cagenut

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   by cagenut 7y ago

   If society collapses gun control legislation isn't going to matter either.
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   I don't disagree, you and I could probably sit down and hammer out a much different plan based on our preferences. But neither of us are running for president in 2020 are we? This goes back to the denial thing being more about time an
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   Keep in mind that because of how book publishing works that book is now already several years out of date. It doesn't reflect the draft papers for AR6 (which to be fair are still just drafts) and it doesn't reflect the fact that
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   Thank you, good point. Re: kids, I have no idea. I can honestly only handle this with the level of detached analysis I do because I don't have kids. If i did... I would be seriously considering things that one shouldn't type ont
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   basically anyone that takes too close a look at climate change sees the horror and cannot help but go through natural loss/despair/depression reactions and cycles. you can almost perfectly map the most common responses to the kubl
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   key missing info though: does it make money? I checked the site and it looks like a mix of ads (that are blocked of course) and a patreon with 5 supporters.
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   > it is very hard to increase cell sizes without not worrying about swelling thank you. i've always wondered why they aren't just the size of like a soda can, or a thermos.
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   the same reason we obsess over cloudflare but ignore akamai and fastly. or obsess over tesla and ignore BYD. wework is familiar and accessible to people here.
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   by cagenut 7y ago

   yea this is effectively "it" softbank just called the top
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    anything you share will be much appreciated.
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    I took my first MBTI test by running mbti.exe on my 386's DOS command prompt. After answering all the questions it gave me a score on a 10 point scale for each letter. So for instance I scored an 8 on the Introversion/Extroversi
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    are we (u.s.) not already there? if not it has to be very close.
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    there's a company that sells a more commercial/industrial unit of the same basic idea: https://www.ice-energy.com/
14. 404.▲
    by cagenut 7y ago

    if you're interested google "transit value capture", its a re-emerging trend in infrastructure finance and development.
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    I see what you're doing even if you don't. This level of nitpickery and contrarian noise is the functional equivalent of denying reality. All you're doing is sewing doubt and throwing sand in the gears to make it harder for
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    First of all, there is no chance outside of some absurd contrived scenario for a jet to have lower co2 emissions than a train. When a CEO says something that transparently bullshit they are obviously lying in their interest you really sh
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    Most of the things you mention in your last paragraph are addressed in this talk, you'll probably enjoy it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGUrXCBB1OI
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    Some more e-flight youtubes: This is the specific plane mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REdh3Q4cPuE That guy did a great roundup video of electric flight a few months ago: https://www.yo
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    I went down an electric-flight youtube rabbit hole a couple months ago and was genuinely shocked at how far things have already developed. If anyone else is curious, check out this set of presentations from the 2018 "sustainable aviat
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    For those wondering what a seemingly marginal difference would mean in real world examples, take a look at this video from a conference on electric aircraft design a year ago: High Torque, Low RPM Motors – Key Enablers of Quiet Flight http
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    > i.e. that's like me and my co-workers voting on how much we'll be paid. thats bad?
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    There are a bunch of reasons why police unions are somewhat of a special case. Enumerating them can get dragged into a lot of disagreements, but its important to remember they're an outlier and not the common-case for labor unions.
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    what ever happened to the HN rule against middlebrow contrarian responses? maybe at least not having them almost always be the top reply?
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    I think its ridiculous on its face that "Plan A" is telling ourselves we'll grow, burn and bury gigatons of biomass in the back half of the century in order to excuse continuing to mine and drill for it now. Its junkie logic
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    Not specifically to reduce the temperature but to reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, therefore reducing warming, therefore net reducing temperature, yes. All the IPCC reports, in this case SR-1.5, have built in assumptions for Car
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    You are correct and link to a good source, so thank you, those two boxes are rare to check in a climate related contrarian-take. But don't lose track of the engineering constraint here. We not only need to get to zero emissions, we ne
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    whats the next step up then? the unit you'd buy for an outdoor sensor.
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    landlords
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    I can't stand this ideological sports-team type of commentary, so just to add some real information and context (after my downvote): Venezuela produces ~70k barrels per person per day. Norway produces a little more than half as much t
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    by cagenut 7y ago

    They say it scales up to 3MWh but whats the smallest purchasable unit?