Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The problem with vaccines in the US was they were and still are a low margin business. And it's a low volume business. Couple of million doses a year. Doesn't take that many bogus or maybe not bogus product liability lawsuits to e
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
You can imagine an end user has some structured document created by some other program 10 years ago and they need to look at it. Unfortunately in one place it violated the spec and a field type is wrong. Two ways to deal with it. My way. Th
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Once you get outside webshit you have a world where things need to be able to get the job done even in the presence of software bugs. And software bugs are just another type of failure. Some of those involve cases where failure is expensive
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I explained why not, because they elect terrorists to rule them. I'll add they regularly start wars that they then lose. Nobody else gets an endless amounts of do overs. And I think for them that needs to stop. They should get what eve
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Let not be the type of person that doesn't let facts get in the way. Hard fact Israel cleared out of Gaza 17 years ago and since then the Palestinians have let themselves be ruled by a terrorist organization. So doesn't seem like
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
The napkin math factor I use is to get the average power you need to divide solar and wind's name plate power by about 4. So to get the same amount of total yearly energy as a 1GW nuke plant that runs 24/7 you need 4GW of solar.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
My heretical comment. Any neutral policy that helps white man from a poor low education background will help a black man from the same. Probably even more. My snide thought on why people don't want to pursue such things is those things
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
What would be nice is a residential power over Ethernet standard. With standard crimp connections. Some advantages power limited and low voltage means it's safer[1]. Ethernet means you can control lights and other devices. Smaller diam
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I rode in a Model T. It has a serious golf cart nature. This article from 1936 captures it well. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1936/05/16/farewell-my-lo...
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think when it comes to electric vehicles. The big issue was the batteries. It's a hard problem. Probably too hard for the science and technology 100 years ago. It's one hard problem after another. I worked with some lithium prim
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
What was more impressive was the results of the US's cultural economic and soft power efforts. The cultural part can't be understated. By the 1960's young men world wide would rather be a rock star banging groupies than fight
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. Reality is the US won it's war against communism by the early 1970's. There wasn't much reason to continue the war in Vietnam after that. Not the least because the communists in V
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I also have a feel that how random crime is depends on type and varies from place to place. Some places it's mostly personal and others not as much. So personal risk doesn't necessarily track averages. Could be significantly lower
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Yeah I roughly guesstimate we need about 4 to 5 times as much as we currently have installed. Bright side is the various technologies we need are developed and in production.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Peanut gallery comment. Generics without type erasure and duck typing makes inheritance an antipattern.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
It's genocide which is worse.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> Unlike the USA, China doesn't have a long track record of starting wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War https:/&#x
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Imagine we build 3kwh worth of batteries per world capita. Or 8 billion people. And the batteries cost $100/kwh. That's 2.4 Trillion/Year. No ones leaving that kind of money on the table.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think the anti-government everything must be privatized thing is pushed because it's an opportunity to divert large flows of money into wealthy peoples pockets. The head of a publicly run company might make as much as a sr tech bro.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
My old companies corporate secretary underwent IVF and 6 zygotes implanted. In the end only one was left. She was totally freaked out though.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
My ex helped a women with a double stroller get it through a door and asked if they were twins and when the women said yes. My ex said woah you have my sympathy and the lady started crying. Also: From the article: gave birth to twins last w
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
My dad said when he was a young engineer nuclear and space was going to be the future and it didn't pan out. Friends dad was a nuclear engineering professor and said I retired just in time. I think battery storage costs something like
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
> because we couldn’t magic enough battery capacity into existence to compensate for base load Lets look at California's ISO supply page right now. Renewables: 14.3GW. Nat Gas: 3.5GW Nuke: 2.2GW Imports: 1.3GW Batte
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Same thing with water. For residential. Most of the cost is the capital costs of the distribution network. You'll always pay way more than the water district pays. Example. A friend lives in a tiny water district. Used to not be metere
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I'm a bit suspicious in the US that rates are higher where per capital consumption is lower. And probably also depends on max vs average usage. In practice capital costs of both generation facilities and distribution are being rolled i
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I think in Nordic Countries and places like Germany and Russia. My opinion if you get regular periods where electricity prices drop to zero or negative someones going to move to take advantage of that.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I was thinking district heating systems are probably a bad fit for heat pumps because they use steam. But if electricity prices have a tendency to go negative retrofitting them with resistive heaters could be a win.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Random idea. Change emissions requirements based on GPS coordinates. That's sort of what they do in shipping. Ships burn cleaner fuel in port. If a semi is driving around Los Angeles low emissions are important. In middle of Kansas not
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
Old idea of mine was to institute renters old age insurance systems sort of like social security. Tax rentals and use the money to provide a subsidy for retired renters. I've gotten any number of objections when I've mentioned it.
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by Gibbon1 3y ago
I bought a hybrid and the payback due to reduced fuel costs would be 6 years or something not figuring in maintenance or previous vehicle wasn't going to make another 6 years. Then again there is something to be said for minimizing you

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