cagenut

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by cagenut 3y ago
a thousand words about the value of diagrams over text without a single diagram
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by cagenut 3y ago
hell you don't even have to go to old europe, lets see them make it to and from newark airport
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by cagenut 3y ago
thats not at all what they said, those are words you are putting in their mouth/post. I find this kind of automatic dismissal of reasonable caution and critisism being instantly conflated with "doom" to be the most conversat
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by cagenut 3y ago
this is absolutely fascinating from a global warming perspective, in that it puts the club of rome and the ipcc's earliest estimate for 2C right there on the page, but then just kindof... accepts that as background context for the issu
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by cagenut 3y ago
technically correct! the best kind of correct!
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by cagenut 3y ago
this is excellent for the emerging evtol players. their economics get much better at 6+ passengers and 200+mph.
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by cagenut 3y ago
what is it about hacker news where only the worst marketing fluff about batteries is ever upvoted onto the front page? every time the comments section decends into a combination of bitter laments about the state of journalism, random topic-
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by cagenut 3y ago
The employers of the terrified-to-lose-their-health-insurance "middle" class.
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by cagenut 3y ago
this is one of those things where you simply have to decide if your understanding of reality, let alone your moral calculus, includes some large % of the ~800B/yr 'defense' budget. the thing we 'defend' are 'ou
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by cagenut 3y ago
my least-favorite is describing every energy project by the number of "homes" it can power
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by cagenut 3y ago
done listening to "i would normally support this drastically overdue and necessary environmental policy but they're not doing it just right in my opinion so i can't"
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by cagenut 3y ago
being a refugee is an adaptation to climate change, you and the OP are not in disagreement.
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by cagenut 3y ago
correct?
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by cagenut 3y ago
nobodies raking in grant money, and if you're in ethiopia or south sudan or niger then the apocalypse is already here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/figures/IPCC_AR...
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by cagenut 3y ago
Unquestionably. The denser the housing the more environmentally friendly, they are nearly perfectly correlated. Shared walls share thermal mass, which helps on both the hot and cold end. Shared facilities reduce per-unit square footage,
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by cagenut 3y ago
IMHO we're going to look back historically at single-family-detached-suburban-sprawl as not just the fulcrum in destroying the environment, but also actively harmful to the people that live there, especially children. Its easy for it
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by cagenut 3y ago
i'm always astonished at how little anything got better despite the intensely escalated demands. web cams didnt get (much) better. most people's jobs didn't get them good mics. widespread understanding or adoption of laten
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by cagenut 3y ago
lol as if 'appealing' will be in the decision criteria those life boat seats look uncomfortable!
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by cagenut 3y ago
These'll make great mass-shelters when the grid trips in a heat wave.
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by cagenut 3y ago
we have entered the era of amazing charts
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by cagenut 3y ago
imho his name belongs with borlaug and salk, it'll just take another decade to become clear.
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by cagenut 3y ago
you can run a giant multi-gb monolith serverlessly. just because you use lambda doesnt mean you need to use dozens of them.
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by cagenut 3y ago
vice that just declared bankruptcy after torching a billion in VC to fill that void. the void is back.
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by cagenut 3y ago
you have the facts correct and their meaning wrong. they're profitable because they have to be. certainly no investor is willing to eat losses to fund their negative growth curves. they do/did so via cutting off all r&d and in
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by cagenut 3y ago
Nearly every single newspaper and magazine company has the exact same revenue and subscriber growth chart over the last 20 years. Its a roughly 30-degree angle down and to the right, from a high around 2000 to todays near bankrupcy across t
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by cagenut 3y ago
your comment implies your understanding of the timeline is backwards. they had to do those things after they had gotten hundreds of millions of users.
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by cagenut 3y ago
lighting is by definition not a 24h demand, why are you running your street lights during the day?
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by cagenut 3y ago
this is your brain on (neo)liberalism. neurotically paralyzed by the hypothetical and counterfactual demons in your imagination.
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by cagenut 3y ago
efuels are silly for car/light-truck scale things but still a contender* for things like flying and shipping. * when the competition is hydrogen, methanol and alcohol you can have some pretty bad math and still be a contender
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by cagenut 3y ago
wow thanks for sharing that link, what a fantastic policy.

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