danans

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by danans 5d ago
> if it is too dangerous the go through bab al-mandab strait it is more lucrative to sell the crude oil to europe at a discount? I suspect they would sooner curtail production rather then sell at a discount due to route restrictions.
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by danans 7d ago
> whereas, friends' daycare'd kids are sick all the time, constantly having runny noses and s Probably just the common cold most of the time. My nose was runny through most of my childhood too. And kids are snotty - always h
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by danans 7d ago
> But having an infant in a daycare for 8-10 hours a day is probably not. Unless the child is immunosuppressed, outside of a novel pandemic scenario, a vaccinated child is not likely to contract a very serious infection beyond the common
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by danans 7d ago
> But having an infant in a daycare for 8-10 hours a day is probably not. That's a different problem that would be better addressed by mandatory paid parental leave and universal healthcare - so new parents can afford not to work wh
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by danans 8d ago
> But I think you'd struggle to argue that the caste system doesn't result from Hinduism. The "Hindu" caste system results from the history of social hierarchy in the Indian subcontinent. What you are calling "H
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by danans 8d ago
> or the caste system (unthinkable in Islam or Christianity, a base part of reality in Hinduism), etc. The historical prominence of the slave trade in both the Christian and Islamic worlds should make it quite clear that it was hardly &q
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by danans 9d ago
> I would be very surprised if the manufacturer would sell you one without you agreeing to indemnify them. Why would anyone other than a fool agree to indemnify Tesla against liability for a vehicle whose driving behavior is controlled b
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by danans 16d ago
> If we're really to the point that a trillion dollar megacorp can't stand up to a tinpot dictator because his xits might hurt their stock price, then we need to drop this illusion that corpos are independent from the governmen
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by danans 16d ago
Why would they do that? Their goal is to stay in the good graces of the administration, to avoid financial or legal retribution. If you think conscientious resistance is anywhere on the agenda of these corporations, I'd refer you to t
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by danans 16d ago
> However, to me if somebody controls what you do with your electricity I.e export or curtailed, you don't own the the work product of your system. They are controlling/charging for the use of the infrastructure. If you want to
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by danans 17d ago
As an aside, I always found the clown on the Matrox boxes creepy - never made me want to buy the graphics card.
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by danans 17d ago
> They kinda do via net metering tariffs and curtailment. They don't own your system through net metering. If you have net metering you are using the grid as a battery, which has a cost - the infrastructure to support net metering
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by danans 17d ago
> your own solar, wind, and fossil fuel generation. The OP was clearly talking about on premises primary power generation for datacenters. The utility doesn't have a way to own my residential generation.
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by danans 22d ago
Sure, I was being charitable
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by danans 22d ago
> Its not necessarily the best thing that big companies have a business model of taking advantage of poor, or relatively poorer, people, particularly attractive young women. See our global Epstein class and global Weinstein class. I agre
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by danans 22d ago
> Don’t you still see this with hip-hop to some extent? To some extent yes, but I suspect that is declining also as the genre becomes corporatized.
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by danans 22d ago
Less likely, for many reasons - including the more crowded marketplace for talent, but also a culture that is more corporation generated over time.
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by danans 22d ago
To me, apart from her amazing music and philanthropy, what Dolly Parton represents is something that was (emphasis on past tense) at one time truly exceptional about the United States - that someone from a very humble background (poverty in
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by danans 22d ago
Another impact that doesn't get discussed as much when the primary discussion is around job elimination is the downward pressure on software engineering salaries. Of course it's a different scenario if you are working at a fronti
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by danans 23d ago
> But to get from "a revolutionary technology" to "the substrate the future runs on", then you need to assume more breakthroughs: long-context operation over weeks or months, displacing human workers 100% instead of 7
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by danans 1mo ago
The energy efficient tires for my Chevy EV are $800 for a set of 4. You're paying the luxury car parts tax.
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by danans 1mo ago
> Localized grid outages might be more common, but you don't have to lift a finger or pay anything extra to get them repaired. I'm not arguing against the electric grid. In fact, I'm an advocate. The grid has different f
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by danans 1mo ago
> All the costs that go into producing from a given source (capex and opex) divided by the total power generated ... total energy generated.
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by danans 1mo ago
} What are you going to do when winds rip the solar panels off your roof, or drop a big tree branch on them? Who will you call to repair it? Who will pay for it? How is that different than any other weather related house damage? You&#x27
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by danans 1mo ago
> Powered entirely by batteries, X1 used approximately $5 worth of electricity during its first flight It's fun to look at the arithmetic behind this to pull out the assumptions. To lift a 25000 lb mass 1100 ft in the air requires
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by danans 1mo ago
I've seen examples of non-hiring: new teams that are staffed at half or quarter the headcount that they would have before LLMs. Are those job losses? Maybe not. But they are much lower hiring relative to the amount of software engi
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by danans 1mo ago
> And you think the vast majority of people do not have access to the overwhelming majority of those things? The evidence suggests the opposite. The comment I responded to asked: > Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his
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by danans 1mo ago
> Gemini read out loud "setting an alarm for 7am tomorrow morning". But it was bullshit, it doesn't have the power to set alarms, it was just gaslighting me. The Gemini on my Google Home has the ability to set alarms. May
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by danans 1mo ago
I remember that website. It was a cool experiment, but I mean conventional motorcycles with standard fairings.
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by danans 1mo ago
Land, housing, water, energy, food, medicines, healthcare, security, and proximity to influence. I'm sure I forgot a few.

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