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by frankus 7y ago
This is unlikely to be reproducible, but I bought a foreclosed condo in Seattle in 2013, did a few weeks’ worth of work (spread out over a year or so) redoing the kitchen and bathroom, and sold it not quite three years later for $120k more
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by frankus 8y ago
Possibly related? https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/11/21/exclu...
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by frankus 8y ago
Yes, to be fair, there probably are some exploitable niches unrelated to crappy land use (which I should point out is much more common in the parts of the US that co-evolved with the automobile). For example, fresh herbs cost a fortune in g
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by frankus 8y ago
Indoor farming looks pretty promising, but we shouldn't be building indoor farms in the middle of dense cities. If you live in a high-cost city, the best thing to grow in your backyard from an environmental standpoint is probably an AD
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by frankus 8y ago
I nearly flunked thermodynamics in college, so take this as the harebrained scheme/Burning Man hack that it would be. But I've wondered if you could get a useful amount of cooling/greywater disposal/hot clean water suppl
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by frankus 8y ago
Local battery storage is nice in a power outage, but right now it isn't remotely competitive with net metering. I pay US$7.94 a month to my utility to "store" megawatt-hours of electricity over the course of a year. Brand-nam
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by frankus 8y ago
Expanding on this a bit, there's a huge difference between not punishing drug users and allowing commercial sales. The latter opens up a Pandora's box of regulatory capture, since problem users account for the vast majority of pro
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by frankus 8y ago
The evidence that they dug from both ends is pretty compelling. Otherwise I would have assumed they just started digging in the right general direction, used a water channel to keep things level, and sighted along the tunnel to keep it stra
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by frankus 8y ago
Apologies for being mildly off-topic, but is anyone aware of a USB-C PD charger with more than a single USB-C PD port? Doesn't necessarily have to be wall-wart style.
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by frankus 8y ago
Apple claims that they use time-of-flight for their "Unlock with Apple Watch" feature on macOS, so it seems like something that a car maker/supplier could pull off, especially if they're willing to throw dedicated hardwa
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by frankus 8y ago
Maybe it really is more about shifting priorities away from cars and towards more green uses like bike lanes and buses. That specific example doesn't touch on parking minimums, and maybe deregulating those are less of a political hot b
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by frankus 8y ago
I have noticed a weird left-right political reversal around parking in the US. Or maybe it's not entirely left-right but wonk-populist. The voices that most loudly condemn socialism and regulation suddenly become advocates for governme
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by frankus 8y ago
If you're ever in the area they do cave tours at Horne Lake. They're a pretty far cry from the boardwalk-and-elevator stuff that's common in the US. More like crawl on your stomach through a passage barely bigger than your bo
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by frankus 8y ago
A few years ago I was looking at the specific heat of common substances and water is pretty much off the charts compared with everything else ( http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Tables/sphtt.html ). But the
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by frankus 8y ago
If you’ve built dedicated busways that portion of the route loses flexibility (presumably in exchange for speed and reliability). Transfers are explained here: http://humantransit.org/2009/04/why-transferring-is-go
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by frankus 8y ago
The book details a bunch of interesting things that aren't really apparent until you've taken the time to think them through, for example: - There are very few inherent differences between buses and rail—most of what we think of a
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by frankus 8y ago
I wonder what the effect is in specific energy. Weight is at least as much of a concern as volume for a lot of mobile applications.
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by frankus 8y ago
I wish PowerShell and/or some of its ideas had a bit more mindshare outside of the MS ecosystem. Other folks have talked about this at length (e.g. https://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/ ),
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by frankus 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing. My car shuts off if you come to a stop in D, but for some reason it doesn’t when you shift to P, even though there’s even less reason to leave the engine idling in Park.
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by frankus 8y ago
My car is quiet enough that if the radio is on at moderate volume the engine at idle is pretty much inaudible.
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by frankus 9y ago
Also in a lot of cases (cool climate, electric resistance heat, water heater inside conditioned space) that heat isn't really lost, it's just offsetting heat that would have come from something like an electric baseboard heater.
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by frankus 9y ago
Neither here nor there, but I found that the construction "hard to understate" is either wrong or super confusing. Apparently I'm not alone http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11177
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by frankus 9y ago
TI-99/4A at school, then a Commodore 128 at home a few years later.
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by frankus 9y ago
4000m is pretty well within the range of altitude-induced hypoxia.
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Canadian government outlaws carrier-locking mobile phones(canada.ca)
3 points by frankus 9y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 9y ago
What this misses is that we don't really have any way of "generating" power aside from nuclear reactions. It's all converting from one form to another. In the case of "human power" it's extracting energy f
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by frankus 9y ago
Once you get past the point of "energy I would have expended anyway for exercise/to relieve boredom" you run into the fact that humans just aren't a very good way of converting resources (food and the energy/mineral
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by frankus 9y ago
About 70 kWh. https://what-if.xkcd.com/105/ (Hey, you're the one that asked)
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by frankus 9y ago
I've been thinking of building an automated coop door closer. Can you link me to some more info on yours?
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by frankus 9y ago
It isn't clear whether it's primarily "recreational" or medical opiod use, but apparently hospitalizations for opiod OD/dependence have gone down in states with legal MJ (source: http://www.drugandalcohol

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