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by quickthrowman 12d ago
I have no doubt it’s already being used if it was the first thought that popped into my head. It’s less obvious than looking at Strava maps, but still low hanging fruit.
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by quickthrowman 12d ago
Could probably get a lot of actionable military information about troop locations by running targeted ads for subprime auto loans and divorce lawyers and collecting location information, discarding any US locations.
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by quickthrowman 12d ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if most of the savings was the new lights are LED while the old only incandescent was available It’s definitely not the lighting, you only need a few thousand lumens to have bright elevator lighting. If you
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by quickthrowman 12d ago
Heavy trucks do more damage to roads so the fuel tax is higher. Agricultural or ‘off road’ diesel is untaxed as the fuel tax is meant to pay for road maintenance, tractors and combine harvesters spend almost all of their time in a field and
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by quickthrowman 13d ago
You’re correct, there needs to be refrigerated trailers, train cars, and ships along with refrigerated warehouses from source to destination. Transportation and storage. Before vapor-compression refrigeration, there was the ice trade: http
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by quickthrowman 13d ago
The office building I’m sitting in has a 2 MVA transformer feeding a 2500A 480V three-phase service, 2 MW is peanuts.
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by quickthrowman 13d ago
Yes? Nation-states like the US (and China) are more powerful than any international organization and power dictates what happens in international relations. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying it is what it is.
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by quickthrowman 14d ago
I use simple algebra and occasionally a bit of geometry estimating and managing construction projects, but I’ve never found it necessary to find an exact solution for an area under a curve or the rate of change of a function at a specific p
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by quickthrowman 14d ago
How big is the transformer and how many residences are sharing it? It’s probably stencil painted on the enclosure. I’ve seen half a dozen houses on a single 7.2kV -> 240V 25kva transformer which can lead to problems given the available c
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by quickthrowman 14d ago
> Due to having extremely wide feet, in shoes that don't specifically have a wide option, my shoes can be anywhere from an 8.5 to a 10, depending on the manufacturer and style. As someone with wide feet, I don’t buy shoes unless the
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by quickthrowman 14d ago
> Income from capital has a low tax rate in the US (and many other countries) because you can deduct neither losses due to inflation nor losses due to risk, both of which are substantial for capital income but non-existent for wage incom
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
I have no issues with Spotify either, but my usage pattern is pretty simple. I search for the album I want to listen to and then listen to it. Sometimes I search for an artist and then locate the album in their discography and listen to it.
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
You can stick with local control and no internet access, all of the major BAS integrators offer completely offline systems. A BAS system is pretty simple, there are microcontrollers with binary and analog inputs and outputs that get network
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
Ed Zitron’s job is to convince people to pay him money to read what he writes, of course he’s going to preach to the choir, they’re paying him to do that and he knows it. This is why I always consider the agenda of an author, Ed Zitron’s ag
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
Definitely, 20 minutes of an electrician in a truck costs me about $45 ($135/hr cost). Probably closer to $170-180/hr in NYC which would be close to $60 if it saved 20 minutes.
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
Some people simply like to be a contrarian to the official or consensus position, Pluto itself has nothing to do with why some people are irrationally upset about its.
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
> edit: and how about plumbers (and the like) who need a vehicle to carry what they need to work? You charge the customer for the congestion charge and use it to pay the fee, just like anything else. I bid construction work and would inc
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
I’ve had the same thought re: AR glasses with a HUD for mechanics/construction workers, there are a lot of cool possibilities.
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
> They spend their century maintaining/creating some of the best work on the planet but when they disappear, unenumerable amount of knowledge, tips and experience silently disappears as quickly as it was gained, and it's sad to
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by quickthrowman 15d ago
There are detailed step-by-step instruction cards (task cards) for every single maintenance operation on an airplane. Nobody is reinventing the wheel, they’re carefully following predetermined procedures. Someone has to figure out which m
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by quickthrowman 16d ago
Because they’re prefabbed walk-in coolers or freezers (at minimum, they could be purpose built cold storage warehouses) with multiple condensers, evaporators, pumps, temperature sensors, and humidity sensors. The refrigeration equipment nee
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by quickthrowman 16d ago
Derivatives (options, futures, swaps, etc) are a zero sum market, there is always a winner and a loser necessarily because the contracts have an expiration date. The same is not true for trading equities, they are not zero sum. There are di
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by quickthrowman 16d ago
These aren’t your typical refrigerator or freezer, these facilities have walk-ins or purpose built cold storage with multiple evaporators and condensing units. A building automation system is pretty standard for most buildings above a certa
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by quickthrowman 17d ago
> It’s almost Q3 and xAI has seen one of the biggest wipeouts in trading history. Please explain how a stock currently trading above its IPO price is one of the ‘biggest wipeouts in trading history’.
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by quickthrowman 17d ago
> It would be great if someone could improve this tech to where there's a breakeven point of ownership (preferably less than 20 years) when it becomes a better deal than other modern refrigerators. Given that absorption chillers hav
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by quickthrowman 17d ago
These sort of refrigerators are common in RVs and campers as they usually have a propane tank, as well as commercial/industrial installations that have waste heat and cooling needs (absorption chillers). https://en.wikipedia
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by quickthrowman 18d ago
The top 10% of wealth holders own 90% of stocks. The other 90% of people not in the top 10% own the remaining 10%.
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by quickthrowman 18d ago
Farmers in the US were tampering with official USDA rain gauges used to quantify precipitation for crop insurance payouts, all you need to encourage this sort of behavior is a financial incentive and lax security. https://www.agw
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by quickthrowman 18d ago
The revenue of a sports book is the spread captured (vig) along with any losses/gains from an imbalanced book. The wagers are not counted as revenue. DKNG did $6B in revenue in 2025, if wagers were included that number would be a lot h
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by quickthrowman 19d ago
I wonder why the Sumerians deviated on the last two lengths from the rule they had on the first six. The first six reign lengths (and the total sum of all eight reign lengths) are all n * 60 * 60 , where n is an integer. The last two are

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