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by nocoiner 3y ago
There was probably an interesting idea here for a 1500 word column, but at 500 words it’s basically beyond pointless.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
OK, but… that’s a store selling anything and everything under the sun tapping into a previous untouched market. This is an animatronic rat for kids. Context is key.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
1. They knew they couldn’t build a better pad due to location. 2. The pad (as evidently predicted?) didn’t work and was destroyed and caused quite a bit of collateral damage. 3. They re-confirmed that they needed a better pad (as they knew
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Isn’t Atlas V also 100% successful?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Would launching from a barge be totally impractical? Or hell, just go full Sea Dragon. Both seem preferable to destroying rare wetlands. Also, love the binary outcome set of Hiroshima/not-Hiroshima.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I suppose in the interest of steelmanning your argument, it seems to me there’s a number of NASA deaths you’re omitting. Challenger and Columbia each had seven crew members. Apollo I had three. Then there were a number of astronaut candidat
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thank you for the explanation - very much appreciated.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
No doubt a naive question, but without a CLA, how does the project obtain the IP rights from the contributors necessary to make all the code releasable under an open source license (or a future open source license)? I suppose if every contr
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’m mostly imputing ideological motives to what ERCOT’s become and how that’s led them to fail at operating a robust, reliable grid, and highlighting some of the perverse incentives specific to Texas’s electrical market. I’m also complainin
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Oh boy. You could write a book on mineral rights in Texas. Just kidding - it could fill a library. If you’re interested in knowing more about what your family might own and how this works, happy to take some educated guesses. Just let me kn
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I appreciate the thoughtful response. You raise a lot of good points. I think we may just agree to disagree on ERCOT’s current role. For a nearly lifelong Texas resident, I always thought of them the way you’re describing them. Given the ev
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by nocoiner 3y ago
How well did natural gas do when it was unseasonably cold and the wellheads froze over? I don’t see a single person in this thread commenting in good faith who’s not in favor of a robust energy mix. But you’re deluding yourself if you think
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by nocoiner 3y ago
100% agree. Actually, 99% agree. In Texas, up until one of our recent power debacles, there was a retail energy provider whose schtick was passing through spot rates to retail customers. Normally this was a small fraction (30%) of typical r
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Also, at least in the case of Georgia, new nuclear power generation that went vastly, vastly over budget and I presume is not yet fully reflected in ratepayer bills. At least they actually got some new units out of it, unlike South Caroli
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Interestingly, the true “redneck republican” states (e.g., Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia (historically, at least, though seemingly trending)) tend to have fully vertically integrated utilities (generation, distribution, delivery) and pre
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I have ecobee thermostats that I’m generally happy with - HomeKit integration, seemingly comprehensive privacy controls, overall well designed and functional - but they have all kinds of dark patterns designed to force you into these progra
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by nocoiner 3y ago
As a Texas resident, I’m glad that batteries and renewables are bailing us out. Once a week or so, my utility (actually, a middleman wholesaler of power that they purchase from the actual generators, due to our deregulated electrical market
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Upon reading the last sentence of your post, I almost reflexively downvoted you before I caught myself. My god, what a hellscape.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Same here. I haven’t really missed it at all (by contrast, I stopped using Reddit when the blackout started earlier this month, and that feels like more of a loss). Weirdly, Twitter had started becoming so unreliable for me for several mont
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by nocoiner 3y ago
For grocery store discount cards and the like, your local area code + 867-5309 almost always works.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
That sounds incredibly unlikely to me. Or, I suppose it could make sense, but only under a couple of circumstances: 1. Each year’s crop of UT students constitutes a large fraction of Austin transplants. But that doesn’t seem possible, as I
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by nocoiner 3y ago
And for a brief moment, the shareholders realized a lot of value.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Imagine if this had happened to whatever refrigerator that contained the blood samples that let researchers trace HIV back to Congo in the late ‘50s. What an incalculable loss. Who knows what else has been lost due to similar accidents and
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yup, this is how I respond too. While occasionally it leads to missing content I used to enjoy (miss u, /r/dogelore), for the most part I wind up never noticing the absence and having more time in my day. Win win!
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, I could have been more specific when I said “outmoded commercial buildings.” I meant the typical open floor plan office towers built during the ‘60s-‘80s. Those are challenging, though not impossible, to convert to residential. But ab
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by nocoiner 3y ago
LOL, was that an Andy Fastow reference? Deep cut, I love it, even if I’m still not sure how it applies here.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This is not really how a lot of this works. Zoning is basically irrelevant - the problem is that the cost of converting an outmoded commercial building to residential is usually within the same order of magnitude as knocking it down and put
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by nocoiner 3y ago
My dad was in newspapers. He worked at all types, everywhere from medium sized cities in the south and Midwest to big cities on the east coast (up to and including the New York Times). During that era (last quarter of the 20th century), eve
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I dunno, it seems pretty dubious to me that that’s the way causation’s arrow points. I don’t think any purely financial market could have that much impact on the price of a very, very expensive item consumed by almost literally everyone (i.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Huh, kind of weird to think about the holding company still being the same corporation and that it was created from the merger of a bunch of old-timey manufacturing companies. That’s a lot of history! I wonder if Berkshire Hathaway-the-corp

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