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by SECProto 4y ago
I think you're underestimating the impact that climate change will have, most importantly from human migration, food shortages, and war (which are secondary impacts of climate change, as opposed to the primary impacts you've liste
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by SECProto 4y ago
Yes, my 550sqft (was a very rough size approximation, 5 yrs ago from memory) was certainly not in Tokyo, and the 4万 (plus utilities) that I paid for rent was seen as expensive. I was just using it as a basis to show that straight space comp
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by SECProto 4y ago
> The housing space metrics seem very far off from my experience I have friend living in Tokyo paying <10万円 in rent for a (very small) single unit. A couple other friends share a larger unit and pay similar per person. All are in the
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by SECProto 4y ago
People don't experience it because the water heater output is a consistent temperature. There's nothing to experience with increased consumption of electric/gas/heating oil, especially when those concurrently increase fo
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by SECProto 4y ago
Thank you for the clarification! I've been happy with my 35mm lens (50mm equivalent) largely because it cost about $200.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> I'm not convinced of SEC's 2-3x estimated increase It's a simple calculation, but very location specific. In my particular case, if the water heater is set to 50C, and tap water is 22C in Summer, it has to impart a ΔT of
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by SECProto 4y ago
You sure it'll be 50 deg? that's significantly colder than summer tap water in my Canadian city, which is closer to 70F at peak.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> That’s likely overly cautious I'm not in the country shown on your map. The area of Canada I'm in would be somewhere roughly around the 90" line on that map. It's between the 2000 and 2500 lines on this map [1] (the
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by SECProto 4y ago
The various municipalities I've lived in require 5 to 8 feet minimum bury depth for water pipes to avoid freezing. The seasonal property I mentioned earlier being at 3-4 feet depth is likely helped by the fact that snow is not cleared
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by SECProto 4y ago
Strangely enough, drinking water is served at temperatures up to 100C in certain preparations (eg tea)! Less tongue in cheek, yes, people will often chill their tap water in the summer before drinking. But it's perfectly drinkable at w
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by SECProto 4y ago
Temperature at the well stays consistent, but it can vary at the tap. At a family member's secondary property, tap water will vary from 2 deg in winter up to 15 in summer (because the line between the well and the house is only ~3-4
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by SECProto 4y ago
I think the difference between your comment and mine is I assumed the parent commenter is complaining about 50mm FOV being too tight on a APS-C sensor, and you've assumed they're complaining that 50mm is too tight on a full frame
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by SECProto 4y ago
> If pointing someone to a single "normal" lens as a prime, I'd point them to a 40mm, not a 50. The article does have a section on exactly the issue (FOV) you note - it identifies that the 50mm lens is not the same with mo
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Isn't shock and awe designed to strike fear and terror in the hearts and minds of the populace? When you bomb bridges, railroads and vital energy infrastructure, the civilians are the ones who suffer the most. Per the Wikipedia ar
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by SECProto 4y ago
Note that a portion of that increase in gas consumption is still due to the hot water usage, even if the number and duration of showers stays the same - tap water varies in temperature through the year, getting colder in winter and warmer i
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by SECProto 4y ago
I am "that coffee friend", and I disagree. I appreciate the coffee anyone might get me. It doesn't have to be fancy, it may be fantastic or it may not be - but it's very thoughtful, and I always appreciate it. Generally
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by SECProto 4y ago
That's using 50£/MWh, which sounds like an inaccurate wholesale price to me. With a quick search, I'm seeing the average rate in 2022 around £0.225/kWh, or 4.5x your rate. 5 kettles a day sounds right for my household, a
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by SECProto 4y ago
> If you're using gas or resistive heating anyway this achieves very little. ? This isn't correct. If my kettle boils in 2 minutes when it's half full, and 3.5 minutes when it's full, then by only half filling it you
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by SECProto 4y ago
Fair enough, there are similarities. However, alphabetically written languages are the same as their spoken - learn how to pronounce a hundred letter combinations and exceptions, and as long as you know the spoken language you're good.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Like treating Latin as literary language That comparison is a stretch, as Latin and English are both written alphabetically, while classic and the various modern chinese dialects/languages are written logographically. It's a
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by SECProto 4y ago
> How many houses, without preservatives in the wood, would rot and be rebuilt, compared to 100% concrete/rock housing? This isn't a great comparison, as unreinforced concrete is not used for structures. If you're speaking
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Would you rather your wife walk in a park during the day or night? Would you rather walk on a highway shoulder or a residential street? Ears on the street is what matters, not cars on the road.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> man those are annoying zebra lines... You have to walk 10 meters more to use the zebra line on each intersection! Unless you are trying to cross perpendicularly, then you have to walk 10 meters less. Averages out to being similar (and
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by SECProto 4y ago
I have 0 contacts on WA and 30 on signal. Only time I used WhatsApp was a decade ago when travelling in Europe. Personally, I use signal as a replacement for Hangouts.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> It's also not clear how quickly heat can be extracted from the bricks. This is a commonly defined material property [1]. You would simply size your bricks to suit the situation - given same volume, more surface area means faster h
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by SECProto 4y ago
> The system clearly doesn't exist, or we'd see pictures and video of it. > While this tech sounds nice for industrial processes, it's not anywhere near as practical for domestic heating, where geothermal heat pumps wil
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Was anyone else expecting a story about actually going off the grid, you know, permanently? Yep, I clicked on it looking for an article about pitfalls experienced by someone (or several someones) building off-grid housing. Oh well
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by SECProto 4y ago
> All of the metal at a scrap yard I know of amounts to less than half that weight, for reference. That's not a great reference point when you're trying to visualize to pumped storage, as water is 1t/m3 while steel is up
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by SECProto 4y ago
> In practice, it shouldn’t really matter if you have one or the other for the resulting city. Oh but it absolutely does. If you live next to a park and your teenage kid want to put an ice cream shop in your garage to operate on summer a
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by SECProto 4y ago
> This is one of those statements which are true only if you live in California. I definitely don't live in California. > A 5-6 year old EV battery is unusable in winter at low-ish temperatures. A brand new EV gets less range in

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