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by D_Alex 11y ago
NPR story here: http://www.npr.org/2015/05/26/409671996/canada-cuts-down-on-...
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Canada's Red Tape Reduction Act – for every new regulation, one must be removed(tbs-sct.gc.ca)
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Let's turn it up a notch... can you have i-th order derivative (or integral)?
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False-dichotomy much??
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At first I thought the article was misleading because it was poorly thought out. After reading two other article that are linked in first paragraph, I think the article is deliberately misleading, and part of an effort to disparage Tesla&#x
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Moreover.... if you are not in software, but say mechanical engineering (like myself), doing anything new and interesting usually costs a lot of money. And if you do not have that money - because you have quit your paying job - your ideas w
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by D_Alex 12y ago
> into a dumber species Why necessarily dumber? I know that there is a trend for lower educated families to have more children, but also smart people tend to marry other smart people, so there is selection for intelligence at play. >e
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by D_Alex 12y ago
When I saw the title I thought it was some kind of a talent retention scheme, like "golden handcuffs"...
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by D_Alex 12y ago
Well, to begin with, you are off by a factor of 3 on useable energy, and perhaps by a factor of 2 on the energy density of best batteries of today (Wikipedia stated 0.95 MJ/KG for best Li batteries), so achievable range should be ~380
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by D_Alex 12y ago
One thing to add: Electric cars. They come with energy storage in-built. By rough calculation, if 10% of cars in my city (Perth, Australia) were electric, their batteries could supply the entire city's demand for duration of about 2 h
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by D_Alex 12y ago
I don't know about Vancouver, but here in Australia you must wear a bike helmet when riding a bike. That stops many people riding bikes (please do not argue about this, it has been done to death), and unfortunately has - probably - had
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by D_Alex 12y ago
You make a good point (though including "exploding popularity" in the explanation of how the sport was killed is a bit odd...). But then again, the point of racing is supposedly to improve the breed. I am pretty sure that the tech
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by D_Alex 12y ago
Well, it is a curious idea, and a very peculiar niche for a business! But... "Your website should be so simple, a drunk person could use it" is kind of arguable. For some sites (eg. hacker news...?) the desirable outcome is that a
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by D_Alex 12y ago
Is it a critical argument though? Even if single-family homes in the US tend to be made out of wood, that sector does not seem to be that big, and would certainly not account for any major portion of the difference (roughly 6 million new dw
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by D_Alex 12y ago
But the stats you linked show US consumption of circa 100 million tonnes per annum. The article shows Chinese consumption at about 2100 million tonnes per annum. So: the US did not "do the same in the last 5 years", and with China
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by D_Alex 12y ago
> It's a good idea to avoid ethanol gas, on principle if for no other reason. Processing edible food to burn in your car (with all the implied market consequences) is kinda crazy. OTOH, ten years ago, the prices for farm products we
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by D_Alex 12y ago
>There will never be an excess of solar or wind. Even if you continue the dramatic growth in renewables of the past decade there is utterly no chance that renewables can replace fossil fuels. The gap is too great. 1. Wind and solar energ
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>There is no excess ...yet. But solar and wind power are becoming the cheapest way to generate electricity. Their naturally variable production will mean that there will be periods of excess power available, and finding a good use for th
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Another reason to love Wikipedia (and maybe consider donating a little).
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> In a single instance of the prisoner’s dilemma, the best strategy is to defect — squeal on your partner and you’ll get less time. No, that is not right, if it was there would be no dilemma, and this subject would not be discussed ad na
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by D_Alex 12y ago
You are not alone... I fear that, unfortunately, a liberal approach to drugs will not end well at all. And I have thought a lot about this and heard all the arguments in favour. And yes, I know about how alcohol is legal and much worse than
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by D_Alex 12y ago
Really? Who was the silly bugger that sailed the ship into such weather? I hope the nukes were securely stowed...
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by D_Alex 12y ago
>You could probably be in 10-20' swells and it wouldn't any kind of danger. You are quite right! The design conditions for Austrlian North-West Shelf include waves with ~14 meters significant height occuring with a frequency of
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>I think having a huge plant on a ship means they can staff it with workers from 3rd world countries FPSOs in Australian waters are crewed with 100% Australian crews. Unfortunately this means FPSO operators need to deal with the likes of
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by D_Alex 12y ago
>I like the american system. It's based on 12 ... Are you sure?? I thought it is based on 2 (pints in a quart), 3 (feet in a yard), 4, 12, 16 etc and there is no rhyme or reason for which is which...
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>If baking, are you more likely to take a recipe and halve it or cut it by a factor of ten? You are more likely to halve it. How does the "American" system help, if you have to halve say 1 lb of butter and 1 quart of milk? It j
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>I would argue that being limited to a single unit system is like being limited to a single language. In principle, no one needs more than one but in practice the differences in expressiveness for different purposes are interesting and u
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>There is no such thing as human rights. They are just wishful ideals humanity invented. So... there are no such things as wishful ideals that humanity invented? Are "human rights" any less real than other idealised human conce
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Desalination plants produce fresh water and salty brine, the brine is put back into the ocean. The effect on water salinity are negligible - in the sense that it will be less than the natural variance of the seawater salinity - beyond a few
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by D_Alex 12y ago
>I have little interaction with Wikipedia other than editing it Well... thanks for your effort!

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