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by danans 2y ago
> How does omnivore not cover most people’s diets in India? The dimensions of dietary regimes are even more complex in India than "omnivore" can capture. Some very religiously orthodox groups won't even eat onions and ga
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by danans 2y ago
> I've spent 6 months reading the archives of our local papers --- not for this Nazism thing, but for work I'm doing on zoning reform (we're on the cusp of eliminating single-family zoning villagewide, which will be huge).
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by danans 2y ago
> For whatever it's worth: I'm guessing our politics are very similar. I intuited that, which is a reason why I think this is a worthwhile debate vs debating with someone who doesn't have similar basic values about our sha
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by danans 2y ago
> He was never really asked again, until 1981, and then was more or less immediately deported. That's my point - it was relatively easy for someone like him not to raise suspicion in 1950s American society, because the society was v
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by danans 2y ago
It's not terribly surprising that a former Nazi guard would be able to immigrate to the US and integrate with American society. Nazism and its adjacent movements and organizations like the KKK have been a persistent background feature
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by danans 2y ago
Oops typo, corrected: "regular concrete made from portland cement doesn't require heating to cure"
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> But if they are assuming a typical or dirty grid, then that’s one area where the footprint can come down a significant amount. Not sure I understand how, since regular concrete made from portland cement does require heating to cure - i
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by danans 2y ago
> Being able to produce concrete without the emissions involved with the production of portland cement is a major goal of decarbonizing the building stock AFAICT, cornstarch has a similar emissions to portland cement: https:/&#x2F
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by danans 2y ago
A big possible issue with this is that cornstarch (at least the way it's currently produced) has the same carbon footprint as portland cement, which it replaces in this process. https://apps.carboncloud.com/climatehub&#
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by danans 2y ago
> Tesla Model X is practically a minivan. At $80k to start, it's definitely not in the minivan price range.
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> I get annoyed by legacy admissions as much as the next guy, but this strikes me as problematic. An institutions' membership or selection criteria is pretty fundamental to their right to exist. > Especially when the whole point
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> OK, but this is not a scientific definition. > Nothing wrong with such words, but trying to logically reason about them is not going to be fruitful Very few phenomena outside of physics have scientific definitions, yet we logically
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> I wonder why it is that "octopuses" just kind of sounds wrong? Because of the english words with taboo meanings that coincidentally share the phonetic structure p-s-
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by danans 2y ago
> Interviewer: “Ok but your family wasn’t really great to the people of Peru” > Habsburg: “We were learning.” I don't know what they did to the people of Peru, but if it follows the general pattern of crimes committed against col
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by danans 2y ago
> Even though it’s not meant to be hand-edited, this can impact code readability and maintainability This kind of implies that the generated code is being checked into a repo. While that works, it's not the way things are done at Go
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What's the advantage of calling a locally running server vs running the codegen directly on the command line?
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> We wanted to eliminate the need for each engineer to individually install protoc and multiple plugins and to make generating Go or TypeScript assets a single command a developer could execute. Couldn't you just make protoc part of
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by danans 2y ago
> This will end up catching normal people (any mortgage, automotive loan, etc) So just have it kick in above $5M/year or something like that, and have it only apply to securities as assets. Not a lot of ordinary people are taking $
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by danans 2y ago
> Yes, but we have to be careful about double-taxing mortgages for ordinary home-buyers. In the context of home ownership, a loan using an asset as collateral translates to a home-equity loan or reverse mortgage. If you want to protect
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> Taxing seated/parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster. Idea: tax loans taken out using assets as collateral at regular income tax rates. After all, that money gets used like regular income
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> lots of well off people are stupid Sure, but being well-off can also cause mental distractions and suboptimal motivations. Having resources, well-off parents can pay for help in addressing those problems, but they have to first recogni
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A mobile connected tablet could do everything a smartphone can well enough (and more), but I still prefer to carry a phone over that. I definitely wouldn't get a smartwatch instead of a phone (except for a kid), but there are definit
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by danans 2y ago
I think they are suggesting that they might not have leaned algebra because of > lack of resources, hunger, mental distractions, illness, or motivating incentives
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> I contend that almost every problem solvable by a wearable can be solved “well enough” by a smartphone, to the point where an additional device is not worth the trouble for the marginal benefit I've found glanceable notifications
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> Sizing transmission for the absolute yearly peak is not cost effective, so various schemes are used to reduce that peak, including efficiency improvements and demand response. Nonetheless, voluntary curtailment of demand by consumers (
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by danans 2y ago
> And they never asked for conservation? Uncompensated demand curtailment is such a scam. Just pay people to curtail demand.
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> If I'm reading this right, my thermostat's "rush hours" seem to be scheduled for gross load peak. They then seem to usually end (and kick my AC back to a desired temp causing a ton of usage) right around net load pe
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The alternative is to deny medical care to smokers. That would at the very least violate medical ethics, and possibly the law.
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> I've read that smoking related illnesses cost less money overall to treat than average. If you've read it, then please provide the citation. Smoking not only has its own direct impacts (lung cancer, emphysema), but it also m
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by danans 2y ago
> it's hard to put your hand under it without making an opening between it and the glass. And that is not a risk I'm willing to take. TBF, for most of the spiders that we find in our homes, the risk is only psychological, not p

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