Siddarth1977

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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Heat pump water heaters are drastically more energy efficient. Also, there are immediate air quality improvements from not burning fracked gas in your home. Also, recent research has shown that methane leaks happen far more than previously
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
No it's not a function of those two things, that's bullshit talking points from fossil fuel interests to deny climate change as being the dominant factor. The value in regular small fires was understood science 80 years ago and ha
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
I'd treat the 3.5 from UCF, Maryland and UNC as roughly the same, but think MIT probably was slightly harder to achieve. Maybe UNC I'd view with a bit more suspicion since it's more likely that someone got by there due to one
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
This is such a hilariously evil comment. The article is about how disenfranchised Swedish citizens are tired of being victimized by crime and violence and having their legitimate concerns for safety be invalidated and ignored by false accus
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
> Do we have double the population we did in 2016? Double the resources? Double the technology? If not then why is the stock market twice as high? One easy answer is that the "value" of a dollar is half what it recently was. An
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Agricultural use of water is actually productive though. Most of us prefer having food to starving. Having a lush, green front lawn in the desert however helps no one (and actively harms the natural plants and animals that belong in a given
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Just you. Humans are pretty good at seeing in the world whatever is on their mind or that they have fears or insecurities about. Sometimes that's the face of Jesus on a piece of toast, sometimes that's a scary figure that turns ou
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
The same reason people buy crypto. They expect to resell it at a profit to a bigger sucker before the whole thing collapses.
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
From HN guidelines: Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes.
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
My experience is the polar opposite. I quit eating meat a few years ago for ethical reasons after learning more about the industry (fun fact, when widespread animal abuse and unsafe, unsanitary conditions were revealed to be common across t
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Maybe take a break from the conspiracy theory blogs? You have everything here so completely backwards it's going to be tricky to unwind. Meat production has been massively subsidized in America for decades, resulting in terrible outcom
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
You're grossly underestimating the power of "progressives" within the overall governmental and administrative structure. Sure, to win in 2020 the Democrats had to go with a more pragmatic candidate. But behind the scenes, the
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
One simple step towards a solution would be to mandate green steel for government projects. Bridges, guard rails, buildings, snow plows, school busses, etc. You'd create a multi-billion dollar market instantaneously and have all the VC
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Comments like this make me wonder if other posters are living in an alternate universe from me. The engineers I've known and worked with were more likely to judge someone as being "like them" for their usage of Emacs vs Vim t
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
I agree there is a frustrating tendency to get into deflecting blame and pointing at different things, the situation with water is perhaps not a great example. If you focus on household water usage, you'll have many people oppose your
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
> "I couldn't run into a burning building if I can't regulate my temperature," she says. "If I can't control having hypertension, I can't lift up a patient or I'm going to pass out." > Bish
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
It would be great to see this happen in the opposite direction. The next time someone intentionally misinterprets something as offensive when that clearly wasn't the intended meaning, or goes searching for ever more obscure terms to de
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
I have a degree in computer science and a couple decades of experience with software development for, and deployment on, the internet. I think the metaphor of comparing internet bandwidth to pipes/tubes carrying water is perfectly apt.
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
One aspect of that which is a bit apples to oranges, is that the US is both incredibly easy for foreigners to enter and travel throughout, as well as being diverse enough that such travel wouldn't raise any eyebrows. At any given momen
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're attacking me with this random, unrelated statement. I didn't "blame the working class" in any way, and re-reading my comment I can't come up with any interpretation of my statement that
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Despite being oft-repeated, that educational claim isn't really true. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary in white college-educated women, despite all the claims about gender and education popular in certain sections of media. I think one big
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
I'm curious how old you are and where you grew up. In the 90s I would have considered $56,000 per year as rich. In the 2000s it would have been upper-middle class, or "senior white collar professional". In the 2010s probably
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Sweden isn't socialist. Sweden has welfare benefits slightly more titled in favor of the benefit receivers relative to the US. California unemployment lasts 26 weeks (182 days) compared to Sweden's 300 days. The USA provides free
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
So hurray, people learned from the horrors of the 20th century that socialism inevitably leads to rampant corruption, suffering and genocide? Socialism caused 100 deaths for every death the Nazis caused, I don't understand how we don&#
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
If this is what you believe (and not just rhetoric you're employing to sway people that you know to be untrue) then maybe it's time to take a step back and widen your world view and broaden your sources of information. It's o
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
The people in government (and/or lobbyists and special interest groups controlling them) absolutely do not "have your best interests a heart". I'm way less concerned about someone who just wants to sell me more than abou
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Characterizing the firms who defender homeowners from abusive hikes in their tax rates as being akin to "ambulance-chasers" seems completely backwards to me. My tax rates seem essentially fraudulent and designed to bleed me dry. M
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
A flat "resident" tax would obviously be the most fair. Everyone has equal rights to the roads, the firefighters, the libraries, etc so simply divide the budget by number of people and everyone pays their fair share. Obviously tha
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
There's no need for this sort of snarky trolling. Systemic discrimination against Black Americans both historically and today is well documented and understood. I could have written a long preamble about the many elements of society th
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by Siddarth1977 4y ago
Wow. Fascinating that you're unable to see them, but I guess I also read about people in Russia not seeing anything amiss about their media so I shouldn't be shocked. Here's a handful of "woke" things I've grow

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