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by secabeen 5y ago
There is a train line that helps, but it's not enough. > Also, where is this warehouse? I’m thinking that when society collapses, that might be a great place to pick up stuff. It is a collection of warehouses, not one single warehou
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by secabeen 5y ago
I took a number of classes with Mearshiemer in college. He's right on many things, wrong on others. In this case, he's right that NATO expansion at least contributed to the current situation, but I think he's wrong in under
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by secabeen 5y ago
It could be read that way though. Take this excerpt: > ALL AIRCRAFT, REGARDLESS OF THE STATE OF REGISTRY ... OPERATED ... FOR THE BENEFIT OF A PERSON WHO IS A CITIZEN OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARE PROHIBITED... I think you could make a
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by secabeen 5y ago
> What you consider a feature I consider a bug. Whatever was the predecessor of SWIFT was, was probably not intended to cut people off of international settlements, it was intended as a way to establish trust between otherwise untrustwor
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by secabeen 5y ago
It is your responsibility, but the specifics of impact and enforcement are complicated. This looks like a nice summary: https://baranovcpa.ca/us-sales-tax/
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by secabeen 5y ago
This is a good list. I've gone entirely to the Cloud9 Ergo, mostly because of the large space bars combined with split/tented design. I cannot type on a keyboard like the Ergodox and Kinesis models where I have to hit a space ke
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yeah, the other element is that successful operation is dependent on a complex process that happens overnight, takes multiple hours, and cannot be bypassed (for legitimate safety reasons). The hacker device deciphers the error messages and
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by secabeen 5y ago
If you are going to supplement D3 over 5000iu, I would recommend getting a 25(OH)D blood test once or twice a year, ideally 2-3 months after each change in dose. Then compare your levels to the levels here and adjust dosage accordingly: h
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by secabeen 5y ago
Thank you, jknoepfler, this is essentially what I was thinking. The Economist is quite supportive of institutions and their value, in a way that American Libertarians are not. While both groups have important and useful things to say, and
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by secabeen 5y ago
The other thing I've seen is safety-maximalism from the fire departments. They really push for wide streets, flat curbs, and maximum access. There is rarely any impact-benefit analysis evaluating the number of times a fire truck need
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by secabeen 5y ago
The Economist is clearly not a Libertarian newspaper. They represent the classical liberal position, which is not Libertarian, and never has been.
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by secabeen 5y ago
> I guess you could tax all collateralized loans above a certain collateral value but that can be gamed. So personally I prefer consumption taxes. Interesting idea. We sort of already do this, we apply property taxes based on the value
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by secabeen 5y ago
> No. Just like the student loan crisis, when you make borrowing money really easy it drives prices up. Home prices vary inversely with interest rates. Student tuition well that's even worse because the risk to the bank is zero (bec
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by secabeen 5y ago
> It's patently ridiculous that you could add a lightbulb to your network and be unable to get in your front door the next day because now you have too many devices. I am not aware of any keypad zigbee or z-wave door lock that depen
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by secabeen 5y ago
YMMV. I don't put any value on most of the above.
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by secabeen 5y ago
I've used The Energy Detective for a long time, but it is challenging to install the hardware in your breaker box. For an easier approach, there are a bunch of wifi plugs that can report energy usage: https://www.androidcent
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by secabeen 5y ago
> baby-hospital visits are brutal. It's about 8 hours of waiting (usually in the middle of the night) with a screaming child while staff ignores you and then finally says there isn't a problem. Add to that that depending on you
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by secabeen 5y ago
COVID is pretty bad. We are having a 9/11-equivalent number of deaths every day .
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yes, Zoom has a similar setting. I don't think the client is listening for the ultrasonics all the time; you need to click the "Share Screen" button on the main zoom page to have it work, and it presents a "please wait&
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by secabeen 5y ago
This summarizes it well for reads: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSRaidzRea... For writes, the system is copy-on-write, so for each write, there is a full read of the containing recor
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by secabeen 5y ago
The sets you are looking for still exist today. For example: 428-piece, 1-foot cube, $55, 4 minifigs, 1994: https://brickset.com/sets/6571-1/Flame-Fighters 540-piece, 1-foot cube, $69, 5 minifigs, 2022: https:&#
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by secabeen 5y ago
> " please go buy a RAM upgrade from your local Apple dealer" Not possible any more!!!
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by secabeen 5y ago
> Do they map WiFi spots accurately? Yes, there are a number of companies that maintain BSSID->Lat/Long Databases. Skyhook is probably the biggest commercial one, and https://www.wigle.net/ the biggest open sour
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by secabeen 5y ago
I find them useful in some cases. I play board games online, and both sites I use will update the favicon (either with a new color or an animated shape) to tell me that it's my turn.
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by secabeen 5y ago
There are ways around that though; you could give a small rebate on the meter fee for low-use customers, to encourage conservation. (My water bill is that way, the full meter charge is around $50/month, but if you use less than 700 Cu
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by secabeen 5y ago
Fair. I still prefer an honest system that charges a fair, flat rate for the infrastructure, and then a usage charge for usage. If we want to disincentive usage, we can put a tax on the consumption rate; that's certainly better than
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by secabeen 5y ago
Not usually. There are grid shutdowns in wildfire risk areas during high wind events, and there was a brief rolling blackout last year over two nights in a small area, but it's been almost 20 years since the broader blackouts that mad
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by secabeen 5y ago
> That's not true at all, as people use more electricity, aggregate usage gets higher and the grid eventually needs beefier interconnections, beefier transformers... To a degree, but not in a linear fashion to the amount of power de
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by secabeen 5y ago
This is a fair observation. Interestingly, what you describe (a system 3x larger than your average load) is essentially what the grid has to have. Looking at the California data, here in Winter, today's peak usage is about 28 Megawat
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by secabeen 5y ago
Is water scarcity a thing in your area? Perhaps your water is cheap because its readily available in your area. In Chicago, they have so much water in Lake Michigan, most homes don't even have water meters.

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