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by secabeen 4y ago
This is a pretty good distillation of the math. Child care has often been done on the backs of underpaid lower-class workers. Unlike most businesses, childcare doesn't scale well at all, and it's very hard to make the math work
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by secabeen 4y ago
You are overstating the problem: >This really pisses me off. I want to buy a home. There are millions of people in the USA living on the street In January 2020 , there were 580,466 people experiencing homelessness on our streets and in s
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by secabeen 4y ago
The national research labs are great, but there are only 17 of those, and they don't employ that many people when compared to the software industry. Good gigs if you can get them, certainly.
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by secabeen 4y ago
Some of this is additional cores (4x overall). On a single thread, the 13th gen is only about 50% faster than 7th (2727 to 4190).
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by secabeen 4y ago
We are starting to build up the field of research facilitation, but it's hard to bring together permanent funding for things like this; quality engineers don't want to be on funding that may vanish in 4-5 years, and most universit
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by secabeen 4y ago
If true, that is reprehensible.
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by secabeen 4y ago
> But the letter that Temple sent out is probably going to get Temple into some trouble for the reason identified by your parent comment. It's certainly gotten them into reputational trouble. I don't think they'll get int
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by secabeen 4y ago
Where do you see that they are cancelling it? Nothing in the statement I see precludes Temple from paying the remission if the strike resolves in two weeks, well before the due date. Even if the strike goes on longer, and the tuition so d
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by secabeen 4y ago
But look at this closely, with engagement. Currently, they are on strike, so tuition remissions cannot be issued. If that remains the case until March 6th, they will need to pay. If the strike is resolved before March 6th, and then the
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by secabeen 4y ago
> financial aid / regulatory / internal budgeting reasons the college can't say they attend for free, so they instead set extremely high tuition numbers and then "pay" that tuition for the students, from one hand
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by secabeen 4y ago
Yes, and then I'll evaluate that answer by your reputation, either socially, organizationally, or publicly. I will value that summary differently if you are a random person on the street, a random person who works at a tech company, o
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by secabeen 4y ago
This is a decent summary. I've been thinking about how ChatGPT by it's very nature destroys context and source reputation. When I search for something on the Internet, I get a link to the original content, which I can then evalu
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by secabeen 4y ago
This is changing. Peak cost during summer afternoons is definitely $0.50+/kWh, but most other times are in the $0.20-0.30/kWh range, due to the broad deployment of solar and lower nighttime demand.
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by secabeen 4y ago
I don't think so, I'm including those people in the 5 million that would lose their jobs or see pay cuts. They are exactly the ones who will fight to keep the system as it is. We absolutely should get rid of those expenses, it wi
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by secabeen 4y ago
The biggest challenge of changing the health system now is the entrenched interests. If we reduced our spending health care just to the average of the OECD nations, it would remove $1 Trillion of annual revenue from the US Health Care sy
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by secabeen 4y ago
Yeah, the main issue is mostly that the network is designed for lowest-cost, non-time-sensitive freight, and fast, time-sensitive Amtrak trains inevitably get stuck behind something slow, or waiting for something slow to clear from the othe
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by secabeen 4y ago
They show up in bulk on eBay for about half price pretty often.
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by secabeen 4y ago
ESPHome on a ESP32 makes a nice Bluetooth2Ethernet Bridge. I've seen Aranet4's on eBay for under $150 pretty regularly, so I'd look there.
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by secabeen 4y ago
Not impossible, probably slow. Land must be acquired, base and track laid, switches moved, etc, etc.
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by secabeen 4y ago
> Those people in the front of the train with their private rooms and chef made meals effectively subsidize the daily coach class commuters in the back of the train. This may have been the case in the past, but with the Dining Cars not a
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by secabeen 4y ago
Britain has gone through regular and repeated crises with their trains, and pretty much the entire system went bankrupt during COVID. The government paid what it took to keep it going, but it's not a smooth system by any means. Even
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by secabeen 4y ago
This is a good summary. The other element is that Amtrak only gets priority if they stay to their schedule. They have a slot where they are expected, and have full priority. However, if they get delayed, and miss their slot, then another
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by secabeen 4y ago
For those of you interested in Amtrak sleeper cars, reserve early, and expect to pay the highest fares on the in-demand, scenic routes. Amtrak's revenue management has gotten a lot better in the last few years, and they are in the mid
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by secabeen 4y ago
The observation car is open to all passengers, no exceptions. The Dining Car is still sleeper-car only, although they seem to want to change it back to taking paid seating from coach/business some time this year.
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by secabeen 4y ago
They either want microtransactions and loot boxes, or 30% of the overall revenue like Apple and Google do in their app stores.
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by secabeen 4y ago
Site prep and site adaptation is a big challenge in construction. Every plot is a little different, and the pre-fab thing you want to install will need some adjustment, tweak or change that reduces the savings over just building it on-site
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by secabeen 4y ago
GaN is great, but still pretty expensive.
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by secabeen 4y ago
> "we could do this a lot faster and eventually worldwide if we hitch our wagon to this new AWS thing" Standard reminder, this was for all the non-content delivery parts of Netflix. They have always and continue to run their o
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by secabeen 4y ago
Personally, I don't, I explicitly and intentionally keep my Email, Password Manager and 2FA providers all distinct and separate. (This was very useful for extracting the TOTP secret out of the Symantec VIP 2FA system: https:/&#x
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by secabeen 4y ago
Yeah, the equivalent Sonos product was the 3, but it's EOL and there is currently a hole in the Sonos line there. Not sure if they'll bring something back, maybe now that Apple has Homepod 2 they will, or the medium-sized bi-dire

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