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by beat 7y ago
Using highly developed feminist framework and applying it to cell phones is novel, or at least I haven't seen it before. Developing solutions to problems requires understanding the problems, and putting it into a well-understood and su
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by beat 7y ago
I do audio recording and editing on my Mac. My email is full of dire warnings from software vendors to not upgrade to Catalina yet.
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by beat 7y ago
This is a really interesting and spot-on analysis. If it makes you uncomfortable, it should.
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by beat 7y ago
Apparently, your browser hides the </sarcasm> tags.
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by beat 7y ago
As I understand it, the modern trend for buildings that are concrete on the first floor and wood frame for 2-5 floors above that started with earthquake-resistant designs. So they can probably play on that model.
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by beat 7y ago
Growth companies are always in a precarious financial position. That is their nature. Default dead, as pg put it. The goal is to achieve market scale, then make that financial position stable and profitable, rather than precarious and fee
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by beat 7y ago
Which happens to a lot of companies. Big deal. You invest in a growth company, you are expected to recognize the risk involved in that investment. At the moment, Tesla seems to have no real trouble raising the kind of capital they need in o
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by beat 7y ago
Tesla is a growth company. Being "profitable" is irrational and stupid. They should be farming every cent they make into production, borrowing every cent that will be loaned, and selling stock. Why turn a $1.00 into $1.10 this yea
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by beat 7y ago
In the US, it's not the cheapest by a long shot, even excluding subsidies and externalities. I'd be perfectly happy to see new coal plant construction banned from a regulatory perspective, but right now there are ZERO new coal pla
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by beat 7y ago
A variety of sources? Fine. Show your work. 2018-2019 vintage sources only, not something from twenty years ago. edit: Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source Feel free to offer rebuttal
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by beat 7y ago
Except natural gas is still contributing to global warming, and someday we'll run out of it.
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by beat 7y ago
Coal is being replaced as fast as they can build new capacity with cheaper sources. Coal costs around $100/Mwh. So does current nuclear (fantasy future tech doesn't count). Fracked natural gas costs around $40/Mwh, new onshor
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by beat 7y ago
Solar and wind are much cheaper. That's why.
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by beat 7y ago
It's funny... I am an adamant stickshift driver. I don't like driving cars with automatic transmissions. I feel less in control, less attentive. If even the difference between shifting myself and having some hydraulics do it for m
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by beat 7y ago
I look forward to fully self-driving cars, but I fear this halfway situation of semi-automated safety aids is going to make things worse, not better.
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by beat 7y ago
Now that definitely sounds like partisan nonsense.
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by beat 7y ago
Seems to me that link more or less debunks the $93T estimate as partisan bullshit, which is what I expected it to be. To put it in perspective, the GDP of the US is currently about $19T, so they're saying the Green New Deal would cost
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by beat 7y ago
Nuclear reactors are dispatchable in theory, but it's not economical in practice. One nice thing about nuclear reactors is that they can run more or less wide open for long periods of time. But the flip side of that is that the operati
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by beat 7y ago
That's because it takes time. It will take decades to convert a lot of key systems, even if renewable energy is cheaper . The infrastructure that burns fossil fuel is highly distributed. Millions (billions?) of cars on the road. Worse
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by beat 7y ago
Where are you getting this from? We don't have a Green New Deal. We don't have a firmed-up bill presented in Congress, even. And how is the number you offered calculated, and by whom? Because it reeks of partisanship.
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by beat 7y ago
I suspect your link is not handling data in a nonpartisan manner. I can provide more meat for my arguments, but do your own googling. Data point 1: Coal-fired power plants are closing at a rapid pace across the US, and no one is building ne
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by beat 7y ago
It seems unlikely to me that emissions will continue to increase, exponentially or even linearly. We are at a point now where renewable energy is actually cheaper than fossil for electricity, and electric land vehicles are well on their way
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by beat 7y ago
Is the problem that they won't approve it, or that the technology isn't yet mature enough for production-scale reactors? And if it's just a mature of (presumably political) regulatory resistance, is that also true in France,
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by beat 7y ago
The #1 thing that controls population growth is increasing the standard of living. See the conflict? That said, population is already leveling off. The main cause of population growth now is not high birth rates, but rather increased lifesp
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by beat 7y ago
I'd say we are making big breakthroughs in technology that will make greenhouse gas machines obsolete, and that's where we'll get eventually. But getting there will take decades, because we have to obsolete out (and/or
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by beat 7y ago
It's perfectly fair, however, to point out the difference in economic scale and political influence between the fossil fuel industry and the renewable energy industry. The fossil fuel industry is rather larger, and rather more powerful
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by beat 7y ago
You should look up Duverger's Law, and understand why we have a two party system.
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by beat 7y ago
Once the author is done digging through her vintage Wired magazines, she should find some copies of Mondo 2000. That was like Wired on LSD. Overtly anarchist, hardcore techno-futurist, deep into art and mind-expanding drugs, it was so much
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by beat 7y ago
I'm watching a case on a personal basis right now. A friend of mine was raped at gunpoint by an Uber driver, who was stalking her neighborhood looking for her the next day. And NOLA cops aren't exactly helpful to the poorer reside
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by beat 7y ago
No, they want you to google it for them. It's part of the sealion code of conduct.

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