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by xtian 6y ago
In an AC grid, increased or decreased load affects resistance which impacts the rate at which the mechanical source of power generation can rotate and therefore the frequency of the current: https://physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by xtian 6y ago
Is there controversy about what FP “actually means”?
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by xtian 6y ago
You think so? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmieUrXwKCc
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by xtian 6y ago
You seemed to be expressing curt disbelief of a broadly uncontroversial historical fact. Could easily be seen as trolling or an unwillingness to take the time to do some basic self-education.
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by xtian 6y ago
Their only identification is a little patch which reads “POLICE”. You’re saying that’s fraudulent?
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by xtian 6y ago
All “police reform” measures I’ve seen simply codify things cops would be doing already if their culture and systems weren’t completely irredeemable. It’s nothing more than a tactic to distract and fragment consensus.
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by xtian 6y ago
Do you have any sources which aren't the person in charge congratulating themselves?
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by xtian 6y ago
I agree, it’s well documented that private capital loves fascism and totalitarianism. I’m speaking of socialist central planning though. The idea that free-marketism provides the ideal environment for human freedom and societal development
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by xtian 6y ago
No, market participation just requires constraining one’s values to the options afforded by the market system. E.g., lots of people would be willing to take a pay cut for an extra day off per week but the job market does not provide that op
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by xtian 6y ago
The most famous example is when Sears was internally organized around free market ideology by an Ayn Rand adherent. It did not go well. Declining profits drove a viscous cycle of back-stabbing and secrecy among competing units inside the co
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by xtian 6y ago
I highly recommend the documentary “To Inform and Delight” which tells the story of Glaser’s life and work. A really marvelous individual.
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All EFF’d Up(thebaffler.com)
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by xtian 6y ago
If they get bailed out, the US public should get an ownership stake.
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by xtian 6y ago
The role of modern libertarians is not to hold power. It is to foment confusion and conflict around any initiatives that would limit the power of private capital (e.g., anything that would address the climate crisis in a meaningful way).
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by xtian 6y ago
> In reality what we have in the US is a political class which constantly molds regulation to further benefit the shareholders of big businesses. The political class you are talking about serves specific masters. They also mold ideologic
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by xtian 6y ago
Joe Biden's climate plan would not keep us below 1.5C of warming so if climate is your #1 issue (it is mine), then third party is the only option.
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by xtian 6y ago
First look at how their campaigns are funded. You will not find any meaningful action from politicians who are dependent on support from billionaires or powerful corporations. Then I would look at whether they are committed to supporting th
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by xtian 7y ago
That is not the commonly accepted definition of "efficient" in English. It would be more like "making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra." The distinction is important because one can be ver
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by xtian 7y ago
No they don't.
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by xtian 7y ago
Perhaps we could have a group of people whose job it is to investigate and prosecute unlawful behavior.
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by xtian 7y ago
> It sounds like we should change that current paradigm too then. That is what the most honest incarnations of the Green New Deal represent.
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by xtian 7y ago
Of course, I'm only challenging the notion that there is complete ignorance about the need for action. What that action looks like is up to us. I would say we are actually already on the path for "a lot of bad things to come to pa
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by xtian 7y ago
I don't disagree with you at all in terms of the solution. I didn't mean to imply that all conceptions of the term "Green New Deal" represent a solution, but simply that there is broad support for doing something . The
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by xtian 7y ago
I would be careful about blaming "human ignorance" because, case in point, a great many of us are aware of the climate crisis and feel the need to do something about it. In the US, for example, most of the component policies of th
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by xtian 7y ago
You can use the Zig compiler to compile C with no modifications, and easily call C from Zig or Zig from C, so I'm not sure what more you're hoping for. A language that allows you to mix standard C and "improved C" in the
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by xtian 7y ago
What about updates or when something goes wrong?
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by xtian 7y ago
Which of those do you think are accessible to the average user?
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by xtian 7y ago
Sounds like you are describing Zig. https://ziglang.org
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by xtian 7y ago
As someone who spent over a year working on a production Elm app, I agree with this post 100%. Our team experienced all of these issues and more. The true cost of the approach Evan and the core team have taken is hard to measure, since what
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by xtian 7y ago
Why couldn’t they just change the client code to exfiltrate the user’s data?

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