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by slt2021 2y ago
these are people specifically choose to work under the poverty limit to be eligible for safety net welfare: EBT/SNAP/WIC/Medicaid and then work for cash unrecorded. like they work 4hr/day and accumulate ~1000 hours/
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by slt2021 2y ago
it is a question of who is going to subsidize global pharma R&D? same drug costs $10k in US is sold for $5k in EU and $10 in India. The biggest question is: Why should US consumer subsidize pharma R&D so that pharma can sell it glob
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by slt2021 2y ago
Americans always admire the Japan and how beautiful it is, but somehow nobody wants to discuss how to implement Japan in the US.
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by slt2021 2y ago
if environmentalists were serious about saving environment, they would have supported Nuclear Energy & Dense housing. Instead we have: hectares and hectares of land dedicated to wind&solar with all wildlife habitat destroyed, an
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by slt2021 2y ago
this was Soviet system as well, where student draw a random card with 3 exam questions (out of all curriculum) and had to prepare and answer question in person verbally in from of a panel of professors. This system truly forced students to
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by slt2021 2y ago
putting everything in WASM really drains the battery on mobile. I hate WASM heavy websites as often they have bloat of javascript and site is very slow, especially during scrolling, zooming due to abuse of event listeners and piss poor codi
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by slt2021 2y ago
good for you, you are doing your job very well. part of the reason why modern software is so crappy, is because developers often have thee most powerful machines (MacBook pro like) and don't even realize how resource hungry and crrappy
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by slt2021 2y ago
Uranium has been strategic mineral for nuclear weapons and yet still is traded free on the global market. Every country that has nuclear weapons does have nuclear reactors, and supply is basically not an issue. The technology is the main mo
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by slt2021 2y ago
can these language improvements be implemented at linter level? so that people can opt-in or opt-out selectively, per their own discretion, for these kinds of rules I dont see the point of this being part of the language since it break comp
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by slt2021 2y ago
this is not an issue at all, Ukraine is at war with Russia, yet Russia continues to pump natural gas through Ukraine to Europe and even pays $$$ to Ukraine for transit (!!!!) When it comes to commodity trading - $$$ trumps everything. urani
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by slt2021 2y ago
I dont understand the need for this. I always has used integer data type and counted cents. Why need this?
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by slt2021 2y ago
Uranium supply is not an issue at all, given that plenty of nations sell it, it is not rare mineral and can be found in abundance. and you need to replenish uranium fuel like once in 5 years - so this is not an issue at all for nuclear ener
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by slt2021 2y ago
>>If a nation cannot buy uranium (scarce resources, embargo...) not an issue at all, Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, bunch of other nations mine and sell uranium. Whenever there are big mountain ranges, there is uranium. and it is chea
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by slt2021 2y ago
photovoltaic elements inside solar panel rely on photoelectric effect, which is electromagnetic force. It cannot be weak/strong force
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by slt2021 2y ago
the fact that we allowed non-technical people with liberal arts education, who have no concept of physics and energy, to make nuclear a political issue is a big failure. Plus oil rich countries lobbying LNG as a greener alternative for nucl
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by slt2021 2y ago
nuclear fuel: nuclear rods can last about 3-7 years, lets say 5 on avg. 150 rods per 1 GW reactor. so its like one or two rail cars of fuel - extremely compact footprint. how calculate yourself how much fossil fuel you need to power 1 GW po
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by slt2021 2y ago
japan has limited land, no oil&gas resources, so the nuclear is the perfect source of electricity for them, plus they have the expertise.
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by slt2021 2y ago
the original poster's project also requires shared filesystem. as for bash-ssh solution, you don't need shared FS, if you don't need intermediate results. you can use SCP to get the final result after transcoding has finished
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by slt2021 2y ago
Dropbox had a cutting edge file synchronization algorithm, they solved a problem of large file sync over unreliable network. There was a clear engineering IP they developed. ( https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewritin
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by slt2021 2y ago
this is really not much different from ssh-ing to your GPU server and running ffmpeg. Very roundabout way to execute remote bash command on a server I dont meant to discourage you, but it is possible to replace your entire repo with a simpl
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by slt2021 2y ago
Related: Bitcoin miner RIOT made $32 mln by reducing or being willing to reduce if needed — its energy use consumption. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/03/texas-bitcoin-profit... A company such as Riot
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by slt2021 2y ago
i was not familiar with JAX, so it was a good resource for me into the basics of the language, its advantages and use cases. I also loved the notebooks that come with the book and that every big idea in the book is explained with the code e
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by slt2021 2y ago
everybody pays tuition. legacies also donate heavily. all these named scholarships and named professor titles - are coming from donations
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by slt2021 2y ago
>>Zero legacies. state schools and community colleges do exactly that, how is that working for them? >> If the university is suppised to produce good students ir shouldnt be that 1 student in 21 is a complete dud. Because that&#
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by slt2021 2y ago
i bought early preview of this book like a year ago (through https://www.manning.com/meap-program ), only when the first two chapters were ready. waiting for a printed copy to arrive. this is really good book
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by slt2021 2y ago
if a donor's kid get accepted in exchange for $10 mln donation - that funds 20 scholarships to underrepresented students - is it a good policy or not??? would you rather have no legacy admits and ZERO scholarships whatsoever ? or would
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by slt2021 2y ago
self-selection. The population that applies to Ivies is completely different from the overall population, and different from the population that gets admitted to Ivies. If there were no requirements to be admitted to Harvard, any tom dick a
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by slt2021 2y ago
It is not the money if kids have no capacity to learn.
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by slt2021 2y ago
School is a local matter, I want tonhave a feedback mechanism of “taking my business elsewhere” in education. If private school offers more competitive product with better teacher, I want it. There is not much sense to force people to pay f
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by slt2021 2y ago
well the voucher system allows me to opt out of supporting this corrupt system with my taxes.

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