dalyons

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by dalyons 1mo ago
boy am i tired of hearing that Dunkelflaute word as if its some kind of gotcha. Even ignoring the fact that you can continue to source power from other geographies during a localized phenomenon..... Just burn gas in peaker plants for the fe
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by dalyons 1mo ago
You think the guidance was written as a good faith interpretation of the law? Cmon.
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by dalyons 1mo ago
Most developing nations are below too now!
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by dalyons 1mo ago
You know the answer to this. It’s only going to be anti immigrant dog whistles
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by dalyons 1mo ago
Yeah it’s usually just 3-6ft on the edges of the roof. But this whole roof is tiny. Covering a 12x12 roof would be much less than one edge run on a big house . Also they only turn on when there’s actual snow falling so doesn’t use as much p
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by dalyons 1mo ago
also idk, tons of people up here have regular sheds for various purposes and they seem to survive just fine
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by dalyons 1mo ago
well it just has to stop significant buildup over multiple days right? IDK, seems pretty effective here in tahoe where ive seen it applied on parts of peoples houses
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by dalyons 1mo ago
What if you just put heat tape on the roof? These sheds have small roofs, shouldn’t be prohibitive
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by dalyons 2mo ago
But what’s “within reason”? Right now I have an unlimited list of ambitions of things to do with my kids. Traveling, sports, skiing, mountain biking, surfing, camping, building, electronics, etc etc… there are not enough hours in a year to
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by dalyons 2mo ago
> how many have a spouse working a demanding full time job as well? I realized for me it was zero. Zero for me too, but boy are people quiet about it. Almost taboo to let on that that is the arrangement
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by dalyons 2mo ago
As a father of nine you have to acknowledge your perspective is an extreme outlier. Not criticizing, just, not a generalizable take.
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by dalyons 2mo ago
i agree. But i read the blog post as the author trying to escape having to compromise. Which, as we seemingly both think, is not possible.
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by dalyons 2mo ago
thank you for this, very well written, and rings true. I will say for me this is the root contradiction: > I do not believe the quality time theory. I firmly believe in maximizing the quantity of time spent with them; there are no dimin
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by dalyons 2mo ago
Pretty much every house in Victoria had gas, and gas furnaces, winter is cold enough
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by dalyons 2mo ago
Ok so this isn’t really a serious conversation?
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by dalyons 2mo ago
i dont really understand, if you hate working from home now (and it sounds like you have for a long time) why dont you switch to an in person role? there are certainly plenty of those.
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by dalyons 2mo ago
certainly not true in this case. The constant protests and clashes and deaths caused a significant national backlash, to the point that operations were dialed way down and even the field chief was replaced. Without the actions of protestors
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by dalyons 2mo ago
Why not? It all comes frozen anyway. Not particularly different from any other food
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by dalyons 3mo ago
and how did that work out? the site is dead now because of it
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by dalyons 3mo ago
personally i think we should just stop selling the leaded version, tomorrow. alternatives exist, update your planes or dont fly, but no more leaded fuel.
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by dalyons 3mo ago
Subscription money of $10 mo minus the cost of the cellular data connection and data, which is probably ~$8mo. So, a whopping profit of $24 a year? I hear this theory a lot but it doesn’t actually make sense given the numbers
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by dalyons 3mo ago
Having grown up in Australia I agree with everything you say. The percentage of property parasites as a % of the working population is staggering. Agree with all except maybe this: > It's a deliberately created problem by tying the
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by dalyons 3mo ago
If this is your situation consider asking for an ISO to NSO conversion. Many companies these days will allow you to do this, as they’ve realized it’s in their best interest to not retain checked out employees
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by dalyons 4mo ago
88% seems impossibly high. “Or controlled by” must be doing some heavy lifting. Government owned power is 9% of the US, 25% of Australia, 1% of the UK. If “or controlled by” means privately owned plants that are subject to local regulations
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by dalyons 4mo ago
The speed of change is what’s special this time. Careers are being eliminated faster than people can reskill or change careers.
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by dalyons 4mo ago
Yes? So? Fairly common shorthand when discussing electric power systems. No one confuses it with bombs, because that would be silly.
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by dalyons 4mo ago
Because no one wants to pay for a lifetime of inflated energy costs (nuclear) for the off chance of it helping in a black swan event. Humans aren’t wired that way, and neither is capitalism
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by dalyons 4mo ago
Your proposal is to use nuclear as only backup? Or for only late nights (after batteries have discharged)? That dooms nukes economically, they need to run and sell power at close to 100% 24/7 to have any chance paying back the capex &a
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by dalyons 4mo ago
There are relatively few oil exporting countries so probably not a big effect
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by dalyons 4mo ago
I absolutely agree we could see cost reductions with scale. Maybe 2x ? But solar is a much more simple manufacturing process that’s amenable to massive massive volume. Print silicon, add traces, assemble. 100% automated. As such it has seen

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