wlxd
2yr ago
Vent moisture? Here where I am, the temperature is below freezing now, which is rather unusual, and my heat pump struggles a bit to keep up. Thus, I’m running a boiling pot of water non stop on big burner on my gas range, to both add extra heat with cheap gas, but also to add extra moisture, in 50% relative humidity range. Without it, and without my big air humidifier, it’s like 20%, which makes everyone in my family cough a lot and get skin issues.
wlxd
2yr ago
These are Stirling engine fans, and they don’t do much more compare to regular convection (they simply don’t have a lot of power to move substantial amount of air). They’re really cool, though, I love Stirling engines.
wlxd
2yr ago
Funny how everyone here was very much aware that Twitter was ran by leftist activists, but the CEO was not.
Being aware of what happens in your company is the single most important job of a CEO.
wlxd
2yr ago
Great post, I didn’t learn much new stuff, but it was a very enjoyable read. You have a very good point about high potential for grid instability on very cold days. I have a natural gas cooking range that can do something like 30-40k BTU combined, should be good enough for emergency situations, assuming regular air changes to avoid annoying high CO2 build up.
wlxd
2yr ago
Your own link literally says that huge majority of illegals is processed under Title 8, which is not immediate expulsion.
wlxd
2yr ago
Do you think that the above will not happen? If the above actually happens, exactly as described, is the above comment still against the rules?
wlxd
2yr ago
And out of those who do work, huge fraction actually works jobs that are totally made up by the government, either directly or by regulatory requirements in things like civil rights, financial law compliance etc.
wlxd
2yr ago
That having high skin melanin content improves your income, all else (most importantly, ability) being equal.
wlxd
2yr ago
Okay, millions will die, but so what? These will be overwhelmingly old people dying. Nobody really cares a lot about old people dying: indeed, millions die every year for reasons other than Covid, and nobody gives a shit.
It would have been hugely different if, for example, children were at risk; I certainly know I’d approach Covid much differently if that was the case. Huge death toll of old people, though, simply does not have similarly big emotional appeal and practical impact on society.
wlxd
2yr ago
If you read the actual immigration policy, as set by the Congress in the actual acts it passed, you’ll observe that Trump’s actions were very much in line with what the immigration laws actually are. For example, he made some moves to enforce the public charge rule, for the exact reasons this rule was passed into the law in the first place. His problem was not so much that he was blocked by the Congress, which passed different policy, but instead by judiciary and lawfare, which instituted policies contrary to what the Congress passed into law, and the Executive actually tried to enforce.
wlxd
2yr ago
This is silly. The bots from the OP are fundamentally different sort of “game bot” than StarCraft or Dota or chess. This is what the industry moved on to: solving human psychology and language, directly.
wlxd
2yr ago
Not at this point, no. It is a general consensus in the field that developing even stronger game bots is no longer “major development”. These are mostly thought of as a solved problem. This is why nobody cares about these.
wlxd
2yr ago
The Starcraft AI only crushes human experts because of its APM advantage, when they restrict it to human levels it can be beaten by elite players: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03298-6
You mean, a Starcraft AI from like a million years ago. If there were no stronger Starcraft AIs released since then, it's mostly because the top research groups lost interest in things like that, deeming the problem to be mostly solved, same as why very few people are interested in making better and better chess bots. They field moved on from Starcraft, and is now working on crushing the game of Real Life, Outside.
wlxd
2yr ago
This is the whole WEIRD/Hajnal thing. In western individualistic culture, kids are expected to move out onto their own very early, and the expectation is different in less individualistic cultures. Compare, for example, how often people in their twenties live with their parents in Sweden vs Spain or southern Italy. This goes back centuries, heavy parental involvement in lives of young married couples has simply not been a thing in the West for a long time now.
wlxd
2yr ago
China and Russia would love to pay for SpaceX launches at market rates, and would spend a lot on technology too.
wlxd
2yr ago
Typically, the relevant public works department has X projects it would like to do, Y dollars of annual budget, and Y is way, way too short to cover all of projects in X. The decision is made by relevant government officers which projects are actually going to be built, and the cost most definitely plays a role in the considerations.
Now, of course, government decision making about projects and spending has multitude of problems. The point is, however, that the suggestion that nobody thinks or cares about the cost is ludicrous. They do care. Typically they don’t care enough, or don’t care properly, I’ll give you that, but these sort of projects don’t just randomly pop up as work orders for the construction crews, there definitely is a lot of planning and analysis involved beforehand. Often in fact too much, or of the wrong kind, but total lack of consideration is definitely not an issue here.
wlxd
2yr ago
Can you address /u/what_a_maroon ‘s argument, who points out that almost every single country other than US has loser-pays rule? If it works for them, why wouldn’t it work here?
wlxd
2yr ago
First, this is not what they were created for. This is only one reason for which they were created. In common speech, when we say that "A is for B", it carries implication that B is the single most important reason for A, and other reasons are of little significance. Second, even if they were, in fact, originally built mostly for military transports (which they weren't, though it was important reason to build them), if they are not meant for this use case today, one can scarcely say that they are for it. At best, you can say that they were built for it.
Ok, but would other countries have such big freight thoroughfares in such sparse areas? Especially on roads, rather than trains?
Yes, of course they would, especially if the freight thoroughfare connected two big population centers. Look at Spain or France, for example. And yes, especially on roads, rather than trains: US is the world leader in freight rail, other countries are less likely to use trains for freight than US.
wlxd
2yr ago
Sorry, but who is “we”? I certainly don’t really spend much time thinking whether the cost of some particular rural road is justified, but so what? Someone does. I really lost the plot here in this discussion: what’s the argument here? That, uh, infrastructure costs are high because random Joe doesn’t think a lot about costs of random rural roads somewhere?
wlxd
2yr ago
I have another explicit example of the same. A public restroom on Alki Beach in Seattle was recently rebuilt. This is a three stall restroom, entire building is something like 250-300 square feet. Cost? $638,000. Look at the photo. For this price, in the private world, you can buy a quarter of acre, hire a contractor to build a high quality 2000 sq ft 3 bed/3 bath house with great finish, and sell it with a good profit. The restroom took an entire year of construction time, not even counting planning.
The weird thing about this theory is that “Russian” in Russian is in fact «русский», “russkiy”. There is also the less common word «российский», “rossiyskiy”, which describes something more related to Russian state rather than Russian ethnicity. Thus, there are Ukrainians who are «российские», but not «русские».
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