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mulmen
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HSAs carry over from year to year. The only limit is contribution amount. https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/smart-money/hsa-con...
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Is this a joke? That’s mostly how it works already.
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Congress.
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It can easily be pointless and also cause WW3.
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There’s no state change in the enrichment process. It’s literally just mechanically filtering isotopes. The point is it is possible to destroy a stockpile without destroying the contents of the stockpile. If you have to turn the site into
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> Is it even possible to "destroy" enriched uranium? Yes, obviously you can cause it to go critical. But that wasn’t the question. A stockpile can be destroyed by simply redistributing the contents in a way they cannot be ea
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> In a hazard investigation you don’t want the investigators to have teeth. Did I say I want the NTSB to have teeth? > Without official investigations, companies can assert their own interpretations of events. They can do this with
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Ok but the NTSB's response was to refer to DOJ because NTSB has no teeth.
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The point is that the centralization of data centers makes them suitable for dedicated power generation.
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> We didn't care about the environmental impacts of all of the other stuff Speak for yourself. Environmentalism has been a thing for longer than I have been alive. Clearly we care. And before you reply with even more toxic cynicism
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Xboxes, smartphones, and personal computers are geographically distributed and so is their power generation. Data centers are …centralized. Dedicated power plants for large data center installations are not new.
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Most of the pharmacy chains (Bartell, Rite Aid, Walgreens) in Seattle are bankrupt. Last time I was in a Bartell the shelves were nearly empty. He might be right.
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I would be shocked if material costs are within an order of magnitude of the labor and design costs.
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WWII ended in 1945. The last time the US officially declared war was June 4, 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...
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Let he who is without sin cast the first DELETE CASCADE.
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What about hardware from vendors that are no longer in business or don’t care to take on support?
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What’s the actual risk in a security risk? What’s the bad thing that happens to the user? How is it better or worse than their device failing to function without warning?
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The smartphone completely replaced the personal computer for most people. 10 years ago all my non-tech friends and family had laptops. Now they all use their smartphones as primary computing devices. My nephew who just graduated from hi
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They were extremely clever but I strongly object to characterizing the program as “scrappy”. They were doing beyond bleeding edge stuff with zero compromise. They didn’t settle. They just kept inventing until they had the capability they
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> So if you see them as bad, often bad appears, and if you see them as good, then often good appears? That's some magical stuff there. Pretty much, yeah. Another way of saying this is “perception is reality.” Everyone has their own
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One of the most contentious disagreements between myself and my current manager is that I say we should trust our peers to do good work and enable them with that fundamental assumption in mind. IMHO if you assume the people around you are i
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I see, thanks for explaining!
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I understand the reference. It just doesn’t work with the famously well funded and resourced Apollo program.
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Bluecobra made a Spaceballs reference.
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> So then we'd have to assume that the error was not a 'simple' one. Why?
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Starship is not yet operational. It is in development. This is “before hand”.
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NASA’s first attempt to land on Mars was successful. I count 11 total attempts with one failure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars
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San Antonio is Spanish for “Saint Anthony”. The city in Texas is well known but there are many places in the world that share the name.
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> If you yourself are a citizen, I'm sure you can express your views and not be sent anywhere. Under the current regime US citizens have already been deported to countries they have never visited.
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Your now-flagged post did not specify “famous progressives”. You’re clearly moving the goalposts in service of your political agenda. This conversation is over.
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