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by nocoiner 3y ago
“People keep telling me that we’re living on an Information Superhighway. But that’s not true.” Just a thought, but perhaps don’t open your profound thinkpiece with a cliched metaphor that was already beat to hell three decades ago?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I guess I’m one of those easily misled sheep who has been cowed (sheeped?) by government propaganda. Or maybe it’s possible to disapprove of Snowden not as “a plant or a terrorist” but as an unwitting accomplice or a useful idiot who chose
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Too bad that impeccable puzzler’s logic led him to defraud people out of billions and to confess to doing so repeatedly and in real time after he had been apprehended for doing so. Oh well, hate the puzzle, not the puzzler.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, I’ve been a follower for just about as long as you have, it sounds like. It’s been interesting seeing her growth and evolution as a writer. I think this is the only thing where I subscribe to someone’s Patreon, but it’s well worth it.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
She writes one of these a week, and they’re all very high quality. I highly recommending subscribing. Seeing the new post is always one of the week’s highlights, just like how getting the “Money Stuff” edition is a highlight of every weekda
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by nocoiner 3y ago
As I recall, it’s linked in the (excellent) article, but William Langewiesche’s article about this crash is also very much worth reading: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-... A
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Are you saying you can’t imagine the scenario where you’re a director of a corporation that has a share price of $50, and someone offers to buy every share of the company for $60, but the director says no to the offer and won’t let a deal a
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by nocoiner 3y ago
A bought a gun in case society collapses. So I can blow my fuckin’ brains out.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Damn, their strategy of relying on the inertia of their reputation is working just fine, I just switched to them from fine-but-not-spectacular AT&T when I needed to add on a couple new phone lines. The price was about the same, and so f
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by nocoiner 3y ago
A company I used to work for adopted BlueJeans for conference calls and videoconferencing prior to the pandemic. I never used it because I thought the name was incredibly dumb. I just continued to use my ancient 800 number and PIN code for
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by nocoiner 3y ago
It’s actually pretty easy, no? A SPAC has requirements that it has to meet - no operating business, only nominal assets, a limited period of time in which it must transact. But like another poster observed, not letting a SPAC list completel
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I hear you, buddy. Though this place is generally a pretty good spot to find at least a few folks looking for conversations like that.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Apparently it’s 6 MW, which ain’t nothing, but isn’t a tremendous amount either. I don’t know what a typical battery storage facility can put out instantaneously - I would think more, perhaps substantially more. Though the lake certainly wo
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Ah yes. The good ol’ “Well, have you tried not being depressed?” Works every time.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Would there be enough elevation change to generate significant hydropower, though?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Congress had the right idea when they made ERISA pension liabilities joint liabilities among controlled companies. Of course, that’s probably one of the factors that contributed to the decline of private sector pensions, but I think some ne
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Were there really a sufficient number of lessons learned during the course of construction that there’s any reason to think that a new AP1000 or unit of similar scale will be constructed anywhere else in the United States? I cannot imagine
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by nocoiner 3y ago
But if it had been a different type of eruption, it could have caused worldwide cooling, right? Isn’t that what happened after Mt. Pinatubo? Are eruptions predominantly warming events or cooling events or pretty evenly split? I suppose the
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Russian propaganda: “We must invade a sovereign nation to eliminate the Nazis and implement a program of de-Nazification through vigorous ethnic cleansing!” US propaganda: “Russian airlines are unreliable and are making some questionable ma
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I hate to possibly be the bearer of bad news, but I can’t think of any plot points in that movie that involved Vladivostok. The action all took place in the Barents Sea and North Atlantic, after Red October left Murmansk through the Polyarn
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by nocoiner 3y ago
But if I live here, then I automatically hold a “Texas energy production expert” card, right? Actually, surely it’d be a badge. Anyway, I automatically get the badge… right, pardner?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I saw some early reactions to this paper that were highly critical of the researchers, and claimed that they were doxxing innocent people. Without commenting on the substance of the posts to that board, that just seems factually incorrect t
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by nocoiner 3y ago
What’s going to be the effect of increased use of the engine? Airlines like to derate their engines for takeoffs that don’t require full performance in order to save wear and tear; how much quicker are the engines going to require overhaul
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Excellent advice, appreciate the digression.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thanks! Sorry to be that guy, but is there a text write-up of the conclusion you’d recommend? I searched and came across some local news articles and Reddit posts but nothing as detailed as the blog you mentioned (which surprised me that it
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wow, that was fascinating. Reminded me of the search for MH370.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Do we have any confidence in the narrator in the last section? I assumed that there was no more reason to take any of that as true than there was at any other point in the book. Probably the only thing that we truly know at the end is that
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Texas consumes a huge amount of power for industrial purposes (oil refineries and chemical plants and the like). It produces a lot of power (including through renewables) but has notably high power consumption due to the industrial base and
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Is the argument that a self-contained grid means no interstate commerce really that strong? With this Supreme Court, OK, fine, maybe trying to look at precedent is a sucker’s game, but I would have thought Wickard v. Fillburn would have put
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Just make sure you get the cash up front.

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