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by erentz 7y ago
Pumped storage is not realistic. It’s a cute nice to have on the side but cannot ever possibly scale enough to meet even double digit percentage of our need. To be quick about it let’s take some data from [1]. Hydroelectric power generates
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by erentz 7y ago
HIPAA doesn’t extend beyond certain health care boundaries. Disability insurance for example aren’t bound to HIPAA in any way. Once you give them your medical records they can do what they like with it.
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by erentz 7y ago
It's perfectly fine to truncate the y-axis on line charts when zero is not in the normal range of values. The charts all look very clear and it's easy to interpret the data and trends to me.
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by erentz 7y ago
Part of it is based on previous experience working for the national grid in a hydro rich 80-90% clean generating country. I can’t speak specifically for the US but think about it like this. You need to have enough generating capacity on you
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by erentz 7y ago
Hydro plants are already going to be running at full output during the peak demand time when solar is not working. Just because you have solar during that day, which means you get to use less of the stored hydro water during the day, does n
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by erentz 7y ago
I was in Maine for 6 months and the takeaway I got was: environmentalists in ME/NH/VT don’t want wind power, don’t want a new power line that would bring clean Quebec hydro power, and they want to shut down the only clean generati
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by erentz 7y ago
I thought you could only shut down an aluminium smelter for a couple of hours. It’s essential they keep the pots (?) hot constantly or they get ruined and the plant is then offline hundreds of millions to repair. If this is correct then sol
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by erentz 7y ago
A more straightforward reading of their actions is they wanted to intimidate witnesses and hinder testimony to protect their king.
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by erentz 7y ago
Fund rail like we do highways. Establish an agency to incrementally purchase ROW or track rights and incrementally upgrade services. And to tie all these services together into a cohesive network. This would mean first all the lines in NoCa
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by erentz 7y ago
I was working at [a large cloud company] a couple of years after this book came out when suddenly all the managers (in my area) started reading it in a very short space of time. They became completely prepossessed by checklists, but IMO tot
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by erentz 7y ago
And in large part that is due to our different approach to China. Opening up trade with China enabled its economy to reach the level it did today. In part [0] the minds thought trade would bring liberalization in China. But that didn’t happ
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by erentz 7y ago
Unfortunately all Chinese citizens must comply under Chinese law with spying requests whenever their intelligence agencies come asking. That makes every Chinese citizen in your company a potential spy. This is shitty on so many levels, and
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Fracking boom tied to methane spike in Earth’s atmosphere(nationalgeographic.com)
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Naming and shaming companies who kowtow to Chinese censorship requests(caffeine-overload.github.io)
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by erentz 7y ago
Trumps actions don’t explain China’s actions that we’re talking about here. If anything, assuming someone smart was in charge in China, Trumps behavior would be cause to show more restraint for now in places like HK to play it very cool and
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by erentz 7y ago
What playing their hand too early means is that they’ve hurt themselves with dumb moves. What good is having influence if China use it stupidly, makes everyone pissed off, and everyone closes their doors to China? Xi and the CCP have hurt
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by erentz 7y ago
One of the surprising things to me is how much China seems to have played their hand too early (and too strongly). People have been sounding alarms about China for a while but if they had played it cool everything likely would’ve ticked alo
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by erentz 7y ago
> Even worse... many women from the community I grew up in have developed strange autoimmune disorders in their 40s and 50s. Interesting myself, my wife, and a number of friends have remarked on how a lot of people around us are getting
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by erentz 7y ago
But isn’t this “nuclear’s weakness is humans” argument disproven by history? We humans have been running nuclear plants for a very long time and yet deaths from nuclear power are still lower than all other power sources, and much much much
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Inside The Tunnels That Will Store Nuclear Waste for 100k Years [video](m.youtube.com)
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Unexpected cracking found on critical Boeing 737 Next Generation part(komonews.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
No, that doesn't really make sense. Note in your example of cancer that pain killers are in fact given to cancer patients, they're one of the biggest users of our strongest pain killers. But nobody claims painkillers treat the c
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by erentz 7y ago
It's not quite as unknown as commonly believed. At least 40% of fibromyalgia have observable neuropathy on biopsies pointing to a process that is damaging nerves. The "what" is still unknown. But the parent is correct to say
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by erentz 7y ago
That article only talks about the company’s formation in 2007 and history since the 2000s. Here’s the predecessor founded in 1841: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_%26_Son
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by erentz 7y ago
There are a lot of articles around about how the natural gas boom is releasing methane. So unless that’s all untrue then it’s fair to say it’s increased our emissions. We would have had lower methane emissions if we hadn’t started the shale
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by erentz 7y ago
The massive natural gas boom has increased US methane emissions. Given methane’s vastly increased greenhouse potency (albeit for a shorter time) it may be possible that the big switch we are seeing to gas isn’t actually an improvement. I’d
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by erentz 7y ago
Oh, so that’s what happened. This started last week for me and it is far from a “masthead”. It takes up 80% of my home screen on my LG WebOS TV. It’s more equivalent to the whole upper fold of the first page of a news paper being a giant ad
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by erentz 7y ago
It’s interesting to see this article for me because it is similar to the “Bitcoin is bad because CO2” articles and arguments that arise from time to time. To which I’ve unsuccessfully attempted to argue you can’t really say Bitcoin is bad a
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by erentz 7y ago
That sounds like a sensible way to go about it to me. Suddenly all those services that nobody would actually pay for, that are simply designed to hook people and consume their time, would go away. A whole lot of services that people would a
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by erentz 7y ago
How would that work? Say the US applies a tariff on wine imports from France. What happens next? Does every other EU member in solidarity start self-applying the same tariff to their wines and sending that over to the US tax service?

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