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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
The most chilling is that this also inflicts the military. Lieutenant Colonel Heffington on West Point, published in 2017: > Academic standards are also nonexistent. I believe this trend started 10 years ago, and it has continued to get
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
While that was a rhetorical point in the Brexit campaign, in reality the nameless unelected bureaucrats in Brussels were simply replaced by nameless unelected bureaucrats in London Every Western "democracy" suffers from the same f
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
To add one more data point - Olkiluoto 3, started 2005, was expected to finish in 2009. Completed late 2021, 12 years late Cherry on top - after producing electricity for about a week, it had to shut down for another 3 months. Then, after r
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Tesla pulls all sorts of accounting tricks to make gross margin appear higher than it actually is. Warranty repairs are apparently done by pixies for free, so is R&D, factory amortization, or service centers A like-to-like comparison wo
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Notice who is pushing the narrative of Russia bogged down - journalists, politicians and their nominees, economists, and people with an active career in the military. There are also some dissidents in the West pushing the opposite narrative
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
> BRF system in Sweden To expand on this point, and a similar system in Finland called asumisoikeus: Municipalities have a pool of housing units. The tenants do not buy the house itself, they buy a right to live in that house, which us
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Unequivocal yes If Playstation is a cheaper source of compute power than consumer hardware, the customer should be able to turn it into a compute cluster, as many people did (1). That doesn't mean Sony has to provide support or warrant
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
On a societal level, once heating, industry, public services and transportation are accounted for, we consume around 500-1000W per person. Saving a few Watts per family is a rounding error. We're talking about the power output of a sol
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Correct, and the difference is not even close - anything to do with temperature manipulation consumes orders of magnitude more. Literally, not figuratively The laptop I'm writing this on consumes around 10W. Kettle 2100W Making one cof
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
That's close to the way things work in Europe Pricing for the next day is decided on the spot market, around 2-3 PM. All large consumers and producers place bids on one-hour slots until the market clears. Prices do not fluctuate minute
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
My past three workplaces let me choose between a high-end Windows laptop, or a Macbook. I always opted for Windows, due to some tooling I'm used to, but ended up regretting it on every occasion The problems with non-Apple laptops are m
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
It goes both ways - China claims Taiwan as theirs, but also Taiwan claims China as theirs Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of war
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
> Furthermore China prefers peaceful solutions where it can In this case, the blind spot of western liberalism - demography. Taiwanese fertility rates are below 1.3 for nearly two decades now, some years even dipping below 1. All China h
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Good faith communication is maladaptive on large scale Imagine the war scenario. The honest, good-faith communication would be like: If we capitulate outright, the worst thing that happens is paying taxes to somewhere else, and the set of
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Zelenskiy's #1 campaign promise was to negotiate peace with Russia - meaning fulfilling Ukraine's part of the Minsk accords, perhaps with some concessions. Overall, about 65% of the votes went to parties supporting it. ~72% if Don
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
They also have an example of...themselves - that all it takes to be left alone is being reasonable and not needlessly bellicose towards their great power neighbor
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
It gets worse than that. Often, code is pushed into an absurdly wrong level of the development stack, just because it makes testing it easier. For example, something should be a database trigger, but in-memory testing database gets in the w
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
This is the best write-up of the Softbank business model: https://www.readmargins.com/p/softbank-robinhood-and-a-margi... In short, the background of Softbank founders is in plumbing of the financial system. They inten
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Interesting fact about trains - a lot of the diesel and gas locomotives do not burn fossil fuels to propel themselves, meaning there's no mechanical connection between the engines and the wheels. Instead, they burn the fuel to generate
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Because in the US, money has nowhere else to go. Stocks? Wildly overpriced. Real estate? Wildly overpriced. Bonds? Zero returns. Mineral extraction? Risky outlook. Energy sector? Subsidies are likely on the horizon, better to wait. Infrastr
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
> websites don't follow the "spirit of the law" A perfect counter-example to people rambling about EU legislation - Wikipedia. Consistently in the top 10 sites in the world for 15 years, yet there's no cookie banner,
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
This is already a pattern in HN discussions: legislation is proposed, news outlets vaguely summarize it, the HN crowd interprets the summary in absurdly maximalist way without bothering to read the spirit and letter of the law; outrage ensu
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Also, the term rare-earth metal is really unfortunate. About half of them have no practical industrial use. The other half is neither rare, nor particularly expensive The three most important rare earth elements are lanthanum, neodymium and
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
As far as I recall, there were some measurable increases in cancer incidence among children in Belarus, mostly due to milk intake However, all that was completely drowned by a collapse of life expectancy resulting from the chaos of the 90
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
The problem with this line of argumentation is - why single out phone OS providers as the only link in the very long supply chain that deserves a cut? Why not internet provider? Verizon's infrastructure costs money, too - should they a
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
There's some "lots-of-money-involved-therefore-valuable" fallacy going on here. The thinking goes: * NFTs are explained, they sound kind of pointless * but there is so much money involved! * so much money involved brings lots
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by thow-58d4e8b 4y ago
Just because a criminal hasn't been caught and sentenced doesn't mean they didn't commit the crime
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Large part, likely the majority, of Intel's CPU dominance had been a result of their "unfair" advantage in fabs, not in hardware design. Often quoted rule of thumb - 90%/10% - 90% of the progress in semiconductors is att
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
This approach suffers from the same fundamental problem as the comparative advantage argument - that there is an infinite reservoir of companies that can immediately rehire the now laid-off talent at equal or better productivity Real world
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
I recommend looking at some WW1 depictions of Germans (often called 'Huns' back then). Or even better, German or Japanese depictions of western Allied forces in WW2. It's pretty much the same Ukrainian state is already in a s

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