iamthemonster

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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Every so often I receive commercially sensitive information about my company which I'm not allowed to disclose before it's formally communicated to the stock market. For fun, I try to predict what impact it'll have on the sh
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
1. There will be a renaming of "social media" as people note that there is nothing social about being served endless ads, ragebait and distracting videos with no actual social interaction happening. 2. The "social media"
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Yeah I don't understand the particular revulsion to showing ID here. The concept of showing your ID to get access to something is very well embedded across alcohol, driving, cigarettes, your myGov account, Medicare, air travel, all so
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Thank you so much for your detailed reply, I really appreciate it!
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what were you and your siblings told regarding the risk level for the donor? I tried googling this and I didn't find anything particularly definitive as the sample sizes were reasonably small
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
When I looked into live donor liver transplant, there was a 2% donor fatality rate which seemed quite material. Due to relatively small sample sizes, it's difficult to know if this 2% fatality rate is representative today. But in any
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
I don't know if it works for everyone, but for me I tell myself "you HAVE to go for a 1 minute run, then just see how you feel" and every time I just end up doing a decent run anyway.
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
His net worth is $378k per homeless person. You can't solve every homeless person's issues but he does at least have enough to get every homeless person into an apartment.
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
I'm an engineer in the process industries (oil/gas) and we are constantly collaborating and running stuff by other engineering disciplines with different knowledge to us, and coordinating with management, logistics, maintenance, o
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
You may be thinking of LPG, which is a mix of propane (three carbon atoms) and butane (four carbon atoms) and it's a liquid under reasonably low pressures. LNG is pure methane (one carbon atom) and you have to cool it to -163 degrees
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
But only a very miniscule fraction of carbon ends up as oil. This paper made an attempt at a comparison of fossil fuel use versus agricultural biomass production: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-annual-produc
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
It reminds me of the food processor salesman who came to our house to demonstrate how you can avoid processed food by making it at home... in a food processor.
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
I live in WA and our state government is ridiculously, nakedly corrupted by the mining and gas industries. WA can achieve the best wind and solar capacity factors in the world yet there hasn't been a single utility-scale wind or solar
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Did they never mention the concept of wounding the animal with a trap or missile weapon first? Of course it's unethical to test that theory but it's surely the first thing you'd think of doing if you actually wanted to catch
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
My young daughter enjoys some short videos on Facebook of a nice guy who just enjoys nature. He's not at all famous, probably has followers in the low tens of thousands I think, but I paid about $25 to get him to do a video for her. I
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
I think we haven't yet recognised, as a society, that our deep emotional connection to meat-eating is not some innate caveman instinct but is mainly the result of marketing by a powerful industry. Of course it helps that meat is delici
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
I have been very surprised at how good LinkedIn is as a news aggregator. I work in the energy industry and there are a lot of consultants who share genuinely quality articles or links to reports, sometimes with quite insightful analysis. Ho
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Nope, Ex rated coriolis flowmeters are barely $150k.
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Yep I agree - I will, however, be happy to install a battery if it doesn't save me money but does represent a carbon price of about $100/tonne
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Australia has become SO competitive for solar and battery installation you can actually be fairly safe nowadays just picking any old supplier that has >4.7* on google and there'll almost definitely be <10% price difference (that&
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
This approach may vary by country. Not a single sparky in Australia will sign off on someone else's solar/battery install.
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Absolutely agree - I think people fall into a major fallacy with sizing their battery systems. Their power consumption probability* distribution is skewed, and they think their battery needs to be sized for 99% or 100% of their daily consum
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
I work for an oil and gas producer in WA and it is absolutely shocking to me how blatant is the corruption of state politics. WA state politics is a failed state, which is 100% captured by resource companies. When the WA EPA advised (not de
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
A bichon is not a dog, it is a human baby with extra floof.
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
In my old, small, place I went ducted because we didn't have room for splits. Cost AU$10,000 (US$6,600) for the whole house. Moved to a new larger place, got split systems for the whole house. Cost AU$10,000 (US$6,600). If I had to pay
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
I think I trust the numbers for China more than your estimate of China's population which is out by 43%
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
This is exactly the post I was going to mention. Now, at age 41, for some reason I can't stand his writing, which I find pugnacious and lacking self-reflection. But at the time in my 20s, his classic early posts on MMM hit me just at t
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
Beautifully written, but I couldn't disagree more. Bicycle maintenance is an annoying chore to me that gets in the way of my enjoyment of cycling. I even have good bicycle shops near me that did maintenance far quicker/cheaper&#x2
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by iamthemonster 2y ago
The constraints on battery powered vessels are, perhaps surprisingly, not really associated with weight or volume at all, but with cost. So ocean going container ships will be a question of economics. I agree that we won't see large oc

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