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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Again, questioning the motivation of someone who raises a point you don't have an answer for is no better than trying to change the subject when you feel like you can't win on the merits. If you think it's a good use of the m
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That $3.2 billion would be enough to pay for 23,000 Americans' college education. Is that more valuable than giving weapons to Israel? Of course it is. Even a single college education is a better use of the money. The rhetorical tactic
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It would be an interesting experiment, but there are also big upfront costs. I think it might be more useful as a poll to let firms know if they should offer support, rather than an actual a la carte model, because the costs of support are
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You really on an entire stack that is programmed and maintained in languages like C, and to the degree that these are provided for whatever chipset you are using, yes you can code in C++. And of course you expect these libs to be regularl
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I think one difference between a classically trained programmer of a few decades ago and many of the programmers today who entered from javascript or bootcamps or were even self-taught is lack of understanding about all those other systems
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Is it just too expensive to do that? Even for a billion dollar business? It's not about the size of the business, but whether this is a good way for them to spend money or not. Coffee shops will often not get back to you within 48
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
An economist friend of mine told me that once, so this isn't just a CS quip.
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Can a squid fly out of water? (2010)(scientificamerican.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Except they didn't make that point at all, because it's not relevant to a mandate. Please don't try to rewrite the quotes I am citing to make them support your point as that is literally trying to rewrite history. We have a w
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> That was the answer. People vocally cynical about the vaccines have always been using a strawman argument. No, we were repeatedly told that vaccines prevent both transmission and infection, and anyone trying to cynically rewrite histor
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Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)(bls.gov)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, that companies don't like unions and do what they can to discourage unionization isn't newsworthy. Finding a company that encourages unionization would be newsworthy!
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Ancient Iranian Salt-mine mummies(worldhistory.org)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The reason why you need to look at what households pay is because the electricity companies are the ones who need to deal with the volatility and what they charge to customers is the price of reliable energy. Wholesale prices are very volat
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The problem is that battery costs are so expensive that to get that kW of unreliable power, you need to build a kW of reliable power to back it up. Then rates swing from the very cheap kW when the sun is shining and there are few clouds to
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Zog I of Albania(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
In the Phoenix metro, we moved to an area farther away from downtown that has more nature (there are large parks on two sides of our house). The temperature is regularly 5 degrees cooler here.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The idea that if Cuba can't import new cars from America, then it can't get them from anywhere is just silly. America imports tons of new cars from Asia and Europe, as does every other nation in Latin America. Cuba just imports fe
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's good short term advice, but long term if you are still not getting recognition you should think about leaving or transferring to another team.
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First SpaceX Launch of the New Year (4:49 P.m. EST)(space.com)
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I have never seen this happen to myself or anyone else. Nor are you required to give them any pay stubs, as they contain your social security number and personal financial information. That's not something you give to a recruiter. Plea
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, this is a well-reasoned and accurate summary, and also why courts are placing injunctions on some of these executive orders -- because they are shady. The problem is that the U.S. is a Federalist system where states are supposed to tak
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's correct. The idea that a Republican pollster like Frank Luntz is actually in control of climate messaging is not a serious claim, and I'm really confused why people are clinging to the idea that either the Republicans or &q
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Luntz did not "come up" with it. By 2003 -- when Luntz started pushing for this term, all the green groups were already using it. The inflection was point was 1998. You can see this in the google n-gram data or just do a time-boxe
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, both terms existed since the 19th Century, but the concerted push on branding dates to the late 90s by green groups which began to discourage the phrase "global warming" and replace it with "climate change". https:
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It wasn't "the oil industry", but climate activists who, during a period when the earth wasn't warming starting around 1998, decided to reframe it as "climate change" in order to maintain the sense of crisis.
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That's gross margin, not profit. Then the dealer has to pay for the land, capital equipment, salaries, utilities, taxes, interest(*), etc. Profit is what is left after all these expenses are paid. In most situations, the dealer borrows
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
As a long time CR subscriber, agree absolutely. This stuff is hard and clean data sets are nonexistent. I still recommend to my friends to subscribe to CR as independent reviews are important (and worth paying for).
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> And the waste needs to be paid for for 100,000 years. No, it only needs to be protected until the radioactivity is the same as background level, or whatever comes from a banana (which is much higher than background level but still safe
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Batteries are coming but the cost of batteries can't just be ignored in the calculation of cost efficiency of solar and then waved away with "batteries are coming". Battery cost is the single largest cost of any solar or wind

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