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by xenadu02 2y ago
This is more of a YouTube thing. They are very trigger-happy on copyright and implement a "strike" system that will quickly get you demonetized. It's fairly easy to file a strike against anyone and the target has little recou
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by xenadu02 2y ago
I guess some people never learn from trying to cover their mistakes as children. I've explained this to my kids: often the initial mistake is minor and warrants nothing more than "please don't do that again". It is the l
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by xenadu02 2y ago
tl;dr: Chevron owns the turbines. They originally signed an agreement with PacifiCorp to buy the power generated. When the agreement was up Chevron decided not to renew it and instead pursue registering as a generator to sell the power dire
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Funny enough San Francisco Public Utilities coordinates with SF Streets to replace water/sewer lines prior to planned repaving work specifically to avoid this problem. They are clear that need and scheduling sometimes don't allow
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by xenadu02 2y ago
I've made this comment before but technology could help here. If the call was tagged as landline, cell, or VoIP along with approximate location info it would help a lot. A landline call tagged as "same town" or cell call tagg
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by xenadu02 2y ago
AFAIK in CA insurance rates must be set based on historical trends not anticipated future losses or reinsurance prices. It is easy to imagine why - insurance companies love to play financial games when they can. Historical data is lagging b
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Christian "University" in the USA tends to be extremely hardcore biblical literalists (and in modern times explicitly right-wing politically). Within that context you are correct: the likes of Bob Jones, PCC, etc are extremely ant
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by xenadu02 2y ago
It is very annoying because a PC motherboard using a coin-cell battery to maintain the clock can often go years without changing the battery (yes I know many of them will eventually leak but it can take decades). There's also a US-wide
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by xenadu02 2y ago
FileVault is not required. Daemons can still start without an Aqua session or user logged in. You can also still configure Aqua session auto-login.
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by xenadu02 2y ago
That is not correct. The railroads deliberately killed the passenger business because it has worse operating ratios and needs more capex. Investors and execs believed (and still believe) railroads are in long-term managed decline so capex a
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Freight doesn't generally use bypasses or sidings anymore. It's part of the "Precision Scheduled Railroading" movement to optimize operating ratio above all other concerns - mostly because freight train executives and in
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by xenadu02 2y ago
We might as well be brain surgeons. Software is everywhere. It manages life and safety critical things for millions (billions?) of people every day. So much of everything that goes on at every level is affected by software. Software is also
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by xenadu02 2y ago
There's Fed Reserve research on this. The only thing recourse does is make borrowers a bit less sensitive to negative equity and only for high value homes: "Importantly, recourse affects default only through lowering borrowers se
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Uh 3 years of 22% inflation (give or take) doubles prices. When you're a young kid it sure would seem like everything got twice as expensive really fast, especially since most stores and manufacturers aren't raising prices every w
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Not commenting on anything else about this but only pointing out that the law treats a company that sells a complete widget to the end user very differently from a company that sells a piece to someone who then sells the finished widget to
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by xenadu02 2y ago
More specifically such large bombs will kill you with the pressure wave if nothing else. They are not survivable. Either you diffuse them successfully or you die.
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by xenadu02 2y ago
The government post Great Depression and New Deal was a much stronger regulator as well. They would regularly go after scammers and schemes. That is far less true these days since "regulation" is now a swear word to many people.
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by xenadu02 2y ago
First to squeal gets the deal. The more they need an insider's testimony to make the case, find the money, and/or track the goods the better the deal can be.
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by xenadu02 2y ago
> I remember the touch screen being a tough learning curve for the majority of people. people did not like those touch screens for the first several years of smartphones. They came out at the height of texting and ringtone era, and we we
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by xenadu02 2y ago
It just proves that no matter what you make and how innovative a product it is someone will come along a decade later and claim it was nothing but marketing fluff.
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> Has limiting the amount of asylum seekers or people coming over the border to claim asylum crossed your mind The number of asylum seekers is a tiny proportion of overall immigration of all types so we can basically ignore it. Populatio
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by xenadu02 2y ago
The west almost never stole/copied Soviet technology because there wasn't anything of value to copy. That only got more and more true as time went on. We sure were worried that they might come up with something though... the funny
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Stress can aggravate ulcers, as it can aggravate any number of underlying conditions. Similarly eating spicy food can make the symptoms of acid reflux much worse thanks to capsaicin in the refluxing acid. But in both cases the root cause is
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Time dilation means the object in the gravity well is experiencing time at a slower rate than us humans outside. That is the opposite condition we want: us slow, computer fast.
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I believe the poster was saying two things separately: 1. This issue is not some precursor to the caldera becoming active - it is a irregular but normal part of areas with geysers. 2. If a geyser, hot spring, etc starts looking different, a
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by xenadu02 2y ago
This is a huge part of it. Congress might increase the budget by 3% but when they force something like SLS on NASA that eats 6% of the budget in real terms it was a 3% cut. And this assumes the employees don't deserve any raises or bon
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by xenadu02 2y ago
When some people were proposing Swift remove the ability to use Emoji in variable names this was my reply: > It’s hella presumptuous to decide that I’m not allowed to express whimsy, frustration, humor, or any other emotions in my code.
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Similar here. My $4k in TSLA's IPO was just a gamble that EVs would not die (per conventional wisdom) but were here to stay. A few years ago I sold $100k of TSLA and retained the other $100k which is worth more now. It was just a gambl
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Safari is one of the primary reasons Internet Explorer died. The iPhone became a huge hit and it ran Safari. Huge swaths of the internet had "requires Internet Explorer" plastered on every page. The iPhone immediately made that un
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Shakespeare only really works for me in original pronunciation. The rhyme scheme makes sense, the alliteration comes back... even some nonsensical lyrics become obvious jokes.

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