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by surfaceofthesun 2mo ago
Yes. Solar thermal heaters on the roof are common in Florida and other parts of the south. Some people also use heat recovery devices attached to the AC condenser. Further north I've only seen natural gas heating (e.g. in very rich NYC
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by surfaceofthesun 6mo ago
That may require retrofitting the plants to use open loop cooling instead of closed loop. That would increase water consumption.
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by surfaceofthesun 7mo ago
What's the benefit of using sha256 for a repository?
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by surfaceofthesun 7mo ago
I’m in a similar boat. The USB to SATA adapter has kept my 5.25” drive going for quite a few years. Some of my discs are hitting a decade and I am about to create a new set of backups. The market is smaller but the portable blu ray drives a
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by surfaceofthesun 10mo ago
I recall being surprised that 2.4 GHz was completely unusable in an upper west side apartment. <56k throughput and >1000 ms latency.
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
You can't discount Baumol's cost disease. While it's true that government regulation is some part of it, like real declines in home building productivity in the previous decade or two, that certainly is not the root of the pr
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
This completely ignores Friedman's concept of the velocity of money (MV = PY). If that $15k is being saved by someone versus immediately spent, that has a different effect. A transfer isn’t neutral if the two parties have different pro
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
I posted about this above [1]. But the gist is that the most significant subsidies for private car ownership are indirect like parking minimums. --- [1] -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988252
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
It's likely correct that mass transit is directly subsidized at a greater percentage than any specific aspect of private car ownership. However, there are significant indirect subsidies due to the centrality of private cars that not on
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
Transit agencies are also capable of demand response. For example, you'll see more articulated busses at peak times in Austin. Also, large transit stops are used as queues to maintain consistent headways. A great example of this in act
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
I'm not sure if that applies to Fiber connections. I had my own fun with a firmware update causing latency issues with ATT Fiber's gateways that was fixed several months later [1]. I was using the combo ONT + Router originally and
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
This is a perfectly reasonable response during normal presidential administrations. However, this administration is credibly[1] accused of avoiding due process via the current deportation process. I'll include a quote from the (9-0!) A
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
I’m pretty sure the conventional wisdom suggests inflation happens when countries don’t pay down their debt. Increased money supply isn’t the only cause of inflation (e.g., stagflation). Uncertainty about how to price goods—especially for g
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
I believe that's what this project aims to do: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
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by surfaceofthesun 1y ago
I was able to run Age of Empires 2 on Windows 11. It didn't like running on an ultrawide, but it worked well enough at smaller resolutions.
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
This feels true for other Microsoft products, but not VSCode. Besides, they embedded Python into Excel (for 365 users) over Typescript or C#.
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
It's not that the US will respond to every crisis, but that it's much easier to do so when you have resources nearby. Flashy rescue missions help justify the infrastructure and logistics networks that support such a sprawling mili
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
Thank you for collecting these.
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
I think the better framing is that ByteDance refused to comply with US regulations and spin off TikTok. If the EU decided WhatsApp should be spun off from Meta (for any number of legitimate reasons) to continue operating there, we wouldn’t
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
I disagree with the hypocrisy argument. The US government tried to clamp down on Covid misinformation during a pandemic, with a declared emergency and there was pushback that was adjudicated by the Supreme Court [1]. The US does plenty of s
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
The US government forcing spinoffs is a core tenant of antitrust enforcement. We’ve seen similar enforcement applied to other applications like Grindr [1]. The fundamental issue is ByteDance ownership. Forced divestiture due to legitimate
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
In the US we allow significantly more spying on foreigners than US citizens. That’s not as controversial as domestic spying. Look at the backlash against the US government trying to clamp down on Covid misinformation with a national emergen
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
Just to add on: I don’t imagine discussion of what’s happening to the Uyghurs is getting much traction in TikTok either. Movement against TikTok started started with the Trump admin well before Oct 7, 2023 [1]. I think this is less Israel &
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
Note that you can still downgrade an existing gateway, extract certs[0], then bypass the device [1]. I had to do this with OPNsense to avoid the latency buildup issue, which has been ongoing for months[2]. --- 0 -- https://www.du
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
I think a miles traveled tax that accounts for vehicle weight would probably less regressive than the current gas tax. EVs save substantially in running costs. I’d imagine it would charge those using 3/4 and 1-ton pickups as family car
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
Interestingly enough, some of the advancements in fusion research and lasers may help with fission waste fuel recycling. [1] Though breeder reactors might end up being more economical. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read&
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
Yes. I simply meant a relative comparison between the two. Agreed otherwise
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
It seems that congress is much quicker and more willing to correct overreach by the executive branch through legislation compared to overreach by the judiciary — especially at the Supreme Court level.
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
Adding on to this: In addition to funding renewals, congress can make specific tweaks at any time to correct anything they dislike with regard to the executive branch. The ruling pretends like this avenue hasn’t existed and been used the en
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by surfaceofthesun 2y ago
Hopefully, this is a useful analogy. Congress is like the product manager and creates something like the URS (user requirements specification). The executive branches like the developer team that has to Turn those high-level requirements in

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