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by avar 6y ago
A lot of these tools aren't even time optimizations at the hobbyist level. There's been so many times I've had to saw say a meter of plywood, by the time I've gotten out the circular saw, plugged it in, taken the extra s
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by avar 6y ago
> Any word [Eskimos] have for snow can be described in a corresponding way in English using adjectives. I can't speak for "Eskimos" and their languages but as a native Icelandic speaker I don't think you're quite
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by avar 6y ago
Some of it you pickup or remember from the context of the file you're looking at, but you really should take the time to read the manuals for these tools from cover to cover at some point if you're making extensive use of them. In
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by avar 6y ago
I realize what you meant, in practice there's a large amount of legislation around this sort of thing and the people writing it aren't morons and have heard of things like the cobra effect[1]. But maybe I'm wrong and there&#x
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by avar 6y ago
Yes, why wouldn't you? To the extent that you can remain solvent while trying to single handedly warm up the planet, it's in the interest of the rest of us to give you an incentive to shift that energy consumption to a sustainable
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by avar 6y ago
What makes me not believe it is that I read the study you're indirectly quoting[1]. I can't see how the articles you & the sibling comment could be written by a journalist with any other agenda than to deliberately misinform.
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by avar 6y ago
From the last link you cited: > Whoever buys the certificate can then claim that a certain amount of renewable electricity has been produced. Here’s where the problem is: the trade of certificates is not limited in space nor in time. It
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by avar 6y ago
It's interesting that the "Environment" section mentions this in passing: > Food comes mainly from packets or tins [...] There is a daily bread bake, and special occasions merit the thawing of a small amount of meat from a
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by avar 6y ago
You are wrong. The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, but e.g. mass drivers shooting tungsten slugs which would have nuclear-like effects aren't banned, nor is anything else. Even if a treaty did ban these weapons it wou
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by avar 7y ago
According to Wikipedia's article on the P-51[1]: > Bomber escort defenses were initially layered, using the shorter-range P-38s and P-47s to escort the bombers during the initial stages of the raid before handing over to the P-51s w
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by avar 7y ago
Previous (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681785
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by avar 7y ago
DIY masks such as simply pulling your T-Shirt up above your nose already help a lot[1], so not enforcing some manner of mask use for 100% of the population on the basis of an insufficient amount of surgical masks doesn't make any sense
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by avar 7y ago
> It's not about combinations. It's about, there's a serious bug in the library and now there are 79 different actively used versions of it that need to be patched instead of 2, which means half of them never get fixed. Ye
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by avar 7y ago
It doesn't entail any of that. Traditional distributions like Debian allow you to install any number of library combinations, they just do so badly by requiring you to do so on different installations updated at different times. Suppor
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by avar 7y ago
If you think Python 3 is a better tool than a Makefile you're entirely missing out on what makes "make" a useful tool. The entire point is that it's not a general-purpose programming language, so that you're forced
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by avar 7y ago
They were already living in offshore areas: > "adult megalodon were not abundant in shallow water environments, and mostly inhabited offshore areas.[1]" They're also thought to have died out 3.6 million years ago. There&#x
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by avar 7y ago
> For someone who speak about off-topic, since when did we, the article or anything in this thread talk about the transport sector? Within the span of the two paragraphs I quoted you went back and forth between "ban fossil fueled en
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by avar 7y ago
"Renting" hardware that you "own" is relatively normal. E.g. buy a 1U server with everything from a <provider>, pay some subscription fee so they keep upgrading it to the latest thing. It's a way to shift inve
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by avar 7y ago
You make that policy and pay a contractor to enforce it, and now you're back to square #1. Usable hard disks are just heavier and more inconvenient money. Truly ensuring their destruction is going to cost, including but not limited to
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by avar 7y ago
> It is a strawman argument to talk about shutting down 80% of the whole European energy grid in the context of the Swedish energy grid. Yeah, it would be if we were discussing Sweden's energy grid. You're commenting in a subth
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by avar 7y ago
The energy credit system accomplishes some things that your proposals don't. It's not realistic to make burning coal and other non-renewables illegal in Europe, less than 20% of the grid has been transitioned[1]. You can't ju
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by avar 7y ago
It's not being hidden, it's being exhaustively documented. Of course burning coal sucks, and we should replace those power plants. But until then we can also discourage their use by subsidising clean energy at their expense. That&
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by avar 7y ago
Respectfully, you're continuing to entirely misunderstand how this works. There isn't double-counting, that's the entire point of the system where "green" producers end up with "dirty" credits, because a &
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by avar 7y ago
That's how it's supposed to work. A country like Norway producing 100% green energy and having 100% coal or other non-renewables on the books is the system working as designed. It means that countries who actually use non-renewabl
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by avar 7y ago
The picture you linked to is taken in A Coruña whose mean temperature is around 10 degrees higher[1] still than relatively mild[2] climates near the arctic circle. I didn't mean to suggest they weren't also used to let light in. I
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by avar 7y ago
I'm assuming you're talking about the exterior metal curtains common to Spanish houses (persiana con cajor exterior [1]). Those are only incidentally to block out light, they're mainly for thermal management. You put them dow
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by avar 7y ago
I grew up at 66N (Northern Iceland), for what it's worth blackout curtains are rare to nonexistent there in my experience. Sometimes bedroom curtains don't even cover the whole window, and during parts of the year it's daylig
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by avar 7y ago
Being on a modern E-Bike in 39C is definitely way more comfortable than walking. You can adjust the power settings so you barely have to touch the pedals to move, it's less effort than walking, and you'll be traveling at up to 25
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by avar 7y ago
Your entire geography argument goes out the window if you look at China's high-speed rail system instead of Japan's. E.g. Shanghai - Kunming is more than 2200 km and takes between 10-12 hours[1]. At that speed LA-SF would take aro
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by avar 7y ago
I don't know about New Zealand, but Iceland is part of the EU's single market when it comes to selling cars. I'd expect for a company like Tesla dealing with regulatory overhead in new markets might be the limiting factor. Ne

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