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Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide
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    Kethal
    6h ago 75%

    There are two bills mentioned in the article. One in Arizona is to make the subminimum wage even lower. One is Massachusetts is to raise the sub minimum wage to match minimum wage, effectively eliminating subminimum wage.

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  • GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities.
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    Kethal
    1d ago 93%

    People know what it is. That's why they're down voting it. These don't build communities.

    We all have access to RSS and can create our own sets of feeds. Posts are for the things that are worth talking about. Spamming a community makes it harder to find the interesting things.

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  • Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
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    Kethal
    4d ago 100%

    According to the article you have provided, it has... The first figure under Global Studies shows nuclear prices have increased, and the general trends of the various studies in the two tables show an increase over time.

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  • Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
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    Kethal
    4d ago 100%

    The other table has newer studies than 2015, where nuclear is not cheaper, but you've only pointed out the column where they found it was cheaper 10 years ago. Wind and solar have gotten cheaper to produce, and nuclear more expensive. It is not cost efficient compared to other modern options.

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  • Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
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    Kethal
    4d ago 100%

    It costs more to produce that electricy with nuclear than it does to produce it with other technology. Making lots of cost inefficient electricity is still making cost inefficient electricity.

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  • Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
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    Kethal
    4d ago 100%

    Nuclear plants cost a lot to produce but electricity from a nuclear plant sells for the same as electricity from anything else. Since many other options are cheaper to produce and maintain, nuclear is less cost efficient, not highly cost efficient as you claim. That's why it's not successful.

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  • Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
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    Kethal
    4d ago 100%

    Wind and solar are both cheaper forms of electricity than nuclear. It's not like this is a two-way race between nuclear and fossil fuels. Nuclear is a losing tech, right next to fossil fuels.

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  • Antitrust Be Damned, Google Keeps Trying to Close Off the Open Web
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    Kethal
    2w ago 100%

    What a conundrum. On one side there is Google, a company that has become that which it sought to destroy, an evil corporation bent on making money at any cost. On the other side are the hundreds of shit recipe Web sites that write a life story about everything they did in their childhood that led to the making of this food, when all you want is the damn recipe.

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  • The Trouble with the Electoral College
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    Kethal
    2w ago 50%

    This person knows just enough to sound credible and still get it wrong. He says that the electoral college requires states to allocate all delegates to the popular vote winner in each state, which is not true. States can allocate delegates however they want, and at least two states allocate proportionally to how how their populace voted.

    This is a critical difference, because eliminating a mismatch between the electoral college and national popular vote doesn't require eliminating the college. Eliminating the college requires a constitutional amendment, which is difficult to achieve. The National Popular Vote Compact requires nearly as much effort, and it's incredibly fragile, because as soon as a few states allocate all of their electors to a candidate who lost in that state, they'll pull out and the whole thing will crumble.

    The solution is for states to allocate delegates proportionally. That is in the best interest of each state, so it's not fragile. It can be accomplished one state at a time, so it's logistically easier. It doesn't require huge buy in to work, just a handful of states, so it's easier to achieve and more stable. Every mismatch better the electoral college and national popular vote in US history would not have occurred if states allocated delegates proportionally, so it solves the problem. People should start recognizing the real problem, so that we can work on a real solution.

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  • Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!
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    Kethal
    2w ago 90%

    CloudFlare makes more than a billion dollars a year in revenue. The work done for this project is probably worth millions to them and they paid out $100,000. That sounds like bullshit to me. Let corporations hire lawyers instead of doing their work for a pittance.

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  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College
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    Kethal
    3w ago 50%

    The fact that the number of delegates is not exactly proportional to the population of a state has never resulted in a popular vote mismatch eoth the college. It may happen, but it's incredibly unlikely. Every time there's been a mismatch has been because states allocate delegates in a winner take all manner. One of these this is a real problem amd one is a hypothetical problem. Solving the real problem is straightforward, and involes state level action of only a few states. The hypothetical problem is difficult to solve smd requires coordinated effort of many states at ones. You can spend your time solving a hypothetical problem and maybe achieve success in 70 years. Or you you address the real problem and succeed in 20 years.

