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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
https://archive.is/wLflD -> "How Investors Are Preparing for a New Fed" (WSJ)
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
Without weighing in on the article or your analysis, I would say that any viewpoint on monetary matters that doesn't gravitate in on May 2026 as a possible huge discontinuity is sort of prima facie counterproductive. There's very
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
To zoom in on how toxic the brand has become, look at the European market. Sales were down 71% in Sweden and 66% in France for 2025[1], despite ~35% growth in European EV sales. The only "bright spot" was Norway, but that's p
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
No word on which country might be responsible. I'm going to take an educated guess by covering my eyes with one hand and landing a finger randomly on a spinning globe with the other. Bingo, it worked.
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
> I do not live in CA, I live in AZ I've never lived in AZ, but it sounds like this may have a lot to do with it. ;-) Personal injury is an area where plaintiffs start out with a huge advantage. Judgments are large and cases are oft
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
If you're wondering how a "specialized rent-a-cop" like this guy gets away with using physical force in the context of a civil law dispute, here's the relevant quote: > When Jacobs takes on a job, he and his contracto
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
The article might be a modest proposal [1], but sooner or later we're going to have to answer questions like these. An even more interesting one is: What will we reward? We've been rewarding labor quantity, as well as quality via
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
Meh, I was going to use the preprocessor for __LINE__ anyways (to avoid requiring a variable name) so I just made it an "old school lambda." Besides, scope_exit is in C++23 which is still opt-in in most cases.
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
#include <iostream> #define RemParens_(VA) RemParens__(VA) #define RemParens__(VA) RemParens___ VA #define RemParens___(...) __VA_ARGS__ #define DoConcat_(A,B) DoConcat__(A,B) #define DoConcat__(A,B) A##B
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
I think I would be more interested in Rust the language if Rust the PR sphere was not suggestive of certain all-powerful online influences that I've developed antibodies against. I'm not claiming that they're the same people
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
A cryptominer is a "datacenter" in the same way that a chop shop is an automotive parts supplier.
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Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center(space.com)
162 points by troglo-byte 9mo ago|162 comments
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
Even if SF lost the hydro plant outright (which seems unlikely) there's still plenty of margin for SF residents to come out on top. SVP in Santa Clara doesn't own much generation, yet its rates are 60% lower.[0] Then there's
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
The difference between being taxpayer-financed and user-financed is that Ellison is on the hook for 10000x as much as granny instead of 20x. If it's a public good it should be paid by the public. A six-year-old keeping the light on at
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
If - if - people who live in the boonies deserve to have the burying of their tens of thousands of line-miles subsidized by others, it's by taxpayers, not by electric users in efficiently-served areas.
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
Hoping this mega-mess pushes the city's effort to buy its own grid past the finish line. PG&E has been fighting it tooth and nail. Not that it will necessarily make for fewer blackouts, but a ~50% rate discount would be nice. That&
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by troglo-byte 9mo ago
I'll confess I'm a bit less than well-read on this, but I can't help but wonder. How can increasing the number of languages in use within one enormous project possibly reduce critical vulnerabilities over the next decade? If
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by troglo-byte 10mo ago
Long term, the problem is not ads but Chatbot Optimization. Any answer can be biased in favor of a brand or solution type if you can plant a strong-enough signal into the training corpus. There's so many brands and solutions and so man
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by troglo-byte 10mo ago
Rich-kid hippies houseshare, hang out indoors after dark, and don't panhandle or shoplift groceries. They do smoke weed and maybe more, but their safety net is functioning. In their case, this life stage can reasonably be described as
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by troglo-byte 10mo ago
When was this? It's changed a lot (in both directions) over the years. For example, after Prop 64 legalized weed, the field in GGP by Haight and Stanyan that was previously staffed 24/7 by a morass of weed salespeople and their
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by troglo-byte 10mo ago
Nice. I just rewatched Terry Gilliam's movie the other day. A good portion of your quote is voiced over by Depp. There's so much going on visually that the literary bits are easy to miss the first few times. Looking West from a st