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by elil17 4y ago
The story is slightly more complicated than that. Most people who put money into their 401ks end up with positive real returns. If you invest in the whole market, you're going to get positive real returns in something like 96% of histo
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by elil17 4y ago
Bonds, stocks, private equity, futures, and real estate are cash flow producing assets. The expected rate of return of cash flow producing assets is positive. I don't mean statistically, I mean logically. People value having money now
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by elil17 4y ago
Except that it's impossible to just use it as a currency without speculating due to the volatility (and I get that that's probably the fault of the speculators, but that doesn't change the reality of it).
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by elil17 4y ago
It's about 1/7,000,000 of global emissions. Less than any country I believe (except maybe Vatican City, but that's not listed on this map). Larger than many small towns and airports.
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by elil17 4y ago
Those emissions would mostly be counted in the airports on this map.
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by elil17 4y ago
They don't, that's just my napkin math.
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by elil17 4y ago
It's not really marginal efficiency. It's ~60% efficiency for a natural gas system, higher for a system with point-source capture on that natural gas. I'm not sure how exactly it pans out with the inefficiency of extraction b
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by elil17 4y ago
No, carbon capture powered by fossil fuels releases less carbon than it captures. For direct air capture, it takes somewhere around 2,000 kWh to capture a ton of CO2 [1]. You can generate those 2,000 kWh using natural gas and release about
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by elil17 4y ago
You can run carbon capture by burning natural gas and still capture more carbon than you release because compressed CO2 + H2O is a lower energy state than O2 + hydrocarbon compounds.
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by elil17 4y ago
As others have pointed out the issues with ozone generators, I'll just throw ERVs as a ventilation option into the mix. An ERV with a filter can cycle out not just particles, bacteria, and viruses, but also dangerous gases.
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by elil17 4y ago
The way CPI is calculated is complex, but they do try to account for substitution and quality changes: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/common-misconceptions-abo... See "When the cost of food rises, does th
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by elil17 4y ago
In the USA it's an improvement patent (see 35 U.S.C. 101). Because the algorithm is novel and involves steps that rely on hardware, you can patent the combination of hardware and process. Not sure if Europe views it the same way.
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by elil17 4y ago
It's not a lie, it's just not so simple that you can stop reading after the headline. This very post includes information about category-by-category inflation. Inflation for food has been about 10% YOY. Dairy is 15% and fresh milk
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by elil17 4y ago
Well it's really a patent for a method which includes both software and hardware (the sensors). It still might be an Art 84 rejection but I don't know enough about the EPO to say. They haven't filed any international patents,
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by elil17 4y ago
They'd also have to be able to serve you with the lawsuit, which is far from easy if you post the code anonymously online.
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by elil17 4y ago
A judge absolutely would care about that. The actual claim language, not the patent description, defines what is patentable. Accidentally including specificity in the claim beyond what is needed to overcome rejections will absolutely kill
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by elil17 4y ago
I think it would be trivial to replace evade their patents. They've phrased all of their claims around using averages (over time windows) of different sensor values. I can describe the following inventions which would not infringe upon
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by elil17 4y ago
Seems like it would be possible (perhaps even easy depending on how complex their algorithm is) to make an free or open source version of this a give it away. It's essentially a zero risk intervention so I imagine it would be possible
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by elil17 4y ago
There are a variety of no-boil pasta methods which use much less CO2. Haven't tested them yet but plan to next time I make pasta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=259MXuK62gU https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by elil17 4y ago
It's true that heat pumps become less efficient at higher temperature differences. That's why these systems use lower storage temperatures. It's also true that, even then, the storage temperature has to by higher than the typ
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by elil17 4y ago
Idea is great but there is a lot of overlap between the tags, e.g. there are six pages of tags for Chinese but half of them are all variants on the same tech topics (e.g. there is a separate tag for 苹果、手机、电脑、and "apple watch").
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by elil17 4y ago
From their website: We’re looking for licensed coaches (ICF or NBHWC preferred) or licensed mental health professionals (e.g., PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMFT, etc.) specializing in ADHD. Looks like they accept people with coaching licenses (this oft
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by elil17 4y ago
When I voted in this year's election in the US, I used a computer which printed my ballot after I filled it out digitally. That ballot was then scanned by another computer and put in a ballot box for any potential future recounts. That
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by elil17 4y ago
You have to include the capex cost of the heat pumps. This design uses no equipment at the customer's homes, just pipes of hot fluid. Those pipes already exist in Finland, where district heating is relatively common. The next logical s
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by elil17 4y ago
You're balancing the cost of energy leaking vs. the difference in capex vs. other inefficiencies of the gravity based system (e.g. heat loss due to friction)
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by elil17 4y ago
The physical degradation of the books seems like such a minor effect. I'm pretty gentle with books. As for library ebooks, I had no idea the contracts were structured like that.
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by elil17 4y ago
If my local library already owns the book and it is not checked out, what is the difference between driving there to check it out and downloading it illegally online? The impact to the author is the same: absolutely nothing.
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by elil17 4y ago
That sucks for little snippets of software though, doesn’t it? It’s like copyrighting individual dance moves (not allowed under the current system) and forcing dancers to never watch each other to make sure they’re never stealing.
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by elil17 4y ago
The fact that the laws are inconsistent and expensive to defend against leads companies like Microsoft to take this conservative approach that slows down progress.
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by elil17 4y ago
I think in the case of open source code, most of it still would have been written if no copyright protections existed.

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