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by pilom 10y ago
That report is better than most but it relies on the assumptions that 1) the grid can route power nearly instantaneously from LA to NYC with very low losses and 2) on cuts in per person energy use by 30-50% (primarily by switching to electr
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by pilom 10y ago
The biggest argument against it is that it is incredibly regressive. Poor people generally spend higher percentages of their income on stuff where rich people save higher percentages of their incomes. So for example, Joe makes 51k/year
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Wax Bullets Were the Paintball Fights of 1909(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by pilom 10y ago|0 comments
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by pilom 10y ago
Pretty obviously, not all time is equal in the eyes of the company that owns the software. That month of dev time costs on the order of $10k-20k all it where the users time is free from their perspective.
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by pilom 10y ago
TL;DR: in 2016 Symantec issued unauthorized certs for example.com (owned by ICANN) and a multi-domain cert with SANs for test1.com, test2.com, test3.com... even though those domains are each owned by very different organizations and did not
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by pilom 10y ago
Airplanes really don't get the same benefits cars do from being hybrids. Hybrid cars take advantage of the fact that cars have to change speeds often and electric motors are somewhat effective at recovering energy when the car needs to
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by pilom 10y ago
The article you pasted says that Trump insults lots of people with the same physical movements thus we shouldn't condemn him for mocking a disabled person. Can we condemn him for being crass then?
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by pilom 10y ago
I can't edit above anymore but down thread someone pasted and awesome video showing best form in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3OPHeSOB0&feature=youtu.be...
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by pilom 10y ago
This is exactly what I was referencing, in the wikipedia page you can see a 1904 olympic competition where the anchor man has safely wrapped the rope partially around his waist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war#
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by pilom 10y ago
Random bit of information cluttering my brain. When playing tug of war, hold the rope with your thumbs pointed towards yourself. A trained professional can usually pull about 0.8-1.0x their body weight that way vs. about .5-.7x with thumbs
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by pilom 10y ago
3 died on the ground during a test exercise. No American astronaut died _in space_ until the Challenger explosion.
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by pilom 10y ago
Around 10 years ago I would sometimes see higher framerates in games like HL2 but I'm pretty sure it was b/c I was running Gentoo and had all the cruft removed and had custom compiled everything for my hardware.
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by pilom 10y ago
I've definitely run into a few cases where interviewers definitely would not proceed with the conversation without a number. Usually they want "what you made" but really they want "what you'll take" so I'v
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by pilom 10y ago
The Freespace developers released the source code to Freespace 2 (a game from 1999) in 2002 when they were bought by another studio. That game has since become the gold standard (imo) of space flight simulators and the engine and graphics h
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by pilom 10y ago
Even if the ground is saturated, plants still will absorb more of the first inch than the 5th.
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by pilom 10y ago
The vast majority of our users still on XP use IE. To the point that we conflate the numbers entirely. Most of those users are 50 year old women who have leftover computers handed down from relatives. They almost as a rule, don't insta
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by pilom 10y ago
This seems like a bad example. There is no money at all for them to make an API and it wouldn't get more people coming to craigslist.com. At the same time it would require additional server resources. So why bother?
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by pilom 10y ago
I have seen no proof that users are willing to pay to improve craigslist. I like it just the way it is. It's like a unix tool, it does one thing and does it really well. If you wanted it prettier, you could make a browser extension to
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by pilom 10y ago
On the contrary, I think they have literally made the perfect site for what they do. I like it ugly because it is also FAST!!! I have no UI qualms at all about it. Any change they made would make me less likely to use the site. What exactly
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by pilom 10y ago
Unfortunately for our ecommerce site this just isn't the at all an option. 3 months ago we analysed our traffic and found that 12% of our desktop traffic didn't support it (Win XP) and about 8% of our mobile traffic didn't su
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by pilom 10y ago
Glen Canyon was slightly different because there was no "emergency spillway" in the same way that Oroville has. Glen Canyon simply had 2 giant spillways that both needed to be in use but were both getting torn apart by cavitation.
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by pilom 10y ago
A picture is worth 1000 words: https://sandrp.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-... Dirt hillsides are not designed to have 100,000 cubic feet of water rolling down them. They tend to erode extremely qu
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by pilom 10y ago
Generally sink holes like what is affecting the spillway are caused by rain and flooding. So I'd say it is likely that the inspections all came up clear for the past X years, then the rain started, the sinkhole formed and the reservoir
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by pilom 10y ago
I think you're underestimating the number of long distance trips. I have a car only for long distance trips. Short trips and commutes I can do with public transit, cross country trips I do with planes, 50-500 mile trips I do with a car
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by pilom 10y ago
To sell cars in California manufacturers need to get credit for selling a certain number of electric or hybrid cars. I believe Nissan sells leafs at a loss to meet those quotas. BMW and Fiat certainly do. Most of the other big manufacturers
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by pilom 10y ago
I believe the official policy is that you must "check in" more than an hour before your flight. So if you check in online before going to the airport, you're fine to arrive 20 min early.
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by pilom 10y ago
We outsource this to CloudFlare and their Mirage service: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200403554-W...
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by pilom 10y ago
Blockchain doesn't successfully go with anything. How appropriate.
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by pilom 10y ago
So what? The Dow is a terrible indicator of even how well the stock market or the economy as a whole is doing. It is price weighted instead of market cap weighted so smaller companies that released fewer shares at a higher price have more i
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The Death Star and the Final Trench Run(fxrant.blogspot.com)
3 points by pilom 10y ago|0 comments

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