Steven_Vellon

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by Steven_Vellon 8mo ago
New England had a male literacy rate of around 70% compared to Britain's 60% in 1800. But New England was one of the most literate regions in America around the time of the founding, including the other American regions into the litera
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by Steven_Vellon 8mo ago
Dire poverty by modern standards, sure. But the 19th century saw a spectacular rise in living standards even for average Britons. The literacy rate in Britain was ~60% for men and 40% for women in 1800, by the end of the century it was near
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by Steven_Vellon 11mo ago
14 hours of battery (~40 TWh for China) with the hydrogen storage or without? Because the calculator was reporting ~78,000 GWh battery storage with China's weather selected, and 2030 technology assumptions. I changed the spatial capaci
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by Steven_Vellon 11mo ago
And what was the storage requirement? I just ran those parameters myself with China's 2.9 TW of constant electricity demand, and the storage requirement was over 70,000 GWh of battery storage. By comparison, global battery production
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by Steven_Vellon 11mo ago
For us, it looks like most services are still working (eastus and eastus2). Our AKS cluster is still running and taking requests. Failures seem limited to management portal.
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by Steven_Vellon 4y ago
This exists because otherwise someone could just create a bunch of alts and share folders with a main account to get infinite storage. If someone just wants to share content, they can share it as a downloadable folder. As in, users can down
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by Steven_Vellon 4y ago
The fact that the rape didn't occur at the fraternity makes no difference? The previous commenter makes it sound like a rape was perpetrated inside the fraternity in clear view. In reality no one at the fraternity would have been able
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by Steven_Vellon 4y ago
Please read your sources, Turner did not carry out the assault at KA. He and the victims met at a part at KA and Turner assaulted after leaving the fraternity. The article writes that it was "just outside" but it was out of sight
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by Steven_Vellon 4y ago
> To be clear, these are all things that I personally watched happen and had happen to friends in fraternities. Not technically any Stanford ones, so I guess you got me there - maybe they were all squeaky clean. Not technically any Sta
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by Steven_Vellon 4y ago
This is a characterization of fraternities that reeks of stereotype. What can you offer to substantiate the list of negative claims you're making about Stanford fraternities? Eitan Weiner died due to fentanyl laced drugs. This death oc
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by Steven_Vellon 5y ago
It's a list of classes. At least the way it worked when I attended, CS students chose a particular track (Theory, AI, Systems, Graphics, HCI, etc.). The core curriculum was 3 theory classes and 3 coding classes. Each track has 2 or 3 m
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by Steven_Vellon 5y ago
A relevant video on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwqTN5fhMR8
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
> This is probably the first game that didn't get a downgrade visually, but got an upgrade. Doom 2016, e3 vs release: https://i.imgur.com/I5mWucM.jpeg
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
Bear in mind this cuts both ways. Replacing a gas heater (which directly produces thermal energy from chemical reaction) with an electric heater now means this energy has to be produced, transmitted, and run through a heating element. If th
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
Overall quality of life is highly correlated with energy consumption. There's some nuance to it: higher population density countries often use less energy to deliver the same quality of life are more dispersed populations. But in gener
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
I have relatively low expectation for this suit to lead to anything substantial. This line of argument surrounding Google being the default search for devices largely mirrors the situation with Microsoft and Internet Explorer. I envision Go
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
One observation of mine is that interviewing is often more about finding the most feasible and consistent process rather than the most effective one. Whiteboard interviews make for consistent evaluation and it's easy to train up new pe
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
One could argue that this is already the case. How many AAA games actually give you the full game for $60? Usually you need to buy a season pass to access the full content. Some of the most notable examples have included Mass Effect 3 which
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
This is the expected result of increased scrutiny over Google. Whether or not to respond to claims of abuse is a tradeoff between limiting false negatives or limiting false positives. When there is an increase in the cost of false negative,
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by Steven_Vellon 6y ago
The scam is the fact that prices are being propped up by constraining supply. If things get to a breaking point and the State limits the abilities of municipalities to block housing construction then the price of housing will deflate signif
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
I disagree. There are a variety of reasons to prohibit political speech in the workplace even if one desires to change the status quo: * A company might find that it's employees become toxic when political disagreements happen. * A com
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Game engine implementations have different tradeoffs, and generalized game engines are optimizing for the lowest common denominator. Niche use cases often require custom engines. For example flight simulators need good terrain level of deta
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
The US Jewish population is 90-95% Ashkenazim. It's unfortunate that Americans sometimes forget about the minority of Sephardim and Mizrahim, but for the most part the assumption that Jewish American == Ashkenazi holds true.
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Empress trees capture roughly 100 tons of carbon per acre per year. But wood's energy density is roughly half that of oil (oil and coal are decomposed algae and wood respectively) so it's effectively 50 tons of potential jet fuel
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Do people actually interact with each other over LinkedIn? The only people I've every talked to are recruiters. I thought it was just a directory of potential employees for recruiters. If people actually do social things on LinkedIn th
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
The salaries of H-1B applications are public information. Here's Facebook's: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Facebook+Inc&job=&city=&ye... While the work visa structure does give the employee less le
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
> badrequest 17 minutes ago [-] > > to be clear: I also find policies such as separating families and detaining children wrong and contrary to the best interests of our country. > "I simply have all the ability and none of
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
Harder how? Explain how making ICEs deployment pipeline slower will make ICE release migrants or stop family separation. If you want to claim that Chef should cease business with ICE explicitly on the moral grounds that no company should ha
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
No, the above poster is pointing out the dishonesty in claiming that Chef has the ability to stop family separation and detainment.
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by Steven_Vellon 7y ago
What ability does Chef have to change family separation and detainment? These things would still be happening if ICE had to go back to whatever they were using before Chef.

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