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by rmah 2y ago
This might be true if there were any actual deep-sea mining companies. By which I mean companies that actually do deep-sea mining and not just talk about doing it. Second, someone else asserted that the study was funded by one of these
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by rmah 2y ago
If I may be so bold, it resonates (with you, with me, with most people) because the idea that one can make revolutionary discoveries that contradicts the status quo as an outsider is an inherently attractive idea. It scratches many emotion
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by rmah 2y ago
I don't really see how that's a disagreement.
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by rmah 2y ago
It's not useless because some people will lie and cheat. Over the years, I've interviewed hundreds of people and a substantial minority could not write even the simplest code. Many will say they would be able to filter out such
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by rmah 2y ago
But companies don't pay high salaries for the 80% mundane and easy tasks you do day to day. They pay for the 20% that is challenging and especially for that 1% of problems that occur only once every few months or years. If that 80% w
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by rmah 2y ago
My 7 year old iphone lasts almost two days if I don't do anything too taxing (i.e. video). I don't think I do anything special. I guess YMMV.
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by rmah 2y ago
It's not capitalism, per se. It's a society that overvalues individualism and devalues family. IMO, of course. One part of the social compact used to be that in return for parents taking care of you as a child, you took care of
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by rmah 2y ago
We replaced those servants with machines. A vacuum cleaner, washer/dryer, various kitchen appliances, etc all save huge amounts of time. There was a BBC show called "1900 House" which just shows how much labor went into mai
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by rmah 2y ago
I would disagree. Every formula you enter into a cell is "code". Moreover, more complex worksheets require VBA.
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by rmah 2y ago
Call me cynical but I suspect a lot of "errors" and "mistakes" in architectural diagrams are done on purpose so as to communicate specific points or to emphasize a certain perspective.
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by rmah 2y ago
This is already almost true. Only 8% of the American workforce is in manufacturing and about 29% of China's (and about 1/7th is exports to the US). I'd guess that that somewhere around 12% to 15% are needed to manufacture a
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by rmah 2y ago
It's not about references. It's about building a network of colleagues who respect you and your work. Many years ago, when I started doing consulting/contracting work, literally all my of my jobs came through people I had
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by rmah 2y ago
Well, now you probably understand that Trump is not really anti-drug/anti-cartel. Nor do I think he's pro-drug/pro-cartel. I think he doesn't actually care except in how those issues affect his political career and pub
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by rmah 2y ago
That people almost always self-organize into structured organizations gives me hope for humanity. Social structures provide people with means to make life easier. They provide support and a guide on how to accomplish things without having
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by rmah 2y ago
They were hedging: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/09/20/chinese-balloon-n... Honestly, "sensors" means anything from cameras to thermometers. Either way, the balloon was recovered by the US N
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by rmah 2y ago
Fine, here https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/09/20/chinese-balloon-n...
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by rmah 2y ago
The Chinese "spy balloon" that it turned out wasn't a spy balloon (according to the pentagon)? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66062562
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by rmah 2y ago
Typically, you won't be able to make any trades for hours after the info is released anyway.
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by rmah 2y ago
How will the Australian government compel such companies to comply?
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by rmah 2y ago
I purposefully did not state my feelings on the matter.
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by rmah 2y ago
There is no need to be hyperbolic. The US has regularly deported up to 1/2 a million people per year for over a decade until 2020 or so. Some years, the number of deportations exceeded 2 mil. This policy is just a return to the stat
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by rmah 2y ago
He's using the term "nation state" in the political science sense, not in the colloquial sense of a political entity that encompasses a people (nation). The very concept of a modern nation-state is, as tomcam stated, quite
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by rmah 2y ago
14,975,435MWh for one year (8760 hrs) = 1709 MW load. Or about 1.7 mil servers using 1kW each (total, including its share of data center cooling). That's a lotta servers. Another way to look at it.. they say they have about 3.14 bil
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by rmah 2y ago
I fail to see what the idle rich have to do with supply/demand. Vulture capitalists buying and breaking up companies is very much in line with supply/demand (in the financial markets). As are non-competes (malicious or otherwise
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by rmah 2y ago
Just a few quick calculations to make it more relatable... They say the smallest sphere of freshwater lakes and rivers amounts to 93,113 cu km. There are 1 bil cu m per cu km. With a global population of 8.2 bil people, that comes to 11,3
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by rmah 2y ago
I read the first few pages and couldn't figure out what it actually does. All it talks about is how it "works" without saying what "works" means to the users of the device. Very frustrating.
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by rmah 2y ago
Those who are disagreeing with the author seem to not realize that he's just engaging in a bit of navel-gazing wordplay. Sort of like when people say "good programmers should be lazy". What they really mean is that good pro
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by rmah 2y ago
This article seems to miss the entire point of alignment: getting everyone to agree on what to work on. Thus, without alignment, your organization might be very productive... but at the wrong things. Which, at its extreme, is essentially t
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by rmah 2y ago
Most Americans don't realize just how huge and extensive medicare/medicaid is. They cover 65mil and 88mil people respectively, including 40mil children. That's 153mil people out of 330mil population -- that's 46% of th
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by rmah 2y ago
The other elephant is mentioned: "Last year, more solar panels were installed in China — the world’s largest carbon emitter — than the US has installed in its entire history."

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