PartyOperator

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by PartyOperator 3y ago
I love having an honest measure of performance. Of course I'm slowly declining, but seeing it in hard numbers is somehow reassuring. In every other part of life, success is bound up in stories and memories and political measures of pos
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by PartyOperator 3y ago
Considering the history of nuclear subs bumping into each other, the answer to how close they can get without being detected is clearly 'just before they touch'.
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by PartyOperator 3y ago
With hindsight, I was correct about Bitcoin being worse than useless when I decided not to bother using my gaming PC and free electricity to mine it in 2011. With hindsight, this could also be seen as a mistake. Although I'm pretty sur
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by PartyOperator 3y ago
Towers in the park is not a new idea. Le Corbusier was a big fan. In practice it tends not to work well. Additionally mandating a very low population density almost guarantees failure. Staying below 2000 people per square km will make it di
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by PartyOperator 4y ago
A lot of people still love the idea of rank and yank even if you can't do it overtly.
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by PartyOperator 4y ago
There's also the fact that it just shakes things up a bit. Russia isn't benefiting from the pipeline now. Leaving it intact leaves long-term opportunities and risks that strategic actors with time on their side can turn against Ru
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by PartyOperator 4y ago
GSHPs are rare in the UK and likely to remain so. In practice building regs will require most new homes to have heat pumps but they'll almost all be air-source units. UK winters rarely get very cold (typical minimum design temperatures