barney54

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by barney54 10y ago
Because Netflix is focusing on their own content. They are spending money on developing their own shows instead of licensing shows and movies. They are trying to be more like HBO.
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by barney54 10y ago
Also, you don't know if there was consent before the recording started.
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by barney54 10y ago
I'll agree about cyclists on the sidewalk. They give all cyclists a bad name because it is needlessly dangerous.
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by barney54 10y ago
I take issue with "It was the very reliability of it — in user-friendly design, as well as stability of functionality — that was the basis of my choice in the first place..." With some Apple products this was true, with others, no
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by barney54 10y ago
Yes, and it's a large part of the conversation in this interview.
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by barney54 10y ago
From the title I hoped it the article would make an interesting argument, but most of it was the same complaints about Uber that we have heard for years including that Uber evades livery laws. Well, livery laws are terrible and unjust, as a
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by barney54 10y ago
I'm not sure there are cases where solar is negative, but there is with wind. That's because in the IS wind producers get paid the wind production tax credit when they produce electricity regardless of demand. So you can have ne
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by barney54 10y ago
One issue with these numbers that they are making and apples-to-oranges comparison with non-dispatchable sources (wind and solar) and dispatchable sources. There is value to being able to turn on and off a generation source that isn't
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by barney54 10y ago
Will this wind facility actually be connected to an Amazon facility, or is Amazon doing this to collect the wind production tax credit?
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by barney54 10y ago
Peakers are still much cheaper than batteries. Here's the most recent analysis from Lazard: https://www.lazard.com/media/2391/lazards-levelized-cost-of-... See p. 9. So current peakers will not be stranded a
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by barney54 10y ago
Their is little evidence that their position has changed on the ground. Green peace says China is still building a ton of coal. http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2016/07/13/china-keeps-buil...
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by barney54 10y ago
Exactly! It's silly to think otherwise.
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For a long time manual transmission cars got better fuel economy. That has only recently changed where automatics beat manual transmission cars. The high price of gas in Europe is a key reason why people chose manuals for a long time.
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by barney54 10y ago
Which biases are you talking about? The right-wing bias of the editorial pages or the left-wing bias for the news part of the paper? According to this study, the WSJ's news section is more left-wing than the NYT and other newspapers. S
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by barney54 10y ago
One counter example is that Delta bought an oil refinery for this reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainer_Refinery
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by barney54 10y ago
As a bike commuter (and one who frequently rolls through stop signs and stop lights) I agree with you. Cycling is dangerous and allowing cyclists to legally roll through stop signs and stop lights isn't going to make cycling safer. I a
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by barney54 10y ago
Not really. Offshore wind only production electricity 5% more of the time than onshore wind (see the capacity factors here: https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation... ) Offshore only sligh
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by barney54 10y ago
A couple important pieces of information were omitted from the article--according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) offshore wind is the second most expensive source of new electricity generation. In fact, offshore wind is 250%
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by barney54 10y ago
Now if they could only put the crooks that run the IOC in prison...
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by barney54 10y ago
Actually, here's a great and easy recipe to cook a whole chicken--Salt Roasted Chicken: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/salt-roasted-ch... There are many versions and this is just one. It&#
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by barney54 10y ago
...But it hasn't happened in the last 100 years--it also hasn't happened over the last 5-10 years. The Nissan Leaf, for example, is over 5 years old. There are good reasons why EVs haven't dominated yet--cost, range, flexibil
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by barney54 10y ago
Gas taxes are the user fees people pay to use the roads. In no sense is it true that roads always loose 100% of money.
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by barney54 10y ago
You can argue roads are subsidized, but no where near 100% subsidized. Federal and state gas taxes are user fees for road use.
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by barney54 10y ago
The water loss is one thing I like about a low carb diet--you get positive feedback right away. It isn't real weight loss, but that doesn't matter. The point is to get started and feel like you have made progress in the right dire
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by barney54 10y ago
In DC with the Metro having problems, the bus is frequently faster--even from downtown.
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by barney54 10y ago
No it is not a direct transfer. This is not talking about a transfer from taxpayers to oil companies. It's about companies keeping money they made instead of paying that money in taxes.
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by barney54 10y ago
The title of the article is incorrect. The oil companies do not get $4B a year of taxpayers' money. This isn't a transfer of money to the oil companies, this is about tax credits and tax deductions, specifically--percentage deplet
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by barney54 10y ago
The incentives likely don't matter in the future because the future of Uber is driverless cars.
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What is frustrating about this article is that no climate scientists were caught off-guard by 2016 bring hot so far. There was a strong El Niño. Everyone saw serious heat coming months in advance.
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by barney54 10y ago
But why woukd Americans care if the entire world uses the same units of weight and distance?

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