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I'm still trying to figure out why everyone, including Deutsche Bank, seems to think the Tesla Battery is such a great deal at $3500 for 7kwh. I can buy 18 35Ah 12v AGM batteries, …

Agreed that deflation is terrible. I hate paying lower prices for goods and services. Thankfully we have central banks to fight the scourge of lower prices.

Could someone explain the market reaction here? When rates are lowered, it puts both competitve pressure and supply pressure on the currency. This can be seen in all historical int…

You are probably being downvoted because every single Abrahamic religion advocates violence and killing as a response to blasphemy in the basic holy texts. It's an issue of facts, …

So basically, they are better on every possible front, and the technology has existed for a while? Yet, LWR is still the dominant design. So, what's the catch? There's clearly some…

Yes. A debt crisis that the US is walking into almost exactly alike, but a decade behind. And nobody cares.

How adorable.

This isn't music, or anything like it. The article touches on the Millenials' refusal to learn anything below their chosen layer of abstraction to be a systemic risk to anything th…

Maybe I have a lack of imagination, but what on earth could possibly be the failure modes of floor tile?

Because the brainwashing of Western education is that the values of the Enlightenment are the only acceptable values.

Excellent programmers are only paid well if they have a good internal idea of their value and are able to negotiate. I've known countless great developers with terrible self-esteem…

Addendum to #3: Motivation is necessary but not sufficient in software development; it is one of the professions that really does have minimum cognitive capability and working memo…

I may be persuaded that the individual tasked with signing and updating the canary got drunk over the Holidays and forgot. Nobody is going to convince me that same individual went …

Not without cause. The recent UVA scandal, the semi-recent duke lacrosse scandal, and the unconscionable number of rape convicts being exonerated and released on account of dna evi…

Just do vnode-based consistent hashing on the client side.

was perceived widely in the West Because of our propaganda. We heard all kinds of things about Russian military mobilization, conspiracy theories about who shot down the airliner, …

Most wells don't run at full capacity, and absolutely alter draw speeds to maximize the life and economics of a well. This is correct, but only to a point. Many producers still lea…

Sabotage? How, exactly? I have heard of no major corruption or performance bugs in ZFS, what am I missing?

Unclear from their site what MagicLeap even does.

In both of the stories you cite, it's a case of journalists beginning with a narrative and then seeking a story to corroborate that narrative. Whether it's feel-bad narratives like…

Unless and until our recent era of mass global travel results in a highly genetically uniform species, we will continue to have population groups that share allele groupings differ…

Unable to reply to your other flagkilled comment, so I'll reply here. It's amusing that bringing up facts in a community ostensibly self-selected to prize discovery and reason is s…

Physical attractiveness is not "completely subjective". There are very well established body proportions, symmetries, and other physical indicators of human attractiveness that are…