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by wumpus 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that you could talk about carbon emissions without accusing people of virtue signaling. Try it, maybe it will work better than your current approach?
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by wumpus 5y ago
And that's totally fine! But that's not what I was attempting to discuss.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Again, you apparently are willing to confuse the transportation cost of beef with the transport cost of everything. Nice reference to Marxism.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Your point appears to be to claim that everything that is not most important is irrelevant. Which is a bad idea, because "we" can do more than one thing at a time.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Soybeans are a fungible commodity. That means that it's fungible with other soybeans. Corn is a fungible commodity. Pork bellies are a fungible commodity. It's a mystery to me as to why you think I said soybeans and steak are the
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by wumpus 5y ago
To be fair, that has nothing to do with the current economy, where almost all cows go to feed lots to be fed human food (corn) to double their weight.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Your source doesn't support your point, it doesn't break out transportation related to beef or the stuff feed to cows to make beef.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that insulting people for virtue signaling isn't an objective thing.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Do you have a source that shows that it's not negligible? The carbon and water cost of 10 calories of grain is pretty large.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think I said a soybean is a steak, but I meant that a soybean is a soybean, corn is corn, and pork bellies are pork bellies, when we're talking about things traded on the commodities markets.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I thought the main problem with cows was feed lots feeding 10 calories of grain to make 1 calorie of meat, not methane.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Lots of foods are commodities, so I'm not exactly sure why you think they aren't fungible. Soybeans, corn, pork bellies, ...
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by wumpus 5y ago
> interested in virute signaling rather than practical applications. Love the insult, I'm sure it helps the conversation along to a good conclusion.
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by wumpus 5y ago
You can't tell the wiper intermittency setting with your eyes looking through the windshield? It's either too little or too much.
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by wumpus 5y ago
For those confused, this is a reference to the new Model S and likely the new X, when it comes out. Tesla may yet change their minds. My 2013 S (car ~ 4000) has the cruise control stalk in the Mercedes position. It was moved to a more tradi
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by wumpus 5y ago
A bit of googling says that New Zealand cows eat a lot of grain in both the beef and dairy industries. Grain is subsidized in many countries.
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by wumpus 5y ago
You can get your tire fixed anywhere that's willing to work on tires with acoustic foam.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I pointed out a radio astronomy mistake in one of Henry's postings, and no surprise, he wanted to quibble about it. He's not a radio astronomer.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I'm looking forward to looking at what he thought were my good posts!
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by wumpus 5y ago
I recently took a job with a charity which is run by the federal government. I had to be ink-fingerprinted to take the job. Ink fingerprinting is rare these days. I had to go the San Jose main jail to have it done -- no appointment needed,
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by wumpus 5y ago
If you've ever used the network interface InfiniPath -> TrueScale -> Omni-Path, the spark that lit the fire was an argument I had on comp.arch with Nick Maclaren, where I asserted that an appropriate endpoint design could minimiz
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by wumpus 5y ago
Black holes change as their accretion disks rotate. If I recall correctly, that timescale is months for M87* and hours for Sgr A*.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Our telescope is already as wide as the Earth, so there are two main ways to improve it: one is to launch some satellites, the other is to add more telescopes so that we can see fainter things. Sgr A* does have a lot of stuff in the way, an
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by wumpus 5y ago
Nice non-specialist summary of recent EHT work! I'm so used to wincing when I click on pop science articles that it was a relief to see a very accurate and yet easy-to-understand article about work I'm involved with.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Depends on your definition of RDMA, too -- if you mean the Infiniband kind, it includes message passing, which is much faster for short messages.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Wow, you know people who still use Mrs. and Miss? In my social and professional circles, that disappeared last century.
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by wumpus 5y ago
On most modern cpus with multiple sockets, it's slower to fetch a L2 line from the other socket than to fetch it from main memory. Was this also true on your system?
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by wumpus 5y ago
... like using Ms instead of Mrs. or Miss. Tyranny! Blame the activists! Oh, wait, we almost all use Ms. now.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Also nicely ironic that the language Latin is gendered. So "Latin America" in English is "America latina" in standard Spanish, and Google wants to translate it to "Americae" in Latin ("Americas", plur
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by wumpus 5y ago
Newspeak, like... Ms? Plenty of past examples, you probably use most of them now, and don't think about the controversy when they first appeared.

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