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Mostly because coal is more expensive and slower to build

How? In most locations for much of the year you need to reject heat either by evaporating water or using electricity (more water) to run a refrigeration cycle.

A well designed and deployed VPN link from the satellite location back to HQ (to machines isolated for just this use) would be orders of magnitude safer then what they seem to have…

Or connect them securely

A lot of water infrastructure is physically spread out. It be very expensive and cumbersome (and probably inefficient) to require staff to by physically present at each site for mo…

The big question for 2 is what devices have access. If it’s a bunch of employees from loosely managed general use laptops, bad. If it’s a few computers at HQ that are totally locke…

I assume they are talking about things like water towers that are spread around, and linked back to hq via insecure wireless.

I know that’s a joke. But there are a lot of voters (and politicians) who think things like federal food standards and inspections are an unwarranted intrusion and waste of tax mon…

It depends what you are optimizing for.

Sure you do, go full EA: Build a better surveillance ads system, and use (some of) that cash to pay for water projects.

I would think that they can classify most posts as safe with very high accuracy. Certainly it’s not unreasonable to have them disprove that And the scope could be further reduced b…

Don’t they have like an 80% gross margin?

The origin of the motto was an engineer simplifying a list of more specific things.

https://cuelang.org/docs/reference/spec/ I’ve used it once for something small. It was ok, but the docs and some of the libraries were a bit lacking. But it demonstrates the kind o…

My impression, inside and out of G, was that Sundar (and Ruth) were about scaling down R&D expenses (as a fraction of revenue), and focusing on exploiting the monopolies. Perhaps n…

Seem to different from JSON to be an easy drop in, while still having the problems of json. I’d rather use something further away like cue.

The desire to slow down and consider the fate of cab drivers (very hard working, low income people) is not automatically corruption.

I think elected state leaders should move to understand theses issues, hear from experts and the public, and craft good laws for these services. My state (CA) is doing well this. I…

Even then. There is value in uniform rule of law.

I was in one stopped as the first car at a red light. The next section of road was full of cars waiting on another red light. Our light changed to green and the Waymo waited until …

I took one to a show at the Hollywood Bowl. Chaotic traffic environment: lots of cars, cones, people directing traffic, pedestrians everywhere. It did great.

Air drop kid rock on Tehran

My experience with new CS grads was that most of them greatly overestimated what they knew, or alternatively, underestimated how much they did not know.

If not for that tan suit gas would be $1/gal and America would own Iran.

It's emblematic of current zero sum thinking. The fact that someone else has a job that pays more than yours hurts you, even though you will never qualify for that job no matter wh…