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by phil21 1y ago
It's a nonsensical argument as you've discovered. It's due to the dollar value of things. And yes, jet engines are about as bespoke as you can get - incredibly man-hours intensive and it reflects in the price. As some point
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by phil21 1y ago
> I think many people don't realise that we are very much in the middle of shit creek and without a paddle. Yep. I've watched things for some time, and I think almost everyone is stuck in a "I was 20 years old and things
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by phil21 1y ago
> PG&E wants to charge solar power users $80+/month just for the privilege of connecting to the grid Sounds low to me. What would the payment be on a multi-day (week?) capacity battery for your power draw if you financed it over
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by phil21 1y ago
It's funny/interesting/terrifying to me that developers went from the near-religious mantra of "Garbage In, Garbage Out" when I was learning computers - to now training our supposedly super intelligent AIs off of re
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by phil21 1y ago
Try as I might, the best to-do/task list I can come up with is a legal pad. Mixed with notes of the day for meetings or ad-hoc remembering-of-things. Closest to that is a .txt file in my specific format, but even that is not quite as g
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by phil21 1y ago
Old people don’t need to monopolize real estate the way they have over the past 40ish years. At least when being subsidized by the young via tax rates. The old voted themselves in a benefit at the expense of those taking care of them - it’
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by phil21 1y ago
Old people should not be prioritized over the young. A 600% increase in property taxes over 7 years is an extreme outlier. Zero of my friends or family have ever once experienced such a thing happening. I certainly am not a fan of how heavy
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by phil21 1y ago
Metabolic adaptation is a rounding error. It’s not worth talking about in the context of losing weight if you are starting off as obese. It’s effectively pseudoscience in the context of these discussions. The simple fact you use less calor
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by phil21 1y ago
Definitely how it worked for me. At least so far. I went from about 265lbs down to 160lbs at my lowest. I crashed it as quickly as I could over the course of about 4-5 months, because that’s how my brain works. Single goals with a hard me
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by phil21 1y ago
You'd get shutdown within hours/days of any considerable volume doing this on Zelle.
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by phil21 1y ago
It's not an everyone sucks situation. A relatively powerful organization well known for playing bully finally picked on someone who happened to be stronger than they anticipated and got what was coming to them. It's not like they
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by phil21 1y ago
> Don't the vast majority of Proxmox users use it for small VM labs, without all the bells and whistles? In my little world this largely was true until Broadcom bought VMware and proceeded to blow it up. I know of a handful of rathe
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by phil21 1y ago
There is a difference between crash safety and reliability. Pretending “unable to drive” is a safety issue is silly. People don’t buy these cars for reliability or quality. I have zero interest in a Volvo but have a few friends who are Vol
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by phil21 1y ago
As far as I know the XC90/EX90 is the only SUV in its class to not have a fatality for anyone inside it at the time of an accident yet. It’s a mass market luxury vehicle and the brand is still considered about the safest you can buy to
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by phil21 1y ago
Ordering a custom car build from a factory is an experience. These sorts of delays are not uncommon, and there just isn't much anything the US or Canadian divisions can do about it most of the time. That's for basically what amou
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by phil21 1y ago
Presumably this is an "honest" mistake via incompetence by the vendor, with horrible follow-up to remedy said mistake. The same of course happens with every vendor located anywhere in the world. It's getting much worse latel
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by phil21 1y ago
It certainly started that way. It's still that way, but a bit less so. The intractable problem now is entire supply chains end to end do not exist in the west. If you wanted to start a battery company you are going to have a really ha
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by phil21 1y ago
I get quite a few misaddressed e-mails to my gmail address as well. Everything from residential solar install invoices through a facebook account that someone continues to try to recover every couple months for years now I cannot delink (a
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by phil21 1y ago
I call it the liabilty fairy. It's why school boards don't do anything useful, among many many other things in our society. It's an endemic disease. Most of the time it's extremely exaggerated, but it's trotted out
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by phil21 1y ago
Yep. Anything I get from China, even from a vendor I have done lots of business with in the past gets at minimum random samples inspected and tested when appropriate. Every single shipment, zero exceptions before use. So many things are cau
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by phil21 1y ago
It does seem to take some more effort these days to find quality, but it’s mostly out there - even for clothing. For jeans I’ve settled on Duluth Trading for the time being, found a style and size that fits well and is easily cared for. Ma
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by phil21 1y ago
The commingling thing is crazy overblown. One of those internet memes that just grows legs and the legend can never live up to its original source. If it’s both fulfilled and sold by Amazon, I have yet to have anyone actually provide an ac
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by phil21 1y ago
One of the more annoying parts about being in the tech community was listening to the tone-deafness of these sorts of folks. Coming from a very blue collar background and family. It's difficult to have much empathy for the "learn
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by phil21 1y ago
Same reason so many people got excited in the early Internet days of how much work and effort could be saved by interconnecting everyone. So many jobs lost to history due to such an invention. Stock trading floors no longer exist, call cen
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by phil21 1y ago
Many of these companies are very interested in small nuclear tech as a means to power these facilities. The major bottleneck now for most of them is finding sites where grid capacity exists to power them. Talking to anyone in the space for
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by phil21 1y ago
Capital equipment is depreciated over time. By the time you're selling it off, it's pennies on the dollar and a small recoupment of cost. Paying 30% (or whatever) taxes on that small amount of income and having 70% remaining is
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by phil21 1y ago
And conversely being a dad sucks. For the same reasons you list. There is no longer a way to come up with a sane division of labor for the average couple. Both parents are not intended to be working full time. It does not work for either
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by phil21 1y ago
These stats are tracking folks who buy a second property intended as an investment - typically renting it out but not always. You’re not a mom and pop landlord if you’re just buying a second home to move into with intent to sell your curren
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by phil21 1y ago
These are pretty extreme side effects for being on the drug thus long. What dosing are you on? If you’re still doing 2.5mg (smallest available in the auto injectors) perhaps try a compounding pharmacy for a month or two and you can experime
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by phil21 1y ago
Datacenters already do this as matter of course. It’s more or less table stakes for a grid connection in most places, certainly if you want anything resembling best rates.

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