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by powera 4y ago
$3 million per year for a business of that size doesn't sound too obscene. DHH is forgetting that electricity, cooling, fault-tolerance are also expensive, the price of "insanely powerful iron you can buy from Dell" is not t
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by powera 4y ago
This is an incredibly misleading use of graph axes. The baseline should be 200000 ppm, but a change of 500 wouldn't be noticeable. So they just show the change from a recent year, which lets them baseline at zero.
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by powera 4y ago
I wouldn't put panels where they are easily gnawed upon by rats and mice.
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by powera 4y ago
The critical path of "install more solar panels" is not at all gated by the cost of solar panels these days. It is the electrical work (both within in the home, and "interconnect") that is the expensive bottleneck. (( al
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by powera 4y ago
There are quite a few different complaints here. The annual cadence is both too frequent, and too infrequent. The (toxic) "stack-rank and fire 10%" is mentioned as well. But, regarding the title: performance reviews are good and
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by powera 4y ago
This seems to be "hype-based design". Other than the potential for good PR, I'm not sure why lignin-based materials would be any improvement. And the "charged in as little as 8 minutes" appears to be ... one of tho
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by powera 4y ago
The situation in Haiti appears to be very troubled. Clearly the government is barely functioning. However, the journalistic coverage is very minimal. This is partly because of the repeated violent attacks on journalists, and partly becaus
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by powera 4y ago
The point is that a "unit" could not possibly have been a $16 bag of coffee, if they were getting paid $41 per unit. The story smells fake to me. The most charitable interpretation is that they were misled by their "food bro
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by powera 4y ago
Completely useless. This is just imagined hype based on a lack of understanding of the field.
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by powera 4y ago
If Netflix is going to charge me extra for logging in to my account at my mother's house, I will simply cancel the service. I watch it less and less these days anyhow; their library (apart from their original programming) is a lot more
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by powera 4y ago
Also, the so-called explanations for unexpected rankings seem very much like "fishing for an plausible-sounding explanation", when "the system is flawed" is actually the more plausible explanation. (note https:/&#
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by powera 4y ago
The opening anecdote demonstrates a lack of understanding of how to guess on game shows. Mick Jagger is a perfectly reasonable guess for "An old person whose name sounds like Micklewhite".
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by powera 4y ago
In what sense is it a bad thing that the government can see who drove to the scene of a crime? Especially when, to prevent abuse or mistakes, that isn't sufficient on its own to justify police action?
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by powera 4y ago
Calling it "controversial" is a way of whitewashing that it would get you kicked out of any poker game I have ever attended. Possibly you could get away with it at a shady home game where the other players know it is a sign you ar
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by powera 4y ago
If you can't make $40 off an open-source project in years, you are probably deliberately avoiding accepting money.
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by powera 4y ago
An excellent example of the hacker-ethos failing. A decade ago, you could create a reasonable app in a month and make money. Now, the low-hanging fruit is gone. This app would get you kicked out of any poker-game I have ever been to, is ov
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by powera 4y ago
I'd rather not give a thorough list, for obvious reasons. I will note one example, they note "Long-haul aviation does not currently have a generally accepted path to electrification", but include it on the list anyway.
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by powera 4y ago
OK, fine, I'll do it. I've been discussing Twitter for a very long time at newslettr.com . If you want to go down that rabbit hole, beware.
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by powera 4y ago
The list feels like "this is everything you can try" rather than "this is everything you should try". Some of these are "let's take an unrelated industry and try to cram climate into its story", others a
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by powera 4y ago
Copyright maximalists are a menace to society. An artist thinks that her unique genius means nobody else should be able to do "pose where model looks over left shoulder holding flowers". Humbug! That school of thought has forgott
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by powera 4y ago
I have done French and Chinese, and it is fine. I tried to start Korean, and was getting so many "fake cognates" (silver is 은 "eun" but it gives 실버 "silbeo") that I had to quit. At least in the "learn the
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by powera 4y ago
I'm getting downvoted for this comment, and I must confess this whole thread is off-topic. But: there are a lot of unions that don't seem to understand that starting a strike is starting a fight. Their only response to somebody f
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by powera 4y ago
For a layoff where half the company is being laid off, if it is done fairly some subgroup of the population will be slightly more impacted. This isn't nearly a large enough gap to suggest malice or other hostile intent. The only two
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by powera 4y ago
Because many unions are coddled, and feel "not getting paid while not working" is an unreasonable and illegal action by their employer?
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by powera 4y ago
This should get thrown out of court. It won't be anytime soon, but it should be.
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by powera 4y ago
Much like building Minecraft in Minecraft, it would only be usable if you cheat.
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by powera 4y ago
"Chinese pinyin is a good example - not only is it only an approximation of the actual sounds" I think you have misunderstood something. Reading the pinyin without the tone markers (or worse, as-if it was English) would be an app
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by powera 4y ago
The blockchain proves that the post was made when he says it was. Being on avc.com doesn't prove that; he could back-date posts.
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by powera 4y ago
The service Ticketmaster provides is largely to have people get angry at Ticketmaster, rather than at the musician involved. And there is simply no way to let 5 million Swift fans each buy one of a million tickets while keeping the tickets
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by powera 4y ago
This is full of fake-news and long-debunked stories. The "five companies that control media" lists always have ten-plus companies on it. The "pizza is controlled by three companies" data appears to be the author's

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