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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Don't I know it. Even now I can see a headline and know it will have a quote from the founder of the company I used to work for without even opening the article. Most likely the whole article was written by their PR firm, maybe with a
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
It's pretty reductionist to look at this from a pure calorie input / output point of view. Keeping a few pastured chickens to feed food waste can provide pest control in a garden, an additional source of nutrition for people (whic
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Of course marginal land which is left untouched has no monetary or food value. What is the value of the difference between grazed and ungrazed? Is it enough to justify paying people to leave it fallow?
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
I'm not claiming this as fact, but it seems sensible enough that those products which have the shortest shelf life (meat, dairy etc) also have the highest greenhouse gas emissions.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Loss of cooling water to the condencer is bad news for any thermal power plant. It can lead to damage to the LP turbine through poor steam quality. I was perhaps a bit too hasty in my initial statement, clearly this reactor tripped because
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
In the spirit of people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones: this website sucks to read on a phone.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Is this much different from what Pinterest and Google images do?
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
If the grid frequency is not stable enough (i.e. demand outstrips supply) any type of power plant will trip off line when the protection circuitry kicks in. Anything else risks damage to transformers and industrial machinery downstream.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Edinburgh is so compact that you can practically walk everywhere. I frequently did when I lived there.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Aren't there studies that show the health benefits out weigh the dangers? I think the problem is more that it feels more dangerous and is, as a result, is often quite stressful.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
I haven't see anyone mention, not only are you disrupting the person you have turned around to ask a question but likely 3-4 people in the immediate vicinity. Depending on your office layout and the loudness of your conversation maybe
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
The prevailing attitude in this community is work hard in your day job, your side hustle and try to solve inequality and the environment in your spare time. As such I found this discussion an interesting diversion. Slightly awkward comic re
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
A startup I worked for had a bug in their supplier portal where every so often someone would be logged in and suddenly find themselves logged in as a different user. The problem was difficult to track down because it tended to disappear for
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Great Britain’s electricity system has greenest day ever over Easter(theguardian.com)
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
My personal price would probably be a little less than I use to pay for a train ticket. Maybe £300 a month. However, once this all settles down and I know what the conditions are it will probably be reinvested in a dedicated office space, e
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Yeah, for what it's worth I'm sure you are right. At the moment the company I work for is talking about reducing its office space by almost 2/3. If that is representative then the cost of office space is about to take a nose
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
The most bizarre twist in this whole tale would be if the rise of flexible working post covid-19 did actually create a gap in the market for a company to come along and provide flexible office space with short notice and minimal commitment:
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
If I understand your point, you are saying that Amazon has virtually made the data centre redundant, so the idea that offices are similarly redundant given the right tools shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to them? I take that p
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
For companies like Amazon there must be a huge element of the sunk cost fallacy coming into play. I'm sure they have spent hundreds of millions on office locations around the world. To suddenly decide that these are completely unnecess
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Surely it is those people who demand to work from an office who should be worried about commanding a premium, if the employer start including the cost of providing an office, especially in a premium area.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
You do not pay the government VAT. You collect VAT on purchases on the governments behalf, that amount was never yours in the first place. That aside I make a comfortable living as a software developer in London. My effective tax rate is ar
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
I have noticed an uptick in the number of scam calls and texts I've been receiving over the last few days. No surprise that my number was included in this dataset.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
Presumably not. Even if they did, what should they do with that information? Service dogs have special status.
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
I have a 30 year old diesel camper van which we use once every few weeks. Being a mechanically injected diesel Toyota so it's pretty reliable, the only thing that lets it down is the battery, especially over the winter when it gets use
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by VBprogrammer 5y ago
> Leaf is 5-10k€ Those are pretty wide error bars, last time I looked at used Leaf's they were selling for somewhere in that range. Admittedly first gen leafs with the 24KWh battery.
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Time will tell but I've got my fingers crossed that in 15 years time any backstreet garage will exchange your battery on a car of that age for a cost proportionate to the fact that you could reasonably expect another 10 years of troubl
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
I remember there was a phase in the late 90s when all of the premium gear had blue LEDs. I remember a Cambridge Audio amp rack and CD player a flat mate had. Now of course they are used on all of the most tacky direct from China stuff.
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
> Methane is indeed a potent greenhouse gas, but it doesn't last nearly as long as CO2 before it breaks down Obviously, methane breaks down to CO2 but there is no need to state this when referencing methane emissions. The Global War
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
Nice! I hadn't heard about Moss Landing. It's only been operating for 4 months.
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by VBprogrammer 6y ago
> Apple said the project will store 240 megawatt-hours of energy, or enough to power more than 7,000 homes for one day. By my reckoning this would make it the largest grid connected battery in existence. 50MW larger than the Hornsdale Po

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