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by avar 2y ago
NASA hasn't been to the surface of the Moon in any meaningful way since the 70s. So, you're correct, but how is that relevant? Obviously all discussions about "NASA plans to do X on the Moon" and "if NASA's doi
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by avar 2y ago
That entire section seems to hinge on a few conditions you might get out of. E.g. here the videos seems to show the maintenance access to a roof, is that a "readily accessible location"? Even if that's the case it seems you c
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by avar 2y ago
Yes, you can DIY-it, although I'm a bigger fan of using box-shaped freezer-certified tupperware, it's more space-efficient. But the commercial product is cheap enough to buy if it's going to be your backup plan.
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by avar 2y ago
Did you consider buying a larger freezer (or sacrificing space), and just filling part of it with freezer gel packs? I wonder what the cost/benefit calculation is for that v.s. an entire solar backup system.
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by avar 2y ago
If you search for the manufacturer shown (PowMr) it looks like they make both 110v and 220v variants. This looks to be the same or similar product for 220v: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EwlP4Cf
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by avar 2y ago
Around the 2 minute mark in the video you can see he's ratchet strapped the panels together, and in turn that strap is attached to the roof (looks to be looped around a pipe?). So he's not just relying on the wind rating of the pa
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by avar 2y ago
> DO NOT DO THIS! You're probably right, but just to rules lawyer this a bit for fun: Flexible cords and flexible cables shall be used only for the following: [...] (9) Connection of moving parts. He c
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by avar 2y ago
And some people will pick the ISP where Disney's subsidizing the subscription to make Netflix look bad, and not care because they're only using the connection for SSH terminals and email. Don't assume that people only pick th
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by avar 2y ago
> One end of the building will > be over 100km from the sea, Well, that part's easy. You put the non-citizen service workers on that end, you didn't think MBS was planning to provide them with AC, did you? :-)
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by avar 2y ago
See e.g. [1], so they could either funnel air into the ocean and back up for direct temperature exchange, or alternatively use the breeze generated top-to-bottom in the building to drive "active" pumps. Or just have Olympic-sized
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by avar 2y ago
> Do you also call Amsterdam > with its dikes and below sea > level, “a monument to man’s > arrogance? Amsterdam mostly isn't below sea level[1], nor is most of the Netherlands's area that people
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by avar 2y ago
With the caveat that all published "plans" for the thing were probably meant as a PR stunt the plan called for passively cooling it[1]. That part actually doesn't seem implausible, it's right on the Red Sea, which is qui
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by avar 2y ago
Holy shit, is that verbal diarrhea written by ChatGPT or something? It's multiple pages of talking in circles, in the end it doesn't provide anything other than an unsourced assertion. This is how you get your information? But no,
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by avar 3y ago
"Rabbit" (dado) blades aren't illegal in the EU.
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by avar 3y ago
You can make an argument against seatbelts on that basis, but it's not the one I'm making here. I think seatbelts should be mandatory, but don't think it's sensible to mandate complex and expensive technical solutions fo
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by avar 3y ago
No it's not. Even if you're the best defensive driver in the world a seatbelt might still save you if someone plows into you while you're stopped at a red light.
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by avar 3y ago
It's really not analogous to seatbelts. It's really simple to use a table saw safely: don't ever get physically close enough (by far!) for the spinning blade to cut you, or stand where it can fling something at you. Then even
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by avar 3y ago
I see, I think it's implied there that if you're not wealthy then forming a business while assuming all the liability of the business is an equally or larger moat to cross for the poor. It means that as soon as you screw something
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by avar 3y ago
This thread is discussing limited-liability companies. You're personally liable for that Kleinunternehmer, in Germany your only option is a GmbH.
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by avar 3y ago
Because there's a significant a transaction fee if you're paying by credit card, with cash or debit card there's no transaction fee. The bigger mystery is why stores in some other countries are happy to have a payment method
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by avar 3y ago
> During Covid Germany was the > only country of its neighbors > that did not do remote attestations. Same in the Netherlands.
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by avar 3y ago
You're missing the point, obviously water based gas radiators are expensive in the US, because almost nobody uses them. We're discussing how certain changes in the last 100 years contribute to overall housing costs. If something h
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by avar 3y ago
You asked for a "real planned experiment" and then asserted that "GPS cannot be used on the moon". This is a real, planned experiment to use GPS on the Moon. NASA has already conducted experiments to use GPS in Earth orb
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by avar 3y ago
Air conditioning wasn't invented until 1902, and didn't start seeing wide deployment in the US until the 1960s[1]. I'll leave the comparison to the historical population of the states you mentioned as an exercise for the rea
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by avar 3y ago
The article were discussing claims HVAC costs are 6% for a newly built home. That's not a trivial amount. As far as I can tell the minimum common standard in much of the US is only for heating [1]. Depending on your house layout and wh
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by avar 3y ago
> The incremental value of the > first 1000 sq ft is nowhere > near as much as the next 1000 > sq ft. Agreed, but not for the reasons you think, it's even higher than that, not lower! A 2000 sq ft hous
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by avar 3y ago
> Most importantly, owning your home in full means that you're not paying landlord each month and it can also be passed down to your children. You can own an apartment in full and not pay a landlord. You can even own the land the ap
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by avar 3y ago
Discussions of zoning, building codes etc. are valuable, but I think everyone's missing the main factor: If you somehow made housing 50% cheaper people would just demand 50% larger housing. If you look at housing size over time people
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by avar 3y ago
The US could always tunnel into those areas later, unless the Chinese are also allowed to develop a mineshaft-gap.
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by avar 3y ago
GPS cannot be used on the moon Yes it can: https://tempo.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/using_GPS_signals_at_the_mo... There's a paper about it here, they're planning a Moon-based experiment: https:/&#x2F

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