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by elil17 4y ago
I wouldn't really say that it's a proven technology because the core issue for microfluidic applications is having a air- and water-tight connection, which is not proven out by electrical connectors of any sort.
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by elil17 4y ago
That's a bit like saying a Honda Civic aren't more efficient than an Abrams tank because the Civic weighs less. They don't have the same capabilities, but one is gonna win on MPG for sure.
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by elil17 4y ago
Yes, it does
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Just being skinny probably makes him more efficient than average.
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by elil17 4y ago
I read somewhere that if you’re not at least mostly vegan, e-bikes actually have lower lifecycle carbon emissions than bikes because you end up burning fewer calories and eating less (assuming you don’t substitute in more exercise).
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by elil17 4y ago
Humans are much more energy efficient than cars, so it was less than 3/4 of a gallon (100 kcal/mile * 200 miles = 20,000 calories = 0.7 gallons of gas or about 6 pounds of body fat). He's probably much more efficient than 100
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by elil17 4y ago
Either “we’re working on a challenging problem and we need to be able to try and try again despite failures” or “we have insane expectations of you but you will not be compensated accordingly.”
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by elil17 4y ago
There’s a big difference between doing something that’s maybe not the best use of resources, but still serves a purposes, even if it’s just pleasure (ex: watching the Kardashians) and doing something for no reason that makes any sense at al
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by elil17 4y ago
Perhaps you are right about power companies wanting to sell more power (although it seems like that is not the case for the marginal kWh given all that power companies do to incentive energy efficiency for their customers). But even so, at
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by elil17 4y ago
In ESOPs part of your pay is in the form of company shares. Your risk and reward increases as you build up company shares and pays out when you retire.
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by elil17 4y ago
The US Small Business Administration actually offers small business loans to groups of employees trying to get a controlling share of their companies. However, the program is pretty hard to use (like every other government program). https:
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by elil17 4y ago
0.3% is a rounding error if you look at the electricity generation of a region, but it's huge if you look at the impact it will have over many years. That's 0.3% less of the global energy supply that needs to be replaced with nucl
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by elil17 4y ago
FYI English is the official language of Nigeria, and the one most people who can afford satellite internet speak day-to-day. No need to translate!
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by elil17 4y ago
I'd really like to seem them get an endowment for keeping the servers up and running, then let them fund raise to cover the UI improvements, community grants, and whatever else. I think those are important and useful but it should real
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by elil17 4y ago
But the key thing is why are they more caloric. Is it that we are hungrier, is it that foods changed? These are questions that are testable if we start doing policy experiments.
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by elil17 4y ago
Why then, for example, are cleaning services workers, mechanics, and health workers all more obese than average? Those are jobs where you are much more active than an office worker. Those are all cases where someone gets exposed to chemical
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by elil17 4y ago
The series of articles I posted talks about a tribe where this is the case. Very fit people who get a ton of calories from honey.
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by elil17 4y ago
Or they have less exposure to obesogens and therefore don't want to eat as much, leading restaurants to offer smaller portion sizes. There's a correlation, but not necessarily a causation.
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by elil17 4y ago
Right, you'll see how many calories you eat. But you won't see why you eat that many calories. Plenty of people try very hard to count and limit calories, but stories of successful weight loss are still the minority of cases. Mo
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by elil17 4y ago
It could also be that home made bread is chewier and so it takes longer to eat, or that it's a psychological effect from having made it yourself.
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by elil17 4y ago
Sure, I think that's a very plausible explanation. It also points to specific, testable policy changes. For example, a government could build a low cost (subsidized), healthy competitor to fast food. Alternatively, a government could i
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by elil17 4y ago
I think saying that physical activity accounts for the differences in weight isn't supported by the evidence. I mean, surely if eating pure honey for half your calories but exercising a bunch led to good health outcomes and lower weigh
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by elil17 4y ago
Just saying "cheeseburgers" or "calories in, calories out" fails to explain why people eat more calories now than they did before. There is a vague, and I think very unhelpful, sense in society today that this is some so
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by elil17 4y ago
A very long series of essays about this: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p... The authors take the view that obesogens account for 100% or nearly 100% of the rise in obesity, which
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by elil17 4y ago
TIL! Very interesting
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by elil17 4y ago
You could absolutely abdicate. You could, if you really believed in democracy, peacefully dissolve the monarchy. I understand that that would have meant losing many members of her family, and I understand on a personal level why she would n
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by elil17 4y ago
Decreased comfort = decreased productivity. On an individual level people can cope but on a societal level it’s a real issue. I want a society full of productive people so I want investment in clean energy supplies and high performance buil
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by elil17 4y ago
Coal gas isn’t petrol, it fills the role of natural gas.
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by elil17 4y ago
That’s called an air side economizer, they’re very common in commercial buildings but residential units are also available.
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by elil17 4y ago
Companies in the US are required to give a minimum of 12 weeks unpaid parental leave.

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