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by bequanna 3y ago
Ah, energy storage. Fans of wind and solar paper over this like it is no big deal. When exactly can we expect to see this cheap, ubiquitous energy storage that will solve all of our intermittent generation problems?
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by bequanna 3y ago
That’s a very cute argument, but it doesn’t pay for the roads. Also, having lived in a city I can tell you that brake dust and tire wear is also a big part of car pollution. Unless you want 100% toll roads, we need to come up with fair-ish
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by bequanna 3y ago
…and an F150 uses more fuel than a car. Your comparison is misleading. Compare an ICE car to an EV car, not the lightest EV to the heaviest ICE.
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by bequanna 3y ago
ICE vehicles do pay taxes by weight. Larger vehicles use more fuel and pay more taxes.
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by bequanna 3y ago
How about Oakland at 2AM?
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by bequanna 3y ago
> The Bay Area is definitely not representative of the US as it is far safer overall. Cherry picking stats doesn’t make it true. SF-proper is one of the worst urban areas in the US. Maybe only topped by Philly.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> The level of violence here is just so much higher than other countries. Even living in San Francisco where the murder rate is half that of the US it is still double that of Europe and Canada. The Bay Area is not representative of the r
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by bequanna 3y ago
Engineers should care about what the PM thinks of them why? It gets old being condescended to by someone who is lower paid, lower skilled and whose job is to pedantically follow a checklist.
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by bequanna 3y ago
The Biden Administration is planning for new Income-based repayment rules which will drastically reduce borrowers' payments. Calculator for payments under the new plan: https://www.studentloanplanner.com/income-based-re
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by bequanna 3y ago
This sounds like a cute academic thought experiment, but in reality is just another way to feed the beast of government. Yet more resources pissed away on armies of inefficient bureaucrats. There is no shortage of land or desire for develop
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by bequanna 3y ago
The prices are set by large farmers adding acres and acres available for sale are relatively scarce. When you consider the people doing the buying are at scale (thousands of acres) and can spread the cost of very expensive equipment over ma
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by bequanna 3y ago
Input costs are high but cash crop prices are definitely not rock bottom and most ag commodities are still near recent highs: https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?p=m&t=ZS
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by bequanna 3y ago
A “brush rake” is a heavy equipment attachment which is very common in logging/forestry.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Ah, that is an interesting theory: anarchy will always result in spontaneous organization of factions, usually repressive and holding power by pure force.
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by bequanna 3y ago
The question is which time do we consider to be the “correct” time. Turns out, we’ve decided to use a clock in Colorado as the time of record and then occasionally sync that clock with GPS satellites. https://timeandnavigation.si
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by bequanna 3y ago
“Bone meal” and “feather meal” are commodity byproducts of the meat industry. You can find them used in animal feeds and even pet foods.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Ok, cool. Words don’t necessarily trigger me but I suppose I can accept that others get emotional about specific word choice. Reframe the statement so some discussion on decline can proceed without triggering anyone.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Ok, so your post does a nice job of shutting down conversation and finding racism where there was none intended (as predicted). Note that I imply nothing and the statement is a simple, albeit troubling, fact. How do you propose that the dis
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by bequanna 3y ago
I think just having the idea of “South Africa seems to have been generally better off under Apartheid” is pretty scary for most people. So, they won’t even approach a conversation trying to determine the actual causes of decline because the
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by bequanna 3y ago
> I think there’s a non-zero chance it becomes the first anarchy of this present age. Somalia seems to be pretty close to anarchy. Also maybe Afghanistan after the US exited?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Where exactly is this “climate-related migration, loss and disaster” happening? Calling a flood, hurricane or even several years long drought a “climate related disaster” doesn’t count. These events have occurred since time immemorial. Ever
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by bequanna 3y ago
Lithium stores energy. If Tesla is Exxon they also need to vertically integrate and source actual energy, which I suppose they do to some extent with SolarCity.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Contrary to what the alarmists are saying, the world’s breadbaskets aren’t going to turn into barren Mad Max hellscapes in the next decade. In fact, if warming occurs, the US and Canada stand to net gain arable land and have increased growi
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by bequanna 3y ago
Idk if that is a perfect comparison. Maybe if Tesla starts mining uranium and opens some nuclear plants.
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Boomers Got Hooked on Stocks. Now They Can’t Let Go(wsj.com)
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by bequanna 3y ago
Right, but consider that this is a group of people that is vulnerable and desperate. They are ripe for being taken advantage of.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Like the other words which have been used with the purpose of silencing and insulting (racist, transphobe, insurrection, etc.) “misinformation” has been overused to the point that it now is meaningless. For example, not too long ago the lab
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by bequanna 3y ago
P=NP and Sales?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Is there any indication that games that do have excellent art and storytelling are much more likely to succeed?
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is the thing that he pretty much got right. After that, his record get rather, uhh, spotty.

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