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by mjhay 4y ago
I've seen people make these semantic arguments you're making to confuse the situation around base load. The reality is that you have not offered any alternative, and your post only muddies the waters. > Base load on the produce
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by mjhay 4y ago
Those events killed orders of magnitude less people than coal plants do every year, from normal operation. Fukushima, in particular, only had one death attributable to radiation. Fission is the only operational technology that can replace f
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by mjhay 4y ago
Ok, I guess it changed since I was there a few years ago. You're doing God's work. I hope people are tipping well.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Citation: I have actually drank at the bars in McMurdo. Your link is Pole, not McMurdo. It sounds like that is people bringing their own, or buying from USAP for the field, which is allowed. It may have changed, but when I was there, McMurd
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by mjhay 4y ago
Sadly the bars no longer serve liquor, due to incidents.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Attempting to solve climate change with virtue-signalling consumption and production is worse than useless. That doesn't mean such things are necessarily bad startup ideas, though, but few things turn me off more than this sort of thin
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by mjhay 4y ago
That would be ideal, but a lot more difficult to market. Most people just don't care enough when they buy items like this, and/or they don't want to pay a premium because they'll probably be moving soon/etc. Crap, i
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by mjhay 4y ago
Like I alluded to, some low-cost consumer products that aren't really meant to last forever (like a laundry basket) would be good candidates for bioplastics (some of which do fine with water).
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by mjhay 4y ago
Items that actually get reused a lot (e.g., not reusable shopping bags) aren't as bad waste-wise, for the simple reason less of them need to get made. Personally, I'd like to see plastics restricted to areas where they have major
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by mjhay 4y ago
Real FSD, where it is not necessary to have a human ready to take the controls at any time, isn't something you can just get more training data for. It's just that current ML methods aren't up for the task. Basically, it turn
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by mjhay 4y ago
Don't be so pessimistic, I'm sure the Metaverse will take off any day now.
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often to dust
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by mjhay 4y ago
If you like complicated rooflines, you'll love McMansion Hell: https://mcmansionhell.com/
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by mjhay 4y ago
Once I rented a Hertz car. A couple hundred miles from where I picked it up, the transmission died. I could only drive in first gear. After spending over an hour trying to get through, the person on the phone actually tried to get me to dri
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by mjhay 4y ago
I've known some people who did contract work for the DoD like how you describe. They reported to DoD employees and were otherwise indistinguishable from actual DoD employes. However, there was some company that did their W2s, and took
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by mjhay 4y ago
Well yeah, what do you expect when Congress and the GSA sets pay for pay for developers at levels far below the private sector? I've worked for two different federal agencies in the past, and both were more efficient and lower BS than
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by mjhay 4y ago
Healthcare.gov was farmed out to well-connected contractors, much like most other similar boondoggles (SLS, F-34, Bradley fighting vehicle, delayed road projects, etc). It says a lot more about corrupt and inefficient procurement (e.g. cost
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by mjhay 4y ago
That would require courage and long-term thinking. As of now, this problem has just been punted, while the industry continues to hemorrhage workers
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by mjhay 4y ago
Whoa buddy, we gotta keep our priorities here. Cars are more important than pedestrians, cyclists, and human lives. What makes garbage so special?
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by mjhay 4y ago
For the same amount of surface space, dumpsters would take up less space than loose bags of garbage. Other cities with comparable population densities have no problem doing this.
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by mjhay 4y ago
I don't think you were making this argument, but the private healthcare system in the US is suffering a nursing "shortage" as well, so it shouldn't be taken as a truism that in the private sector, the wages and condition
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by mjhay 4y ago
It seems very IBM to build a useless crypto thing with a shipping company.
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by mjhay 4y ago
That's becoming increasingly less true of anywhere with a reasonable quality of life, or that has any kind of desirable or interesting nature. Wages outlying areas and smaller towns are also quite a bit less.
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by mjhay 4y ago
It's truly all the fault of the powerful and influential welfare scroungers, just like the Telegraph says. Thank you for being so brave to speak your truth.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Having just read what the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon[0] is, I think this is a rare virtuous karma hack, because it would give a series of related posts more interest, at the same time the information around them are more in the forefront of
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by mjhay 4y ago
Not a bad idea!
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by mjhay 4y ago
I'm guessing they have thought about this and other contingencies. Just because somebody isn't a programmer doesn't mean they're a moron.
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by mjhay 4y ago
The long timelines and high costs of nuclear in the US have very little to do with the limits of the technology.
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If you think that's bad, wait until you here about what the Canadian government wants to do with the vast taiga forests. My (unscientific) observation is that some Canadians get stuck in a frontier mentality, kind of thinking that the
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by mjhay 4y ago
Doubly so because the same oil and gas industry has spent quite a bit of money over the years to spread anti-nuclear hysteria, including covert support of environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. The effects can be seen now in EU, wher

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