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by smeej 2y ago
I think you, like almost all the other commenters, are missing the point. Of course investing in better long-term solutions would lead to better long-term solutions. But it would require more investment. You'd have to get so damn m
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't know if there are as any that are as easy to acquire and set up without major infrastructure projects.
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by smeej 2y ago
But New Hampshire already has the plant built. That cost already happened. The question now is how best to meet the energy demand with the resources available, and that's already available.
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by smeej 2y ago
I know the topic is anathema on HN, but a personal friend of mine was working with people in New Hampshire to help make the nuclear power plant a better solution for the regional power needs by equipping it with bitcoin miners that can be t
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by smeej 2y ago
I think I was in my 30s before I found out that with NES Duck Hunt, if you plugged in a controller, player 2 could control the duck.
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by smeej 2y ago
This is the "damned if they do" side. I don't care what the principle was that kept them from doing it. "We'll make more money over the longer run if we don't do it" is a totally valid principle in my bo
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by smeej 2y ago
I think they're kind of damned if they do, damned if they don't now, from my perspective. If they had a principled reason not to do it, I'll think less of them for doing it now, and if they don't, I'll think less of
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by smeej 2y ago
This made me laugh out loud, because the first thing that came to mind when I tried to remember the last time I had a Costco hotdog was a Costco hotdog burp! And you're so right!
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by smeej 2y ago
Just about everyone does, and has for the decade since store "rewards" cards became ubiquitous. I am stupefied to find out Costco is this late to this party. I don't even like the party, but it makes me worry about their lead
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by smeej 2y ago
It's so hard too because the people tasked with making the tradeoff decision are almost always the parents of the child, because the most effective interventions have to take place before the child can make her own decisions. They love
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by smeej 2y ago
Honestly? No, not usually, or at least not when the deity has made it clear that He can be worshiped anywhere. Locations are chosen for the sake of the people who are expected to come to them.
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by smeej 2y ago
That's what I was thinking as it was going on about driving. True "night vision" is going to have an even harder time with modern headlights coming at me than my eyes do.
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by smeej 2y ago
I didn't understand what the bell towers had to do with anything. If you're going to pick a piece of architecture that mattered to the architect in terms if "where the thing is," go with the altar.
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by smeej 2y ago
Why do we need to assume widespread maps for this? Or even maps of the entire globe? A regional map showing barely more than a rectangle with this as its diagonal would be sufficient to get the point across to the average layperson. Virtual
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by smeej 2y ago
Most people aren't experts. If I'm setting up a bunch of churches in a line to make a point, I'm doing it to make a point to the vast swath of common people in them, not the handful of experts.
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by smeej 2y ago
Exactly. I think I'm more annoyed at this point with the myth of the ignorant Medievals than I am with the myth of the flat earth itself. Even knowing the earth is round, if I were going to put things in a "straight line" geo
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by smeej 2y ago
Gosh I don't even keep both hands on the wheel (especially not in gridlock) in my car that's old enough to get a license to drive itself (ironic, given the article).
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by smeej 2y ago
Something that gives even an approximation of the amount that could be earned might help. If I have to do a lot of digging to make a few cents a month, I'll never do it, for example.
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by smeej 2y ago
Ah, thank you! It wasn't clear to me that dragging was part of the touch UI at all. I thought it was "tap square, tap letter to put in square." And then I couldn't find anything to tap to remove a letter from a square.
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by smeej 2y ago
Are experts evaluating "precision" differently from laypeople? Like, from a layman's perspective, getting the forecasted high and low within 5 degrees and accurately predicting if it's going to rain (and if so, when) are
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by smeej 2y ago
This is a total layman's question, but the "legacy" models don't seem to get the weather forecast right very often. It's a running joke everywhere I've ever lived that weather forecasting is one of the few jobs
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by smeej 2y ago
The biggest thing I need is the ability to delete a letter from a square without having to undo all the way back to when I thought the letter went there. Replacing the letter with a different one doesn't help. I need to be able to get
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by smeej 2y ago
I do hear a lot that there's some level of engagement with a traditional school at some stage, but that the experience goes very differently. Even as an adult, I sometimes want to enroll in an enrichment program that looks a lot like
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by smeej 2y ago
As a percentage of the population? Or does total population growth account for this? (Genuinely asking; I know very little about this and would like to become more familiar with what people know about it.)
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by smeej 2y ago
In unschooling circles, that "detox" period is called "deschooling," and is estimated to take about a month per year of formal schooling. If you've ever taken a break from work, you've probably experienced some
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by smeej 2y ago
Yeah, exactly. I was blessed with inexpensive tastes, so I find it easy to live well below my means. Plus, one lucky break with some early equity goes a long way. It's not the right game for everyone, but it's totally viable once
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by smeej 2y ago
I think you need to try working in tiny startups, if any of your skills would make that work. There, gaps in resumes and random ends to employment are expected. Nobody asks about mine, and I end up taking a full year off every 4-5 years whe
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by smeej 2y ago
I've mostly been on the "user" end of buggy internal company code. It's always a scary day when the interns start, because we finally have someone who will have the time to "fix" the bugs in the code--but half
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by smeej 2y ago
I was thinking "naïve" in the sense of "just not knowing some normal things about the world." It's definitely my, "WAIT--fireflies are REAL??" reaction that makes me laugh after the fact.
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't think this was dumb exactly, just naïve. I didn't know fireflies were real until my 20s. I thought they were just a made up thing in storybooks. I was rooming with a girl I barely knew for the summer and was looking out th

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