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by elil17 4y ago
It is absolutely a valid contract - if both parties are in the US it shouldn't be too hard to enforce.
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by elil17 4y ago
That's a good point. Perhaps the author genuinely does not understand that what he is writing is not true.
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by elil17 4y ago
I think the author knows this. In fact, many of his questions seem to be trying to lead the AI to say that it's answers are written by humans. I think this should be taken down from HN, it's extremely misleading to anyone who migh
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by elil17 4y ago
According to the NIH, only 5.3% of Americans 12 and older are alcoholics ( https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh... ). Factor out the fact that some of those people haven't tried alcohol and y
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by elil17 4y ago
Yeah, we're talking mg/kg of acetaldehyde for apples. You would end up with perhaps 12 grams of acetaldehyde in your system from a single standard drink (probably about 0.85 grams acetaldehyde/gram ethanol). It's like co
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by elil17 4y ago
I cannot believe that Netflix would even consider having two SWEs, both at level 5, one of whom is making $90,000/year and the other of whom is making $900,000 per year. That's actually preposterous. Data (e.g. Glassdoor, levels.f
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by elil17 4y ago
There’s a dose dependent relationship, where heavy drinkers have the highest cancer burden. So we do expect (but aren’t sure) discontinuing use reduces risk. I’d say we should treat alcohol very differently than tobacco. It’s got a much low
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by elil17 4y ago
It’s not just correlation. We do have a good reason to expect that alcohol causes cancer. First, we see increased cancer in areas the alcohol and decomposition products touches/interacts with (mouth, esophagus, colon, liver, etc.). The
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by elil17 4y ago
I have heard universally positive things from my friends working at NREL, Oak Ridge, and Argonne. You might also want to check out the US Digital Service, which might be more aligned with traditional SWE skills.
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by elil17 4y ago
It's not backfiring, it's just that companies are blatantly breaking the law.
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by elil17 4y ago
Oops I meant to say it is wasteful - typo
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by elil17 4y ago
It only sucks because of generation and transmission losses. If those didn’t exist (not possible), electricity would be much cheaper and they would be on par with or better than natural gas furnaces
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by elil17 4y ago
Natural gas furnaces are designed to not let that light out. Instead, the light is absorbed by the surfaces of the furnace and turns into heat. The inefficiency in gas furnaces is heat leaving in the exhaust.
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by elil17 4y ago
Heatpumps are more than 100% efficient refers to a technical specification measure called efficiency, which is watts of heating per watt of energy input. For space heaters, electric furnaces, and your computer (/many other appliances),
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by elil17 4y ago
Heat pumps and electric furnaces are not the same thing
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by elil17 4y ago
I assume by “thermal infrared” you mean the IR produced by approximately room temperature objects. Incandescent bulbs produce much higher energy infrared because the filament reaches about 2000 Celsius. Those higher energy waves can go thro
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by elil17 4y ago
It could also be that outdoor AQ is worse around you in the winter because everyone is running their boilers, and then that outdoor air ends up inside. I can't test it because I have a heat pump, but I would be curious to know what hap
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by elil17 4y ago
It's not about fault at all - I'm just saying that the analysis does not apply to lightbulbs. For a lightbulb to be as efficient as a resistance furnace at heating a room, you would need to have zero light escape that room so that
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by elil17 4y ago
Here's a research paper detailing a design for your idea: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605... It was never pursued further for reasons I discussed in another comment on t
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by elil17 4y ago
The above comment is incorrect, even for systems without integrated dehumidifiers. AC systems absolutely do have a higher load with higher humidity because ambient water will condense on the evaporator coils if the dewpoint is higher than t
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by elil17 4y ago
That exists, it's called an air-side economizer. It's used a lot on big buildings.
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by elil17 4y ago
No, because the light can escape through windows.
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by elil17 4y ago
If you have a resistance electric furnace, that is essentially true. With gas, you add the electric generation and distribution losses, which is a pretty big difference. It does cost more to run an appliance than to heat with gas.
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by elil17 4y ago
You'd need one of three solutions to make this work: 1) Long refrigerant pipes. This is unacceptable because it increases the amount of refrigerant in the systems (refereed to as the charge of the refrigerant). Refrigerants are powerfu
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by elil17 4y ago
If you are referring to transcritical CO2 that is absolutely right. However you can't just use any pressure change in any gas, it would work but it would not be economically viable due to that inefficiency.
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by elil17 4y ago
That may be true, but from the perspective of a company like Hertz they are covered by the standard 8 year warranties offered by most EV manufacturers because they do not keep cars that long anyway.
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by elil17 4y ago
Idk man sounds like they’re just taking a phrase and phrasing it slightly differently so that it applies to more people. You’re the one who was offended by that
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by elil17 4y ago
I felt that they offered a helpful correction
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by elil17 4y ago
You’re absolutely right
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by elil17 4y ago
I don't really get why any of that matters though. Can't you just appreciate the sentiment regardless of how it is phrased? Seems like your trying to make it political when it just isn't.

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