OrwellianChild

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by OrwellianChild 2y ago
Super cheap on GOG right now... https://www.gog.com/en/game/overload
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by OrwellianChild 2y ago
Pure speculation on my part, but on a first flight when you're shaking out the fundamentals, it's safer to not retract landing gear in case there is a catastrophic failure in, say, your hydraulic system.
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by OrwellianChild 2y ago
One dynamic that may be at play: Designing a new engine is a gamble. For a company who already makes money with existing designs, there may be little upside on a small-volume new product. This is likely the reason the "Big 3" pass
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
HN title is wrong. From the article: "Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric..." Discussion is about a more slowly growing market - not one in decline. Yo
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
"Natural Gas" is 97% methane, so it's probably most direct to just refer to it by it's primary component...
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
Rent control only fights against upward pressure for existing renters... When you describe rents continually going up, it's due to more people competing for limited rental units. Cities can and do see rent declines (they first show u
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
Worth getting a bit specific about terminology here... The article states that _insurance_ profits are capped, but that PBMs and other stages of care are not. That's why they're all vertically integrating - so they can steer margi
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
I mean that the reason you'd need semaglutide is that you can't keep to a diet. If you could keep to keto IF, you wouldn't need the drug in the first place. It's not option A or option B. It's "if A fails, fall
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
Not trying to single you out as this has been brought up in multiple comments in-thread, but I think this is apples-to-oranges. Diets work when followed. The problem is that the vast majority of people struggle to adhere to them. This drug
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
3rd hand anecdote, but a friend who used Ozempic spoke to the psychological impact of seeing the cravings for food vanish that went beyond just the timeframe of the dose. A drug that effectively shuts off the compulsion helps demonstrate th
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
It's hugely encouraging that we're starting to see frontline medical practice step out of the frame of mind that this is a "willpower" issue. If GLP-1 analogs work against both food compulsions and alcohol/drug co
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
GLP-1 receptor agonists are game-changing for weight loss, but there is even broader applicability emerging for _addictions of all kinds_. [1] This is super hopeful both because of the applicability to alcoholism, etc, but also because of h
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
California likely has more stringent seismic regulations as well, while much of Texas is sitting on bedrock. Matt Risinger (TX builder with a YouTube channel) decries homes sheathed in nothing more than cardboard, so other building code ite
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
Is this a housing issue?
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
I sympathize with the desire for a utopian government-run housing arrangement like this, but I think it discards the practical for the ideal... With less restrictive zoning, more properties and building projects become financially feasible
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
If they can charge it, they can show it. Any concerns/issues with municipal fees, taxes, etc. is a completely tangential issue. Just as easily, Comcast could choose to simplify pricing... T-Mobile charges "tax-inclusive" rate
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
I didn't hate it, even though it played out more like a REAMDE type thriller than some of his earlier stuff (Anathem, Baroque, etc). I liked Seveneves, though.
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by OrwellianChild 3y ago
In which idlewords basically cites the plot of "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson... :-)
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
I did not know this - thank you!
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
Really excellent context - thank you for sharing all this detail and citation!
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
We're assuming cost-plus contract terms, then, I assume? :-)
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
As much as I'd love more nuclear power on the grid, this project cost over double its initial bid and is actually raising rates for GA utility customers... I can't tell from the story whether "nuclear is hard" or if &q
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
Earnest question: Is your opinion that writing books and selling them is a bad form of advocacy? Is there a better one that doesn't require independent wealth? I'm pretty familiar with Doctorow's body of work, and he writes f
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
Main takeaway here is: Unplug laptop from power before closing the lid. This (theoretically, per the video) will make the Windows sleep mode operate correctly without vampire drain from network usage.
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
What do you think you learned at the company thru the early project and junior work that you didn't get from Lambda?
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
Can I ask what sync solution you were using that caused problems? About to implement a KeePassXC/Syncthing setup and would love to know if I should expect issues...
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
This served as a nice reminder to me to throw a donation their way (with my corporate match), though it is kinda silly that the only way to do so in-app is thru Google/Apple Pay (that's a Google/Apple problem, not a Signal pr
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
Agreed on the challenges with subjectivity and I probably should have clarified - I like their full-length testimonials. Never did figure out how their star rating and badges worked...
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by OrwellianChild 4y ago
Just going to throw out https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/ as a solid option for the climbing, hiking, and outdoor sport equipment they review. Most reviews involve real-world subjective testing, which is really what you need
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by OrwellianChild 5y ago
The world moves at the speed of Twitter - this is confirmation with video from the senator who originated the bill: https://twitter.com/PattyMurray/status/1503804622087020545

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