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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> The alternatives in pretty much all cases are death. Is this a serious claim about currently-required vaccines? Including the one for varicella, say? Vaccines have a _lot_ of benefits; my kids are certainly vaccinated for all sorts of
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Which mower did you end up getting, if I might ask?
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
$0.05 for both generation _and_ transmission charges? I would have expected that to be more like $0.09 or $0.10 for Florida... Still a good bit better than MA, of course. :)
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Just for comparison, where I am (Massachusetts) it's $0.23/kWh or so for residential service.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It really depends. If your mortgage is big enough (over 750k as of the last tax bill, which is not that uncommon in some real estate markets) or small enough (so you don't itemize your tax deductions; that roughly corresponds to mortga
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> require less than 5000 kWh per year to heat and generate hotwater For what size house, if I might ask?
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Recovering heat from a dryer is not trivial: the output air from a dryer has a bunch of lint in it (yes, even with the lint filter in there!), so either your heat exchanger or the filter in front of it or both will get clogged pretty regula
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The relevant code in fact uses a non-STL array container. Unfortunately, the performance of the STL containers is fairly unreliable across C++ standard library implementations and can be very poor in some cases. That makes them harder tha
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The density gradient is not really that important. You could do this with a car filled with water and a cork instead of a balloon, and the effect would be the same, even though the density gradient in water would be pretty darn close to ze
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The article mentions why they couldn't use canvas for this: they are running this code in a worker, and canvas support in workers is not great in browsers so far.
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What you say is true for the default, but form controls have additional UA styles applied to them that can override the default. Just like the default border style is "none", but that's not what form controls do. But even pas
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Thank you for the link. Per that document, page 29, there are ~370k jobs in solar, yes. But there are ~160k jobs in coal, ~360k jobs in natural gas, and ~515k jobs in oil. Plus the ~36k jobs in "advanced gas", whatever that is.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
For what it's worth, most of the jobs "in solar" are installers. Very much blue collar (also, fairly dangerous work). Agreed with the rest of your points.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I'm curious about the source of your numbers. In particular, see https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2017/apr/25/b... (which has numbers comparable to yours for solar, but 160k jobs
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Digital Cameras The SD card has an ARM chip, usually, in addition to whatever is in the camera itself.
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There's a difference between "the board" (which is supposed to provide oversight) and "shareholders" (who may not even know they're shareholders).
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The original context, as far as I can tell, was "what fraction of workers live in the high-cost metro areas?", right? We're trying to estimate this in all sorts of indirect ways, when the real questions, which I am sure we sh
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Assuming that 50-60% of the population of cities is working is probably too high. As a simple example, the third table at https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/2016/t... data for New York Cit
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> If an overwhelming majority disagrees then it becomes law That depends. This is why we have things like constitutions and constitutional courts, to prevent certain things from becoming law even if an overwhelming majority thinks they
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Laws are to govern things people should or shouldn't do In RFC terms, laws are MUST and MUST NOT. Ethics are SHOULD and SHOULD NOT. There's a difference between those, even in RFCs. There is a similar difference in laws+ethi
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> The legal system should work to make ethical things legal and unethical things illegal. As a blanket statement, not it should not. As a counterexample, consider that the whole purpose of the US First Amendment as regards speech is tha
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Society agrees on most principles and these are what become our laws Not at all. Society can, and does, agree on all sorts of stuff without it becoming law. This is generally a very good thing, because criminalizing behavior, even be
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Following laws is considered ethical though If you're a deontologist, sure. Very few people are pure deontologists. There are all sorts of cases of cases where people would say the ethical thing to do is to not follow a law. And
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As I said above everyone can make this decision for themselves, and should. It's just important to me to not paint any of the decisions here as "only criminals would do that"! Past that, I figure adults can and should decid
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Right, I have a hard time faulting people for deciding that they want to use voice assistants. That's more or less their choice. I am a lot more ambivalent about people who leave the voice assistants running when they have guests, be
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It's more cost effective if your choices are to use the two vintages of imagery, sure. I understand why imagery can be stale. My point was that OSM data can be much more accurate than the imagery. Or not, depending on location.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
First, having talked a lot to people who actually lived under a somewhat oppressive government (USSR, and by the 80s it wasn't even that oppressive), most people _did_ in fact have something to hide. Second, just because it doesn'
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Your list is missing "pro-democracy advocates", "Muslims", "Christians", "Jews", "atheists", "women who want an abortion", "people trying to escape an abusive relationship&quo
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
6 months old is outdated, depending on how fast things change on the ground. Even 2 months old can be outdated (e.g. can be missing houses built since, or showing houses that no longer exist). In some areas, this can be a very significant
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The "dom.disable_window_move_resize" preference is still there. There doesn't seem to be UI for it, but it can certainly be set in about:config.

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