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by rtpg 5y ago
Nobody is arguing that the material usage from non-recycled goods is a big enough issue to stop selling solar panels. But maybe this technique makes the payback go from 24 months to 22 months. Maybe even just to 23.5 months! It’s still prog
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by rtpg 5y ago
the installation isn't so much a thing as the "guarantee" that the installation happens in the place Emacs expects it to be, without having to futz around with PATH and the like. It's not that it's hard, but it&#x27
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by rtpg 5y ago
The ISS is literally the most expensive physical structure we have ever built, and it's like 5 floating schoolbuses. Now I'm for walking and chewing bubblegum. But if you believe in opportunity costs and care about navigating that
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by rtpg 5y ago
Why do we need to fly 3 months to some inhospitable planet that is in worse condition than Earth would be (even after nuclear wars and global warming) to make progress? I suppose there's an idea we could apply everything done on Mars t
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by rtpg 5y ago
For people interested in more details about Postgres internals I cannot recommend https://www.interdb.jp/pg/ enough, an excellent text with lots of details
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by rtpg 5y ago
Worldle hard mode is solvable but it requires being very careful, and basically never typing in certain words. For example: bills,dills,fills,gills,hills,kills,mills,pills,sills,tills,wills If the answer is any of these words and you guess
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by rtpg 5y ago
I don't believe too much in the pulling out of Europe spiel, but honestly Facebook and Instagram are both, to this day, the only platform out there where I can keep up with my extended family and get decent updates about their life. I
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by rtpg 5y ago
I thought it was pretty well understood by now that given that manufacturing of goods destined for the US is happening in China or SE Asia, that there's effectively a miscount. It's not like china is sitting there burning coal for
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by rtpg 5y ago
One superpower I wish I had would be to get the objective answer why something did or did not happen. Why did the station not get shut down? Were there key people in place that actively prevented it? Were certain questions simply not asked?
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by rtpg 5y ago
Alright, that's a totally fair argument. And like I said, JR works well now. There are perhaps arguments around the edges about opportunity costs, but there is now a healthy structure in place (at least it seems to be so from the outsi
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by rtpg 5y ago
Yeah that's a good point, union-busting is a qualitatively different strategy that is much less doable as a public institution. There's also some quantitative stuff around payment of the management class. I don't believe that
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by rtpg 5y ago
https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/environment/pdf_2017/p129-131.pdf At least if you look at this flowchart on the second page of JR East what I see is "all the debt was placed into the JNR settlement program, t
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by rtpg 5y ago
The counterfactual isn't "JNR collapses entirely without privatisation". Hell, it's not "JNR collapses after privatization due to existing debts". There are so many possible universes involved here. It should b
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by rtpg 5y ago
It's very impressive to see these decades-longs projects pay off, in one way or another. Every single line extension, station change, is an entire political battle and story. A fractal of stories waiting to be discovered. One extremely
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by rtpg 5y ago
You and the receiver are in a business relationship. AT&T, through its “arbitrary” blocklist, is getting in the way. Without further justifications (and “oh it’s the algorithm” is not enough!) they are interfering with your business rel
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by rtpg 5y ago
There's this general advice of "keeping people in the loop", and I like the advice proposed at the bottom of the article, but I do think there's potential for more guidance on this topic, as teams work differently depend
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by rtpg 5y ago
Of course every crime isn't investigated thoroughly in tiny towns, the unit economics don't magically work just cuz the town is smaller. There are different dynamics in small communities on account of everyone knowing each other,
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by rtpg 5y ago
True! I believe the unique paring here with the Apple tags is that the device is very small and piggybacks off of iPhones, and has a year+ battery. I don't believe GPS + cell devices can get there on the battery department, but I might
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by rtpg 5y ago
Do you believe it's worse than 10 years ago? than 20 years ago? Pay for officers in the US has only gone in one direction, and it's up. They have more resources than ever, more staff than ever. They are perhaps hit with Covid-rela
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by rtpg 5y ago
You think the reason that every house in the world isn't emptied out daily is because of the threat of violent reactions by others? You do realize there are loads of places in the world where people don't even lock their doors? An
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by rtpg 5y ago
Isn't the major difference that it's built into iOS, whereas stuff like Tile requires other people to have that app installed? It's not like these devices have GPS installed, they're reliant on devices around them to do
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by rtpg 5y ago
Didn't say we should privatize the gains. I just don't think that it's useful to tear down a bunch of infrastructure on principle. I would not have minded just nationalizing as much as would have been needed either. And of co
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by rtpg 5y ago
"Banks get bailed out" seems to be a feature for stability of systems (counterargument: "Let all the banks fail" would have been helpful for what part of society?) There is of course the very legitimate argument of baili
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by rtpg 5y ago
I don't think the overton window is very far from the worst case for the US, but it is documented that Obama specifically did not want to charge Assange because of press freedom concerns. Of course in the long term it didn't matte
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by rtpg 5y ago
Who even "gets content" through searching? I'm sure many people here are all basically using the internet through link aggregators (reddit, fb, HN etc). Has the web ever been much beyond that? Have people ever really been jus
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by rtpg 5y ago
In defense of Wordpress, even getting to what Wordpress is requires having a decently designed system allowing for the flexibility that allows people to ship like... recipe maker plugins or the like. I think a lot of CMS stuff start at firs
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by rtpg 5y ago
My takeaway (and something I've been thinking about regarding precision in communication) is that people often believe to be talking about the same thing, yet will be talking about different things. This is super frequent, especially i
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by rtpg 5y ago
I do think that sites should strive to "just work" with nice system fonts (and respect user agent settings), but this is just an obtuse answer. You can ship your own fonts. Everyone and their dog uses one of two web browser engine
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by rtpg 5y ago
Bitcoin would be a lot less interesting to its proponents if it were to become illegal to interact with the network and every "legitimate business" suddenly can't operate in the US anymore. Not to mention that it would be ext
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by rtpg 5y ago
This isn't a super convincing argument cuz you can spin it the exact opposite way here(hardware manufacturers want to sell more devices, google wants people to be using their services and have as many devices in the wild as possible).

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