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by notJim 6y ago
> Other places that don't have a relatively constant solar output and more variable seasons? No. How big of a problem is this really, though? We could run more HVDC lines (as we already have in some places), such that sunny states p
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by notJim 6y ago
Suppose nuclear requires various government supports to make the projects economically viable and in research for new reactor designs. Now suppose we put that same money into subsidizing renewables, and building a modern grid. Which one giv
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by notJim 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. Retiring reactors before a green replacement is available has been a total disaster for Germany. To be honest, I'm pretty agnostic as to what the replacement is, but at least keep them going until it's
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by notJim 6y ago
I sort of wonder if long term, as more and more retail investors get into the market, it'll become less and less rational. A lot of people seem to treat it sort of like trading cards or a fan club, where they buy stock in a company bec
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by notJim 6y ago
That article is 6000 words long, any chance you can summarize?
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by notJim 6y ago
In the comments on that video, there are Amazon workers saying most of this stuff is still manual. I've read some workers on reddit saying it varies a lot from warehouse to warehouse.
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by notJim 6y ago
Oddly, in countries with strong sectoral bargaining, there is less government intervention, because the unions work things out directly with the employers. IMO that solution is better in the end, as the unions and employers are better posit
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by notJim 6y ago
Wait wait, I'm in favor of unions, and I hope they win here, but didn't Europe literally invent the mob?
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by notJim 6y ago
From what I understand, companies do tend to automate more if labor costs rise. If your employees cost $30/hr instead of $15/hr, it makes sense to invest in their productivity. This is one reason higher minimum wages aren't t
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by notJim 6y ago
A bit surprised you sent the photos to Amazon. That person is likely to be fired. A bit of pee on the street is not going to harm anything or anyone (otherwise the streets around bars would be an enormous biohazard), although it's obvi
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by notJim 6y ago
> Most of the packages on NPM are complete garbage And don't do anything. I'm amazed by how often I read the source for a package I'm interested in, only to find it's about 10 or 20 lines of code. The convenience of a
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by notJim 6y ago
The state and national governments are also elected in my country, so fortunately democracy prevails! As I said in my comment, in my view there are issues that require coordination at a higher level, because otherwise it's just a game
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by notJim 6y ago
I agree removing local control is a good idea. One way to think about it is that there's kind of a game-theory problem where we have a bunch of groups that have realized they can push a cost to someone else. This results in bad and oft
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by notJim 6y ago
Anecdotally, I see a lot of "small time landlords" opposing upzoning around the PNW, so in that sense they are very much not increasing housing supply.
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by notJim 6y ago
Good lord, this is an awful idea. I've played a ton of Factorio, and I'm a decent engineer, and while the skillsets are similar conceptually , the actual execution and mechanics of them are very very different. Factorio involves
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by notJim 6y ago
I don't think so. What I see is this: https://imgur.com/a/BalUOOP . The screenshot only shows 5 levels deep, but it goes 9 if I scroll down more.
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by notJim 6y ago
> Your screenshot shows old reddit I don't think this is right, unless there's an "old new" reddit and a "new new" reddit. Old reddit doesn't have the alien avatars, or the lines indicating the thread.
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by notJim 6y ago
What's the issue with it? I see nothing but hate, but I honestly don't mind the new design. Edit: lol, I participate in a lot of contentious threads here, but this simple question where I am genuinely trying to understand somethin
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by notJim 6y ago
> The new design collapses all responses below the second level I don't follow. I just opened a random comment thread, and counted comments being shown up to seven levels deep (which was the deepest comment.) Is the behavior you des
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by notJim 6y ago
Whether it's laughable or not is a judgment call, but as a frequent pedestrian and cyclist, cars erratically swerving all over the road like that is not what I would call protective.
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by notJim 6y ago
I think Google are basically just the funders, the actual leaders on the project seem to be engineers with strong AI backgrounds.
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by notJim 6y ago
I thought maybe this Oakland video was an outlier in how bad it was, but I've watched several videos from the related videos, and the Tesla subreddit, and the system really seems like it's in bad shape. I'm really surprised t
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by notJim 6y ago
This is your brain on javascript :) Guessing it's bc one-liners are easier to write than for loops in the console.
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by notJim 6y ago
Not at all trolling :). Your setup sounds like it would be unusual in my spheres, where most people have probably close to a dozen different accounts (credit cards, retirement accounts, investments, mortgages, etc.) Online banking is very c
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by notJim 6y ago
As someone who has never really done "offline banking", I don't really understand how this works? Do you maintain your own ledger of all your accounts and their balances? Or are you driving over to the bank to check on things
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by notJim 6y ago
The lab this is from has a nice page with some of their publications here: https://thehumananimalbond.com/publication-media/
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by notJim 6y ago
Right, my point is you can do all this with a bus or BRT without needing the extra expense of using a streetcar.
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by notJim 6y ago
IMO streetcars in general are a pretty bad investment, as they are generally just a way of making a bus, but more expensive and stuck on rails. (Streetcars are not usually grade-separated.) I learned recently that part of why streetcars hav
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by notJim 6y ago
Apple hasn't been a good example for ages now. I routinely encounter irritating bugs that go years without fixing on all my Apple devices. Windows is much less buggy in my experience. As far as why ship bugs, it's because of the &
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by notJim 6y ago
Not to be rude, but it's really wild to me that even after all this time during the pandemic, the CEO doesn't have a headset he can use so that the audio is intelligible. It's gotta be one of the highest ROI investments you c

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