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  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College
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    Kethal
    3w ago 100%

    What you're describing has never resulted in the popular vote winner losing the electoral college. The popular vote winner has always lost because states allocate delegates as a winner-take-all system.

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  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College
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    Kethal
    3w ago 50%

    The real solution is to allocate delegates proportionally to how citizens vote, as is done in Nebraska and a couple other states. This achieves exactly the same purpose as the NPVC but is actually politically tractable.

    No state has any incentive to assign its delgates to a person the citizens of the state didn't vote for. You can do what the NPVC does and make it contingent upon everyone playing along, but that requires everyone to play along and is incredibly tenuous. Even if it ever goes into effect, as soon as states allocate delegates to someone who wasn't the most popular candidate in their state they'll pull it, and the whole thing will fall apart.

    Every state has incentive to allocate its delegates proportionally. That's exactly what people want. They want that more than winner takes all. It doesn't require a huge chuck of states to buy into it amd it isn't tenuous. But it accomplishes the same goal; if states allocate delegates proportionally to how they vote, then the most popular candidate gets the most delegates. If you're in one of the many states that has winner takes all, advocate to do what the few more democratic states have already adopted and are happy with.

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    What's this Bug? Kethal 5mo ago 100%
    Dobson fly?

    I'm not sure what this is, but my guess was a Dobson fly.

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    What's this Bug? Kethal 5mo ago 100%
    What's going on with these bugs?

    It's a bit hard to make out in the photo, but there the center is a larger black insect being swarmed by dozens of small light brown ones. The larger one looks like some sort of beetle. What are the smaller ones?

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    I've never built a PC before and I don't know that I know all of the considerations. I'd like something as a server for automated backup from other devices, like phones. I may also do video reencoding on it. I'd like it to be fairly small, but it doesn't need to be that small. This is what I've picked out: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L3pxGP. The case, motherboard and power supply I plan to use is the AsRock Deskmini, but it wasn't an option on Part Picker: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmini-x300w/p/N82E16856158068. This was attractive because it says it has a built-in RAID setup. This is for backups, so I'd like RAID, but I don't know anything RAID, so a built-in option sounded convenient. The Deskmeet would have been fine too, but it's out of stock. Is the cooler OK for that processor? I don't care about a video card, and the 5700G has integrated graphics, but I don't know if I need something else to get the graphics working. Is there anything else I should consider? Thanks for any help.

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    Using Window Spy, Acrobat Pro doesn't appear to have button IDs to use with ControlClick. I can't find shortcut keys for almost any of the actions, and trying to navigate through the buttons with F6 and tab seems like a no-go too. The only ways I see to do this are to hardcode button positions or use or ImageSearch, both of which I find don't work well because coordinates change with window resizing or different resolution displays. Does anyone have a different approach or know of a way to handle different displays and window sizes? In particular, I want to activate "Visually digitally sign".

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    The connections under my sink have a flexible tube that I'd like to replace with rigid tube. The stub out from the wall doesn't have the nut and threaded connection I've seen before, and they've used what I think is called a no-hub connector. Would I use the no-hub connector on the rigid tube or do I sweat something like this on? https://www.brasscraft.com/product/1-12-in-o-d-tube-x-1-12-in-fip-3/ Or is there some other way? I've soldered the narrower water supply lines, but nothing this large. Is there anything to consider other than heating it longer? The stub out has corroded on the bottom and there's a thin crack that the no-hub fitting covers, so there isn't a leak now, but I don't know if that will be covered if I sweat on a connector. Is there a way to deal with that crack? As some extra info, I think that some stubs are threaded into the vertical pipe. This isn't threaded in and doesn't look like it can be removed without opening the wall and replacing it.

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    What's this Bug? Kethal 1y ago 100%
    Is this a termite?

    This is from Illinois. I think maybe it's a spider wasp, but I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, so I worry that it's a termite.

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    Is there a way to block all pinterest results from search engines? This doesn't seem to work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpinterested/. This one doesn't block results in image search: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/ Simply using "-site:pinterest.com" isn't great, because there are a bunch of pinterest domains: pinterest.com.mx, pinterest.es, etc. Typing them all in every time is a hassle.

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