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Israel says Islamic Jihad rocket misfire caused blast near Gaza hospital
  • Then you've been mislead. It hit the parking lot, damaged vehicles but left the building relatively intact and, besides windows, superficially damaged.

  • Israel says Islamic Jihad rocket misfire caused blast near Gaza hospital
  • Why do you think it leveled the building? Have you seen such evidence?

  • CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."
  • This 1 fucking guy ruined a whole future generations of gaming with his greedy dumb fuck business ideas.

    Ftfy

  • It astounds me that anyone thinks otherwise on Hamas.
  • News went with it

    Lexicon > dictionary. See: Literally.

  • It astounds me that anyone thinks otherwise on Hamas.
  • Crimea circa 2014 disagrees

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  • Probably wasn't even IT but 'roadies' based on those cables

  • Jim "Scumbag" Farley
  • Source: Jim Farley

    Here's a little FYI for ya. Tropic Thunder is based on my experiences in Vietnam.

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  • It likely didn't affect cellphones. I know major appliances and vehicles were to be supported no less than 7 years. So I'd guess this just brings cellphones and other electronic items under that umbrella. Makes me wonder what is exempt, though.

  • Romney to Retire, Calling For a ‘New Generation’ Beyond Biden and Trump
  • You can say whatever you want about him, but one thing I'm fairly certain is that at the end of the day Mitt Romney cared about the average American. I'm not saying I agree with even half of his beliefs. But I believe his beliefs were focused on what he thought was best for the country and it's people. I'm also not saying he didn't attempt to make himself and those around him stupid rich, but that he wasn't going to do so by throwing everyone and everything out the window to obtain it. It's really a stark contrast to Trump. And you might think that's sad, but what's really sad is that it's not just Trump but nearly the entirety of that party now.

  • SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million
  • I would hazard a guess that they were running a geostationary setup rather than Starlinks LEO approach.

  • Biden finds a new friend in Vietnam as American CEOs look for alternatives to Chinese factories
  • It's incredibly disheartening to look back at the relation between the U.S. and Vietnam with the frame starting after the end of WW1. Had Ho Chi Minh been given the time of day it's easy to wonder what could have been. The Vietnamese simply wished to follow the example that the U.S. had achieved with breaking away from Colonial rule.

    Modern day attitudes really go a long way to show the true character of the Vietnamese. You hear of stories of the Christmas Truce, and opposing sides being relatively friendly after a war concludes, but the Vietnam War feels different. Between the racist dehumanization, war crimes and nature of the war putting civilians directly in crosshairs, you wouldn't be a fool to think that such a conflict would instill a near permanent hatred on both sides. Yet that doesn't appear to be the case. The overwhelming theme from anecdotes of meetings between former soldiers from both sides is an incredible sense of understanding and shared loss. And the onus of all of this lies chiefly with the Vietnamese. There's no reason they should forgive or turn the other cheek considering it wasn't a war they started, but that's not a distinction that really seems important to them.

    A country fiercely determined to defend its independence that has thrown off not one, not two, but three separate wars against such independence with each opponent being unarguably more powerful. I can hear an eagle screaming now.

    Besides, this is the same Vietnam who kicked China's ass in the very same decade that they forced the U.S. out of their country. At this point I wouldn't bet against the Vietnamese in any conflict if my life depended on it.

  • Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
  • Site I worked at was on the company's smaller end and we consumed around 10MW an hour.

  • Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
  • Was in the thread yesterday saying the same thing. What you describe is exactly what TVA does in essence.

    Ideally, they would convince the miners to install their own solar and wind generation (and maybe pumped storage as well)

    Texas has a 'problem' that prevents them from being able to incentivize this well. At least from what I overheard during my stint at a mine. Texas's big draw are all of the abandoned oil wells. You can simply go purchase a plot of land with a capped well, uncap it and install a Natural Gas generator that captures and burns the NG often released when drilling for oil. This gives you a one time fee for the generator costs and then after that you are in the clear with 'free' (relatively, minus initial costs) energy. This isn't exclusive to Texas, but obviously it can be done at a higher rate in the state compared to others.

  • Rule 4 says shitposts are allowed, right?
  • Who could have predicted this!?

  • Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave
  • My knowledge is specific to TVA, but I was privy to such an agreement that a Cryptominer I worked for had.

    The Local Utility Provider would bill the company for their usage, but they did not provide the rate. TVA did because of the amount of electricity. This rate is much cheaper than the Utility Provider offers residential customers; economies of scale as well as the inability to store this amount of power meaning it's "wasted" otherwise. Whenever there is a period of intense usage TVA would provide a 30 minute notice. After the 30 minutes were up the rate provided to us (industry) would more than quadruple, and was actually quite a bit above the residential rate. Residential customers are entirely exempt from this. Your rate, is your rate, is your rate.

    The effect of the above meant that it was a mad scramble to shut everything offline whenever we got notice. Otherwise we were losing money. Regular industry trudged along because their bottom line doesn't care if their power rate quadrupled for 3 hours a dozen days out of the year. It's not that big a deal.

    I definitely got to see the sausage being made, and it's opened up my mind to some of the ignorance around crypto mining. If anything it drove me further away from being interested in it as anything more than a neat tech demonstration that people figured they could trade.

  • Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave
  • Who has the keys to free the hostage? ERCOT or the Crypto Mine?

    Don't blame the Crypto Mine for the decisions of the State or ERCOT.

    TVA doesn't give energy credits. They give you a thirty minute notice that your ¢/kwh is about to quadruple.

  • McConnell pledges to remain Senate GOP leader
  • Someone gonna tell him that's not likely or nah?

  • Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet
  • "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway"

  • GOP senators weigh ‘special’ meeting on their leadership after McConnell’s freeze
  • Putting an arbitrary age limit (like say 65) would also keep out any folks who want to run after they retire (and who can't afford to run for office before then).

    That sounds like a separate problem that shouldn't be used to argue against mandatory retirements for the absolute highest political positions.

  • The most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke
  • Don't be afraid to show the world that not all southerners are right wing. I am prideful of my southern heritage while at the same time embracing others and celebrating theirs. I'll never be ashamed of my drawl/accent and if other people choose to look down on me, well, that sounds like their loss.

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