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by woeirua 6y ago
Not true. Stop spreading misinformation.
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by woeirua 6y ago
No, it really is someone's fault this time. Texas has had these events occur multiple times in the past, and they had grid failures in almost the exact same way. This happened because the Texas legislature decided to put their head in
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by woeirua 6y ago
Natural gas doesn't freeze, but the pipelines that supply the gas have valves and other control components that can and do freeze during severe weather. Also, the wells supplying the natural gas can suffer temporary shut-ins due to t
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by woeirua 6y ago
Again, this is not what is actually happening. Texas has heaps of on demand natural gas generators. They froze up with the storm and failed to turn on. Has nothing to do with renewable.
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by woeirua 6y ago
At this point people should just accept that all online reviews are fake. Unfortunately, we've found ourselves right back at where we started. There's just no good way to ensure trust at every step in the system.
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by woeirua 6y ago
Except for those times you have to use a Windows computer. Or have to share those passwords across multiple devices that don't belong to the same person. I used Keychain for a long time. A dedicated password manager is a vast improveme
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by woeirua 6y ago
It's cool tech, but I think Comma's quickly running out of room for commercial success here because a single camera can only take you so far. With GM rolling out Supercruise onto the new Bolts next year, it's hard to see how
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by woeirua 6y ago
DAC will be needed for the foreseeable future because there are some applications still where hydrocarbons are just unbeatable. In particular, large-scale marine and air transportation are just not feasible yet with anything other than some
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by woeirua 6y ago
How do you prevent scale build up, corrosion, etc from the chemicals that you're introducing into the water? For the most part, these towers probably aren't designed to deal with sustained high concentrations of some of these chem
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by woeirua 6y ago
Problem #1 is not actually observed though. We know from many, many studies that dietary cholesterol is not directly correlated with serum cholesterol. The article even alludes to the point that the body regulates cholesterol on its own reg
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by woeirua 6y ago
Tesla is one of the stingiest wildly successful companies ever. They're still managing the day-to-day as though they're a scrappy startup that might miss payroll next month. I suppose they can get away with this as long as the st
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by woeirua 6y ago
> I can't help feeling that the habit of removing identifying markers (names, ages, etc) from resumes to try to ensure equality in hiring is also part of the same ill-fated direction. What? There is well documented and clear evidenc
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by woeirua 6y ago
This is a pretty weak argument. Venezuelans are using physical USD on the black market to get around their weak currency. At the end of the day, crypto is only helping the wealthy in Venezuela.
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by woeirua 6y ago
I'm surprised more people don't like Golden delicious apples. They tend to get a bit mealy faster than the newer varieties, but when they're in season they're nice and crisp, mild, and not too sweet. They always put Red
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by woeirua 6y ago
There's a big generational tech advantage, so we're seeing big depreciation on older EVS. I expect that trend to continue for at least a few more years. The 2017 Chevy Bolt for example will end up probably costing less than $10k h
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by woeirua 6y ago
I leased a 2020 Leaf last year due to the killer deals. I went with the S-Plus for the extra range. Now driving it around for a few months, I’d rather go with the lower range model because: 1- cost, 2-I’ve found that 99% of my driving fall
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by woeirua 6y ago
It’s unclear what happens to the batteries after such a long period. The first modern EVs are still only 5-6 years old. That said the battery degradation on EVs with active thermal management looks pretty good. It’s plausible that batteries
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by woeirua 6y ago
I'm not sure I really understand the advantage to AL in this context. Sure you get better performance earlier, but if you want the best performance you still appear to have to train with the same amount of data. Given the training -&
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by woeirua 6y ago
I agree that there must be some genetic component to it, but if that were the case then by the law of large numbers we should have seen some counter examples by now too, i.e. babies that lack the instinct to suck or cry, etc. It'd be i
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by woeirua 6y ago
The question then is will the search be as good or better than Google? If it's not (and it's exceptionally unlikely that it will be better), then it'll be faster to find the original source on the web via Google.
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by woeirua 6y ago
This reminds me of this idea that someone had a while back to record every moment of your life with a GoPro-like camera, and then use AI to catalog the salient parts for later reference. The problem was, predictably, that the signal-to-nois
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by woeirua 6y ago
I can't help but think that companies like this that are planning on the disruption in consumption habits due to Covid continuing into the subsequent years are going to get burned badly when everyone abruptly starts going out again. I
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by woeirua 6y ago
At this point, we should be throwing our money at geoengineering and technology in order to try and deus ex machina our way out of the pending climate crisis. We've wasted so much time that now there really is almost no other option. N
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by woeirua 6y ago
No, you should use proper abstractions to allow you to "easily" replace components down the road. There's no point in planning, designing, or building your application for a million users because by the time you get there: 1
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by woeirua 6y ago
This is exactly right. Prove your business with the bare minimum tools required and then when you have enough paying customers go out and hire lots of engineers to figure out how to make it scale.
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by woeirua 6y ago
The insane obsession with scaling is killing this industry. So much effort is being wasted trying to use NOSQL or K8s at companies that have DAU counts in the low hundreds. Absolutely asinine.
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by woeirua 6y ago
You would probably spend a lot more time and money and arrive at the same conclusion. You can have the best background in statistics and all the experience in the world, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t have the right data. This post just
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by woeirua 6y ago
I don't think most doctors or customers would even consider this to be a real problem. For some specific, rare conditions sure. But for Tylenol? Come on. No one is going to pay for that.
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by woeirua 6y ago
This is an area where regulatory action should be taken against Google. Google needs to implement a process with manual review in a reasonable timeframe, or they should be broken up for having monopolistic power over which sites are on the
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by woeirua 6y ago
The only problem is that the value of said money fluctuates drastically over time. If Bitcoin were stable in value it would be immensely useful as a currency... alas it is not.

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