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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean, the title is in response to the specific, observed phenomenon of people in oil/gas/coal producing areas arguing for environmental restrictions on solar/wind/nuclear, but not arguing the same for oil/gas&#x
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by petsfed 3y ago
Just a sidebar here, I think the urge to jump to esoteric conclusions is very strong because we are (rightly) trained to not expect that nature at large uses the same tools that we have developed. So its very validating (and also kind of un
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by petsfed 3y ago
If your only constraint is cost, there's basically no argument for using a domestic PCB manufacturer or assembly house. You can't beat them. The closest you might get is "offshoring" to Mexico, and even then, you'll
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its been a couple of years since I last went to Sierra with an order, but they're pretty competitive with other domestic board houses. About 7 years ago, they were were the cheapest for quick-turn turn-key builds of low-complexity boar
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by petsfed 3y ago
I appreciate that "totally_safe_transmute" carries some connotation that this is not a "safe" transmute, but rather a suspiciously specific denial.
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by petsfed 3y ago
>Small drones carrying a load generally have a short range, which could make launching such an attack (and surviving the response) difficult. I understand why such things are relatively rare, but its always sort of a wonder to me that
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by petsfed 3y ago
>as even "good upstanding citizens" are still greedy pieces of shit that will screw over their fellow human for another dollar. I think a more charitable way to look at this is that whatever "good" is being pushed, ha
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by petsfed 3y ago
Maybe its because I work on embedded firmware, where detailed logging is occasionally at the expense of device function, but I find the absence of blinking LEDs really unsettling. I've repeatedly removed and replaced the batteries on m
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by petsfed 3y ago
My point was more that people wouldn't join unions if individual action always was all it took. Indeed, sometimes the role of the union is to get everybody doing the same thing, and provide a safety net for individuals who suffer reper
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by petsfed 3y ago
Similarly, there is never any scenario where a union is more effective than individuals each advocating for their own needs, because the organizations people negotiate with always negotiate in good faith, and both sides provide all availabl
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by petsfed 3y ago
That sticks out to me too. You're already very constrained about where you can go because you need charging stations. But to then shrink that "only routes with chargers at least every 50 miles" wipes out huge portions of th
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its especially frustrating, given that Ted Bundy was seemingly lab-grown as an argument for the death penalty. And he was executed. What are we even doing comparing how the system effects him and some kid who didn't find out he was
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by petsfed 3y ago
One of the things that get trotted out a lot when talking about the higher-than-the-general-population incarceration rate of black men is that a higher-than-the-general-population rate of single-parent black families. Which, in turn, drives
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by petsfed 3y ago
>Bed sensor is unnecessary to turn off kitchen lights from bed. "Unnecessary" is entirely a judgement call. Anything more than alligator clips (to make the connection latching) on bare wires to dis/connect the power to the
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by petsfed 3y ago
I can totally see the utility of having lights that turn on/off because I've gotten into bed for the night. I want no part of it, but I get the frustration of finally getting warm and cozy, just to realize that I left the kitchen
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by petsfed 3y ago
"I really need to tune the debouncing algorithm, these errors are driving me nuts"
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its because, as you say, guns are contentious, and its a distractingly bad example. I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder when somebody says "oh, this doesn't apply to me, I'm just that good". Most of the time, in my exp
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm "obsessing" over it, because its a bad example. If anything, this whole exchange is a good example of how people will ignore valid, relevant statistics because they find the implication of a given statistic inconvenient.
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by petsfed 3y ago
And you're missing the point that the things that drive people to deliberately cause harm with firearms (which is AGAIN, the reason why the statistics are what they are) are completely unaffected by the best practices taught today. Con
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by petsfed 3y ago
So, no true highly intelligent, highly motivated, skilled retail investor will lose money? The point I'm making is that good, safe gun ownership and gun storage practices only mitigate very specific parts (and not even the largest part
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by petsfed 3y ago
I believe you're committing the no-true-scotsman rhetorical fallacy. Proper firearm practices don't protect you from deliberate self-harm, nor does it protect the other people living in the space from a resident motivated to do th
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think there'd be a lot less resistance in Portland to forcing folks into treatment if the folks doing the forcing weren't already under a mountain of investigations for their brutality and racism. Hard to fault people for claimi
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by petsfed 3y ago
To pile on, part of the conflict between liberals and those further left is that "law and order liberal" is a thing. That is, while liberals might concede that the justice system is flawed, there's still an underlying faith t
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by petsfed 3y ago
Great! So, do you bring your whiteboard to lecture to turn in, or take a picture of it, or just schedule time with your professor to whiteboard in front of them? All I'm arguing for here is that UML serves the same purpose as those onl
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by petsfed 3y ago
What would be better? Change tools every 3-5 years like the industry does, so by the time any given instructor actually has a grasp on a particular tool or paradigm, its already obsolete (or at least fallen out of fashion) too? I'm no
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by petsfed 3y ago
Whether or not the thing keeps soldiers alive is actually pretty far down the list of reasons to control the supply chain (see, for instance, the various reviews of the M249, or the specific small-p political decisions around the M16 design
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by petsfed 3y ago
I've been pulled over several times for being cutoff ("You didn't signal for a full 5 seconds when you changed lanes" "I was taking evasive action to not hit the guy...!") while driving a vehicle with out-of-st
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its not an elite person problem. Certainly, some of the more exotic and flashy things you can do with surveillance are an elite person problem. But the two main limits to police power are that it takes time and resources to establish that a
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by petsfed 3y ago
You and I are in agreement that the surveillance needs to stop, but I think we differ on how to explain the problem. My explanation follows, but note that its not directed at you. At its peak, the KGB employed ~500,000 people directly, with
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by petsfed 3y ago
Except that in a lot of cases, a failed coverup incurs a few more felonies, so "don't bother" is closer to like 75%, while "failed cover up" is definitely 100%. In terms of risk analysis, rationally considering a co

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