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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
New opportunities to leak methane and we've seen it's often cheaper to ignore leaks, given the cost of it is incurred by the planet.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Many live in single family homes, yes, but in the UK at least they very often have shared street parking across a pavement (a sidewalk). That is why I was thinking lampposts.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
The scale is daunting...running new cables for probably more than half the households in the EU. Comparable to the effort to get fiber to the home.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
In the US most electric cars are charged on the driveway or in the garage. Most Europeans don't have these. I'm generalizing of course, but it's a significant difference. Most folks I know would have to run a cable across the
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Source? Surely not.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Or just set everyone's password to the same thing eg SecureMe
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
That's without the weight of the storage and potentially fuel cell surely.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Facebook pays more than many. Is there an ethical premium it is forced to include?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Zarch blew me away at the time (in my high school computer room) as well as Conqueror, built on the same engine. Most home computer games at the time were inferior to arcade games : it was only years later that arcade games were surpassed a
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
How do carburetors work when inverting the plane?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Many or most of whom are social distancing or at home rather then in a room full of kids from different households. Plus very disproportionate effect on older people, a group that includes many teachers. Plus the extended effects in some ca
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Where does she work that pays $30k for an experienced teacher? Teacher pay sucks
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
If a space probe discovered some vast alien structure clearly acting fulfilling some strange purpose by some opaque means... would we not usefully describe it as a machine?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I took my BMW i3 in for service recently and got a high end 2019 BMW SUV loaner..worth 50% more. I was expecting to be impressed. Instead I was amazed how much I disliked it - clumsy tech, loud, needs fill ups...it seems ICE tech is at a de
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
That's with one microphone and presumably a single speaker. I wonder how well one could do with several microphones around the room and several speakers, with their relative positions known accurately and some computing power to genera
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
On the topic of Google 2FA, why does it to confirm a number on my phone when I use it to authenticate? I have to pick one of three numbers. That's only a 1/3 chance of detecting that it went to the wrong phone somehow.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Would it help with this case? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777197
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
It's possible in some jurisdictions although as you say they can very easily be unjust. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Rotate randomly selected federal judges through the job.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
And they have an incentive to angle for their next job. Like congress people walking into a lobbying job on the other side of the desk. Conflict of interest
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Aren't retroactive laws a thing?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I worked on a web based editor. A library would give us a range to highlight, in 1-based coordinates. The editor control was 0-based. As you can imagine it was easy to forget to translate back and forth in one path or another. In a strongly
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
As a young adult I could absorb myself in projects like this...in recent years, mid career, it just doesn't seem to happen. I can't make myself care enough about anything to the extent it's very hard to imagine how someone co
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I just realized what I described is not giving a lower bound.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I guess the assumption is that the phenomenon starts at a point, spreads across the object sized l at c, and lasts for only a period of time t at any location. Therefore the pulse ends after l/c + t = T. By measuring T you can put an u
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Thank you for that very amusing article.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
A broader question that puzzles me, not specific to this phenomenon. Pulse length is often used to bound the size of a source in space (it cannot be smaller than light takes to traverse the object). But it’s possible that two phenomena can
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
> the compiler will inline it if the function is only used once. There may be other criteria, eg is the function likely to be called.
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
Inflation is too much demand chasing too little supply. If the money printing simply replaced missing demand, should we expect any inflation?
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by cheerlessbog 6y ago
I appreciate when someone asks such questions as a post here saves 50 readers googling. Also it might start an interesting discussion.

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