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by powera 4y ago
Poke the bear, and the bear might poke back. Interesting that this person's conception of free speech allows him to call a parliamentary no-confidence vote a "coup", but doesn't allow government-aligned forces to say he
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by powera 4y ago
Curation is hard, particularly for a "community" project. Every file is there for a reason, and much of the time, even if it is a stupid reason, removing it means there is one more person opposed to the concept of "curation&q
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by powera 4y ago
Cost disease is real, and residential solar is an ideal place for it to fester. > Salesmen are over-paid, and the more they inflate the price the more they are paid. > The companies that over-charge the most have the most ability to g
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by powera 4y ago
Two different objections. First, while the most written-about musicians are also generally the most popular, there isn't a strict correlation. Second, there is a vast difference between a decision-process of "if the sources provid
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by powera 4y ago
One of the reasons for the policies is so questions such as "should this person have an article" don't devolve into popularity polls.
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by powera 4y ago
He's not correct. One editor of six in the deletion discussion mentioned that they had checked multiple sources (including Grove) and Faulconer wasn't in them.
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by powera 4y ago
It wouldn't be entirely unfair to say that Wikipedia's policies are designed to keep people like Mr. Gioia off the site and out of the decision making process. Considering that he doesn't want to learn what Wikipedia's p
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by powera 4y ago
"3750 kWh purchased from my utility will cost me about $1000/year at today's electricity rates" - that's 26c per kWh. In most states, electricity is under 15c per kWh. If you need electricity in an area with high e
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by powera 4y ago
There's owning the panel, but someone also has to own the inverter, the transmission equipment, the land (rent and/or property tax), etc. If it is structured as a share of a collective, it might be easier to take those expenses ou
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by powera 4y ago
What about batteries? One of the problems with mass solar panel deployment is that the sun only shines during the day, but people want electricity at night. Batteries are expensive, so initial deployments often rely on slack in the system.
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The Twitter News, Memorial Day Edition(newslettr.com)
1 points by powera 4y ago|0 comments
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Reflections on Birdwatch(newslettr.com)
4 points by powera 4y ago|0 comments
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Cryptocurrency, Part 2(newslettr.com)
4 points by powera 4y ago|0 comments
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Life Without Facebook(newslettr.com)
4 points by powera 4y ago|1 comments
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by powera 4y ago
If you don't use Two-Factor Authentication, and you have a public profile, the question isn't if your account will be compromised, but when . Apparently, for Mr. Mattheij, when was today. The next question is "how do you s
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by powera 4y ago
I assume Mr. Musk waived his right to any due diligence as part of his agreement with the Twitter board.
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by powera 4y ago
They probably shouldn't show "follower counts" publicly.
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by powera 4y ago
I am curious what all those twitter engineers are doing as well. Presumably it's secret in some way?
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by powera 5y ago
Yup. When Tailscale migrates databases, it is a few engineers working for a few weeks solving problems that already exist. When a company with 50k employees does it, it takes two years and only makes things worse.
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Ten Years of Red Blob Games(simblob.blogspot.com)
3 points by powera 5y ago|0 comments
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by powera 5y ago
Agreed. Hopefully the mods will replace the link.
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by powera 5y ago
Yes, but ... At a high level the article is correct. At a tactical level there are a few issues: * If you don't have a "geothermal" system, heat pumps aren't economical in regions where it gets below 0F/-20C. * The
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by powera 5y ago
As the saying goes, if you're not paying, you are the product. There are so many ways that "a few hundred internal training videos" could violate YouTube policy I'm just going to assume you were violating policy and didn
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by powera 5y ago
The Hacker News zeitgeist appears to be strongly anti-Twitter. I'm not entirely sure why. As far as "is the stock fairly priced" - it is only 5% of the market cap of Facebook. As far as "is Twitter a good product"
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by powera 5y ago
You won't like this answer, but this may well be "working as intended". If Quickbooks isn't licensed to offer financial services in Ghana, they may be legally forbidden from paying you, and an LLC (with an address you ar
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by powera 5y ago
The top line "eval" number is who is winning - positive means white is winning and negative means black is winning. "TC" is the time control - right now they are playing at 30 minutes + 5 seconds per move (for each side
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by powera 5y ago
It's somewhat surprising that Oracle isn't even mentioned in the article.
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Internet shutdown in Kazakhstan disrupts 12–18% of Bitcoin mining(web3isgoinggreat.com)
8 points by powera 5y ago|1 comments
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by powera 5y ago
This feels like native advertising. But effective! I may buy one just in case it works.
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by powera 5y ago
The "easy" solution is to put a cap on tournament size. Apart from when Agadmator wants his fans to be in the same tournament as Magnus Carlsen etc., there is basically no need to hold chess tournaments with over 1000 players.

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