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by secabeen 4y ago
9 years ago, China floated a claim to Okinawa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/15/china-okinawa-...
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by secabeen 4y ago
This may be the case in the sciences and engineering, but is much less so in the humanities and the social sciences. They are very different situations.
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by secabeen 4y ago
It's really common in the Mac world, homebrew does it too: https://brew.sh/
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by secabeen 4y ago
My understanding is that this is because the car repair market is heavily regulated, estimates are required for all repairs, and payment is based on a standard number of hours for each job, not actual time taken. The cost of estimates is al
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by secabeen 4y ago
The grid also has lots of excess overnight capacity. From the California Independent system operator data, the state has 42,000 MW of total capacity. Overnight demand is below 23,000 MW for much of the night. Even if we exclude the top 2
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by secabeen 4y ago
Perhaps, but co-mingling a perceived problem at Harvard (high nameplate tuition that few students actually pay) with an actual problem at public universities (disinvestment in higher education by state legislatures causing tuition increases
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by secabeen 4y ago
The IANA key ceremony is pretty close to best practice: https://kimdavies.com/key-ceremony-primer
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by secabeen 4y ago
That's really too bad. I loved my spark, and was hoping to get a used one as an around-town car for my kid. It was the smallest 4-door car on the market, could fit into any parking space, and really was a wonderful car for neighbor
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by secabeen 4y ago
This is essentially the argument that "All Cops are Bad"; some few cops are bad, but all cops willingly participate in a system that protects and enables those bad actors. The US military is a good comparison, they routinely dish
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by secabeen 4y ago
California has this, we call it a fix-it ticket. There's an administrative fee of $25, but that's all: https://www.rpmlawca.com/blog/2020/january/how-to-handle-a-f...
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by secabeen 4y ago
The biggest challenge is just the entrenched interests. If we reduced US health care expenditures just to the median level of developed countries, we would spend ~$1 trillion/yr less than today. That's a lot of people laid off,
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by secabeen 4y ago
For some definitions of fine, sure. I run my own mail, and relay it through an AWS EC2 instance that I've used on the same IP for over 5 years. It took an exceptional effort over many months to get off the Hotmail blacklist a while b
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by secabeen 4y ago
Still there, if you get your search terms right: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/search?q=before%3...
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It's all still there, if you know how to dig. Here are posts in rec.arts.drwho from before 2004-11-02: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/search?q=before%3...
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by secabeen 4y ago
Right, and that's a good thing, because lower postprandial glycemia correlates with better health outcomes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20234031/
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by secabeen 4y ago
The new FS-Box is out, allowing reprogramming of most FS transceivers for a one-time $500 cost.
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> password, the things that check passwords or do other kinds of validation like that (if you want to use Google Authenticator TOTP codes, you’d do that here) password is for workflows that change passwords. It is not used for TOTP, tha
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by secabeen 4y ago
Yeah, this is a classic bait-and-switch that the Rx companies do. "No patient out-of-pocket!" they tout, as they charge $10k+ to the insurance companies, and by proxy, to the company the employee works for. The Rx company still
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by secabeen 4y ago
> you end up at the same handful of providers in your area no matter your insurance This is very dependent on where you live and the density of providers. If you live in a small-to-medium size city or smaller, your description is accura
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by secabeen 4y ago
The value in home ownership is in reliability of housing. With a family, I seriously value knowing that I'm not likely to have my home pulled out from under me by the landlord for a higher and better use.
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by secabeen 4y ago
K-12 schools will have to replace their existing headphones with USB-C models, but that's not too bad, the headphones take a lot of abuse in that environment. EOLing the lightning charging infrastructure they have is going to be more
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by secabeen 4y ago
This is a big change for K-12, as it instantly EOLs all the mass charging equipment they have. Certainly doable, but with the increased price and the necessary charging equipment that now all needs to be replaced, it's a pretty big pr
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by secabeen 4y ago
> I've been skimming the review: it looks like these cards will draw 500W continuous _by themselves._ So I'd be looking at potentially 700W+ from the wall. Check the Hardware Unboxed review here: https://www.youtube.
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by secabeen 4y ago
> The future will be smaller machines with smaller boilers and more electronics - I just think that the lelit gets it all right. This. The Decent DE1Pro is leading this charge, it doesn't even have a traditional boiler at all, and
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> Legally, we do assign fault for negligence. If absentmindedly leave your kitchen tap open with the drain stopped and then go on vacation, your flood insurance is probably not going to pay for repairs, even if you didn't deserve to
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It can, if you have the technical ability to write code that can leverage the scale-out that most bursty-cloud solutions entail. Coding for clustering can be pretty challenging, and I would generally recommend a user target a single large
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Thankfully, only a small part of the academic research enterprise involves human subjects, HIPAA, and all that. Neither fruit flies nor quarks have privacy rights.
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They leave out major costs because they don't pay those costs. Power, Cooling, Real Estate are all significant drivers of AWS costs. Researchers don't pay those costs directly. The university does, sure, but to the researcher,
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by secabeen 4y ago
Generally, scientists aren't blocked while they are waiting on a computational queue. The results of a computation are needed eventually, but there is lots of other work that can be done that doesn't depend on a specific calculat
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The general rule of thumb in the HPC world is if you can keep a system computing for more than 40% of the time, it will be cheaper to buy.

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