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by SECProto 4y ago
There are ways to do it right. In the suburban context (as long as you have decent soil and keep inputs out of it), whatever you grow is an improvement on grass or weeds. If you grow from seed, compost your own fruit and veg waste, maybe ra
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by SECProto 4y ago
A lot of home gardeners drive their SUV to the box store to buy plant saplings in plastic pots and small plastic bags of compost/manure/fertilizer, then in a separate trip to the big box hardware store to buy kiln dried dimensiona
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by SECProto 4y ago
I'm in Canada not the US. I had relatives get rooftop solar, bigger system but not significantly (I think around 10kW). It took them 2 or 3 days to do the install for a crew of ~6 (over 2 trips), plus another 3 visits by the contractor
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by SECProto 4y ago
Just to confirm you're comparing like-to-like: Is yours also rooftop? And was it also installed professionally? Those add a huge amount to the cost. The high end of your BIL's quote is high, but the low end sounds roughly correct
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by SECProto 4y ago
> I've met some earning 250-400k a year. As a software engineer, I felt I was in the wrong business. That's definitely "grass is always greener" thinking, of the same sort that makes others hear about Google project m
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by SECProto 4y ago
> What sort of culture war or regulatory arguments could be made to explain France's failures with the EPR design, that so closely mirror the US's failure with the AP1000 design in the past decade? Nuclear plants are massive, c
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by SECProto 4y ago
> I pre-ordered in 2021, you’re currently saying I have to wait until 2023. What gives? The current network in Missouri and Indiana and Kentucky is saturated [1]. This will get better as they launch the next shell of satellites, and as
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Not sure about this. Firefox and Opera both support 720p. Don't you have to enable widevine to get Netflix in Firefox?
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by SECProto 4y ago
What is the speed on the central section though? The average is very heavily weighed down by track sharing on the SF end
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by SECProto 4y ago
Yes, that is why I explicitly noted the "express train" thing in my footnote. The route itself is longer, so a direct train will take a little bit longer. A local train that stops will add more time.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> If you take the train to Bakersfield you'll be in Bakersfield without a car And if you live in SF or LA and are going to Bakersfield to visit friends or family, that won't be an issue at all. And Bakersfield will likely densi
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by SECProto 4y ago
> They should have used the existing right of way on I5, no stops between SJ and LA. If you build high speed rail, you want ridership. Adding Fresno to the line takes the distance from San Jose to LA from roughly 340 miles to 366, adding
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by SECProto 4y ago
> I just picked a book at random: Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. I think that's a poor example - Moby Dick isn't exactly praised for ease of casual reading (and internet comments should definitely fall in the category of casual
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by SECProto 4y ago
Dictionary definitions generally don't include information on connotation. Edit: I searched to find a dictionary for word connotations, best I found in a couple mins is https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~ychoi/connot
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by SECProto 4y ago
> How do Coca-Cola get around having to list all ingredients when they sell a bottled product? They just list 'flavourings' don't they Per the FDA[1], " some ingredients can be listed collectively as "flavors,&qu
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by SECProto 4y ago
On an annualized basis, tapwater in San Francisco costs $3.68 per cubic meter[1], which is actually approaching the rate for desalination to be cost effective. (For agriculture, it still far far (far) away.) Traditional (distillation) desal
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by SECProto 4y ago
I do 100% of my browsing on firefox, but half of it is on firefox mobile. If i used chrome, that mobile portion would not have adblocking.
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by SECProto 4y ago
I've cooked on most types of stove: gas (butane, propane, natural gas), electric (coil stove, solid disc resistor, glass top halogen, glass top induction), a few older styles (cast iron wood stove, kerosene camp stove, straight up camp
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Few plants built after the non-proliferation treaty, because many plants were subsidized by proliferation needs. This is incorrect. Looking at the list[1], only 2 remaining reactors in Canada were built before the NPT was complete, and
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Ok, sure maybe it's smaller than a PWR behemoth. It's still solid fuel rod crap. Yes, "solid fuel rod crap" same as used in every other production nuclear power plant? This SMR sounds like it might actually get bui
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by SECProto 4y ago
Glad you found a solution that's working for you! I found it annoying when Firefox did that, but in a purely academic way - the only add-on I use is uBlock.
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by SECProto 4y ago
I guess "being able to block ads on the platform on which I do 50% of my browsing" is my ideology, yup.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> "Competition" requires competitors to actually compete. Firefox is clearly not interested. I exclusively use Firefox because of ublock on mobile. Other browsers cant compete. I have no issues using FF, and major annoyances wh
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by SECProto 4y ago
> I am all for finding ways to move it west where people say they need it and are willing to pay a premium. Note that the premium amount they would be willing to pay is approximately $0.0017 per litre, delivered treated to their doorstep
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by SECProto 4y ago
I understand gravitation isn't the only force... how are you proposing to store energy? Other options (beside pumped hydro as gravitational potential energy storage) that come to mind are flywheels, springs, or batteries .... all of th
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by SECProto 4y ago
They actually changed the seal material to silicone in 2018[1] - that's why I got a new one to try. So far so good! [1] see the fourth last answer in their faq https://aeropress.com/pages/faq
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by SECProto 4y ago
Yes, I was just suggesting that force times distance is not relevant to energy storage as gravitational potential unless the distance is vertical.
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by SECProto 4y ago
You can also just search 6min timer on duckduckgo, still works there
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by SECProto 4y ago
If I use my large french press (which tends to have a thinner filter bed), I sometimes will pour it through a paper filter set in my ceramic pourover to accomplish the same thing.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> You may go back to your freshman physics textbook. I may, but I live in a country that doesn't use the word freshman, so I don't know which year physics text that would be. I assume from context you were meaning to refer to g

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