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by barney54 5y ago
Microsoft has spent a ton of time lately bolstering their green credentials--such as this recent pledge to be carbon negative by 2030. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-b... Bu
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Because cargo ships use massive amounts of energy and a little bit of solar power would do essentially nothing.
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This sentiment of missing an older internet is one reason like like Hacker News. Slash dot was great in the day. Digg was so great in the day. Then the early days of Reddit were great. I’ve been her for over ten years and Hacker News is
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It would be nice to know the degradation rates by panel manufacturer. Jinko Solar, for example, claims they make premium panels. How do the degradation rates compare with other panel manufacturers.
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What is the evidence that “we have reason to believe that over time, immune defenses from COVID-19 infection seems to decline”?
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The first amendment is pretty absolute: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
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The U.S. did a terrible disservice to children during the pandemic by closing schools (where COVID does that spread well) while keeping open bars and other places where COVID spreads much more easily. Many people treated it as if education
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My reading of the situation is that Merkel went anti-nuke because the greens in Germany were anti-nuke and she needed more support. It was all about electoral politics.
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Which policies are you talking about?
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As a native English speaker, I had no idea about this rule. It’s good to learn something new about the language I speak everyday.
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I had my dream job at 25, only to realize that it had some downsides. I really liked it, but it wasn’t a job I wanted for the rest of my life. I like the advice in this piece to find something you are good at and makes you happy 80% of the
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You do not need an attendant the hydrogen stations I’ve been to.
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Did you ever try to respond to O'Toole's argument or was it all character assassination?
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I believe that the NTSB found that the logs were destroyed in the crash and subsequent fire.
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I thought Canada was handling COVID well and then there was the latest round of lockdowns and restrictions which is bonkers.
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by barney54 6y ago
Don’t ever create power you would not like your enemy to wield against you.
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The Forger from Berne(tabletmag.com)
2 points by barney54 6y ago|0 comments
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Only Tesla uses cylindrical cells such as 18650s or 2170s. The other EV makers use prismatic cells or pouch cells.
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What is a new mining project that environmental groups support?
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It’s not the mining that is bad, it is the processing that is terrible.
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True, but the quantity of batteries they are used in is rapidly increasing leading to more demand overall.
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I’m skeptical the SEC is doing this kind of analysis. It would first require Congress itself to tell the SEC to police Congress and I’m skeptical Members if Congress would want that.
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There are many challenges. For example, the ocean is a harsh environment. Also, testing at scale is tough because of the environmental permits needed to test in the ocean. But more importantly, how many people will be okay with wave machin
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S.F. has 16M sq. ft. of vacant office space. Why can't it become housing?(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by barney54 6y ago|3 comments
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Thank you for posting this! I had not listened to Switched on Bach before and after just a few minutes of listening I definitely need to listen to more!
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Why won’t you be able to see these people the same way again? Your comment seems like you are prejudging people without providing a reason to do so.
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France has had school open for much of the last year—when infections were increasing and decreasing. It doesn’t appear that schools are driving the infections.
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Trump did use the Defense Production Act for ventilators. But ventilators didn’t turn out to be effective.
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There was one this week in Michigan: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-federal-government...
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I agree that it's probably pretty common. I thought that Tabatha King, Stephen King's wife, did a lot of work on his novels (but I can't find a link for that right now). The fantasy author Robert Jordan's wife, Harriet

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