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by 205guy 7y ago
> "I don’t personally care about going into great detail separating minutiae. I have better things to do." As other comments in this thread have pointed out, people are resistant to "fixing" their waste stream. I thin
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Imagine finding a Roman galley out in the Atlantic, or even more than one. I'm always amazed Madeira and the Azores weren't colonized before the Portuguese arrived in the early 1400's, even though there are possible Roman, Vi
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by 205guy 7y ago
https://www.touchstoneenergy.com "Touchstone Energy Cooperatives represents a nationwide alliance of member-owned electric co-ops, including yours. Collectively, it delivers power and energy solutions to more than 750 unifi
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Streetcars in Toronto are in fact light rail, doesn't that invalidate this entire argument? One can argue some LRT implementations have the same limitations as buses, but you can't call them buses, point to their success, and say
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by 205guy 7y ago
Thank you for raising these points because no one else has, in this thread or the previous one (linked in another comment). I especially want to emphasize: the "streetcars" that the author equates to buses in his graphs and his re
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After WW2, the Allies took scientific, military, and industrial personnel and equipment from Germany. The biggest scoop for the US were rocketry advances with Von Braun and his team, but the Russians took scientists too. The also sought any
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Because that is what they advertize themselves as (connecting with people and seeing what they post), they should be held to the image they project. The truth is they let you see most of your friends' and family's posts, but prett
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by 205guy 7y ago
I'm not defending AirBnB, because they totally enable and profit from scams as documented in the original article. But it is just the user expecting to get hotel services (rebooking and room swaps) from a non-hotel (whether genuine hom
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by 205guy 7y ago
But the free market is working: there are permitless drones available (with idiot-proofing software), or you can buy or build a "DRM-free" drone, and now the gov't essentially says you need a permit/license to fly it. I&
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To me it sounds as if you are saying "I want the charm\location\social experience of staying with a local resident AND I want the convenience/professionalism/capital resources of the hotel industry AND I don't want to pa
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by 205guy 7y ago
The double catch is that neither Zeus's nor Sisyphus's state of mind matter, skipping a day or two is detrimental to both the good and the bad interpretation. If Sisyphus is unhappy pushing a rock every day (the first level interp
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by 205guy 7y ago
As the other sibling replies point out, your assumptions about how free education works in France and Europe are wrongly based on what appears to e an American experience tainted by a libertarian view. With experience in both US and French
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by 205guy 7y ago
This is a fascinating discussion that I think gets to the heart of the matter, but is still missing the key point: can you ever own something with software? I up voted the sibling comment (diminoten) even though it was a bit aggressive. Lee
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by 205guy 7y ago
Here's another link for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_Nuclear_Power_Statio... Summary: Dungeness B reactors were scheduled to be complete in 1970, but finally cam online in 1983 and 1985 at 4 times
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by 205guy 7y ago
What about Catalonia? They seem to actually want independence more than the ones you list.
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Just look at the latitude: Toronto is about 43.6 deg north, so about 100 miles or 160km south of the halfway line (45 deg N).
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by 205guy 7y ago
This seems like a fun math game. Grise Ford is at 76.4 deg north, and the northernmost point of Mexico (near Yuma, AZ) is at 32.7 deg north, for a difference of 43.7 (45 would be half the distance from the equator to the pole). Round up to
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by 205guy 7y ago
Here is photographic evidence of transporting 3 kids, including a newborn in a childseat, on a bicycle: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/10/continued-expansion-of-t... Of course it's the Netherlands, and it i
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by 205guy 7y ago
I think this is a very salient point, about the dealership model being a hindrance. It's like Sears and Amazon, at some point the incumbent leader can't change fast enough and the new market is run by new companies. I do think it
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by 205guy 7y ago
bronson beat me to it, EVs have now set the Pike's Peak record, and ironically it's a VW (just not one they put into production). Here is another video of the VW, the first result for "EV pikes peak": https://
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by 205guy 7y ago
I wonder if sadistic Zeus would sometimes not give him a boulder to push for a day or two.
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But apparently not tempting enough to give details or show how it is in fact parallel.
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Exactly! He knew it, the whole company knew it and took advantage of it, and didn't disclose it publicly until questioned by a reporter. I see parallels to the genetic testing kits: it's all fun and games until police use it to fi
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by 205guy 7y ago
It sounds like you have short-term rental properties, aka unregulated hotels, or more accurately regulation-skirting residential businesses. In normal rentals, guests are called tenants, and in most places tenants have all the same privac
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by 205guy 7y ago
Given the fires at the oil storage tanks in the Bay Area, I wonder if CA will shut down petroleum infrastructure during high fire risk.
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GP comment sounded like it was in a town or city (school nearby), where average speeds are lower and "high speed roads" are not the norm. In towns and cities, engine noise definitely dominates tire and wind noise, especially revvi
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by 205guy 7y ago
If you commute by car, what about being able to charge where you work (or park for work)? I think that's even more necessary than apartment or street charging. The car is just sitting there and the daylight hours are best for solar ele
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Something I've come to realize is that the automobile industries in each country play an important role. Switzerland and the Netherlands don't have any major car manufacturing, though I do bet they have some suppliers. And it does
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How is this not a caricature of HN readership and geeks in general? Some/most people might even tell you that the purpose of life is to socialize--and all the games/power plays around that. To add more information, FB doesn't
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by 205guy 7y ago
I don't understand people who don't understand Facebook :-) You know what a blog is, what photo-sharing is, and RSS too. You know how people are social, a little bit vain, and like to brag. I'm sure you know about ad-tech, da

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