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by coryrc 4y ago
> Are people upset about them adopting the name? Yes. Macedonians of antiquity were Greek. "Northern Macedonians" are Slavic. Greeks are very protective of their identity.
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by coryrc 4y ago
The water deficit could completely be taken out of alfalfa for the next decade of predicted drought. Literally nothing needs to change except stop growing a low value crop. Charging for water would have the same effect.
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by coryrc 4y ago
They don't need it, they just don't get all their rated efficiency, which is much higher than single-speed systems. Single-speed systems commonly have cooling efficiencies around 10-14 SEER, the Gree Sapphire is 38 SEER. If you
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by coryrc 4y ago
You lose about 30% efficiency using "standardized wiring" with an inverter heat pump instead of a communicating thermostat, because running a heat pump at 33% power continuously instead of 100% power 20 minutes of every hour resul
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by coryrc 4y ago
This is a tangent. Only the garage roofs have solar thermal collectors on them. Every existing suburban area in the USA regardless of density has enough building roof volume to fully supply a Drake Landing-type thermal system and eliminate
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by coryrc 4y ago
Heat pumps aren't great above 80°C more-or-less.
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by coryrc 4y ago
First, that's literally not even close to true about paving. But I meant retrofit all existing housing stock with solar collectors and heat storage, neither of which require much room.
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by coryrc 4y ago
That's probably correct. Burke Gilman trail ripped out tracks in the 70s though.
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by coryrc 4y ago
China's building massive amounts of underused housing. US boomers could have built long-lived buildings and infrastructure (high-speed trains) which provide usefulness to people later in exchange for them paying some money for retirees
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by coryrc 4y ago
Process heat for industrial use? Desalinization?
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by coryrc 4y ago
We need a New Deal-type mobilization to build https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Communit... everywhere across the country. Like building the Hoover Dam, it will generate massive amounts of carbon-free
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by coryrc 4y ago
The efficiency difference in a power supply running off 120V or 12V is not significant. The power supply is a negligible portion of heat output. They would last longer if separate though. Slim recessed LED fixtures have their power supply i
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by coryrc 4y ago
I know with the Leaf that would be relatively easy, because it doesn't ensure current from the battery matches the current going to the motor, so if you add a plug into the HV and inject power so the battery current nets zero, it can d
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by coryrc 4y ago
My plan is large PV array for supplying daily needs but paid charging or campsites for the vast majority of travel energy. Slow or local travel is the primary usage.
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by coryrc 4y ago
I wish I could buy one of those vans. They're almost exactly what I want to make a camper from.
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by coryrc 4y ago
20A per is plenty sufficient for overnight. A house has 200A service, commercial sites usually more and/or 3-phase which supports 3x the vehicles per amperage. There is no "significant safety concern" or special hardware need
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by coryrc 4y ago
`kind` is like `minikube` but using docker containers instead of VMs, but as the page says "was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself".
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by coryrc 4y ago
> polystyrene for home insulation (why not support plant based alternatives, like hemp / hempcrete) Not a class-II vapor retarder. Can't build a comfortable and energy-efficient home without air barrier vapor retarders. (You ca
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by coryrc 4y ago
It's even self-acknowledged to be the same imaginary friend!
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by coryrc 4y ago
I'm not GP, but I used to write firmware. I had a C compiler, a debugger, and emacs. IIUC, if you write a web application in the MS world, you have Visual Studio, ASP.Net, and IIS. There doesn't have to be piles of libraries.
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by coryrc 4y ago
From other thread: [the tested drug] taurocholic acid is hepatotoxic You: TUDCA and UDCA are not only liver-safe, they're first-resort drugs for resolving drug-induced liver damage Me: I think I have a stupid idea
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by coryrc 4y ago
It's not price-fixing if they don't communicate. AWS is fully allowed to publicly publish their planned price increases for the next 3 years and Azure is allowed to react to that information by doing the same thing -- or announce
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by coryrc 4y ago
> 8 hours in the Sun is good enough for 2 hours of driving, according to that blurb. That’s like 100 miles of range... Nope! They might want you to think that with misleading wording, but you'd be lucky for 2 hours of driving at 12
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by coryrc 4y ago
But you still have to plug in. Solar panels on a car will not make enough energy to run the vast majority of cars even if parked always in the sun. And for the few it could, you're using it so little what's the point of even havin
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by coryrc 4y ago
"Consumer surplus" is the term you're looking for. Minimizing consumer surplus leaves you vulnerable to undercutting by competitors. There are plenty of competitors to See's candies. Just buy from them.
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by coryrc 4y ago
> if they just stayed in school and just didn't have kids then their lives would be great Yes, that's literally what they need to do. If we want to change that, then changing their culture to value education is the only way to
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by coryrc 4y ago
GP: Basic things like figuring out how to get a bank account open vs paying a check cashing fee, things add up quickly. You: Many people just want to live a life, they don’t want to pursue greatness at all costs. These things are incongruou
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by coryrc 4y ago
IIRC the patent office cracked down on bullshit like this around a decade ago? This one precedes that though. https://www.pcmag.com/news/white-house-plan-cracks-down-on-p...
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by coryrc 4y ago
That's like cautioning about the price of cars because you bought a Hummer instead of a Corolla. Drum humidifiers use a couple watts on any central forced-air system. And, since the heating season is there only time you need humidifyin
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by coryrc 4y ago
> The monorepo works for Google Does it? Or is it stopping Google from supporting products which only make millions in revenue because of the massive burden of continually updating?

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