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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
If you are installing LED lamps into enclosed fixtures you need to use LED lamps rated for enclosed fixtures or they will die an early death. A globe around a lamp with an open bottom and a recessed can are both enclosed, even though you ca
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
The caffeinated lemonade was amazing, but I have a very high caffeine tolerance (1000mg+ a day) and it made me jittery. Can’t imagine what effect it had on people without a serious tolerance.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
A 12 oz can of Celsius has 200mg of caffeine.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
The temperature water boils at is irrelevant when you can just look at it to see if it’s boiling. Any stove will get it hot enough, assuming you have enough energy.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
That sounds nice in a perfectly spherical world but we live in reality. Getting bogged down in line item spending is a trick politicians use to divide us. Net discretionary spending is only 27% of the budget, social security, Medicare, and
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Situational Awareness filed a 13F that lists a hedge fund’s long and short positions with the SEC. It’s public information, forcing an overleveraged fund to liquidate by pressuring the instruments they’re exposed to is not market manipulati
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> Bailing out workers is okay. Bailing out the wealthy, or tax cuts for them is not. Hell, between PPP and the OBBB tax cuts, rich people are getting $2T over from the YS Governemnt from 2020-2030. It’ll keep happening too, this country
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Name a huge organization that doesn’t waste money. I’ll give you as much time as you need.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
It all depends on how “a terminal diagnosis” is defined. Is someone that is 30 years old, HIV positive, and on antiretrovirals with a low viral load considered a terminal diagnosis? HIV may end their life in 40 years but they’re clearly cap
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Too bad for the people that were overleveraged? I don’t see why, they assumed too much risk and lost. This isn’t a WSB guy blowing up, it’s a collection of capital from sophisticated investors that understand the risks.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
This story is making my bullshit detector go haywire. I’m guessing it was more mundane than what they claim. How much does it cost to buy one or several security guards? It’s a hell of a lot more likely than the movie script story the artic
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> Pretty broad generalization Pretty bad quoting of my post
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Fine, non-union residential contractors pay lower wages than union contractors.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> During World War II, the United States spent 40% of its GDP on the war. So we can spend big on things when we decide to. The United States wasn’t the only one spending that much on war, that’s why we were able to do so. What incentive
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
You can just buy engineered wood products that are much stronger than any old growth lumber. My family lake house built in 1970 has three gluelam trusss beams that support the roof. There are even better engineered wood products available t
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
You can get SPAN margin if you have enough money, margin is calculated dynamically based on implied volatility and other metrics. I’m not very familiar with how it works, I have a regular margin account. Standard margin accounts allow 2x ov
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I figured it out by knowing that Ann had to be 12 in the past since Mary is 24 now which is twice Ann’s age. 6 years have passed since Ann was 12 and Mary was 18 making them 18 and 24, respectively.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I said the pay sucks, not the profit. Owning a residential electrical company is lucrative because they pay their electricians substandard wages.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
There is almost zero overlap between residential and commercial electricians. There is a shortage of residential electricians because the customers are a nightmare to deal with (both builders and homeowners, homeowners are incredibly entitl
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> The power people talk about arc flash protection and worker safety. 800VDC is insanely scary stuff. > At present, no consensus standard provides a validated methodology for calculating direct current (dc) arc-flash incident energy.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Each rack has a water (and glycol?) loop and water blocks mounted to the chips with a liquid-liquid heat exchanger that interfaces with the building chilled water loop (glycol and water), there’s no immersion. It works like a nuclear power
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
All of that stuff is probably 0.01% of the building, by volume/weight/cost/labor or any metric you care to choose. The structure itself has zero wood in it. Trim, cabinets, and doors can all be removed from a building and it
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Steel stud framing is done by carpenters, any interior partition wall framing is done by carpenters. Also any soffits, front for gypsum ceiling clouds in offices, etc will be framed by carpenters. Maybe Meta has them install doors as well?
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
Cigarette smoking causes cancer and emphysema. Inhaling a mixture of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine, and flavoring does not. > Ecigs worry me the most since you really cannot tell what someone truly has in there, it could
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
There is zero wood in a data center (or commercial building in general) excluding doors, millwork, and fire-rated plywood for mounting equipment on. It’s simply not allowed. Data center are tip-up warehouses with walls made of reinforced co
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> We were told that journeyman union pay in large metros like Chicago was about $50/hr. I'm not sure if any pay differential exists for master electricians if they are doing solo work Journeyman union pay is over $60 an hour in
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> Projects I work on have seen prices soar. Could you be more specific? Things are still competitive in the large commercial electrical market I am bidding in, if you’re bidding to make more than 10-15% you’ll get underbid by someone wil
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
The physician. It’s always the human controlling the AI that is responsible if they use the output. I personally think it’s reckless and negligent to use AI when practicing medicine.
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
> It must cost them a fair bit of money too. I wonder how much cheaper you could make shoes if you only designed one set and then fired all of your designers... Alden has been making the same models of shoes for decades but they aren’t c
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by quickthrowman 2mo ago
I just finished my second course of antibiotics to treat an ear infection that wasn’t resolved after the first round and I also had a course of antibiotics earlier in the year to treat an infection on my thumb joint on the pad side that cau

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