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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> " Since there are so many households, the average will be highly predictable, " Unfortunately when it's dark in one place, it's also dark elsewhere. When it's cloudy or rainy in one place it's not made up
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People are so quick to speak for "Society" because, in their minds, they think it trumps all other arguments. But very few -- if any -- actually know what society needs. I would say that what Society needs is to ensure a regular s
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
There is really not much to look forward to in Europe besides trying to police others.
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I wouldn't call a 15% tax on corporations "communism". The actual policy objective is reasonable even if many can argue both sides with rational debate. The main problem is this idea that a bunch of people on the liberal side
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
An unsourced tweet from a Ukrainian propaganda account that someone under the age of 18 was detained for 90 days is not the same as actual UN confirmation that Ukrainians have castrated and cut the fingers off of Russian POWs, as well as ex
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Legally, these things are usually done either with patent law, in which case it doesn't matter what the employee does but what the company does, or as violating terms of employment, in which case it's not really an IP law being vi
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I did no such thing. You are saying that this engineer, who is obviously talented, should never again be hired in his field, because anyone who hires him will only hire him to steal this (now quite ancient) tech and not for asking him to co
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The headline is misleading. The IP was "stolen" by an American company. I put stolen in quotes because an employee of US firm Brion stole his own IP, in the sense that he developed tech working for Brion, and then ASML acquired Br
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The office pricing is pretty attractive, especially for a family plan. $120 a year, or $10 a month, for up to 6 people. They throw in 1 Terrabyte of cloud storage/person and email, and you can get the full office app download (what I
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The reason why "globalization" is associated to these cross-cutting financial investments is that it creates dependencies. A sells lots of oil to B, and in exchange it gets an account in B's financial system with lots of B-cu
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Political appointees aren't the ones who announce technical "breakthroughs", those are announced first in technical journals. Now if it was a diplomatic breakthrough, sure, have the state department announce it. But this isn&
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The problem is that there is nothing to replace the US dollar/Euro -- e.g. the western capital markets, because other nations (excluding Japan) do not want to open their capital markets to foreign investment. So if this was just a matt
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Here goes: First, let's define what is meant by "Globalization", as this word is used to mean many things. First, it does not mean trade . You will still be eating Chilean oranges. You will still have Vietnamese coworkers in
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
It was never about "liberalizing the world". That was just the argument used to persuade those who valued liberalization. Like the British Empire got religious Britains on board by focusing on the sending of missionaries that woul
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> No one wants that. We want separated bike lanes. I also don't see why this angers drivers, you should want it too because now there's no cyclists on your car road. Everyone wins. The reason why you don't see why this &qu
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
This is what I was saying before on here (and getting downvoted). Carvana's value add was selling used cars to people who don't like the experience of buying used cars. It's a good idea and someone else can take their place.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
If the cost of buying the land, installing the equipment, and maintaining it (thieves come and cut away the copper cables, for example) were all free, then this would be a valid argument that the charging stations turn a profit. In other wo
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The authoritarian impulse is fundamentally about controlling the behavior of others, whereas the impulse for liberty is to control your own behavior. As we continue to drift towards authoritarianism, there are many people cheering this on,
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> I don't know why you claim the oligarchs are western backed when they're locals. Because I use words correctly that you apparently struggle with. If they weren't locals, they would be western oligarchs. As they are loc
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Larger planes are more efficient, but then ridership drops off when you make things less convenient so it's harder to fill the planes. I'm pretty sure the airlines are already maximizing this and are not optimizing for passenger
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I rolled that into mandatory fees, assuming the airport was owned by the government. I know there are for-profit private airports, but I was keeping things simple. And yes, airports have to be paid for, as do planes, labor, administration,
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
You don't know how much ridership would go up, or if it would go up enough to cover the cost of paying extra for the 94 tons of rail freight to be delayed when you prioritize your one additional passenger. That's problem -- yes, i
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
That's just another way of saying that those jobs should disappear, as usually people aren't willing to pay a lot for those jobs as they don't get that much perceived value from them. You can look at high skilled workforces l
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> What would it take to drop flight prices 50%? 1. Free fuel. Fuel is the biggest cost of flights. For domestic flights, about half the ticket cost. 2. No taxes/government mandated fees (including fuel taxes). These are the second b
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> I would fly domestic automated flights if the automation was proven as safe, the above conditions were met, and the price was 40-50% cheaper. You believe pilot salaries are 40-50% of airline ticket prices? A pilot makes ~130K per yea
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
To put thing in perspective, US rail moves: 61 tons of freight per American each year 94 tons of freight per mile for each passenger-mile on rail 1/3 of all export goods move by rail 1.7 trillion ton-miles of freight
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If they are driving, yes, they do, because their attention needs to be focused on the road.
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The USSR ended in 1991. But yes, in the USSR days, Ukraine was an industrial giant. Not all of Ukraine, the industry was concentrated in Donbas. Western Ukraine was always poor in relation to the Southeast and East. That's a big part
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I mean, the US government pays the salaries of Ukraine's government workers. They fund the Ukrainian GDP (which is basically zero without foreign aid). They supply 100% of new Ukrainian weapons (as domestic production of weapons is bas
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People spend a lot of time staring at their phones because of those touchscreens. Which is what the phone makers want. But automakers and fellow drivers -- not so much. For the same reason, the US Navy announced it was moving away from touc

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