GhostVII

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by GhostVII 5y ago
Subsidize certain usages of electricity then. Or pay for the first x units of electricity for each household.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
How about we just make people pay for their negative externalities, and let them do whatever they want. Tonnes of things people do are wasteful, no one needs a sports car either, but for some people it is worth paying extra for it. Why shou
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Kind of a self-defeating list. As a PoW cryptocurrency becomes more popular, the value of a single coin goes up, so the mining reward will go up in terms of USD. As a result, the equilibrium energy usage in mining goes up proportionally to
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I don't think I have that much need for precision. But it would be good to have at least some analysis of the costs of an additional 0.5 degree increase, given that limiting climate change is one of the biggest global efforts right now
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by GhostVII 5y ago
What are the actual consequences of the globe warming by 2 degrees instead of 1.5 degrees? I feel like I never see it quantified. Like is that the difference between Miami being underwater or not? Is that difference going to cause an extra
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Pretty absurd how much of a step up the Falcon 9 is from previous launch vehicles. Landing a booster seems far harder than just doing a regular launch and dumping it in the ocean, and SpaceX can land 3 of them at once with the Falcon heavy.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I don't think I have to drive a Tesla to conclude I hate those things, because my experience with pretty much every other product I've used has consistently re-enforced how much I hate them. There is no circumstance in which I wou
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think people are naturally going to be biased against Tesla because of all the misleading marketing. Even if the experience on its own is good, it's tainted by the way they (mainly Elon, but not exclusively) chose to sell it. Also Te
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I'm fairly confident that non-verbal autistic people would be extremely happy to be able to effectively communicate with other people. And I'm sure autistic children with extreme touch sensitivity would love to be able to get a ha
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Sounds pretty ideal to me. It wasn't worth it for the drivers, so some of them left, driving up wages and decreasing demand. Supply and demand working exactly as it should. I'm sure if more people start to take Ubers again, wages
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think Google actually allowed you to just use your phone number to recover your account, so it was effective 1FA. In that case it would be less secure. They might have changed it now though.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Pretty sure the increase in risk due to worse crash safety outweighs the lower risk of being hacked by about 5 orders of magnitude.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Home maintenance isn't being built by the thousands though, so that makes some sense.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Isn't the A-10 an entirely different kind of fighter? I don't see how a close air support plane would replace the F-35.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think that for shorter distances, like LA to SF to Seattle that would be great. But I don't think any of the rail lines in China are comparable to going from Chicago to Seattle - that is a huge distance to build a high speed rail lin
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I don't get the point of all those cross-country routes, isn't air travel both faster and cheaper once you are going long distance? I mean I would love to cross the country by rail for entertainment, but as a common method of trav
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by GhostVII 5y ago
What I want is an inflationary cryptocurrency, not a deflationary one. Make an actual currency, not something to speculate on.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I don't know why Spotify removes Joe Rogan episodes, but keeps homophobic songs like "Where the hood at" (particularly relevant today) on the platform. Pretty sure that song is far worse than anything said on Rogan. I guess t
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I agree that there are cases where a payday loan is a good option, and that if people behaved rationally it would be objectively better to have that option than to not have it. The problem is that people don't behave rationally. And be
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by GhostVII 6y ago
It is pretty difficult to actually conduct business with an asset that changes value so much. For example a bank wouldn't want to give someone a mortgage in terms of Bitcoin if that house could be worth half as much in Bitcoin in the s
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Some of these are not particularly strong, and they missed several significant ones (Roadster, Cybertruck, Semi, refreshed Model S).
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Maybe setup more saving vehicles similar to a 401k that let people put their money into savings before it hits their bank account. Like what if you could have part of your paycheck automatically sent to an account that your landlord/ba
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by GhostVII 6y ago
No, just that they keep their numbers under control until younger people are able to get an alternative vaccine.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Older people are both less at risk from this type of clot (at least based on current data), and much more likely to die from COVID. So the risk of them dying from COVID in the time they have to wait to get an alternative vaccine is almost c
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Important to note that the blood clots from birth control are completely different than the ones from the vaccine, and are an order of magnitude or two less dangerous.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Why does that seem weak? One of the annoying things about taking time off is coming back and having to catch up on what you missed. Without that issue, your time off will be less stressful, and you will be less likely to try and check in on
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by GhostVII 6y ago
If life is so terrible, why don't the vast majority of people kill themselves? Of course there are sucidal people, but given that being suicidal is relatively rare, and is often the result of issue like depression rather than rationall
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by GhostVII 6y ago
That's a very dubious assertion. Formats are in the content of the email. Different formats won't tell you why one email was opened while another was not. Formats can include different titles and descriptions, which can make a h
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Because if you send emails to people who don't read them, eventually they will flag you as spam (even if they signed up for the emails in the first place), and then you will start getting blocked as spam by Gmail. Also it's genera
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Wow that blog is awesome, mostly random short posts like this.

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