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by ctdonath 6y ago
One sentence that should have been elaborate on a bit more to mirror/complete the article’s approach: “For a sense of scale, a solar panel gets around ten thousand times this, or 100 Watts per square meter.” Solar power has the same pr
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Walmart sells premium flour (which this limited production product would count as) for much more than $1.50. And it’s something for the limited staff to do while otherwise unemployed.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Rather than paying for parking, herds of cars will slowly cruise local streets, awaiting summons.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Yes, we know what Medicare looks like. We don't want "Medicare for all". Really.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
That presumes providing clean water is somebody else’s problem. It’s not. Classic American culture is rooted in independence. I honestly don’t grasp the notion that “access to clean water” involves compelling others to make water clean &amp
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The USA is effectively 50 countries with different demographics, geography, culture, and needs. Trying to impose any “one size fits all” solution won’t work because it’s not appropriate for a significant number of them.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Your post makes me keenly aware of Tesla’s future: the only company really taking EVs seriously, with a massive head start.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
What makes Lucid different? Base price of $60,000 ... and no factory to build it. Why the excitement?
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by ctdonath 7y ago
We’ve had high res astrophotography long enough that I expect we should be producing time-lapse video of lightyear-scale events.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I did write a library management program for a large insurance company in Prolog, around 1988.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Please, somebody port Quake 1 to iOS.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Quake 1 & 2 were story-driven. Quake III was just arena combat. Looked great, but not the adventure of the first two.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Aspiring to unpainted log cabin, surrounded by un-maintained forest or field, water filtered from steam or lake.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
having a lawn service means not needing a mower. Hiring out a painting service means not having old buckets, brushes, tarps, etc, laying around. Minimalism means not having a lawn which needs mowing, nor walls in need of painting.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
What said its software controlled? I’m assuming it’s a magnetic switch.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
If you, fully aware, won’t prepare accordingly for special circumstances, why should strangers do it for you?
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Check out Primitive Technology on YouTube for similar.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Hence “MEGA church”. There are several in the Atlanta area. One is actually 12 campuses, seating ~2,500 each, typically with a live pastor at one being telecast to the others on life-size projections (effect of virtual presence is pretty co
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by ctdonath 7y ago
A congregation of 500 is not a “megachurch”, >10,000 is.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
1GB/mo = 385B/s = 3086b/s Average 3kb/s. Yes, one tends to use data in bursts. Bracketing helps understand usage.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Bad money drives out good. And we're already at pretty darned bad money.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/q-lazzarus/279810501
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Then let's err in favor of what we can deem "good nutrition" now, and objectively adjust it later if appropriate. "You'll never meet my whimsical specification of sufficient, so your earnest objective suggestion is
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by ctdonath 7y ago
No. I'm saying: if they meet an objective baseline of essentials, they're not poor. And that's the core problem: everyone is tossing around the word "poor" to fit their ulterior motives (yours currently being to dem
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by ctdonath 7y ago
The aforementioned day-laborer's shirt took hundreds of hours to make. The aforementioned Greeks & Romans had to go hunt & kill & skin & dry a good-sized animal to make a shirt. You can buy an entirely respectable moder
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I find the annoyance annoying, overlooking how "poor" has been lifted to heights unthinkable not long ago - and prompting my earlier comment. Those who have had cellphones for all adulthood don't grasp how limited much was no
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I implicitly suggest no such thing. At some point it's up to a competent adult to do with their lives what they see fit under the circumstances dealt them by life. They are not automatically the charge of others just because they don&#
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Interesting (I'll study further), but still fixated on "inequality". I don't care that Elon Musk has billion$ and I don't, I care that I have a "tiny house" bare minimum of nutrition, environment (heat&#x2
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by ctdonath 7y ago
You're bolstering my case. "Malnutrition" is, obviously, below the line I'm trying to draw. Meet the line, and you fundamentally want for nothing, no "reduced lifespan and health problems". Humans have a natura
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Hence "Yes, the math is more complicated than that". The practical tweet-sized outcome is about the same though. The other thing missed by UBI advocates: money is merely a representation of value, it is not value itself. Someone l

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