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Fidgetting 13 points a year ago

Two more reasons not yet mentioned:

It is close to a population center (Phoenix) keeping latency low to customers. Getting customers off the public Internet quickly and into your private network fast is best for a lot of reasons.

Cheap and abundant solar power. Data centers are extremely power hungry and power lines are expensive so companies like Amazon almost always secure abundant power rights before building. Google built their first data center in The Dalles Oregon because an aluminum smelter had gone belly up and left a bunch of capacity unclaimed in a local hydroelectric dam.

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Fidgetting 10 points a year ago

Effectuate

I'm going to effectuate this pole right up the ass of the next person to use that word.

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Fidgetting 10 points 2 months ago

I prefer "Find Immediate Alternative Transportation"

And wanted to add "Acutely Unreliable Despite Investment"

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Fidgetting 9 points a year ago

Their initial reply to you is sarcastic. They were agreeing with you, not arguing with you

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Fidgetting 6 points a year ago

It is that vehicle footprint is used as part of calculating a manufacturer's CAFE score. So if the car is bigger it doesn't have to get as good mileage effectively subsidizing large vehicles.

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Fidgetting 6 points 2 years ago

Did a road trip in a friend's Model 3 with FSD and it is significantly more stressful than my VW or my wife's Acura driver assist features. It made a staggering number of minor mistakes including hallucinating pedestrians for every semi that was more than a mile ahead. It would slam on the brakes when this happened so you had to watch it like a hawk for every hill crest. The other really nasty one was sudden, violent lane changes. Especially if you were in the left lane with someone behind you.

I have gotten to the point where I wonder at people who say they love FSD. My experiences with it are so overwhelmingly negative that I have to assume there is something different about the roads I drive on compared to what it is trained on.

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Fidgetting 5 points a year ago

Not the person you're replying to but:

  1. Yes, managing your relationship with your coworkers will be helpful at all stages of your career. You're not managing them, you're managing your relationship with them. It helps you listen, ask simple questions about who they are and listen. You don't have to care, you only have to share a little. You're not building a friendship unless you want to. You're cultivating a positive relationship so that they know they can depend on you when they need it.

  2. Yes, exhausting. It's called masking and everybody whether they are neuro divergent or not does it. Some people find it trivial, some find it nearly impossible. My wife can tell the difference between my work voice and my regular voice because at work I'm masking. I've been working on bringing the two closer together because I've found it is beneficial to my career to be more myself.

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Fidgetting 4 points a year ago

Long cat

Long cat

He is long

And is a cat

Long cat

Disclosure: my wife is the singer songwriter in the house so this is technically her's

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Fidgetting 4 points a year ago

Honestly Hyperion landed so hard for me that I didn't need the second or the Endymion books. The second is certainly superior to the rest but Hyperion was so magical that it was just downhill from there for me.

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Fidgetting 2 points a year ago

What about 2nd study, 3rd study... 11 studies

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Fidgetting 1 point 2 years ago

The dialog is pretty consistent and certainly gets overwhelming at times. I understand why Erikson started the story where he did but you're dropped into the story about 100,000 years after it started. I'm 16 books in and just starting to understand the events that kicked everything off.

All that said, best books I've ever read without question. %100 with the read. If you want another entry point I might suggest giving Midnight Tides a try. It is the 5th book and takes place on the other side of the world with completely new characters so you don't need any context from the first 4 books. Midnight Tides also contains my 2 favorite characters in all of fiction, the banter between Tehol and Bugg is immaculate. That dialog is probably a better intro than Krul and Krupe.

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Fidgetting 0 points a month ago

Those "units" are the Spruce Street Mansion and while it was originally a house it has been converted to office space. It holds a law firm and a company called Discover Boulder Tours. The nearest house that is for sale to this location is 3.6M for ~3000 sqft or $1200/sqft, so if these were residences I'm not going to have much sympathy for the rich assholes. The Pearl Street Mall in Boulder doesn't need a park. It is going to need a ton of short term housing starting next year because of Sundance. This hotel is to put downward pressure on the number of airbnbs in the city.

I'm all for being anti development. I grew up in Boulder and it invented a lot of the anti development playbook. Boulder is so desirable precisely because it became very anti development 50 years ago allowing it to build a unique and desirable city. But this? This is rich NIMBY bullshit. They want their property values to go up because a speculator wants to buy it for a short term rental that is only occupied a couple months of the year during a film festival. Be anti development for sustainability reasons, not because rich jerks want higher housing prices.

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