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pstrateman··on GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US
I'm sure their outsourcing will go differently to every other outsourcing operation.
pstrateman··on China's manufacturers are going broke
The panels themselves have been an insignificant parr of the total cost for a while.

Mounts, connectors, wires, and inverters end up costing much more than the panels.

pstrateman··on the US government has to start paying for things again
The question is, does that $7 trillion generate real good and services? More or less than the private sector would have generated?
pstrateman··on Military sexual assaults far exceed DoD estimates, new report finds
The composition of the US military and the general public are different.

You would need to identify the rate among an equivalent population that isn't military.

pstrateman··on X's likelihood of prevailing in boycott suit is higher than I thought
They disbanded the non profit in a blatant attempt to avoid discovery.

That tells me everything I need to know about who is in the right.

pstrateman··on Prevention of HIV
>1,600 heterosexual couples

Is there a similar study of gay men who are not in a monogamous relationship?

Studying the group with the lowest transmission rate who could still transmit seems kind of dishonest.

pstrateman··on Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU
It's an alloy that is liquid down to -19C.
pstrateman··on The U.S. wanted to knock down Huawei. It's only getting stronger
The US wanted them out of the US market and mostly succeeded there.
pstrateman··on How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip
Enthalpy of vaporization for water is very very large.

The amount of heat that can be dissipated by evaporating water is kind of incredible.

pstrateman··on IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers
So that's still $8bn to collect $1bn.

Or am I missing something?

pstrateman··on Electric Vehicle Batteries Surprising New Source of 'Forever Chemical' Pollution
That actually sounds about right

The amount of valuable materials in a battery pack is actually quite small.

pstrateman··on One Year Since Germany's Nuclear Exit: Renewables Expand, Fossil Fuels Reduced
Germany did two things to cope with the loss of nuclear plants.

First they simply use less power than before.

Second they import nuclear power from France for reliability.

Seems kinda silly to me.

pstrateman··on TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the letterdrop
It's a general comment on the professionalism of the bulk email delivery industry, namely there is none.

Don't expect them to support a free service they decided to shutdown in anyway.

pstrateman··on TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the letterdrop
That actually sounds very likely.

I've never had an email delivery company return any communication at all once they have decided you're bad. (0% spam report rate, 0.01% bounce rate)

pstrateman··on HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma
A powerwall is $12k installed.

That's about 5 years worth of power bills for most people.

pstrateman··on HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma
Their risk profile is basically zero.

I doubt (nuclear) regulations are stifling much innovation here.

pstrateman··on Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy
You answered your own question, they just spend more money.

How does non profits spending money inefficiently to burn revenue help society?

pstrateman··on Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy
They don't distribute profits to their members.

The only thing making them pay tax will do is create an accounting nuisance where they drive profits and thus taxes to zero.

pstrateman··on $20k MRR in one month, Stripe destroyed everything on 1 second
This is almost certainly about the service generating AI porn.
pstrateman··on FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing
Who owns the buildings is irrelevant if demand exceeds supply and the occupancy rate is reasonable.

The focus on building ownership is just a distraction from the disastrous immigration policy.

pstrateman··on FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing
The cost of housing in Canada is high because demand exceeds supply by a significant margin.

It really is that simple.

pstrateman··on Air Force security team can breach an 'impenetrable' SCIF in one minute
Are they even meant to be physically secure?
pstrateman··on Canada says online streaming services must hand over 5% of their revenues
Transfer all money to the government and spend it subsidizing bombardier.
pstrateman··on SPI Flash
You can get lots of very weird results trying to read a chip this way.

Powering the chip will inevitable power other things around the chip, things that might also be trying to read it.

pstrateman··on Stripe closed our account and refuses to migrate our data to another processor
Kinda sounds like fraud to me.

They said they would extend, they didn't, you have damages.

pstrateman··on What went wrong with federal student loans?
That's only loans directly from the feds.

Most people borrow money from private lenders as well.

pstrateman··on What went wrong with federal student loans?
Their parents aren't making the decision.

They can borrow the money all by themselves.

pstrateman··on What went wrong with federal student loans?
Loaning 18 year olds vast sums of money to invest is a bad idea?

Who would have guessed.

Seriously though, the young borrowers aren't price sensitive so the cost of the things they're buying spikes.

The dynamic here is quite simple and obvious (though maybe only in hindsight).

pstrateman··on Simple idea cuts cargo ship emissions by 17.3% in first trials
Presumably the crew won't like this very much.

Much less time in port seems like quite a downgrade.

pstrateman··on Scandal at America's top science fair
That's not only scientific fraud, it's real felony fraud.

Maybe community service equivalent to 50,000.00 at federal minimum wage would sort him out.

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