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by beat 7y ago
Seems like an anti-anxiety solution to me. Anxiety is what keeps us from answering email right away, not being too busy. Knowing you won't put more than ten seconds into it, that it's boilerplate, makes it much easier.
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by beat 7y ago
I imagine most of the cost is in that wonderful screen. Reading on a paperwhite is a revelation - the next best thing to an actual book, and better than many books.
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by beat 7y ago
They won't keep doing it. The advantages of renewables are too strong. The thing about politicians that can be bought, is that someone else can buy them, too. If they're not ideologically committed to the cause, if it's just
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by beat 7y ago
I don't know if carbon will win or not. Right now, carbon is in a race with renewable energy sources (wind, solar, + storage), and their costs are plummeting while fossil gets more and more expensive. We're already at the tipping
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by beat 7y ago
We're not extinguishing the only intelligent life in the universe, because I don't think this is nearly enough to extinguish humanity. It will be sad and miserable for us, but we'll survive it. I firmly believe the last human
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by beat 7y ago
I carry a Kindle Paperwhite just for focused reading, but I also have a Kindle app on my phone, so I'll read books rather than obsessively checking email / social media / weather / omganything. I read different books on
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by beat 7y ago
Creeping thyme works fine in the Twin Cities metro, at least. It grows very well in our yard, and it's all over our neighborhood. We also have a big bunch of yarrow planted in our hellstrip. It grows great in those tough conditions. We
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by beat 7y ago
The cost for solar dropping rapidly is all over the internet. I'm not going to source it, look it up. What matters here is it doesn't need to be a "great" location in terms of efficiency in order to be a great location
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by beat 7y ago
Something I expect to see is a lot more highly localized solar installations - namely parking lots. While I don't think it's financially viable at the home level, I think it'd be great at the office or business level, where t
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by beat 7y ago
Again, don't make assumptions that it's stupid, based on little data and no math. First, hydro power is very stable, and Quebec has a surplus, so they could probably get a good price deal for an ongoing relationship. The construct
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by beat 7y ago
I wonder if/when solar will catch up with or surpass wind? Part of the reason wind got so big in the past decade is cost - it's significantly cheaper now than fossil or nuclear. But solar costs are dropping even more rapidly than
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by beat 7y ago
I'm really surprised no one at Facebook thought about the transmission loss problem before building that way. It seems like a surprising oversight for the countless scientists and experienced engineers involved with the project. Altern
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by beat 7y ago
Only when there's an offshore to have. I live in the midwest, the nearest oceanfront is over 1000 miles away. And the "gigantic ugly bird-killing machines" arguments are falling apart quickly in the face of the reality of cli
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by beat 7y ago
Gosh, why didn't they think of that? Every difficult engineering or social problem can be solved by the clever one-line idea of some dude on the internet.
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by beat 7y ago
Which is a good point, but "half life" doesn't mean "all gone". It'll take some x cycles to get it down to some safe level y. So the water needs stored until then, if it's not being released somewhere. Mea
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by beat 7y ago
Reminds of things my dad would say about mechanical work... "Use a bigger hammer". "If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it was going to break anyway".
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by beat 7y ago
Don't belittle the point by calling it "privilege". I'm in the same situation as most Americans with employer-provided health insurance. The real cost decision, as I pointed out in another comment, is whether or not to g
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by beat 7y ago
My reasoning still applies, though. My spouse wasn't going to base her decision on who should fix her torn ACL based on cost, no matter what the price difference. If you have life-threatening cancer, do you go to the cheapest oncologis
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by beat 7y ago
It's not like people plan on a torn ACL. And for most major health care issues, the primary concern of the patient isn't price, but rather outcomes - quality of care. Do we choose the cheapest doctor, or the doctor with the best
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by beat 7y ago
Well, why was it drafted? For the good of consumers? Or as part of a re-election campaign, a promise to "do something" in the face of the hard reality that the GOP has pretty much nothing to show on the health care front, either i
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by beat 7y ago
That makes it, what, .01%? I haven't read the web via emacs since the 1990s.
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by beat 7y ago
In the Japanese health care system, a government panel sets the prices for all medical goods and services. Private providers and private insurers must then manage their business to be profitable against known, fixed prices, and the panel is
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by beat 7y ago
I was going to say "Without Ajax?", but when replying, realized that HN creates a reply page, so you're right... html forms should be sufficient. It's not trying to do inline comments on a live page.
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by beat 7y ago
I'm curious how you managed to post a comment about it on HN with Javascript disabled. Is it even possible to post here without using Javascript? (Maybe it is, I dunno.)
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by beat 7y ago
And since browsing the web via emacs is a huge market encompassing possibly upwards of .001% of all web traffic...
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by beat 7y ago
My primary theater is a local nonprofit, running carefully curated art-house stuff, both new and old, with some popular classics putting butts in seats to help fund the more exotic fare. A couple of weeks ago, I got to see my two favorite C
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by beat 7y ago
You're saying it's on porpoise?
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by beat 7y ago
Makes me think... I listen to a lot of avant-garde jazz from the 1960s/1970s, and watch documentaries about it, and this leads to listening to the speech patterns of some of the greatest players. Many of these musicians are outright ge
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by beat 7y ago
I don't think this is just about vaccines... it's about a general rejection of science. When 25% or so of the population simply rejects science as some sort of greedy conspiracy, it's very hard to manage society in a scientif
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Low trust in vaccination 'a global crisis'(bbc.com)
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