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by jaclaz 4y ago
>TL;DR: don’t fall for the current heat-pump propaganda. Corollary: The 300% efficiency isn't.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>And like I said, the primary way we retain talent is by paying about 20-30% above market. Only 20-30% above market rate? I thought the idea was to pay them 1.5-2x: https://startupdreams.substack.com/p/my-biggest-les
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Anyone old enough to still remember the opening of UFO episodes (1970)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpdI-F4-7jM SHADO SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ...... ALIEN
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by jaclaz 4y ago
As a curiosity, only for Italians or foreigners that are at an advanced level in learning Italian: http://www.scudit.net/mdtasso.htm >fu difficile stabilire il tasso da pagare; cioè il tasso del tasso del tasso del Tasso
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Lots of variation. Typically used diameters in buildings (Italy, Europe) are from 10 to 24 mm, but 6 and 8 smaller diameters (mostly used in electrowelded nets or in smaller pre-cast manufacts) and larger diameters 26 28 30 32 mm (only used
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by jaclaz 4y ago
It is not necessarily "better", it is "different": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29377799 Currently the trend in cement is to add poz
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Lead has nearly no tensile strength. It was used to fix the clamps/braces to keep stones together in the stone masonry, the clamps themselves were steel alright. https://artofmaking.ac.uk/explore/tools/18&#x2F
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Steel is priced on its weight, a linear foot tells nothing unless you specify the diameter of the rebar (or its weight per unit of length).
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>... an area of about 11,000 hectares, around the size of 16 Manhattan blocks. As a side-side note I welcome the use of a new unit of measure, besides schoolbuses and football fields. But: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jaclaz 4y ago
While it is true that the cables were enclosed in concrete and not directly accessible, there were all the signs that they needed intervention. The "same" cables on the "near" pylon #11 (the one that collapsed was #9) ha
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by jaclaz 4y ago
It is not only about understanding what the stupid TV asks for. My mom (94 this year) has an iPad since more than ten years (she uses it for basic things, news, e-mail, facebook) and a smartphone (again using it only for basic things, like,
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by jaclaz 4y ago
There used to be (still exist) projects like Samygo: https://www.samygo.tv/ and openlgtv: https://openlgtv.github.io/ but AFAIK due to their complexity and the continuous changes/updates/releases
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I just wanted to point out that you were in a particular situation (obsolete existing plant probably needing replacement anyway at a possibly not too different cost) + state incentives (even if only 30% of the man hours) and you had the mon
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Yep, but you don't say how much (in EUR) is the 40% you saved. IF (say) that 40% is 1,000 EUR you (and partially your state) payed in advance for five years heating. And you were in a particular situation (already 20 years old heating
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>Houses were build with the assumption, that they are heated. Yes and no. It depends on the country and areas within it and it applies mainly to houses built in the last 60-70 years or so, maybe a few more years back in cities (for heat
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Yes, first version was 1998, and was upgraded in 1999: https://aruntechgeek.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/worlds-smalles... AFAICR it stayed online several years. It is to be noted how the project belonged to the
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Yes, around that time (circa 1999) there was the matchbox web server ar Stanford with much lower capabilities (as hardware): https://web.archive.org/web/19991128033948/http://wearables.... >The Matchb
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by jaclaz 4y ago
The new scanning technology being 3D instead of 2D has seemingly no connection wit the removal of the 100 ml limit, it seems like these new scanners have (better) explosive detection capabilities, otherwise it would only allow to avoid taki
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Well, many, many years ago in the late 1970's there was the spaghetti racket in tennis that was swiftly outlawed: https://www.lovetennisblog.com/the-spaghetti-racket-a-docume...
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>It's not difficult to achieve. I believe it is extremely difficult to achieve in practice, it being Europe's only solution doesn't make it easier.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
You just did it again. How is the situation in Hungary, outside Budapest?
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Naah, rich people will buy other (poor) people's allowance.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
No, it is not reasonable at all. An old thread and relevant posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27352700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27353078
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by jaclaz 4y ago
You are describing EU as if it was all the same. What you describe may exist (now) in a selected subset of EU cities, but it is not at all common nor ubiquitous all over EU. Please, list the cities you went to that offer these services, ver
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>In both cases adding chargers is possible with the right incentives and subsidies. Incentives/subsidies may take care of the economical aspect, but the big one is the technical aspect, installing a charging point is the less releva
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I may be wrong, but 2035 is very near and the phaseout seems (to me) like very difficult to achieve. The only zero emissions are EV's and - besides Norway - they represent today only a very small percentage of vehicles, there are of co
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34686094
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by jaclaz 4y ago
And you make a post on HN with a direct link to the phishing PDF?
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by jaclaz 4y ago
But why italian banks (and not - say - french or spanish or other countries, like the ones involved in the 2009-2010 crisis), are they (the italian banks) more fragile/exposed than other countries' banks?
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I thought that an e-mail was asked also on HN, maybe it is optional?

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