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by creato 4y ago
Is there any region that “lives within its means” for all resources? Why is exporting or importing water so different from electricity, or food, or clothes, or iPhones?
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by creato 4y ago
It seems clear that the hypothetical company would meet this definition, and the regulation would completely defeat the purpose of the proposed company. I don’t know how useful this particular hypothetical is, but it’s definitely a “code sm
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by creato 4y ago
I didn’t ride in cabs that much (US) but I never had the dysfunctional racket experiences described in this thread. They didn’t show up once, but that has happened with Uber too. edit: And Uber charged me a fee to cancel the no-show ride an
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by creato 4y ago
A few example large solar plants in the US seems to have ~500MW capacity, ~30% capacity factor (so ~200MW effective capacity), and taken 2-5 years to build [1][2][3]. A nuclear plant will probably have multiple 1GW reactors, with very high
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by creato 4y ago
It looks like there are undistorted galaxies right next to the distorted ones, overlapping even. That suggests it’s not just a telescope artifact.
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by creato 4y ago
Europe generates a lot of electricity from gas.
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by creato 4y ago
I’m fully on board with “N95s work” but I still think this information is near useless from a public health point of view. They need to be fitted properly, which among other things, means being clean shaven. If you thought mask mandates wer
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by creato 4y ago
> Do I want to risk filming and getting approached by a Bad Cop on a Power trip who will tell me it is illegal to record ? That was already the case. If you assume bad intent, this law changes nothing. If you assume good intent, this law
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by creato 4y ago
This take would be a lot more reasonable if people weren’t turning to crazy Facebook uncles for information instead.
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by creato 4y ago
The picture is confusing, it seems like the truck is on the highway, until I realized that this is probably here: https://goo.gl/maps/sK9CRov2YQijCiXU9 How the hell the Tesla managed to hit a truck at what looks like h
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by creato 4y ago
Desalination isn’t going to help agriculture anyways. I think it’s worth a few billion dollars to avoid an explosive potentially destabilizing political wedge issue.
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by creato 4y ago
At least in this case, China is already doing the same and worse, some reciprocal response is decades overdue. This is barely a start.
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by creato 4y ago
It’s just scale. Those batteries and pumped hydro stories seem big. Relative to your house, they are. Relative to the grid as a whole, they are small.
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by creato 4y ago
People change their food choices when they have more money, yes.
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by creato 4y ago
> Instead of "Men's and Women's {SPORT}" we would have "Female and Unlimited {SPORT}". I'm pretty sure that's exactly what we have now, women play in men's sports on occasion. Ironically, the
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by creato 4y ago
It is astonishing to me that anyone thinks signature matching is a good idea. It’s incredibly subjective, and I have no idea what my own signature from years ago looks like.
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by creato 4y ago
Money seems like a far more significant restriction than regulation, which will only affect a small subset of possible experiments one could do.
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by creato 4y ago
That table looks like it sums to 100%, which is confusing. Many prisoners have been convicted of both drug and weapons charges. How is that represented? My understanding is that while the rate of prisoners with drug charges is high, the rat
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by creato 4y ago
Global GDP is about 80 trillion. Those numbers are laughable.
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by creato 4y ago
If you put a website on the internet, you are granting anyone or anything permission to look at it by default. The alternative seems obviously untenable.
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by creato 4y ago
No, it means everyone should do something, including himself. But not himself alone.
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by creato 5y ago
At best, US defense spending is the 3rd or 4th largest welfare program in human history, after Medicare, Medicaid, social security, etc.
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by creato 5y ago
Realist as determined by some social media bubble, some of which are engineered by foreign intelligence agencies, sure.
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by creato 5y ago
I think the parent comment has this wrong. This isn’t about laundering a big pile of dirty cash into a pile of clean cash. It’s more a way for black markets to take credit cards by “renting” cars. But it only works up to a small scale and f
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by creato 5y ago
In my experience, right here on HN the dominant narrative was that opposing Russian gas infrastructure was just American protectionism for frackers. Similarly, opposing Chinese built telecom infrastructure is just seen as an attempt at Amer
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by creato 5y ago
I can’t speak for twitter, but every American publicly funded news organization I know of has that label on YouTube (PBS for one)
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by creato 5y ago
People change after they’ve adapted to their new circumstances.
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by creato 5y ago
I think most of the fear of the IRS comes from rumors like your post. I think in reality, a way to get the “civilized country” (as referred to by another poster) tax experience is just file an incomplete return, the IRS will bill you the co
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by creato 5y ago
What are you actually referring to? In my experience, it takes a pretty serious mistake to get charged a fine (it’s never happened to me despite mistakes). The IRS just charges (fairly reasonable) interest if a mistake results in underpayme
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by creato 5y ago
Hmm, I consider myself a “rational green” in favor of nuclear power, but I’m not sure I think nuclear reactors operated by foreign companies in a highly competitive industry that booms and busts with tight margins is a good idea.

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