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by rsj_hn 4y ago
You don't need to worry about it scaling to supply a burger hungry world. The market for burgers will clear, no central planner needed. Maybe they wont be available for $6 they will cost $12. Then again, not everyone needs to get the b
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I think tactile controls should be those things you would want to change while driving: * Climate control heating/ac/defroster temp up/down fans higher/lower * windows up/down * signal left/right * windshield w
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This is not a real story, it's published by a regime change media outlet. There is an enormous anti-Iran Persian language media industry, staffed primarily by Persians in Los Angeles and to a lesser degree by Persians in London and Par
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Fatalities should be measured in terms of miles travelled. Not per mile of highway, or per number of cars, or per capita. Someone who drives five days a week, 60 miles per day is going to have a higher risk of getting into an accident that
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Einstein not only "did fine" but was extremely precocious. From the wiki entry: - - - Einstein excelled at math and physics from a young age, reaching a mathematical level years ahead of his peers. The 12-year-old Einstein taught
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Not sure if you read my post, but yes I used COBOL as an example of a high level language because it was one of the first attempts . That is what the phrase "long line" refers to. A historical look back at the earliest attempts t
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> The problem here is defining what "full" means and debating what "full" _should_ mean. Exactly. Do you mean "we can get rid of the drivers and save on labor expenses" or do you mean "We can upsell thi
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The quality of IT reporting continues to disappoint. The idea of no-code/low-code is to lower barriers to entry. This is a process that started with the invention of C, continued with the much-despised COBOL, and had perhaps its greate
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I'm pretty sure that most Americans don't know or care about what the EU is, but they've heard of the UK, Italy, Poland, etc., and would readily tell you that the UK (they would probably call it 'England') is in Eur
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The midwest used to have great soil. But the soil in the midwest is not meant to grow crops, but to raise cattle (nature put buffalo there as well as other ruminants). If you have grassland with ruminants, you can take a small portion of
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Really you need to understand your opponent's utility function before immediately leaping to making summary judgments that China is not acting in its own interest. For example, knowing that mainland China and Taiwan are the remnants of
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But it's only solid game theory if one side doesn't have escalatory dominance. For example, during the cold war, the US always had far, far fewer troops in Europe than the Soviet Union, and didn't have anywhere near the sea-l
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I don't mention it because it's not true. The idea that if a river originates in one state, then that state owns all the water from the river is not how ownership of river water works. And in America, rivers often form the border
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Arizona has the reputation of being a desert, but in reality it is a state that is half-desert and half-mountain, and has a tons of water. Enough to waste on ubiquitous golf courses and alfalfa farms. There is a canal system taking the wate
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You're not really taking a Canadian-wide definition of poverty and comparing it to a Vancouver-specific definition of affordability, are you? Because that would be just terrible. The global poverty line is $785 but in New York City, th
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It's not tax-free. It's compensation and taxes must be paid on it. It makes no difference whether your employer buys a sandwich and gives it to you or gives you money to buy a sandwich, it all adds to your income and is taxable, a
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Perhaps someone with more familiarity with this issue can explain why negotiating collectively with news orgs would mean that the benefits facebook provides in terms of increasing traffic would not play a role in those negotiations. Faceboo
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I have a hard time believing that it is easier to hire an academic than to hire an administrator. These are questions of power, and academia has ceded power to administrative staff in what is a good example of Nietzsche's Master-Slave
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I think these companies are exploiting the fact that many tech employees value the $20 lunch perk more than an extra $5K in salary. I've seen this first hand, and for a lot of employees, a paid lunch is valued far more than it should b
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Curious, what is the complexity of extracting data from excel or of loading a csv file into an external reporting system?
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> Because standing at the curb and hailing a nearby car on an app is much more like sticking out your hand and waiving down a cab than it is like calling up a limo company the day before and booking a ride. The law has to define what is
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> This is the argument that Uber used in NYC, though its validity is highly questionable Why do you think it's questionable? This is really cut and dried, which is why NYC was unable to challenge Uber, as they had no case. Not likin
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No, what happened was that technology obsoleted the laws that said "A taxi is something you hail on the street". Even in NYC, there were car services predating Uber that you call and arrange a ride, and those drivers were not requ
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> If you could provide a source for this, that’d great. Knowing stuff like this is table stakes for participating in the discussion. See, for example, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ukraine-tape/leaked-a
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You seriously believe that the US or EU care about the sovereignty of other nations? America has invaded or attacked over 120 nations since 1991. We currently have troops in Syria extracting oil and are still occupying Iraq. We just helped
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It's CPC - Communist Party of China. Calling it CCP, Chinese Communist Party, is also a dog whistle, as it dates back to the various "Chi-Com" slurs of the John Birch era, in which they were focused on Chinese communists (emp
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Fun Fact: Lying on a Federally required election financial disclosure document is breaking the law and asking for trouble. Please don't post this type of advice here or elsewhere. Don't think that if you are paying with a credit c
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Volkswagen: High Energy Cost Make New EV Plants “Unfeasible”(oilprice.com)
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"If you build more nuclear" can be done without cap and trade, and thus the positive spillovers also happen without cap and trade. But what doesn't happen, is that cap and trade doesn't result in building more nuclear.
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Wall street can make money by charging financial service fees for: - market making - organizing sales of credits - organizing purchase of credits - selling hedging and insurance products so firms have some guarantees to support long term pl

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