coryrc

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by coryrc 3mo ago
You're looking for "deep adaptation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation
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by coryrc 3mo ago
> because there is no realistic path for nuclear reactors to compete with PV+batteries It's not that in Northern climates, it's PV+batteries+Natural Gas turbines, because PV doesn't supply enough power for winter heating.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Have you considered electric heaters to run for a few hours just if temperatures are consistently low for multiple consecutive days?
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by coryrc 3mo ago
I was thinking the same thing 10 years ago, but people are still buying houses, the stock market keeps going up. It doesn't make sense. But I lost a lot of money not being more heavily invested and buying a house I could easily afford.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
> In 2013 you couldn't say that prices have nearly doubled since 2013 under ZIRP, which is the argument that buying now would be buying high. But in 2013 you could say they've nearly doubled since 1998 under ZIRP, and then ever
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by coryrc 3mo ago
It's the same. Dextromethorphan gets you high; there were only 17 deaths from 2000-2010, as I said. That's per-week numbers for acetaminophen.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Nothing you said is wrong, but you could say that in 2013 too, and in that time apparently prices have nearly doubled and you missed out if you didn't take advantage. Mortgages are "heads I win, tails you lose" in non-recours
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by coryrc 3mo ago
That's the bank's problem.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Lets say housing appreciates +50% everywhere. Your podunk home went up $50k. HCOL home went up $500k. Better deal would be to hold the expensive house.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Why is it a sin in America to take advantage of economies of scale for cooking but not for anything else?
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by coryrc 3mo ago
First, cough syrup ID checking is not about deaths, as nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse (17 from 2000-2010, and most not from OTC). But an estimated 980 deaths/year from acetaminophen abuse: https://www
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Essentially no one in the USA fails to get a license if they try for one. There's no ongoing competence testing. Washington State recently failed to advance legislation to make the fourth DUI have a jail sentence because it would be
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by coryrc 3mo ago
>> Cars harm kids > This is tobacco-industry rhetoric. The relevant facts are frequency, magnitude and novelty Cars are literally the number one killer of children 0-14 in the United States. More than cancer, more than guns, more t
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by coryrc 3mo ago
> whereas O2 is 20% of the air. The goal of a gasoline engine's sensor is to accurately and precisely measure the point where O2 concentration reaches zero, so ambient air levels are not quite as relevant.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
China's coal use alone is more than all energy sources in the USA combined. Something like 70% of all energy, then oil, then about 10% renewable. USA is also near 90% fossil fuel but morally natural gas and oil, coal on the way out whi
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by coryrc 3mo ago
You mean boomers have been voting against any and every infrastructure investment besides more roads while they lived off the investments of their parents and grandparents? Worse generation in American history.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
I think GP's point is that winter heating can shift to nuclear- and wind-powered instead of mostly burning fossil fuels.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
> Personally I'm a fan of the simple improvements Stockholm Syndrome. Because our government is so paralyzed and ineffective, we can't even dream big anymore.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
We don't either. It's a Democratic Republic. Our electeds could do their job.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
> because we have an almost infinite number of examples in the US of it doing it. ... before the 1970s. Nothing this millennium, or even the last quarter of the 20th century. It's been, at minimum, 50 years since we've cost-eff
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by coryrc 3mo ago
And another, our recidivism rates are much higher than comparable countries. Is that how we do a "good job" helping people?
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Our public transportation infrastructure literally cost 10x per mile than France or Hong Kong. That's not waste to you? For what California has spent/is spending on high-speed rail from nowhere to nowhere, China blanketed their co
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Yes, cancer should be number one. Automobiles should be number 8 or lower, both because we can so something about it and because it's unnecessary. Cancer is a product of living and we're already devoting many resources to it.
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Thanks, I think you should put that up if it isn't, or at least link from About page if it is. "If you're talking about the various services it offers like imap/webdav, I'm using well established golang libraries&qu
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by coryrc 3mo ago
I went looking around, but I couldn't find why you're making tinycld, and whether I could expect it to keep going as a project in the future. I expect I could find whether you're using hardened server implementations or rei
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by coryrc 3mo ago
Correct. - software flow control user
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by coryrc 4mo ago
Automobiles are literally the number one killer of children 0-14 in the USA.
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by coryrc 4mo ago
That's a misconception. They are poor insulators, but they moderate temperature well. If the temperature outside is cold but sunny, the walls absorb heat from the sun during the day and retain it during the night. However, when you req
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by coryrc 4mo ago
> I have friends who did things like take a gap year to travel the world or met their spouses on nights I stayed in to study, and some evenings when browsing HN I feel very sad that I wasted my 20s on a society that does not care about m
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by coryrc 4mo ago
They aren't hard to drive on the freeway. They are hard to drive without running over people in neighborhoods. The leading cause of death in children 0-14 is automobiles. https://www.kidsandcars.org/frontovers/medi

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