
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Speaking from experience, the courts are just fine with things like this. Law enforcement don’t have to record their interactions with you, and it’s their word (a respected public official) against yours (a suspected criminal). You may have
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Refrigerate your onions before cutting them. Don’t know why everything else would automatically be bunk.
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While there is some work for iOS/Swift-only dev, most of it doesn't occur in a vacuum. The itch the market really wants scratched is a one-stop-shop where they can get both mobile, web, and support services at once. Consider pitc
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Fair enough. I do know that extraction and pipelines also require prodigious amounts of power. Obviously not so much that it’s uneconomical, but seeing the electric bill for one oil well in the Permian was eye-opening, particularly at the
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Check out http://www.iaee.org/documents/denver/varela-salazar.pdf Texas has 2GW of refinery cogen capacity alone.
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Although I'm finding it hard to find confirmation (or denial), I believe refineries have captive power plants as part of their operations, which are effectively isolated from the grid, and kept out of aggregate electricity generation s
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This page, although a bit sloppy maybe, has a lot of referenced links in it that should help you find what you're looking for: https://greentransportation.info/energy-transportation/gasol...
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Citylab forgets an important factor: the electricity consumption of oil refineries. Almost all of it goes to making “branchy” isomers needed for gasoline, or things like hydro desulfurization. Reduce the demand for gasoline and diesel, and
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The color coding between the two most popular categories could stand to be more distinct. Discerning between aqua and turquoise is harder than I thought it would be. People with felony convictions in their home country may also be refused
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Not sure you'd call it an "inefficiency", but absolutely this happens. Company A may own oil wells in Alaska and a refinery near Houston. Off the tankers go to Japan and Korea for the Alaskan crude, and in the tankers come f
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Fascinating, though the factoid about being the lightest and sweetest appears to be a bit off the mark: https://rentar.com/best-crude-oil-world-crude-oils-better-ot... (end of the article)
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What is remarkable about the world map in this article is how many petrostates buy our oil: UK and Norway, and the UAE(?!). I get that there's probably been a fair bit of empty tanker capacity over the past few decades going back the o
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Everyone telling you to fire half your team has the luxury of never having to look that employee in the eye and telling them you're letting them go because the customer is always right and the employee never is. Unless your product is
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Is that an honest question? Take a look at the dozens of posts in the parent article and tell me the quantity isn’t meaningful.
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There are many who would call unleashing React Native on the ecosystem anything but. In fact I went to the trouble of writing a whole website on the subject: www.xn--ls8h.st.
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“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” -Thomas Jefferson
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> I am yet to hear any story of any candidate that was interested in the position but walked away due to the way that the process is conducted. Thank you for making my point. Why would you ever hear about it? This is the "British Ra
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Resume review, Phone screen (30 min), on-site (less than 2 hours), probationary period. Everything else is simply busy work for all parties because it doesn’t tell you anything you don’t already know, plus it scares away quality candidates.
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In theory there shouldn’t be any, assuming it’s limited to an hour, both in description and in reality. In practice there’s a pervasive phenomenon called asymmetry of effort. The hiring manager may crib a task set either from a perfunctory

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