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by cossatot 10y ago
Electricity isn't a primary energy source. Electric cars are only as environmentally friendly as the power generation plants that make it. If you're in Seattle, your Tesla is pretty low-CO2 because it runs on hydropower. If you&#x
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Canada's housing bubble hasn't yet popped, and prices are high in many places. Vancouver itself is attractive to investors because it has a very mild climate, is close to Seattle and the rest of the U.S. West Coast is a short flig
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It's probably cheaper for government and taxpayers in the long run to for the govermnent to aid in the development of markets for alternative energy that can reduce the negative externalities of pollution, the international control of
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I think the talk of expanding coal production in particular was mostly talk aimed at a segment of the electorate (although I haven't followed Trump closely enough to realize the extent to which he realizes this). The demise of Appalach
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The cost of cooperating(edge.org)
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I believe that the resource curse mostly applies to economies that are very poorly diversified and have a GDP based largely on exports of relatively raw materials. The U.S. Has an extremely diverse economy with a large base in services and
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Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Five Years(bloomberg.com)
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It's an interesting source. Tibetan society pre-1940s (most recent Chinese invasion) was incredibly feudal. The Dalai Lama was the top of the feudal society, both monarch and high priest. I've spent a bit of time in Tibet, and the
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What's worrisome about the immigration trends? I personally like them, and feel that they're more stabilizing than not: we're less likely to go to war with a nation of whose ethnicities make up some substantial fraction of ou
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Thanks, this is a nice little intro. Is it common practice in R to define global variables and then use them in functions without passing them directly, as is frequently done in this script?
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I don't think that this paper is the nail in the coffin that NNT or his groupies present it as. There are a lot of arbitrary transformations in the data that, while acceptable and in many cases enlightening, are by no means the only
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I've started putting DOIs on my relevant github repos: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ There are clearly still issues with versioning and so forth, but it's a start for software that i
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One of the reasons I love geoscience, particularly geology, is the logic-based approach to much of problem solving. A lot of the science is done by combining qualitative descriptions with logical determinations of relationships between rock
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They're explicitly cherry picked: "With Halloween just around the corner, we asked top analysts around the world for charts about things that go bump in the night — and we're not just talking about the daily yuan fix. Here&#x
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What indication do you have that the surveillance state will shrink in the near future?
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Put it in the bank and do it for 3x as long in your 60s
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I read this recently, in a (rather interesting) interview/discussion between the economist Tyler Cowen and media wunderkind Ezra Klein [0]: "COWEN: What’s your best time management tip? KLEIN: To-do listing. The thing that honestl
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The left vs. a carbon tax in WA(vox.com)
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I'd work in the suburbs for that sweet bowl desk.
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Yeah, I think he's conflating Frank Lloyd Wright and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
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Sniper attack on Utah substation highlights grid vulnerability(utilitydive.com)
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> Look at Colorado or other states which the populace decided to legalize marijuana industry - which were actually big deals. Where has the executive branch stepped in to stop the federal governments intervention in state policy? Obama m
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The tube might keep the train from flying off the tracks, but will possibly lose vaccuum. But maybe not. The trans-Alaska pipeline crosses the Denali fault, which is a big strike-slip fault similar to the San Andreas. The pipleline is on r
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Can't say I get much about the article, but the phrase "Pretty State Machine" has a certain industrial flair.
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Piketty’s rising share of capital income and the US housing market(voxeu.org)
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1- Probably but not certainly, and a little caution (say, 100 more years of remote sensing exploration as technology improves) will go a long way. 2- I'm not so anthropocentric as to think that the only value in the universe is human v
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A problem is that the opposite sides of each axis aren't even mutually exclusive. You can be a strong judger and perceiver. Or weak at both.
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That's my biggest fear about Mars. We don't have a great record on Earth and might not recognize the damage done until it's irreversible.
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In a pinch, I used to take a bunch of greens (spinach or kale) and dump black beans, salsa and some cheese on top, and throw it in the microwave. For breakfast, I frequently do something similar, by putting a lot of greens, beans, salsa, an
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You can do this on AWS EC2 with MIT StarCluster; it's got an MPICH2 plugin. StarCluster is pretty great although development has stalled a bit. I haven't used it for MPI-type workflows, but I have done a lot of embarassingly paral

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