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by nocoiner 2y ago
Houston isn’t particularly near the coast, believe it or not. And the flood control infrastructure has been dramatically improved since Harvey. This occurrence seems to be a failure of the local transmission and distribution monopoly.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Boston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I was an early-ish EV adopter but had gone back to PHEVs and ICE vehicles for the last five years or so. As of a month ago, I’m back in an EV (and love it), but it feels to me like the public charging situation is worse than it was five yea
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Well said. I couldn’t agree more. I think there are a lot of countries that have done some really remarkable things. I’m American, and I’m generally very proud of my country. If I were, say, French, Swedish or Japanese, I’d feel the same wa
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Truly, if there’s anyone who values the sanctity of Delaware contract law, it is surely Elon Musk.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Such a world is horrific to imagine. Perhaps the only thing worse would be a world without zinc.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I think it was a reference to Liar’s Poker.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
How could I have better expressed myself? My impression of his post was that he was presenting himself as a naif in the woods, discovering through pure industriousness unknown truths about plastics. Whereas if you take him at his word expre
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by nocoiner 2y ago
We’ve learned that the combination of high latency, faulty reasoning, and limited document scope kills usage. No lawyer wants to expend effort to ask a detailed question, wait 10 minutes for an answer, wade through a 2-pages-long response,
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Seems like the point here is that that country did something that was pretty, pretty bad (in their opinion, anyway) and decided to abide by their principles rather than maximize profit. I assume there are other capitalists out there who mad
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by nocoiner 2y ago
There’s a reason it reads like propaganda. The guy is just talking his book. From his other site (located at the domain used in his email address): > Phantom Plastics offers polymers & plastics consulting services and custom solution
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I wouldn’t bet against the United States growing its way out of the current debt-to-GDP ratio (which, while mildly alarming, is far from unprecedented either here or elsewhere at various stages in history). The current revenue/spending
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by nocoiner 2y ago
Additional counterpoint: the current risk-free rate is probably not the right discount rate for the robo-taxi business.
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by nocoiner 2y ago
I found out in an interesting way that our GM vehicle had been enrolled in this. I was shopping around for a new homeowners policy and as part of that process, also got some quotes on auto coverage. One of the quotes that came back had a no
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by nocoiner 2y ago
If you can find that overlap between aptitude and market, the money can go a looong way toward sustaining interest (and/or financing hobbies and stuff outside work that makes the stuff inside work worthwhile). But yeah, if you can find
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Did you use it to learn programming as a novice to the field? I have always wanted to learn programming as a hobby, but never really found the right entry point. Would you recommend this?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
From the article: “It began in 2021 and provides cloud computing services to Israel—specifically, we’ve recently learned, to the Israeli Ministry of Defense—and though it has faced internal criticism since its inception, efforts against it
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I was surprised to see that Sweden transferred its remaining plutonium to the United States around a decade ago. I would have assumed they’d have kept it around, just to keep their options open - it’s not like they were in an immediate post
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Are you sure it’s only a few minutes at low demand times? I checked a few days in April at your link, and if I’m reading the graphs right, it looks like renewable production exceeded demand for at least several hours in the afternoon for ea
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by nocoiner 3y ago
There appears to be a significant other named Liz in the mix, and a reference to a wedding anniversary, so a male author seems probable to me.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
And how did it even come up that they were enjoying their continued use of his plastic bins? Did they think that would be consolation?! I know this is only one side of the story, but based on his subjective experience here, I can’t say I bl
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I remember when the New Republic had great, memorable headlines and pretty good articles. I see that that is tradition has ended.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Isn’t it more likely that the exorbitant cost of childcare is much more a function of Baumol’s cost disease than parking minimums or land use requirements? It’s hard to bring any kind of desirable productivity revolution to childcare - it’s
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by nocoiner 3y ago
For sure. By way of further example, if you’re looking into land owned by an LLC (or other entity), the LLC had to be conveyed that land at some point - searching the county grantor/grantee index of deeds will turn up who owned the lan
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by nocoiner 3y ago
These are extremely good tips. The value of the address of the entity may be marginal (a lot of times, the address listed on the formation paperwork is the address of a registered agent services company, which may handle thousands and thous
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by nocoiner 3y ago
These are great techniques and helpful advice, but note that they are basically of zero use whatsoever in the case of (for instance) a Delaware LLC. The amount of information regarding beneficial ownership that’s out there varies by jurisd
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I guess what I’m trying to puzzle out is what their ideal city looks like. So apparently it isn’t New York nor Houston. Is it downtown Palo Alto? Is it one of the master-planned communities along 30A in the Florida panhandle? Those are both
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by nocoiner 3y ago
New York seems like a pretty obvious counterexample to that prescription, though. High density, high taxes - so should be the ideal city, no? But according to this very article, New York’s finances are even worse off than Houston’s! Does th
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I’ve read a few pieces by these folks, and they all just rub me the wrong way. They’re all very strident and confrontational and say that we’re all doing everything terribly wrong, but always seem conspicuously light on any answers. The one

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