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by wumpus 4y ago
Looking forward to Texas again blaming renewables for their bad planning. Oh, wait, I'm late saying this.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Comcast has to actively enforce against ISPs or network providers. Comcast the ISP doesn't have to actively enforce against Comcast brand tires or Comcast brand coffee. A lot of people are confused about this, and big companies use &qu
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by wumpus 4y ago
Yes. There's a lot of yak, and every crawling task reveals new ones. As an example, all of blogger is behind a single load balancer, with a rate limit. If you don't crawl blogs, you'd never know. Or the top million, plenty of
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by wumpus 4y ago
You forgot the word "unit". It's not money, it's units. Apple doesn't dominate the number of widgets, they dominate in money.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I'm happy every time I get offered a job, despite not having a family. Well, of course I have a family, but you probably get what I mean.
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by wumpus 4y ago
You have to run your own resolver. Crawling 101.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Indeed, every country has taken time to reduce coal usage.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Fun that comment that twisted my words is "flagged, dead", but my complaint about having my words twisted is downvoted.
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by wumpus 4y ago
No.
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by wumpus 4y ago
OneWeb already offers service above 50 degrees north, so it's not really a game-changer. It's the other game-changer. My South Pole colleagues would love to have a better network.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I figure that any investor who complains about 87% annual growth gets what they deserve.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Your theory is that we can only call somebody a liar if 100% of their statements turn out to be false? No, but thanks for twisting my words.
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by wumpus 4y ago
How did you figure out that their connection isn't being censored by Venezuela?
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by wumpus 4y ago
There's a polar shell and there's a 70 degree shell, both with lasers, in addition to the 2 ~53 degree shells.
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by wumpus 4y ago
My colleagues at the South Pole have to pay for Iridium in bytes. There's no competition up there, GEO sats are too far north to see the Pole.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The best part about the "Elon is a liar" meme is that you can use it on successful, on-time products, too. Very powerful: "Tesla production up 87% year-on-year!" "But what about Cybertruck, Roadster, and Semi? Fail.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The point is that the worst quality studies do assume that the battery ends up on the scrap heap, way before the car itself does.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I didn't make that comparison, and it has nothing to do with the conversation.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> They then spend the next few years writing their own stack Supercomputing people have done this repeatedly and successfully. A more general purpose stack is UDP-based applications. I wouldn't do this with TCP, which I agree is com
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by wumpus 4y ago
Many countries used to be > 70% coal and are less now. Can you explain how that's somehow impossible to do in the remaining countries?
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Anyone getting sick is most definitely having a psychological reaction (i.e.: a choice) Thanks for letting me know!
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by wumpus 4y ago
Most people don't define democracy that way. For example, consider the EU's reaction to Poland and Hungary destroying their court systems, not to mention refusing to obey EU court decisions.
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by wumpus 4y ago
There's more to democracy than the tyranny of the majority. Didn't Hungary (and Poland) also destroy their independent court system?
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by wumpus 4y ago
> We are headed to a world where accepting all refugees just means your country collapses faster. Do you have a source for this statement? Studies of immigration to the US usually find that it's extremely positive for the country.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Demonizing minorities, especially unpopular minorities, is not a good sign in a politician.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> nearly every human including vegans can perfectly well eat either. If you haven't eaten meat for decades, you will probably become violently ill if you eat meat.
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by wumpus 4y ago
"Not dogs" is an actual product from 1982.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Those "milks" have been called that for 100s of years. Even better, in western Europe, their consumption is linked to the dominant religion.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I posted a comment hoping he wasn't ill for too long after consuming this surprising vegan product... got downvoted. Oh well.
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by wumpus 4y ago
What's "head cheese"? Hint: not a new phrase.

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