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by thedance 7y ago
Ah yes, Yang gathered "a surprising amount of support" and I guess nobody was as surprised as Yang, who came in eighth place in New Hampshire behind Tulsi Gabbard with a number of votes indistinguishable from none after getting 1%
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by thedance 7y ago
Any time you goose the demand side, prices go up. Rent, college, health care. It's the guaranteed outcome.
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by thedance 7y ago
Indeed, almost the whole of the USA housing stock is disposable hovels. The real problem is we don't replace them, we instead give them historic protections!
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by thedance 7y ago
>> You need an environment that runs on production settings but isn't production. > Why? The unstated assumption of "staging" fans is that bad test coverage is a universal, naturally-occurring condition. At the comp
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by thedance 7y ago
“ California Energy Commissioners gave the Sacramento Municipal Utility District unanimous clearance to offer builders the option of buying solar energy from SMUD, via local solar farms SMUD would build, rather than install solar panels on
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by thedance 7y ago
California’s mandate has already been postponed over the objections of several municipal utility districts and probably will never take force in the way people who drafted it expected. I really think mandates like this are totally wrong app
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by thedance 7y ago
I don’t know why you’re accusing me of having an entitled attitude. I worked to develop two of the largest solar power stations in California. And I happen to know that utility-scale solar makes a hell of a lot more sense that rooftop. If y
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by thedance 7y ago
Germany doesn’t have a housing crisis. The context of the mandate is that USA lacks about fifteen million houses that it desperately needs. Solar power adds tens of thousands to the already-bloated cost of construction.
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by thedance 7y ago
So much this. If you’re building anything in an urban setting that actually has enough roof to power its dwellings, that just means it’s not tall enough. PV mandates miss the point that it is dispersed, detached developments patterns that a
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by thedance 7y ago
Those charts are using “3gslow” mode, simulating a ludicrously slow and lossy mobile connection. Also note that these fonts are loaded lazily and don’t have to block the page painting.
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by thedance 7y ago
I don’t know where they come from but my nearby used book store sells gallon-sized ziploc bags filled with random legos. Most of them are old, which is awesome. You get the old space logo. I buy them on my way home. My kids have built almos
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by thedance 7y ago
Bloomberg taking the most practical approach to wealth inequality. All the other candidates just talk about it but Bloomberg is sending billions hurling down the wealth gradient!
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by thedance 7y ago
I appreciate the sentiment but compilers optimizing size (gcc -Os) often produce rather bad full-program performance. Cache and TLB pressure are important topics but in my experience it seems to have been the case that hot/cold code s
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by thedance 7y ago
Hold up bro. The only thing you've ever posted on HN - and you posted it a lot - is that you never put a SIM in a phone.
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by thedance 7y ago
The reason I’m on my zillionth account isn’t because of comments of mine, but because somehow my ex-wife’s IP is radioactive and if I happen to load HN on my mobile while on her wifi and waiting for my kids the account I’m logged into gets
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by thedance 7y ago
I'm actually quite interested in what about this comment rates the label of astroturfing. Is "astroturfing" now like "gaslighting", that is a word that has lost whatever objective meaning it once had? Are all peopl
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by thedance 7y ago
Even reply guys gotta get paid I guess.
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by thedance 7y ago
It seems that “privacy researcher at brave” is a job requiring no domain knowledge, only plentiful contact with credulous journalists.
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by thedance 7y ago
So you think they have bus-rapid-transit enthusiasts in Berkeley taking an hourly rate to legitimize robot accounts?
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by thedance 7y ago
Weird take. What was the case you are thinking of from fifteen years ago? Microsoft was prosecuted by the Clinton administration twice, in 1994 and 1998.
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by thedance 7y ago
My faith in my own ability to identify twitter bots was upended recently when an account with no followers, following nobody, with no posts, with eight digits at the end of its handle, which had liked or retweeted nothing but Trump propagan
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by thedance 7y ago
It's interesting here that the breakthrough seems to come from the computer search not suffering from epistemological block. It doesn't think, therefore it is also not bound by conventional patterns of thought, such as the bias a
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by thedance 7y ago
Depending on how long you’ve been here, you may have been living under a Reagan-esque conservative regime the whole time. Over my entire life I’ve seen only actual republican policies, or policies of weak-minded Democrats easily baited into
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by thedance 7y ago
Having the East at the top of the map is very common. That’s why they call it “the orient”.
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by thedance 7y ago
It’s the stated goal of the party in power to throw as many kids off food assistance as possible. If the program has quirks that is by design.
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by thedance 7y ago
The problem is not averaging. The problem is these inflation measures specifically exclude major expenses.
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by thedance 7y ago
I guess you'd be surprised at how easy it is for an organization to just de-staff a launched product.
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by thedance 7y ago
I meant the NetScaler project in particular.
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by thedance 7y ago
How do you know? There are lots of commercial products that have no staffing at all. "1 man" might even be above the median staffing.
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by thedance 7y ago
I was buying ES40s at work around that time for the same reason. It was a lot of memory in one box, and close to the most memory you could stuff in a single rack. Unfortunately dealing with Compaq sales at the time was horrible. They basica

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