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analyte123
5d ago
How do people not see this? I don’t know if this is a useful library, probably it is. The author is legitimate and accomplished. But it’s hard to disregard that they’re willing to paste barely readable unedited LLM output on their website u
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2mo ago
IEA’s chart for “final electricity price for large industrial customers in energy-intensive industries” [1] shows the US cheaper than China, but this is using data from Texas as representative. I’m not sure how they back this representation
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2mo ago
The US does not lag behind in energy. Industrial electricity prices in most places in the US are competitive with China, or even cheaper.
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4mo ago
My eye went to the labeled floppy disk, since no floppy regularly used for more than a week ever had that pristine of a label on it, and there’s no practical reason you’d use floppy disks over flash drives or burned CDs today. (And why woul
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5mo ago
Kubernetes can be a sign that are you making things more complicated than they should be, too early. But if you actually have made things complicated enough (whether through essential or accidental complexity) that you have problems that
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5mo ago
It’s really, really not. Crop land per capita has been going down for decades despite richer diets, and all the biofuels and livestock feed [1]. Let’s not forget that advanced drugs to stop people from overeating the abundant food are a $6
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7mo ago
Please consider extending the game at least by a couple weeks! I’m very curious what percent of all California payphones could be captured with an extended game. I know the game’s phone number isn’t free but I’m sure it could be largely cov
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8mo ago
I’ve heard this called “technical deflation” and it works similarly to how economic deflation can play out, causing you to forego actions in the present because you think they’ll be easier in the future (or in this case, possibly not needed
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9mo ago
One of those specific issues is that California electricity prices include what amounts to a redistributive tax, in the form of programs like CARE and FERA - probably about a third of households in the state are eligible for CARE which prov
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11mo ago
Something no one else mentioned so far is that, depending on your state, some IRA funds can be subject to judgments or non-exempt from bankruptcy, whereas 401k accounts are untouchable for anything except federal tax liens and divorce.
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How GDP Hides Industrial Decline
(palladiummag.com)
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1y ago
It seems like you've been referring to "Hospital Services", which was 31% of all healthcare spending in 2023, and "Physician and Clinical Services", which was 20% of all healthcare spending in 2023, according to the
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1y ago
I once interviewed a very good candidate - good skills, interest in the business, a few years of experience, could definitely do the job I thought I was interviewing him for - only to find out after the fact that we actually only wanted an
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1y ago
This is false for H-1B - there is no "labor market test". Such a test is required for the PERM process in which an H-1B visa holder would seek a green card through their employer, although the definition of "prove" is up
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1y ago
I sincerely doubt the Namibian government is giving out thousands of dollars per household in solar subsidies, like the US does up until the end of this year. I doubt Pakistan does either, another country noted in the article where solar u
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1y ago
QSBS has to be issued directly from the qualifying company. Stock sold on a secondary basis does not qualify.
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1y ago
The ADP payroll report is noise . It is based on the payroll data from ADP only . The assumption of this report is that companies that use ADP to process their payroll are completely representative of the entire economy and that there is
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1y ago
Can’t really speak to the business side of things - or if HP and WebOS really could’ve gained market share in mobile - but this reminded me I had a WebOS LG TV in 2015-2017, and in retrospect it was both very snappy and quite good-looking c
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1y ago
The "theory" of a program is supposed to be majority embedded in its identifiers, tests, and type definitions. The same line of reasoning in this article could be used to argue that you should just name all your variables random 1
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1y ago
100 chargers is not an enormous amount. That’s two normal sized boxes and when each one gets you high for 20 seconds it’s not hard to understand how you can rip through a box. Not trying to be dramatic here, I don’t consider people doing a
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1y ago
>While Hadland says it would take a lot of repeated heavy use of nitrous oxide to see these effects, over time such use could also cause permanent neurological issues. This is not a could . Repeated abuse of nitrous, perhaps as little a
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1y ago
The thing that “doesn’t work” about converting an existing full-time employee to a contractor, and why there wouldn’t be a process for doing so, is that it can make it look like the company is trying to dodge taxes associated with employing
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1y ago
If you have a clean, well-documented API that can be understood in under 30 minutes by a decent software engineer, congrats: you are MCP ready. I wonder how many discussions there will be about "adding MCP support" to software wit
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1y ago
You could say the same thing about almost any protocol, e.g. HTTP, which runs on arbitrary streams of bytes over TCP; and the headers, methods and status codes are just illusions on top of that.
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2y ago
Even for the first person described in the story, her search for a doctor is not primarily described a search for medical care, but a search for someone who can create a paper trail to ensure her child's eligibility for benefits.
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2y ago
It’s more about keeping minerals on the field. A big one is reducing erosion, which practices like no-till and cover cropping help. Tons of soil being washed away is a lot of nutrients being lost. If you look at a regenerative certificati
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2y ago
Most agricultural land is not double-cropped, in the US less than 3% of farmland was double-cropped in 2015 [1]. You actually have it backwards: when possible, cover crops or double cash crops are a key regenerative practice because they
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2y ago
If the additive actually reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and there is a working emissions trading system anywhere in the world, and the additive costs less to use than the reduction times the current carbon price, they could get paid for
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2y ago
This is a tempting story to believe, but the actual trend is that global agricultural land use is almost flat over the past 30 years and land under cultivation per capita is decreasing almost everywhere due to improved yields [1]. [1] http
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2y ago
Why should this be the takeaway from the paper, as opposed to the fact that an additive to the silage can reduce N2O emissions by up to 99%?
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