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by xyzzyz 3y ago
It depends on how high the taxes are and what protection is offered exactly. The extra protections I would get in California are not worth nearly enough for it to be worth for me.
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I seriously doubt that. What would you make the reactor of, so that it withstands temperatures that melt steel? How are you going to move that coolant around? There are hard physical limits here. In reality, nobody would bother, because you
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
This is very wrong. Different processes require different temperatures. Iron and steel making requires very high temperatures. Heat from nuclear reactors cannot be used for this directly, as nuclear reactors do not get that hot, because th
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I mean, I get why they would not understand it when the government micromanages companies by targeted tax breaks (called “tax loopholes”): they just hate companies and markets, and so they blame them for doing the exact thing the government
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There is plenty of fake crap that’s published too. Publishing is really not that big of an improvement over Arxiv. Ask working scientists.
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> Part of this is because of how available education is, so virtually everyone who’s applying for a tech job comes with some sort of academic education, meaning that they’ve proven their worth to get it. I interviewed hundreds of people
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Cantor's set always messes with my mind. Say you start with the standard construction: take closed interval [0, 1], then remove open middle third, then remove two open middle thirds from two remaining segments, then remove 4 open middl
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
I have no idea how farming subsidies are relevant here. Farm subsidies are tiny fraction of US federal government spend. US Federal Government already spends more than 5 times as much money on education than it does on agricultural subsidie
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OK, what I wrote was incorrect. What I had in mind was that cities spend less than 10% on road infrastructure, but I carelessly didn't specify that. You seem to understand these issues much better than a typical person, and I think y
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> American cities and suburbs are so low density that they end up losing money because infrastructure is spread out over such a large area that taxes collected per square mile aren't enough to keep things working. This is very much
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How is state vs federal funding relevant here? What is the point that you are trying make? Im confused here. That we needs the Feds to slash enormous school budgets in failing places like NYC, Baltimore or Chicago, to the levels seen in mor
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Yeah, for example, you could invest it in an extra room in your house.
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Using polite/formal grammar form is just something that comes completely naturally to native speakers, who practiced it their whole lives, in particular the entire childhood while speaking to adults. It does not put you in a position o
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OK, let's do some of them, say Poznan (because I'm most familiar with it). It's hard to find median household income figures in Poznan, but you can find that average individual income in it is 22000 EUR/year, and average
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
> The former is the crown jewel of France and a historic world-class city. How is this relevant to my point, which is that in Paris (and most of major European metros), the prices-to-incomes ratio is much worse than in Seattle, and prett
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
Americans have no idea how high the cost of living is in Europe relative to wages. Median sale price in Seattle is $560/square foot, which is almost exactly $6000/square meter. With minimum wage at $18.69/hr, that's 320
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by xyzzyz 3y ago
https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1730455543821877416 > Roadrunner-M has been operationally validated with an existing US Government customer.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-01/anduril-r... has a photo with Palmer for scale.
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> Maybe even the subs can be autonomous and run off AI. https://www.anduril.com/hardware/dive-ld/
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What kind of "release" are you talking about? You mean when it hits the shelves of Bass Pro Shops?
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$12k Patriot missile? You are off a couple whole orders of magnitude.
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Worked fine in the past. Consider Prohibition, for which the United States managed to pass not one, but two amendments just fine. The reason it is hard to pass amendments today is that there is no real need to do so: the system routinely wo
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Yes, adultery by married people should be criminal, and the victim spouse should be able to prosecute it.
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Which countries didn’t have widespread child labor in early 1900s?
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Laminates are closer to hardwood flooring than to vinyl. Put it in simplest terms, they are basically the same as hardwood flooring, but you can only sand and refinish them maybe once or twice. This limits their lifespan, from 100+ years of
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> But more importantly homework problems are rigged [1] and transfer learning is close to non-existent in every domain we've seriously looked at [2], Indeed it is, but that’s because most people just learn to pass exam by redoing th
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If you just memorized the proofs, but cannot actually recreate them, it means that you did not actually learn it, and the perfect score on the exam doesn’t matter. The point of learning mathematics is to be able to transfer this skill into
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What you are saying makes perfect sense in the context of language learning. I also found spaced repetition, Anki etc to be extremely effective for that purpose. My point here is rather that this approach will not work with mathematics, sim
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> I've simply accepted the fact that I might need to spend almost two weeks on a single proof or even definition, continually returning to it or ingesting it in different ways until I am ready to move on. This is exactly the correct
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With math, the hard part is not to remember, but to understand it in the first place. Once you understand it, remembering is easy (because understanding is placing things within the whole context of your mind), but just being able to flawle

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