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by gwright 5y ago
> but energy is gloriously cheap when the sun is shining. This seems like a misunderstanding of how to evaluate costs. You can't selectively ignore some costs and then assert that the energy is "cheap". Well you can do th
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by gwright 5y ago
> Today, solar is cheaper than nuclear. Are you counting the generation capacity that has to exist to backup the solar? If not, then you are comparing apples to oranges.
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> Renewables and electrification are the primary solution to the climate change problem Not until grid-scale energy storage is widely available and affordable.
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> Same could be said about disregarding societal needs in favour of individual rights. Of course, which is why I said a balance is needed. I'm not familiar with the jurisprudence of New Zealand or Australia, but the restrictions app
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by gwright 5y ago
> wants of individuals as more important than the needs of a society You're just introducing your own dangerous narrative into the conversation. Making individuals subservient to the "needs of society" and disregarding ind
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> The biggest CMS of one of the biggest languages Which CMS is this?
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by gwright 5y ago
So only $2.5 trillion? I get the fact that battery prices are going down. That doesn't mean that grid-scale battery systems are feasible and deployable any time soon.
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by gwright 5y ago
I would be interested in seeing a detailed analysis that came to the same conclusion as your assertion regarding solar+storage being cheaper than gas plant in California. Here is a pretty detailed analysis indicating that the storage costs
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by gwright 5y ago
My understanding is that one specific concern from a Christian point of view is the use of fetal cell lines in the development of the vaccine: https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021091... I
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by gwright 5y ago
The "founders" were not a monolithic entity with a single opinion. The history of the Bill of Rights makes it quite clear that there were many founders in favor of those amendments. The Constitution was ratified in June of 1788.
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by gwright 5y ago
> And those businesses have a right to exist because... ? Strange line of reasoning. Generally it is a good thing for businesses to exist because they create value: employment and wages, tax revenue, goods and services that wouldn't
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by gwright 5y ago
This is too simplistic. The business model might not work at all at the higher labor rates. That can result in a change in the model (e.g., restaurants that no longer have table service, just take out) or it might result in the business cl
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by gwright 5y ago
> Isn't this just a market opportunity for other companies? Perhaps but that doesn't preclude criticizing those editorial choices as harmful (false narratives, ideological bubbles, general free-speech principles).
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Rent-seeking isn't a phenomena that is unique to capitalism. It is something present in many different (all?) economic systems. So while it is completely fair to be critical of rent-seeking that isn't by itself a criticism of cap
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by gwright 5y ago
> Too bad ruby stopped short of doing the trivial obvious thing and just making blocks be regular values. Instead the language is complicated by special syntax and functions for sending and receiving blocks, and bizarrely limited by the
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by gwright 5y ago
>rent-seeking, Unfortunately "capitalism" is a pretty ill-defined term. I wouldn't include "rent-seeking" as a characteristic of "capitalism" but apparently you do. This makes it very difficult to have
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by gwright 5y ago
> kids that they are being watched Not sure that "kids" is well defined here. But it seems completely normal that "kids" would be watched by their parents. I realize that the appropriate nature of "watching"
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by gwright 5y ago
Without specific numbers it is a bit difficult to be as clear as I would like but I read your comment as suggesting that the savings from owning/hosting your own equipment could pay for the team needed to operate that solution -- but t
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by gwright 5y ago
> In my experience, doing things in the cloud is about as expensive per 12-18 months as buying the hardware up front is. It seems like you are glossing over the other costs: staff to implement and manage, development time and maintenance
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by gwright 5y ago
biological version of dead code with no time allocated in the roadmap for cleanup and refactoring?
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by gwright 5y ago
> confusion over the word 'tracking' OMG. This was one of my stumbling blocks in learning git. None of the explanations were helpful to me. The other area that is a tremendous source of confusion is rebasing being described as
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by gwright 5y ago
> building students are forced to live in. This is a a bit overwrought. Students are voluntarily applying and accepting an offer to attend. They aren't being "forced" to do anything. It may be that many people think this
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by gwright 5y ago
> It’s not a demographic crisis, but an economic one. I'm not sure what that means but perhaps they aren't mutually exclusive?
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by gwright 5y ago
I think you are conflating a couple of ideas in your comment making it a bit muddled in my mind. Actual incidents of product contamination (originating in any country/manufacturer) shouldn't be characterized as "conspiracy th
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by gwright 5y ago
That article suggests basic bureaucratic turf battles (process wasn't followed, people weren't consulted, existing law prohibits etc.) and not a specific response to the navigation-app routing problem. Still seems to me that this
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by gwright 5y ago
What state laws are you referring to? Why are localities powerless? This seems like an emergent phenomena that should be addressed by legislative action. What is preventing that action?
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by gwright 5y ago
You are making the same assumptions as the original commenter: * assuming that the distribution of experiences is oriented towards a single "cluster" (probably a better statistical term for this) * assuming that your per
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by gwright 5y ago
How did your particular group of acquaintances become blessed as the standard group? Do you not understand how presumptuous it is for you assume that your experience is the standard experience and to label everyone else an outlier? Why do
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by gwright 5y ago
> but the reality is that most people cut ties with their coworkers I dislike this type of comment as it presumes that one person's personal experience is "reality" or a reasonable representation of what everyone else has
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by gwright 5y ago
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2021-9-20-renewable...

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