D_Alex

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by D_Alex 7y ago
>pushing wealth out of their country. (Balance of payment in negative, it is right?.) No...if balance of payment is negative, that means they are pushing money out of the country. Presumably there is a corresponding flow of goods inwar
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by D_Alex 7y ago
No... the Saudi oil production costs are circa US$10/bbl, and their marginal production costs (ie costs to produce one more barrel) are circa US$3.00. They are not selling at a loss, but they are not making enough to run their countr
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by D_Alex 7y ago
That's why the first step is to order one of each type, and test.
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>The real number of cases is obviously higher than the ones being reported. Yes... and the number of dead people will also obviously be higher - because the disease has not yet run its course in all of the reported cases. Here is Lancet
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by D_Alex 7y ago
What odds are you giving on "On a per capita basis, the US will have a better time than Italy"... the worst affected country so far?
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by D_Alex 7y ago
I am curious if this device needs to be leak-proof - to save oxygen or prevent the release of virus -??? The parts I print on my MakerBot are very porous...
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>The Strategic National Stockpile does store an inventory of masks. 13,000,000 of them. That's like 1/10th of 1 day's needs... >they have plans to get another half billion Each week until the virus is contained, I hope.
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by D_Alex 7y ago
So the key to beating Trump is apparently engaging in discussion with Trump supporters to find out what they really care about. And right here, in this thread, we are playing "guess my motive".
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by D_Alex 7y ago
This reads like some kind of allegory, but I really cannot tell for what... But taking it in the somewhat literal spirit: we have a good analogy in the market with free range eggs. Here in Australia, "free range" hens must be kept
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by D_Alex 7y ago
The article's 0.6 mortality rate seems to have been obtained by dividing the number of confirmed infections (6284) by the number of deaths so far (40) - source: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index
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by D_Alex 7y ago
Good luck for when you need exactly 2:1 ratio, like eg in clocks.
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by D_Alex 7y ago
Bribery is bad, period. The entire point is to get people to make the wrong choice. Occasionally, bribery might be excusable. E.g. in 1990s FSU countries, most government employees would literally starve if they had to live off their govern
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>Somehow, Boeing, SNC, Halliburton, and many other massive industrials have survived so far >Somehow At least in cases of SNC and Halliburton, "somehow" was by doing the illegal thing.
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>an astronomical $800,000 USD for a house <<cries in a Hong Kong dialect of Cantonese>>
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by D_Alex 7y ago
If it's just size you want.... here is a building with similar population, ca 30,000 ppl. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@22.3080235,114.1927302,348m/...
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>...beef... the most environmentally impactful meat... Pork is less impactful and poultry is even less This is largely because pork is raised in factory-farming conditions that are awful for the animals, and poultry even more so. Environ
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by D_Alex 7y ago
Wikipedia is my charity of choice. I am very happy that they are well in the black. I think it would be a disaster if it was ever "monetised", and I want to keep them comfortable with their current path.
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by D_Alex 7y ago
What a dumb article. To begin with, nothing is jeopardising the grid right now in Western Australia, it is running just fine. The claim seems to be that if we do not account for the increasing share of solar power in the future generation m
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by D_Alex 7y ago
It's a pretty well known copypasta meme... see here: http://www.wikicu.com/Copypasta , section called "Someone was teaching a class"
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...Cliff's Notes?
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>infrastructure of entire countries to costing twice, thrice or more Citation needed. >the people who avoided being involved are going to be much, much better off than those that did Even if this was true, it does not "vindicate
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>why they find this comment so inappropriate It is just wrong. >Engineering is a social/ethical process, not a technical one This is just bizarre. >Yes, engineers tend to have technical skills ... tend to have??? >What sep
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>The obvious answer is... Did you know that there are massive streams of CO2 available for the taking? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-lng-carbon-fb/f...
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by D_Alex 7y ago
Yes. https://thedriven.io/2019/07/11/nissan-sees-leaf-as-home-ene...
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by D_Alex 7y ago
Yes, for some stationary storage applications 150 cycles would be completely adequate, and would last for many years. Eg: replacement of emergency generators, or some peaking power stations which only operate for a few days per year (we hav
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>Why people continue to allow this is beyond me. If, in the end, the patient recovers, what a happy ending that would be! And we might learn how to better assist others in this condition. The alternative is giving up forever on such case
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by D_Alex 7y ago
The author writes well, but presents an unbalanced, Mainland-Chinese-Propagandist views. This does not make for "great answers". Also.... who is asking the questions?
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by D_Alex 7y ago
>Hybrids "sort of" appear to be ahead in lower lifetime CO2... I think that this is unnecessarily cautious, to the point of being misleading. The right answer is "Hybrids ARE lower than ICEs when it comes to GHG emissions&
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by D_Alex 7y ago
Sooo... you should get more than 816 kg of chicken per year, clearly.
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by D_Alex 7y ago
This is a good example, but: have you ever dealt with airport car ride hustlers? This is what the alternative to taxi regulations looked like before smartphones enabled solutions like Uber. Furthermore: Is there a general principle here tha

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