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It’s already like that for electric cars. See Tesla’s Superchargers.
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This may be the best first large-scale use case for electric vehicles. Companies can better focus on total cost of ownership than with private light duty vehicles. The payback will also be better because of the greater utilization than wit
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I'm confused. The link you shared shows that there are fewer American citizens in ICE custody than during the Obama administration and there are fewer citizenship claims in court in 2017 than during the Obama administration. Of the exa
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This is not true of asthma. Outdoor air quality in the United States has improved over time [1] and asthma rates has increased. [1] https://www.epa.gov/air-trends
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I hear you, but let’s be honest about what this means—more work for attorneys...
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I have really liked driving in Europe. The true benefit of driving is seeing what is in between cities.
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There are Duolingo meetups. https://events.duolingo.com/events/ I haven’t been to any, but they exist.
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Clear only verifies your identity. You still have to go through the same security screening as PreCheck.
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Yes. The best camera is the one that’s with you. That’s what’s so great about the smartphone era—we have good cameras with us at all times.
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The compute for autonomous driving could be 10% of the total energy budget of the car. https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/13/autonomous-cars-shorter...
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This article is an interesting thought exercise and it makes some good points about how expensive Germany’s renewable build out has been. However, these are all sunk costs and don’t matter going forward. What matters is the cost today. Als
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It’s paywalled, so I can’t read the argument, but what’s important for my mental health is sun in the afternoon—after work. That’s what I really like about Daylight Savings Time.
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The article also notes that Oulu has inexpensive housing. Inexpensive housing is a lesson many cities could use—from Berlin to London to San Francisco. Having affordable housing help everyone from people with high-paying tech jobs to have t
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Oh, I don’t know. I refuse to use Facebook Messenger and I have yet to be damned (at least to my knowledge)!
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The one upside for me about obscure charges on my cable TV bill years ago is that it pissed me off and as a result I canceled cable TV. I’m much better off without cable and it was obscure charges that motivated me to cut the cord.
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I agree with this and I have done this for years. However, having to take a shower is an extra source of friction that makes biking a bit more challenging in hot climates.
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I agree that it's a balancing act, but what are we balancing? What are we maximizing for? It's critical we ask the right questions. For example, why has bike commuting declined recently in the United States? https://www
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This view misses much of what has happened in economics since 1980. https://reason.com/2019/10/20/the-third-lesson-of-economics/
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There is very little competition because the cable companies worked with cities to limit competition by convincing cities that the only way they would build out a cable network is if the cable companies were given a monopoly. It’s ugly. Co
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And oil is much easier to transport over really long distances on tanker ships.
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It’s a start up and just started working with manufactured housing builders.
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This is not accurate. US methane emissions have fallen, even as natural gas production has increased. From 1990 to 2017, total emissions of methane decreased by 15.8 percent. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/fi
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Yes, batteries are very fast acting, but that battery in South Australia is only 100MW and the grid lost over 1400 MW. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/eve... Batteries have a lot of
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I'm not exactly sure the GRRM point hold true. He might write on Wordstar, but the distraction free writing environment hasn't exactly helped him finish books in a decade.
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That’s an interesting claim. I’d like to read more about it. Do you have a citation?
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Here's some context of what the consensus science says about drought: https://wg1.ipcc.ch/presentations/Sbsta_drought.pdf • Low confidence in an observed global-scale trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall
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If you would like additional context, here’s the U.S. drought monitor which shows very little drought currently in the United States. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
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There's a lot of talk about drought and climate change. But what does the consensus climate science says about droughts? The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that "There is low confidence in attributing changes in
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How did plants survive in the past when co2 levels were much higher than today?
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US banks want as little friction as possible on boarding versus European banks. Why would this be? Why are US banks less concerned about fraud versus Europe? One possible explanation could be that fraud may be less prevalent in the US than

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