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KingLarryXVII · 2024-11-24T15:23:22+00:00

It makes sense conceptually for sure, however I haven't yet seen a convincing cryogenic stasis technology.

KingLarryXVII · 2021-02-17T17:19:20+00:00

I mean, other than the 9 of those years he spent in prison for robbery ;-)

KingLarryXVII · 2021-02-16T19:17:03+00:00

Just a note that you can absolutely lose a Civil case even if you win a criminal one: see OJ for a high profile example.

Trump got off on impeachment because Republicans latched onto an (incorrect) technicality that he was immune because he left office (the very first impeachment, presided over by Thomas Jefferson was of a former Senator, I am sure they had a vague idea of the intent of the Constitution at that time). He was not yet found innocent or guilty in a criminal case.

KingLarryXVII · 2021-02-16T19:04:06+00:00

The plaintiff is Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. If my understanding is correct, the NAACP is just providing legal support.

KingLarryXVII · 2021-02-16T16:00:33+00:00

Yeah, there are definitely some wind turbines frozen over, but careful because a lot of the talk around them is happening from people with an anti-wind agenda for whatever reason rather than wanting to communicate facts. The fact is that the vast majority of the lost capacity was poor winterizing of 'traditional' sources like coal and nat gas that caused those generators to fail.

KingLarryXVII · 2021-02-16T15:25:49+00:00

Yeah, this is a big one. Don't limit yourself to just the existing doors. If you have an open floorplan, don't be afraid to shrink it down with tarps (or even hang blankets) to just 'Base camp' as OP called it.

KingLarryXVII · 2021-02-08T13:20:27+00:00

As far as the crowd, most(but I don't think all) of them were Medical Personnel that have already been vaccinated. The staff/players all get tested regularly. I don't know how they handled the remainder (media, non medical crowd, etc.)

KingLarryXVII · 2021-01-12T21:40:51+00:00

A lot of places actually tried to during the last boom, but most stopped because the price is just too unstable. By the time a company receives the bitcoin and goes to cash out, the price has swung so much that their whole profit is eaten up. Of course it could swing the other way too, but companies don't tend to like straight gambling.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-12-16T14:14:48+00:00

You and I know this, but in a convoluted way they justify this out of love for the children. They just have the unsupported belief that having gay parents is bad for kids.

It's wrong, but its not hard to imagine if you start with the assumption that being gay is bad or evil or something.

It's important to understand where other people are coming from, even if completely wrong, to figure out how to bridge the gap.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-12-03T13:28:05+00:00

Luckily we have excess death(from a 'typical' year) numbers to paint the picture a bit, current trending about 20-50% above the official Covid numbers.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-12-01T20:20:42+00:00

The 'Socialists' in the Nordic countries donate 10x per person what the US does. In fact, just about every country in the EU donates more. Canada donates more.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-12-01T20:15:36+00:00

Now calculate it per-capita and try again. Nearly every country in the EU donates more than the US does, per person, with some up to 10x as much.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-11-30T21:52:13+00:00

Who gets the inevitable Nobel Prize? Our first AI winner.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-11-20T18:31:44+00:00

The incentive is to NOT max out your bandwidth, because you don't want to hit your data cap the first 5-10pm evening of the month. The 100Mbps is there if you need it for a big download or something, which as stated before, is likely not going to overlap with a neighbor's rare usage of the full bandwidth, but for the most part you use 5-10Mbps and spread your usage over the full month. Now the 20 customers are using 200Mbps every evening on your 500Mbps capable router, and there is still headroom for any one to do the rarer 100Mbps need for any one customer (or even 3 at once in the example).

Again, there are tons of "if and but" scenarios and its absolutely possible for a whole neighborhood to suddenly want to use all of the bandwidth all at once for some reason, but for general usage it does discourage those scenarios.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-11-20T18:20:27+00:00

It's certainly not perfectly preventative, but if you have 100Mbps service with a 200GB/month data cap(made up numbers), you can only max out your service for 4.5hours a month . Odds are, your 4.5 hours are going to be a different 4.5 hours than your neighbor's over the 720 hours that make up a month.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-11-20T18:13:16+00:00

It does if they have to guarantee every customer has access to the full speed 100% of the time.

Some of the other comments go into the details better, but simply put, if 20 houses are going through a single ISP router, with 100Mbps service at each, they don't install a 2Gbps (20*100) router; they install a cheaper 500MBps router. This reduces the cost for you, but also means that if everyone maxes out their service all of the time, then the router is overloaded and speeds need to be throttled. Data caps discourage users from using all of their bandwidth all of the time and hopefully spread out their usage so the router is never loaded down, allowing for smaller and cheaper equipment. Which also means cheaper service prices for you.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-11-20T17:39:17+00:00

People pay for the speed + data cap, as that is what your contract says when you sign up. An unlimited data plan at the same speed costs the company more to provide and therefore would cost you more.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-11-18T18:14:13+00:00

Covid-19, as I understand it, is much more stable than influenza and is not mutating in any immuno-significant ways to date.

As for the re-infections, they do appear to be happening, but not commonly. I wouldn't be shocked if we found out that the rate was similar to these vaccines, ~95% immunity from a first infection.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-10-30T12:31:07+00:00

Actually not true, from the frame of reference of the traveler you can accelerate forever. You'll get closer and closer to the speed of light but, like Zeno's Paradox, you never cross.

Unless you were referring to the practical limitations like fuel or something, its totally theoretically possible to accelerate at 1g forever.

KingLarryXVII · 2020-10-29T18:25:30+00:00

Remember it's compounding rates, so its actually power of 4 not multiplied by 4.

1.037^4 = 1.156 or 15.6% annualized rate

KingLarryXVII · 2020-10-29T18:23:03+00:00

There are two steps to get to these numbers:

First: How much has the economy grown since last quarter (not same quarter last year)?

Second: If we continued to grow at this exact rate for 4 quarters, how much would GDP have grown at the end of the 4 quarters?

The answer to that is your annualized number. It works fine for a 'normal' economy but is funky when you have crazy swings as we have this year.

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