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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Both Tory and Labour boycotted this publicity stunt election, that’s why he had increased support.
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I hope you’re generating more than 11 milliwatt-hours per year, guessing you meant MWh :) 32*250*1400=11,200,000 watt hours, which makes more sense ;)
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Gas and oil need storage, if there’s too much supply and no storage, the price goes negative. This happened during COVID.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Planes still need like half throttle to maintain altitude, that’s why airplane engines are rebuilt every few thousand hours vs lasting hundreds of thousands of miles (tens of thousands of hours) for a car engine that only uses a small fract
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
$5 of energy at even $0.10/kWh is 50 kWh. One horsepower is roughly ~754 watts. 50 kWh for 27 min at 100% efficiency means 111 kW sustained output which is 147 HP. The math is wrong, there’s no way this plane flies with only 147 HP. Th
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Yikes, my employer just switched to Workday.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Why? GPUs are not perishable like onions. They do depreciate, but they don’t rot. If you use or sell a ton of GPU time, hedging against future increases/decreases in cost per time unit is what futures are actually for. Cash vs physical
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Are they trading bonds, equities, credit default swaps, options, , etc in large dollar amounts? “Finance” is pretty broad, Bloomberg is for traders and I-bankers afaict.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Some assets are traded OTC aka “in a chat window”.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
A once-in-a-generation leader. Kennedy. Obama. Binface. Wir sind alle ein binliners!
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
CFC elimination worked, but switching refrigerants is a lot easier than not burning hydrocarbons.
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> Given how we are at the tail end of a small ice age, shouldn't it be expected that temperatures recover to what they were previously? The speed at which the temperature is increasing is what is concerning, it’s much faster than a
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
I’ll believe it when I see it, there’s a spread between onshore and offshore yuan exchange rates due to currency manipulation. It becomes harder to manipulate a currency as more of it is created, and AFAIK countries are not loading up on Ch
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
My watch charges itself while I wear it and it only has three hands. That’s all I need from a watch.
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I don’t believe the headline, full stop. More than 8% of people go to the doctor. I don’t care how they defined “not going to the doctor”, if someone has a painful infection or trouble breathing, they’re going to the doctor. What counts for
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
> This is bull. Take paint brushes for fine finish when painting houses. Amazon sells "paint brushes." But what they don't sell are paint brushes that are actually fit for purpose. The person you’re replying to was talking
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
I think AI ethicists will be pushed out entirely after (before?) the money really starts rolling in. Ethical concerns interfere with profit margins.
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
They don’t even need to only invite the one contractor, just let that one contractor write the RFP so only they can meet the requirements and let the contract for public bid and you’ll get the same outcome.
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Aluminum and steel are easy to extract from the waste stream, run the waste stream past a magnet to separate the ferrous metals, then run the waste stream past an eddy current separator to separate out the aluminum/copper/zinc. Re
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
PBMs gained control of drug pricing and squeezed out the small pharmacies that don’t offer additional services like compounding. CVS And Walgreens both own and operate PBMs. And UHG (Optum), 19 Blue Cross plans collectively own Prime Therap
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> transmission via HVDC is extremely difficult to build due to land permitting and right of way laws It’s also really expensive due to the equipment that needs to be in place at either end of the HVDC link. Switching HVDC current is chal
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Dimensional lumber, gypsum board, plumbing pipe, and electrical conductors are commodities. Heat pumps are not. There’s no need to subsidize commodity items, there’s plenty of competition to keep prices reasonable barring any massive supply
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> It is increasingly common practice around the world to regulate the storage water temperature to above 60 °C (140 °F), and to circulate or distribute water at a temperature less than 50 °C (122 °F). Water above these temperatures can c
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by quickthrowman 1mo ago
Buying stock in a biotech company with a pre-release drug and betting that the same drug trial will succeed are functionally equivalent, the converse is also true; shorting the stock is identical to betting against the outcome of the trial.
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Gateway was located in Sioux City, IA before they moved to South Dakota in 1990: https://medium.com/@madmedic11671/behind-the-spots-the-story... Sioux City is near a tripoint where Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska loca
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> The recent cluster of weird deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to secret military research has a similar pattern to it The pattern being that the deaths and disappearances among people with top secret clearances is lower th
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> Do Alfalfa growers traditionally use limited (and funded at large expense by the local community) municipal water hookups to grow their crops? Are alfalfa growers asking for new water hookup permits to access these resources? No, you a
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As a comparison, one acre of alfalfa growing year round in California uses about 5*325000=1,625,000 gallons of water a year for four harvests, 4400 gallons of water per day per acre. There’s around a million acres of alfalfa grown in Califo
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All US data center water usage is less than the total water used for golf courses or the total water used to grow alfalfa. Less water used in evaporative cooling means more electricity is used for cooling given that the efficiency almost do
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> The Apple Watch is definitely fashion accessory first and fitness device second. Are Apple Watches really fashion accessories? I think a $30 Casio F91W looks better than an Apple Watch, most purpose-built watches do. I might be biased

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