bradleyjg

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by bradleyjg 9d ago
> there’s a second possibility worth putting on the table, and we’ll be clear that it’s a theory 100% Claude
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by bradleyjg 22d ago
That’s 6k-10k acre-feet. Which is 1500-2500 acres of rice. California alone has about half a million acres of rice cultivation. But big scary numbers are big and scary.
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by bradleyjg 22d ago
When in comes to water everything besides agriculture is a rounding error. The only thing an article like this tells you is that the author has an ax to grind.
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by bradleyjg 29d ago
One thing I hate about SV culture is the bullshit. Are we talking about making lots and lots of money? If so, please for the love of god just say so. Fame? Status?
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by bradleyjg 2mo ago
I’m waiting for like GEICO’s app to significantly improve. I’m not expecting Chrome to because it already had virtually unlimited resources devoted to it. On the other side I’m not expecting my local water district’s to any time soon becaus
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by bradleyjg 2mo ago
Let’s say somehow the politics lined up and you were given huge hiring budget for your team. You went out and recruited what seemed like great talent. Weekly standups make it seem like everyone is ramped up and firing on all cylinders. It’
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by bradleyjg 2mo ago
That exact dynamic—-sharply appreciating house price, falling interest rates, no prepayment penalty—-allowed them to use the homes as an infinite piggy bank. Very convenient.
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by bradleyjg 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-Shiller_index#/media/File... If you bought at exactly the right second of the crash, houses were where they were at the peak of the late 80s bubble.
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by bradleyjg 2mo ago
Yes, the finger pointing can and does go in many directions. Meanwhile the observed pattern is the boomers (actual boomers) get the golden path and every other generation doesn’t. Maybe they were uniquely virtuous and wise. Strongly doubt t
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by bradleyjg 2mo ago
> Someone in their 60s is supposed to be doing better than someone in their 20s. That’s an incredibly new, and probably temporary, phenomenon. Across the vast majority of space-time the non-working elderly are poorer than their still wor
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
You can just not plant anything. It’s not required that every inch of desert is used for irrigated cultivation. Alfalfa is the cleanest case of a crop that would not be planted nearly as much if western water law (prior appropriation) wasn’
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
Alfalfa isn’t food.
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
Radical Luddite posting on the internet is … something.
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
I don’t really know how to rephrase it. It’s a distraction. This article could have been about shipping alfalfa to the Middle East and Asia, but instead it was about this.
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
My point was that google generates hundreds of billions of dollars from the same water that $34 million in alfalfa. It’s absurd to complain about their usage. Water use policy is about agriculture, agriculture, and also agricultural. Everyt
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AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report(wsj.com)
56 points by bradleyjg 3mo ago|70 comments
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
Google’s just-released 2025 sustainability report is an instructive example. The company said it consumed 10.9 billion gallons of water—a 34% increase from 2024—almost all for data-center cooling. … Google consumes around three times as
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
Yes, that’s where we are today. Colleges definitely can’t avoid fundamentals right now. But at the same time, they should be skating ahead of the puck. Once the calculator has been invented—-even when it’s rare and awkward—-they begin easin
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
In 2024, we had some coding exams, and AI was explicitly NOT forbidden, which lead to them making the exam more difficult (because with AI, you can solve it so much more quickly, so gotta make it harder), which was really annoying, because
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
> Imo, the fix should be to work on culture. We can’t even agree on what’s wrong with it. We aren’t going to be able to fix it.
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
I definitely see people asking for features from c++. In part because virtually every feature is in c++.
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
I’d say it’s the opposite. We get non enforcement and anti enforcement because lots of people aren’t directly affected. Different neighborhoods, work from home, private transportation to work, or—admittedly to a lesser degree—AirPod insul
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
That wasn’t anti Protestantism and this isn’t antisemitism. You should defend Israel and its actions directly on the merits. Why is that so difficult?
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
During the Troubles in the 80s was Northern Ireland rilled with anti Protestantism? Just a bunch of people that hated all Protestants for no reason?
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
There’s definitely antisemitism out there. Criticizing Israel is not part of it. The people that run to that ever. single. time. ought to be ashamed of themselves for crying wolf. They have no right to abuse the term and rob it of legitimat
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
That’s too high a level of generality. Sure police situations where the branches are at direct loggerheads. But in this case we have a law passed by congress and signed by the president. There’s no need to step in, the ordinary political pr
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
No one has ever called me a kike or Christ killer. No one has ever accused me of controlling the media or banks. No one has spray painted a swastika on my house, or my synagogue for that matter. My nation, the most powerful in the world, pu
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
I don’t think it does. Discretion is fundamentally case by case. Drawing categorical lines is legislative. It’s akin to the distinction between law and equity courts at common law. Stepping back, both doctrines (non delegation, unitary exec
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
I suppose in that case you are wholly opposed to the regulatory system as legislative power should be part of the legislative branch?
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by bradleyjg 3mo ago
I bonds have to be bought from that website but tips can be bought from dealers.

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