pedroma

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by pedroma 2y ago
I've never broken a mechanical keyboard, but I have gone through a few mice. None of my MX mice (MX Master, MX Anywhere) have failed, but only gaming mice. I have a feeling gaming mice just aren't built to last, especially in rece
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by pedroma 2y ago
Rent is mixed with immigration because housing (extending that, physical space) is a limited resource. If housing is static and never increases, no matter how much the Average Joe's pay is increased due to an influx of highly paid immi
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by pedroma 2y ago
Assuming there is an infinite amount of work to be done, there are still limited resources in the real world that people compete for. Theoretically, we can utilize more land, build more dense housing, and so on to offset the increase in pop
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by pedroma 2y ago
>The data is just me walking on any street in Shenzhen and almost never smelling any gasoline or feel the heat from cars. If we're basing our arguments on opinions then I'm not sure there's any value in this discussion for
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by pedroma 2y ago
I was under the impression there was a large demographic of Chinese who would buy Huawei phones over iPhones because they were Chinese and not American, despite the chip being being a few generations behind an iPhone. Meaning, there are peo
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by pedroma 2y ago
The solution is to redistribute power from the people to the government?
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by pedroma 2y ago
I'd watch Elon Musk starring Kanye West as Elon Musk.
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by pedroma 2y ago
My point is it's not useful to compare metrics of these unrelated things, where one is deadly and the other is simply undesirable but non-deadly. Because then someone with bad intentions can make the argument, like "wow drug addic
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by pedroma 2y ago
I don't think it makes sense to compare deaths by cars to deaths by dangerous drug addicts for the same reason it doesn't make sense to compare death by cars to death by molestation.
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by pedroma 2y ago
I'm not familiar with this metric but does it at least account for the cost that non-wind sources must incur to keep their facilities running? For example, if you have a wind farm you will prioritize using that energy when available, b
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by pedroma 2y ago
Yes, but due to the nature of wind being fickle, we have to keep these other energy facilities running and people employed. This adds to the costs of these other energy solutions while they are doing very little while wind is blowing. This
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by pedroma 2y ago
That would be amazing if it was the case (and wind would get a lot more support if so), but it doesn't say that. It says it pays for itself emissions-wise.
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by pedroma 2y ago
I'm not sure the linked study has accounted for the energy required to acquire and operate the batteries used alongside these wind farms. But it would be interesting to see what percentage batteries factor into this equation. I would i
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by pedroma 2y ago
My answer applies to both cases actually. For example, if one wanted to maximize profits, energy wise, there are better options than wind turbines and batteries. The choice to go with wind seems politically motivated due to optics of the al
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by pedroma 2y ago
>negative return on investment, energy wise, no one would be building wind farms I don't think it's this simple considering politics is usually involved. But if it was a simple profit question I still don't think people wo
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by pedroma 3y ago
Musk has done good for the environment, more than what people give him credit for. At least if you consider moving people to electric cars and reusable rockets "good for environment" but I'm sure haters will find reasons to d
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by pedroma 3y ago
My only hesitation with Stoicism is there seems to be a path that leads from "do I have control over this?" to "not my problem". And the "not my problem" response is apathy towards things you might be able to e
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by pedroma 3y ago
I'd argue studying any philosophy correlates with people looking to study traditional thought. Traditional thought correlates with conservatism, not Nazism, maybe Nietzsche does though.
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by pedroma 3y ago
A little less
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by pedroma 3y ago
Thought experiment: Someone takes something* away from you. Would you like it? *thing wasn't yours to begin with
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by pedroma 3y ago
There's a plethora of UIs available already. Really you just need to accept user text input and output text input, so it's not that complicated to build a UI for their API (which appears to be their main product).
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by pedroma 3y ago
Not him, but it would likely be my own fault and weakness if I end up like that and people have every right to ridicule me for acting ridiculous. That is, pooping on the streets and leaving needles everywhere.
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by pedroma 3y ago
Can you post some of those police statistics that debunk that claim?
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by pedroma 3y ago
Counterargument: Using ligatures will reveal when others are using wrong Unicode symbols and sneaking them into the codebase. "Huh? Why isn't this >= rendering as ligature?"
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by pedroma 4y ago
I don't see why this matters. Two people like each other? Why does it matter where it's happening or what the context is? It's probably more natural and humanizing to treat people like humans instead of objects you cannot hav
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by pedroma 4y ago
Tipping forms a special relationship between the restaurant and specific customers. Sure, regulars get better service, but it is more common for big tipping regulars to get these benefits and more (get seated quickly, food comes out quickly
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by pedroma 4y ago
It works as a regular electronic handbrake for those people who only use it on public roads. It only works as a drift brake in "track mode". Thanks to that drift thing though we get a normal-ish handbrake interface instead of a bu
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by pedroma 4y ago
Curious about this except butt sizes instead.
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by pedroma 5y ago
I also expect the purpose is to act as spaced armor. Though I don't know how much spaced armor helps against things like Javelin missiles, but anything to slightly change the angle of the projectile should help increase effective armor
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by pedroma 5y ago
One way to justify this is if people don't feel like paying for something and the business runs out of money, it culls the models of business that aren't working and a replacement will come along at some point if there is any meri

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