throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: How Sustainable Is Stored Sunlight?
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throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Where Is Germany's Gold?
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: SNB Unexpectedly Gives Up Cap on Franc, Lowers Deposit Rate
When rates are lowered, it puts both competitve pressure and supply pressure on the currency. This can be seen in all historical interest rate cuts. You cut rates to weaken, and raise rates to strengthen.
And yet, this CUT in rates is leading to a BID for CHF.
As they say in Geneva, WTF?
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: ThorCon Power
Yet, LWR is still the dominant design. So, what's the catch? There's clearly something preferable about Uranium LWR that causes their dominance, no?
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Japan's fertility rate is rising
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Whitehouse response to Aaron Swartz petition
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: What Bums Me Out About the Tech Industry
It's more akin to every bridge engineer not bothering with materials science or integral calculus because they know how to throw a bunch of trusses together than it is akin to every hipster on the planet learning to play Stairway to Heaven.
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (2012)
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Why do many people feel the Chinese can't possibly be OK with their government?
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
I've known countless great developers with terrible self-esteem and/or total inability to effectively negotiate. Far more, in fact, than the reverse.
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Silent Circle's warrant canary is out of date
Nobody is going to convince me that same individual went on a twenty day bender and sobered up on Christmas morning.
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Uber Driver Accused of Raping Passenger in Boston
It's almost as if accused rapists, like other accused criminals, should be innocent until proven guilty.
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Putin Blames Outside Forces for Economic Woes
Because of our propaganda. We heard all kinds of things about Russian military mobilization, conspiracy theories about who shot down the airliner, how much Putin hates gays, how horrible living conditions were at the Sochi olympic village, how "rigged" the Crimean referendum was, etc.
But we have heard nothing about NATO breaking its post-wall promise, of the enormous rise of nazism on Russia's borders( actual nazism, not the soft nationalism you see in France ), the outrageous corruption and duplicity of the players responsible for the ouster of Yanukovych, the ethnic and political divisions between the Crimea and Ukraine proper, etc.
I continue to be astounded that HN is so virulently anti-russia, mainly because I thought this group would be the most immune to propaganda and most likely to question the official narrative.
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Putin Blames Outside Forces for Economic Woes
This is correct, but only to a point. Many producers still lease land for limited timeframes (some of them do have "until we are done" clauses, but this is not the norm in Eagle Ford). If your lease has two years left and you don't expect the price to rebound for 18 months, it's still in your interest to produce NOW, since horizontal drilling (far more expensive than the fracking) is a capital cost you've already paid that you need return on.
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Proposal to move CoreOS off of btrfs
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: Neal Stephenson Joins Magic Leap
throwaway90446 | 11 years ago | on: New York Magazine's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up
I can buy 18 35Ah 12v AGM batteries, plus 0 AGW conductors, for about $1350. That's 7.5kwh for $1350.
What exactly defines the "good deal" argument I keep seeing?