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by yobbo 5y ago
If you already have a dam and turbines it's obviously better to just run them in generating mode. But pumping stations also exist where it makes sense.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Annual human global power consumption is only 20TW. Whatever the original post, "annual consumption" could only be measured in TWh, which is several orders of magnitude larger than installed capacity (usually given in MW). Po
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by yobbo 5y ago
> good education "Good" education alone is not a meaningful predictor of anything, in Europe at least. So the guilt is about receiving the correct credentials to be granted further access to jobs and opportunities. It seems in
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Problem: Managing server hardware takes money and people. For most, this was never the effective reason. Most rationales behind cloud migrations are likely based on quick scaling, which is meaningless in most cases - except for the sig
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by yobbo 5y ago
The metric in question might be "labour share of income" and it has indeed been decreasing for a long time. But it's not obvious that incentives in individual jobs are affecting overall productivity (can one factory worker re
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by yobbo 5y ago
> global warming is happening on the order of decades and not millenia How do we know that temperatures inferred from ice-cores (or whatever) are not extremely smoothed due to natural phenomena? Can we really get resolution down to indiv
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by yobbo 5y ago
Apparently, the SOC used in sansas was EOLed, and the newer ones use a cheaper and much less capable chip common in chinese music players. Attempting a rockbox port was deemed wasted effort. There doesn't seem to exist an off-the-shelf
728.
by yobbo 5y ago
> Sandisk Clip+ Agreed. As they age and the screen goes out, they can still be used thanks to voice ui in rockbox.
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by yobbo 5y ago
In the 1889–1890 pandemic (possibly the origin of human coronavirus OC43), the virus spread around the world within the first six months. There were subsequent waves for one or two years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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by yobbo 5y ago
> what is so critical about the original design Maybe material/thickness which acts as thermal buffer and prevents too quick heating?
731.
by yobbo 5y ago
Well, you still need to replace the rubber sealing ring.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Probably for blackmail of some sort.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> When you spend time alone, you are left with nothing but yourself. And only from there can you find yourself, and your swagger, again. Not always. Some depend on others to "build them up", and they crumble if isolated. Also,
734.
by yobbo 5y ago
> If a housing unit is occupied by N people He might be referring to the problem that the landlord has a subsidized mortgage whereas the renter is paying by earning money from the circulating economy.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Inflation generally raises the cost/price of new labor at the expense of historic labor In the case of asset inflation, it is literally the opposite.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> but asset prices crash and we enter a major recession This sort of idea is often posted but rarely do anyone explain why. Asset prices do not have this effect on the brick-and-mortar economy that most people live in.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Concept of inferior/superior is rather naive applied to modern humans. For example, exposing a particular population to a specific challenge will select for particular traits which might cause slower population growth. For example, alc
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by yobbo 5y ago
> education is by numbers quite a negative trait So much so that education of women is considered a solution to overpopulation in underdeveloped countries.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> that counts as outcompeting Consider Neanderthals had more sparse populations due to being adapted to colder climates. In periods over the millenia, mixed groups could have lived without being aware of being mixed at all. Groups with 5
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by yobbo 5y ago
> outcompeted What would they have competed for? There were few humans altogether in Europe, maybe on the order of thousands to tens of thousands across Europe (I assume, this is not known). They wouldn't need to ever meet.
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by yobbo 5y ago
This might also be true, but to speakers of norse languages (predecessors and old dialects of norwegian/swedish/danish/old english), the literal meaning of the word is still "meadow land" - among other names such as
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by yobbo 5y ago
> About 5000 years ago, people started cutting down forests to use the land for agricultural use. The literal meaning of "England" in norse languages is something like "meadow land".
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by yobbo 5y ago
> The polarization spiral, which is fed and accelerated by social media Social media is not the root cause. The problem is rather that "wokeness" (or whatever the appropriate term) is having effects in the real brick-and-mortar
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by yobbo 5y ago
One viewpoint is that for each opportunity, 90% of competent candidates don't show up. Showing up gets you ahead of 90% of competitors.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> it is a social construct evolved to give children an advantage over the long run Child-rearing is only a small part of it. In one of two competing communities, 90% of men are invested in the next generation. In the other community, onl
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by yobbo 5y ago
> More people in their life they can rely on Even in this super-rare case where one father lives with multiple wives, the attention/resources of the father is still divided among even more children. Also, the wives usually view the
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by yobbo 5y ago
Your example is unlikely in Europe, but the importance of the degree depends on the type of company. For banks or older industrial companies, a degree is mandatory. Contacts/networks also play a part and can compensate weaker degrees.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> This is really a form of compression, not normalization. First of all, the index hashes of the emails depend on the email strings, hence the indexed original schema is not normalised. Secondly, it would not effectively be compression u
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by yobbo 5y ago
For typical dev jobs, hardly anyone writes sorting/searching algorithms, or algorithms at all. In fact, if someone working on web/apps/database stuff is spending time on algorithms, they are doing it wrong. Algorithms are a s
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by yobbo 5y ago
> work so poorly They don't work poorly, and there is no alternative. The database should not monitor the contents and opportunistically normalise the schema itself. It's not "business rules", it's just normalisa

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