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by brc 11y ago
That says the conviction was overturned on appeal, and a new trial? Then what happened?
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by brc 11y ago
You don't have to have 'at fault' on order to have insurance. Insurance responds to the rules of the game. If the rules of the game are that damages from autonomous vehicles are capped, or that multi-vehicle collisions autom
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by brc 11y ago
I wish I could eliminate 'like' from my conversation. I do try and make a conscious effort to reduce 'umm' and 'err' but someone 'like' keeps slipping into casual conversation. I'm much better i
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by brc 11y ago
This would work if -and only if- the currency was not printable so that it could not be inflated away. Of course, for a large chunk of recorded history we did have such a currency - accepted everywhere. It was gold.
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by brc 11y ago
The dollar amount doesn't matter. What matters is if that income is sufficient to lead a decent life (shelter, food, leisure time, keeping children in education). Unless you know that, you can't comment on their salary. If hey h
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by brc 11y ago
Remember the original business model for Pixar was for it to be a home animation studio, in the same way that people use photoshop to do their own graphics. I think they had terrible takeup on that and started producing shorts to show how g
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by brc 11y ago
It has become a basic logic/reasoning test : is coal/oil production and use a net positive or negative? Many people, particularly starry eyed young ones fresh from academic nurturing, fail the test badly.
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by brc 11y ago
Do the batteries leave the factory charged or discharged?
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by brc 11y ago
An installation that has to provide power during clouds and night time has to be a multiple larger as well. It's smart positioning by Tesla to show solar power for the factory but it certainly will still be connected to the grid.
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by brc 11y ago
No, that's wrong. Look around you at the things which are consuming power 24/7. Look beyond your dwelling at the street, the neighbourhood, the city and the country. All those things require constant power 24/7, without inte
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by brc 11y ago
Because it's not 10c/kWh overnight, baseload. Fridges and lighting and waterpumps need 24/7 power. Solar with battery raises these costs considerably and are not suitable for the type of power needed. Solar in-fill is great a
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by brc 11y ago
No, we haven't. When every single village and town has reliable and cheap electricity supply and their productivity has been raised to the point where they can afford cheaper replacements, then coal still has a place. All those TV adve
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by brc 11y ago
Any human trait observed across cultures, time and languages must be considered a universal human trait in the same way all make dogs lift their legs to pee on things. The writings of Shakespeare are relevant today as the day they were wr
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by brc 11y ago
I have 3 across the back seat, all in child seats. It's more possible than most people realise. Oversized child seats are a major cause of people driving cars bigger than they need to. I'm not sure how this has happened, but you
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by brc 11y ago
Cost = $ per mwh Drive coal out of production now and you'll cause a lot more problems than you solve. Lots of activists like to do their ten minutes of hate on coal, but they never stop and think about all the good that it does. It&
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by brc 11y ago
Some do, but that implies on-site supply of gas (oil would not be used for aluminium production much). Building smelters next to coal fields is a way of producing cheap aluminium. Coal is still the cheapest way to make electricity - it&#x2
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by brc 11y ago
Aluminium smelters typically sign long term power agreements at a fixed price anyway. They typically cannot take advantage of increasing production in times of cheap power because of their agreements. Besides, an ability to increase produc
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by brc 11y ago
You are greatly underestimating the production and distribution of power. Worldwide, solar and wind produces about 1% of energy. The majority of energy usage is in commercial processes - factories and commercial buildings. Think about an a
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by brc 11y ago
>Here's another fun thought: 6% of electricity is lost due to transmission costs. Will it be more efficient (in some cases, at least) to physically move charged batteries from solar fields to (nearer to) end users than to send it ov
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by brc 11y ago
It will not. Coal generation is still cheap and will remain so because it is simple to build and operate, and capital invested lasts for decades. It is only expensive in places where the government has decided to force it out of business v
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by brc 11y ago
To be honest, I don't know. It has 12kw on the outside. It's a DC inverter ducted system. I had to get the wiring to the house upgraded with 3 phase when it was put in. It doesn't use 3 phase but one of the phases is dedica
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by brc 11y ago
Admirably, tesla is the only premium car company that is not gouging Autralians on price. The gouging done by BMW and Mercedes is shocking. I expect Tesla to really start to cut into their sales.
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by brc 11y ago
My air conditioner is 12 kW. No chance.
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by brc 11y ago
You didn't read the article. The central point is that nerds don't become popular because they don't put the time in to be popular. They'd rather spend it on other things. None of that is different to your comment. In
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by brc 11y ago
Yes. One does not have to venture far to find a 'we're all ruined' article. I was more interested in finding small scale examples of how communities react when a central government essentially ceases to function. Not a pre
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by brc 11y ago
Visual Basic! Looxury! I had to teach myself basic using a pile of IBM basic manuals running batch scripts, when I wasn't walking 5 miles uphill in the snow to get to my computer! I remember the day I made a solar system picture by wo
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by brc 11y ago
I am sure there is a ton of interesting stories like this about self organisation when the state collapses, created by the end of the Soviet Union. I wonder if anyone has ever bothered to capture and document this type of emergent behaviou
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by brc 11y ago
Obligatory.... http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html "And that, I think, is the root of the problem. Nerds serve two masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart. And popularity is no
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by brc 11y ago
I have no prejudices against home schooling but it takes quite a leap of faith to take a kid out of regular schools and start with it. Particularly if the school is 'good enough' such that the kid is doing well, even though it&#x
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by brc 11y ago
My father in law was a cartographer by trade, he got started when conscripted into the Vietnam war, and continued in mapping and cartography for his entire career. He spent his entire service producing detailed maps of Vietnam from a very

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