evanlivingston

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by evanlivingston 2y ago
Whenever power in Germany comes up, I have a hard time interpreting anything because of the reaction the HN crowd has against the Germany's resistance to Nuclear. But from what I can tell, they're doing a pretty good job reducing
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
This is a great point but has me realizing I don't know how to square this with the idea that quite a few people are making enormous profits from unprofitable businesses. It feels like there should be a way to tax these startups that e
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
There are a handful of solutions to the problem of the lights being on while in bed, but wanting them to be off. One way is to turn off the lights before entering the bed. Another way is to get out of the bed and turn off the lights and the
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
I assume this is true for 1) filters that are NSF certified and 2) wish to not display a prop 65 warning. A majority of the water filters purchased on Amazon are not NSF certified and ship with a prop 65 warning. In fact, it's difficul
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
APEC doesn't appear to even be certified by NSF which is rather disconcerting. https://info.nsf.org/Certified/dwtu/listings.asp
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
NSF at least certifies their claim. That's a surprisingly small volume of water though. I also don't love how private they are about what the filter media is. https://info.nsf.org/Certified/DWTU/Listings.
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
Boiling can _increase_ dichloroacetic acid. If it were run through an RO first, then this is likely less of an issue.
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
Yah, this is totally a thing. For example, https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5942/jawwa.2...
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
Charcoal filters have a relatively short lifespan.
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
The testing is probably already done for you! https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
FYI: charcoal filters can introduce arsenic and also appear to increase the bacteria in the filtered water.
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
Also, all those RO systems run the water through an enormous amount of plastic, and store the filtered water in a rubber bladder. When looking into this previously my decision was to avoid introducing yet another potential source of contami
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
er, It was not asked to provide an unethical response, it was asked to provide a response given no ethical boundaries — those are two different things. Further, when we see the words "ethical" or "moral" we should rememb
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
This comment captures exactly what I find concerning around the common line of thinking about AI. How is a value judgement or moral that _I_ hold different than the list output by ChatGPT here?
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by evanlivingston 3y ago
This is, in practice, the utility of the widespread use of CAD. Many manufacturers of parts distribute CAD models of those parts. For example, McMaster-Carr have CAD models (in various formats) for nearly every single part in their catalog.
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
Er, when I went looking into the research I only found inconclusive results for it's benefits. I took it for a long time to help with nicotine cravings and ADHD and never noticed a semblance of a beneficial effect. There's also an
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
Why is it critical that intelligent life on earth survives?
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
I use incandescent and halogen everywhere and don't have a problem with color temperature. Also, the CRI of my bulbs is incredible. My house has maybe 20 light bulbs in it, most of them under 75 watts, except for a couple of strategic
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
I mean, at what point do stop and ask yourself if the thing you're making is going to cause bad things to happen? Do we only consider that when the thing is really obviously a weapon and ignore all the other creations?
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
I fail to see how considering the impacts of a tool before building a tool is putting the cart before the horse. How is that not a necessary step in building a thing?
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
My wife flies internationally a number of times a year, and I'm sometimes with her. We've been using timeshifter for a couple of years. It's current pricing of 24.99 a year is in an awkward spot where if we _know_ we're
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
What is a stable ecosystem?
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
One of my favorite moments for this painting is the time it was hanging in the UN, but was covered while Colin Powell argued for war in Iraq[1] [1] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/02/guer-f08.html
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
Yes? Whether you're receiving the value of the asset or not, you're locking up the value of the asset and preventing a larger group of people from benefiting from the value of the asset, which is sort of the point of a wealth tax.
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by evanlivingston 4y ago
A River Lost: the life and death of the Columbia is another book about the social, civic and environmental impacts that damning the rivers the PNW has had.
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by evanlivingston 5y ago
Can someone explain what's going on here?
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by evanlivingston 5y ago
I use a printer, a filing cabinet, hanging folders and manila file folders. I could never dream of doing anything else.
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by evanlivingston 5y ago
Is manga specifically female orientated? I understand that's there's a shared visual style, but what explains the shared use of young looking girls?
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by evanlivingston 5y ago
How is it different from a regular tv?
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by evanlivingston 5y ago
I assumed it used some technology that made it look less like a digital display and more like a analog object. Also, I (stupidly) assumed that it was similar to an e-ink display I that it could display images when it was powered off.

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