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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Barring children from voting is literally voter suppression Actually, no, it's not. Maybe this is pedantic, but children are not, and have never been, putative voters and therefore are not being suppressed. Minority groups less li
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The reverse is probably true, however. If there had been more immigration to the South over these two centuries, bigoted attitudes would have likely been less tenacious.
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Certain industries have always had bigger profit margins than others. Turns out that advertising is inherently more scarce than consumer goods; while you can manufacture as many consumer goods as the market will absorb, you cannot just manu
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You've made me feel embarrassingly privileged for have done absolutely nothing to earn my right to work in the world's tech capital. I wonder how many people just slightly less motivated or talented than you are turned away (or ev
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Square in the frunk.
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Seems incomplete. Maybe let's add multi-user functionality, and upvotes, and... hey wait a minute.
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by nwiswell 5y ago
It's an easily solved problem: the state legislature writes a law mandating a statewide database, and schools are required to enter their information. Like some other commenters pointed out, ad-hoc situations like police directing traf
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Not to mention Chris Roberts appears to have invented a whole new business model: selling game development hype instead of games
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> The goal is not equality or rights, the goal is securing the status of an elite That's kind of an odd take. By the time the dust settles there will be more than a million Americans dead from COVID. The lion's share of them wi
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Previous struggles for rights, for example by women, blacks, and gays, as well as pushing back against "the man" - conformity with the establishment, were important causes Ironically your attitude itself is not new. During th
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By this logic Google should do away with their QA department and product support staff. You spend the $1M because it improves customer value by far more than $1M and that works out for everyone in the long run. This thread is a testament to
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by nwiswell 5y ago
You can read the SEMI standards. All of this is thoroughly standardized to allow interoperability between equipment from different suppliers. SECS (SEMI Equipment Communications Standard) and GEM (Generic Model for Communications and Contro
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> needed for very heavy indivisible parts (not sure if this is commons for fabs) It is not common. Semiconductor equipment is generally designed to be sent via air freight and assembled on site. Some of the supporting operations (water a
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At that point how is it differentiated from the incumbent product? If you are running a serious fab you already have AMAT equipment anyway and there's probably good reasons to get the industry standard AMAT MES software. Realistically,
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Very well for Oregon. But it's a little more nuanced than pay for two reasons. 1) Intel is a little like proto-Amazon. There is a preference for hiring people directly out of grad school and inducting them into the cult while they are
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> What is their case then exactly? That they're stealing AA's opportunity for, ahem, "customer engagement". They may have a case for tortious interference, I think? It does seem like an uphill climb. The strategy migh
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> Let us say it is not being discussed because it is not feasible. Unless of course we build massive nuclear power plants in Antarctica with all what that entails. Maybe it really is because it's not feasible, I concede that's
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by nwiswell 5y ago
Yes. CO2 can be frozen out of the air as snow at sufficiently low temperatures. This could be done at scale in central Antarctica using enormous refrigerating complexes[1], but it would be the most ambitious engineering project ever underta
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Yep, it's the site wordlist.
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RAISE also sounds pretty plausible. How is the score calculated? What is the trade-off between expectation greens / expectation yellows? Intuitively I expect that greens are significantly more "valuable" than yellows, since t
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> It seems clear to me that there is an optimal starting word I took one step further and calculated the optimal starting word for obtaining green matches (I assume that this also makes it likely to produce yellow matches, although I did
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> I've been in direct communication with cold dark matter (CDM) and modified gravity (MOND) cosmologists for the last 20 weeks. It's not really any of my business, but in your shoes I would be making sure to disclaim these stat
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I don't understand: if this is a persistent effect why can't you short in the morning and cover in the afternoon?
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> basically be set 10 years behind on computing That probably overstates the case a little bit since capacity is distributed around the world, but in some sense yes. It's not particularly hypothetical. If China (PRC) was to invade T
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by nwiswell 5y ago
I meant "Yes, there is truth to the statement" in the sense that some market participants are "exempt from", or more accurately "not constrained by", supply chain issues or backlog problems because their specif
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At least for semiconductors a lot of the magic is distributed tribal knowledge among engineers and the sophisticated equipment used to fabricate the devices (all major suppliers are in the US, Europe, and Japan). So theft is not really a co
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Yes. The "size" you are talking about is the "process node". It's basically a shorthand for how large the transistors are. These nodes are not fungible, once a chip is designed and a mask set is taped out it must be
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by nwiswell 5y ago
> For reference to a Covid prevalence measurement that isn't sensitive to testing artifacts, check out the Boston wastewater analysis: This would be confounded by the greater viral loads for Omicron, wouldn't it?
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> Do we know this about omicron? Here's the early numbers out of major cities: https://i.imgur.com/g8tyRdQ.png It's probably somewhere between 75% as serious and as serious as Delta, but we can't be sure y

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