grecy

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by grecy 2y ago
I didn’t hear about the tweets. What are they about?
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by grecy 2y ago
No country can refuse entry to it's own citizen. They must admit a citizen, but they can then arrest them immediately.
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by grecy 2y ago
Have you tried not bringing a phone? I'd be really interested in their response when you tell them you don't have one on you.
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by grecy 2y ago
I'm wondering how my electricity they will save just from moving from Intel to Apple Silicon in their data centers.
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by grecy 2y ago
My uncle is a bit of a Luddite and doesn't like how the world is changing, but he has one very good story I think about often. Imagine you live in a town. In that town, you go to the local butcher, and you buy food with $100 cash. The
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by grecy 2y ago
As first I would work and save, then just live on those savings (It's MUCH cheaper than you think - around $1200 per month to drive to Argentina for 2 years, all in). Now I write for magazines, do youtube, have a few published books an
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by grecy 2y ago
I was a software engineer for a while, but it wasn’t making me happy. So I quit and now I drive around the world in my own vehicles having adventures. My most popular video is the heavily armed military guys in Nigeria trying to get money o
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by grecy 2y ago
ah, sorry, I read that wrong
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by grecy 2y ago
There are 140 calories in a can of coke. All a person has to do is stop drinking two cans a day and make zero other changes and they’ve about met your 300 calorie reduction. Hardly sounds like fasting to me.
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by grecy 2y ago
> Calorie in calorie out is the flat-earth model of metabolism, trading truth for simplicity Are you proposing mammals can burn more energy than they consume, just by thinking about it? Where do you propose that energy comes from?
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by grecy 2y ago
Even shorter summary: Eating less energy than the body burns results in burning of stored energy reserves.
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by grecy 2y ago
> The world’s largest solar farm in Xinjiang is part of China’s megabase project, a plan to install 455 GW of wind and solar. China now boasts the three largest solar farms in the world by capacity. The Ningxia Tenggeli and Golmud Wutu
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by grecy 2y ago
> but even we don't hate him. Rather, you see quite rabid Americans go on about him, who much less of a conflict with him than we do. In my experience a big part of the American identity is hating something (or someone). You’re wi
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by grecy 2y ago
Even Metallica caught a lot of flack for doing the same generic stuff on Load.
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by grecy 2y ago
Huh, I live in the other Nelson on the other side of the world that commonly gets mistaken for yours and just thought "no way there is a dev meetup in Nelson!".
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by grecy 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32568858 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/hou... https://247wallst.com/special-report/2022/06/05&#x
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by grecy 2y ago
I believe renting is the weakest part of my idea, but I don't see why it can't be solved. Maybe humans are allowed to own some maximum number of properties for the purposes of renting it out, and that number will decrease over tim
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by grecy 2y ago
The article even mentions there were naturally occurring nuclear reactors on earth a while ago. So it's possible to for a blob of fissile material to just form naturally.
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by grecy 2y ago
Humans would be a lot better off if everyone just copied everyone so we could advance as quickly as possible - imagine if the entire would could just manufacture whatever cutting edge medicine some corporation is holding hostage - and that&
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by grecy 2y ago
> These are great and I fully support such rules. They will not make houses depreciate though. They'll make more of them owned by regular people instead of rental conglomerates, which is a wonderful outcome. But it won't make
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by grecy 2y ago
> And how would you implement that?I keep asking because often these threads go into something like "Oh you just stop making homes an investment and problem solved.", but that word "just" is moving some pretty big mo
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by grecy 2y ago
OK, so it can appreciate with inflation. So it doesn't go up or down, it just stays the same. This can be done by changing who is even allowed to own them, and what they're allowed to do with them. Make it unbelievably unattractiv
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by grecy 2y ago
> This is one of those meme-phrases that no longer really means anything. It means exactly what it says it means. You can either making residential housing something that regular people earning regular salaries can afford to purchase,
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by grecy 2y ago
> It is illegal in California to disconnect a residential house from the grid. Huh? Are you saying I'm forced into a contract with a private company with a monthly fee? ... what happens if I simply have no money, and get the servi
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by grecy 2y ago
> Think about what conditions would need to be true for housing to be a bad investment The most simple of all - It goes down in price.
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by grecy 2y ago
Make a law that only humans can buy residential property, and only one house for one human.
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by grecy 2y ago
This is so fundamental to the issue. It is impossible for housing to be simultaneously a good investment and affordable. Policymakers simply have to decide if they cater to those that already own homes, or those desperately wanting to buy o
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by grecy 2y ago
> the only winning move is not to play. And with so much sun, that is a very viable option. A roof covered in solar and some batteries and you'll never deal with this nonsense ever again.
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by grecy 2y ago
> Could you explain what other copernican moments have you experienced? There have been quite a few, I've written about them my books I've written about my adventures around the world [1]. - You really don't need much mo
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by grecy 2y ago
As a young driver I was given the advice that if you see a lot of oncoming cars using their sunshade or squinting into the sun as they come towards you, it's time to pull over and wait it out. Driving with the sun at your back is never

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