Empact

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by Empact 3y ago
> I’ll never understand In activism, people have the capacity for voice and exit. He apparently is exercising both. > Nobody cares what you think The letter being discussed here seems rather to confirm that people do care.
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by Empact 3y ago
> All that's needed for good indoor air quality (IAQ) is an ERV/HRV which exhausts stale indoor air and brings in fresh outdoor air (through a filter) The recommendations you mention are together features of the Passive House[1
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by Empact 4y ago
I recommend getting connected with The BUILD Show[1] and/or the related BS[2] and Beer meetups, where you can reach forward-thinking builders. [1] https://youtube.com/@buildshow [2]Building Science
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by Empact 4y ago
Would you elaborate on what you’re referring to?
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by Empact 4y ago
You’re responding to a different point than the one I made: it is true that western civilization has been Christian for roughly the past 2000 years. Certainly, other civilizations exist, before and elsewhere, but what proof do we have to de
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by Empact 4y ago
Which are you referring to? I’m referring to western civilization, which has been broadly Christian since Emperor Constantine (the 300s). > Religion, all religion, had been a drag on progress That’s a bold claim - are you sure that your
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by Empact 4y ago
Christian principles have maintained civilization for thousands of years. We have yet to see whether progressivism can maintain civilization. Is it arrogance to observe that, or to claim they are equivalently gibberish?
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by Empact 4y ago
Likewise, the french press and moka pot are extremely simple, easy to use and require no electricity to operate.
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by Empact 4y ago
Congratulations on being the first person in human history to call the end times correctly. Again and again we’ve shown we can make these transitions, including surviving a major ice age. While there’s good reason to worry, as lack of worry
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by Empact 4y ago
4 shipping containers > They envision the plant being delivered in four truckloads: the reactor container, the power conversion unit (an open-air Brayton Cycle system), an instrumentation and controls container and miscellaneous support
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by Empact 4y ago
State reps have a much more informed and salient interest in maintaining their state’s sovereignty, as their power directly derives from it. Much of what the fœderal government does now to usurp state power is to simply bribe the states to
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by Empact 4y ago
For me, I focus on the concept of temperance. Temperance is a long-venerated cardinal virtue that speaks to the vice of over-indulgence, but it's special in that it doesn't insist that you never indulge, only that you assert yours
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by Empact 4y ago
> Why not inquire why those schools are first choice & if those factors can be deployed to every other school? That's not an easy question to answer, but have you asked it yourself? Why don't public schools adopt the succes
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by Empact 4y ago
> So the question is, where should the fix be applied? We could start by not forcing them into a school system that is highly correlated with outcomes of criminality[1]. Then we could stop subsidizing dependency and instead ease the path
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by Empact 4y ago
The coins have to be introduced to the market somehow. Mining is a fair, open way to distribute these new funds. Literally anyone can participate on equal terms. In the case of bitcoin, the monetary inflation/issuance rate of bitcoin i
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by Empact 4y ago
> The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks
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by Empact 4y ago
Aren't Obergfell and Loving based on equal protection, rather than privacy? That seems a more valid basis, to this Roe-skeptic.
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by Empact 4y ago
Actually, it does: "arms" is a general term that describes weapons including the Ak47. The problem with saying technological change invalidates the 2nd amendment, is that you have to also explain or accept that the 1st amendment o
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by Empact 4y ago
MLS = Major League Soccer was not a given for me. E.g. Multiple Listing Service. Update title?
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by Empact 4y ago
I see at least four reasons this is the reasonable policy - Bicyclists: * have a much better communication with their surroundings: unimpeded sight lines, and typically less sheltered from surrounding sounds * suffer more risk and do less d
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by Empact 5y ago
There’s a far cry between commenting on public information relative to a governmental official, and misusing information as a private company.
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by Empact 5y ago
And several prominent efforts to remove that power from the government’s hands are ongoing.
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by Empact 5y ago
They are contributing to decreasing income inequality by describing how they increased their income. Why should it follow that people who break from a culture of poverty should be forced to support those who do not? It smacks of the “black
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by Empact 5y ago
This is described in the article, see “pedigree collapse” therein.
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by Empact 5y ago
Anyone interested in following this line of thinking should look into Orthotropics[1] and Mike Mew.[2] A key insight is that bones are modeled not only according to a genetic program, but also in response to pressure - they move so as not t
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by Empact 5y ago
Presumably TSMC https://electrek.co/2020/08/18/tesla-hw-4-0-self-driving-chi...
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by Empact 5y ago
For-profit schools also take on more marginal students, who may be less likely to prosper in any case. My father, admittedly an outlier, went from growing up in poverty, to ITT Tech, to Marquette (a Catholic University), to a Ph.D. from U o
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by Empact 5y ago
Infinitely divisible money is an unit with unlimited ability to scale to the circumstances - if more is needed, simply add another zero. You err in comparing this to roads, which are necessarily in proportion to the amount of traffic over t
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by Empact 5y ago
Is it really so difficult to imagine a world where people spent less conspicuously, and invested more prudently? In a sound currency world, interest rates are set by the relative availability of funds for investment - that is, they are coun
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by Empact 5y ago
You presumably live in a developed economy. There's a reason 70% of El Salvadorans don't have bank accounts, and it isn't a context of easy online banking.

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