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by tjmc 2y ago
Agreed and you can use debt very safely if your net position is in credit. For one example I'm always amazed at how many people don't take advantage of the interest free period of credit cards. As long as you have enough savings p
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by tjmc 3y ago
That was my guess too. Apparently Starlink satellites go quiet over the area too but there is still some detectable EMF.
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by tjmc 3y ago
One advantage of heating water over sand is that you can heat it up with high temperature heat pumps which currently have CoPs ranging between 2.4 to 5.8 [1]. So for every kW of electrical energy you put in you get at least 2.4kW of thermal
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by tjmc 3y ago
What about Apple?
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by tjmc 3y ago
1.28sqm projected surface area? That's a very a big iphone.
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by tjmc 3y ago
Would love to know your opinion on this then - is there any way onsite cutting could be eliminated, semi or fully automated with wet cutting? Or is the onus always on the contractor to use PPE?
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by tjmc 3y ago
"They can afford it" is a terrible argument. There's literally no upside for Apple providing their infrastructure for free to third parties, particularly given that it's a potential vector for flooding their customers wi
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by tjmc 3y ago
Sounds like a good opportunity to rezone and modify some buildings to residential.
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by tjmc 3y ago
I've heard it said that in France there are 3 types of nuclear reactor and 100 types of cheese. In America it's the other way around.
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by tjmc 3y ago
The professional gear can also be too good. I remember when the first Hobbit film came out the picture was so crystal clear it was distracting - like a very high end BBC drama.
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by tjmc 3y ago
Sceptical - another "energy storage breakthrough" article with no detail of either cost or conversion efficiency. Non-technical founder too.
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by tjmc 3y ago
Most datacentres ban the use of ultrasonic humidifiers for exactly this reason.
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by tjmc 3y ago
I wish articles like this would standardise on W/kg or W/L. Range is meaningless when you don't know the pack size.
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by tjmc 3y ago
A couple of reasons. First, you could compare a self driving car's safety against your own record. I've had a licence since 1988 and never had an accident. I want to compare against that standard. Second, you could get a better id
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by tjmc 3y ago
The comparison against all human drivers is too broad. Typically insurance companies will apply higher premiums to new drivers due to inexperience and a higher likelihood of accidents. It would be better to see comparisons against the safes
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by tjmc 3y ago
So the Economist reported today that Tuvalu is planning for its disappearance as sea levels rise [1]. What a great opportunity for Msrs Andreeson, Thiel, Musk and all the other neo-Rand true believers to step in and create their seasteading
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by tjmc 3y ago
So excuse what may be my profound ignorance, but aren't there 2 unencrypted points in every communication that they could intercept? Very roughly, I assume every Whatsapp message follows something along the lines of: 1. Unencrypted inp
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by tjmc 3y ago
Exactly right. Try driving past a mob of kangaroos at the side of the road. There's a definite pace that works and they'll often break straight in front of you with little warning. Until self driving cars have been deployed intern
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by tjmc 3y ago
Australia’s capital city Canberra was planned and built roughly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. Turned out ok
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by tjmc 3y ago
This is correct and has been forgotten. "You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up." -Steve Jobs 2007
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by tjmc 3y ago
There's a good example of how fast, intuitive thinking often fails in "Thinking Fast and Slow" (referenced in the article): A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
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by tjmc 3y ago
Only 2019 reasons? Surely there are more
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by tjmc 3y ago
With magnetic stripes. Your banks are adorable.
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by tjmc 3y ago
Well done America. This has been available for literally decades in Australia. I was doing bank transfers over the phone from a landline in the 90s before mobile phones were common and the internet was all dialup. I don't think I'
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by tjmc 3y ago
Why not put edge datacentres in the middle? They could provide heating to perimeter apartments in cold climates and just imagine the ping!
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by tjmc 3y ago
That was my initial response to Stable Diffusion images
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by tjmc 3y ago
Learning difficult concepts is only one aspect of developing perseverance - which is probably the greater ability to master. Others are finishing what you start, developing habits to complete undesirable tasks (like regular exercise or doin
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by tjmc 3y ago
I liked Khan Academy. Got me all the way through Mechanical Engineering and I didn't start until I was 38
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by tjmc 3y ago
Residents of Tasmania will have some sympathy for their fellow Polish submariners. They've been plunged to the depths of the Southern Ocean by amateur cartographers for years.
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by tjmc 3y ago
Well yeah - that's how the legal system works assuming it gets all the way to court. In reality, Meta and OpenAIs lawyers will do a risk evaluation against the strength of the claim and if there's any merit at all there will be a

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