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by slashdev 3y ago
Honestly, even if that were true, the amount they save on office expenses, middle managers, and churn outweighs a measly 10%.
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by slashdev 3y ago
My dad worked the latter half of his career this way. He came in late and left early. But he was good enough / indispensable enough that he got away with it.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> This is both reductionist and sexist, drawing a sweeping conclusion that women are both incapable and unaware of the dynamic: they are just as aware as guys are, if not more. To be fair, I'm generalizing here, so replace every ins
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by slashdev 3y ago
> I submit that the extra-ordinary claim would be the parties with the control of money supply and taxation structure, and the parties without it, are on an equal footing here when it comes to debt. Well, obviously. There’s limits to the
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by slashdev 3y ago
Depends how much performance matters and what the problem domain is, and how low level it is. It can vary a lot.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Dating apps combined with birth control seem to be taking us away from monogamy and towards polygamy. That top 20% of men has no incentive to want to commit to any one woman, so those women are competing in a mostly fruitless quest that may
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by slashdev 3y ago
> Government debt and household debt don't work the same way In what way? Enlighten us. Are you a MMT proponent? That's a bullshit theory that's fallen on its face pretty spectacularly since 2021. The debt has to be paid,
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think this has less to do with the constant debt ceiling hostage negotiations, since that has been going on for decades. I think this has more to do with the US spending itself into debt in an unsustainable way. Up to $32T now. The intere
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by slashdev 3y ago
Great to see the government tackling those thorny, nuanced problems that threaten the livelihood, security, and future prospects of the average citizen.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Not as much as is wasted in generation and transforming, both of which would benefit from superconductors. The benefit might lie less in the wires and more in the equipment. Tough to say with a trans Atlantic cable though. Those kinds of di
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by slashdev 3y ago
Because it’s very rare currently. I’d be an uphill battle though to get permission, insurance, etc. It could be done, but it’s currently not even close to economical. It’s still safer for the port and surrounding area than the dirty diesel
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by slashdev 3y ago
Everybody and their uncle has seen this coming for a while. I think it’s mostly priced in. I wouldn’t short it.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Early onset of glaciation via warming instead of cooling. Counter intuitive idea. It’s unclear that it would play out that way. One could look at what happened the last time it stopped to get some idea, but things are different this time. W
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’m not saying to plan for it. I’m just saying that a silver lining of the mess we’ve made is that we probably won’t have that ice age in 50,000 years. We’ve likely disrupted the cycle.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I rarely ask questions on stack overflow anymore. When I do, the question is usually closed for being similar to something else or off topic or whatever. Whenever I forget why I don’t use it, I’m quickly reminded. I find the moderation and
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s mostly caused by Milankovitch cycles. Which are cyclic variations in our orbit around the sun. The earth varies in distance to the sun and axial tilt and precession. Like waves, there factors can either overlap and somewhat cancel or t
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by slashdev 3y ago
On the other hand if we only have 2-3 degrees of warming, if that’s enough to prevent the next ice age, didn’t we just dodge a massive icy bullet? Might we not one day thank ourselves for doing something reckless and stupid that actually wo
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by slashdev 3y ago
Having to plan it months in advance takes some of the short term trading aspect away. You can have no idea what markets will be doing months from now. You obviously have material non public information as CEO, but you could just as easily l
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think the usual strategy to not run afoul of insider trading laws is to schedule the sales several months in advance.
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by slashdev 3y ago
For long distance shipping anyway. These are river barges in the article.
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by slashdev 3y ago
If nuclear were cheap enough to do that, we’d just put the reactor on the ship. Note, I’m not suggesting you could use the existing infra for refrigerated containers, but I am pointing out that containers that need an electrical hookup are
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by slashdev 3y ago
If you use fast chargers you can not only charge them quickly, but you could prefer charging them when electricity is cheaper than normal (when the wind is blowing out the sun is shining.) It can actually help with the intermittent nature o
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by slashdev 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Container ships are always stopping to load and unload containers in ports. Both the ship and the port already have infrastructure for handling containers. They also have infrastructure for
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by slashdev 3y ago
So change it. Drain the swamp for real.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Honestly 66% is pretty good. Australia has compulsory voting, which I think is better (they have > 90% turnout). Canada was 62.2% in the last election (and they paid for it - imho), that’s roughly in line with the US. The global average
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by slashdev 3y ago
People care to such a small extent that most don’t even bother to vote. Good luck running a healthy democracy like that. The reality is, most people are very focused on their own problems. Complaining is free, but doing something about it i
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by slashdev 3y ago
Morality is not universal. Different people have different values and thus different morals. There are some things most would agree on (murder=bad) but others that are up for debate. If aliens exist, their values and morals would likely be
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by slashdev 3y ago
I lived in Vancouver for a number of years. I sure don’t miss the winter. Otherwise it’s a lovely part of the world. But the clouds and the rain really got to me.
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by slashdev 3y ago
And way more intermittent than solar. Seems like a really dumb idea.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s the S&P 500, the most heavily traded index in the world. Not a single ticker.

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