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by leoedin 4y ago
I do that too - it's an interesting sensation to realise you should have been paying attention and "Replay" the last few seconds of conversation to build a context. Unfortunately it's only a few seconds... The most inter
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by leoedin 4y ago
"no basis in reality". Do you cook? Gas is functionally superior than traditional electric resistance cooking. That's not some evil lobby, that's practical experience. You can instantly control the temperature without ju
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by leoedin 4y ago
My favourite solution to this is to use some of the pyrolysis products as fuel - if you burn and release 20% of the carbon captured by the plants to power the process of burying the remaining 80% the process is still carbon negative overall
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by leoedin 4y ago
The relative humidity of a bathroom after a shower must be much higher than 40% - I would imagine getting towards 100% (hence room temperature mirrors steaming up). Where I live (UK) I don't think I've ever seen an indoor humidity
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by leoedin 4y ago
How do existing inflight internet solutions solve this? Do they only allow internet over water and selected countries?
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by leoedin 4y ago
I found it incredible that players "making less than $30,000 spend 13%" of their income on the lottery. That's completely absurd, given the odds of winning. I found sitting and spending a million dollars on an online lottery
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by leoedin 4y ago
> Your entire country (UK) is smaller than 11 of our 50 states. The several hundred miles between London and Edinburgh pass through many smaller cities and towns, between which people travel. Between SF and LA is a pea soup restaurant an
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by leoedin 4y ago
What I find odd about this is that... Trains are the go-to means of intercity transport across much of Europe. The term "High speed rail" isn't strictly defined, but seems to kick in somewhere between 110 and 155 mph. Pretty
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by leoedin 4y ago
There's not really a "should be" in thermodynamics. All heat engine cycles have upper bounds of theoretical efficiency, and burning gas in a gas turbine to generate electricity to create resistive heat is never ever going to
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by leoedin 4y ago
I was on a 4 hour delayed transatlantic flight recently - which meant EU legislated delay compensation. It worked out as €600 per person - more than we paid for the return trip. In a 200 seat aircraft that's something like €120,000 - m
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by leoedin 4y ago
A modern, energy efficient house is intentionally very air tight, and ventilation is achieved using mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. That basically gives you the best of both worlds - a highly ventilated house (so low humidity lev
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by leoedin 4y ago
There's nothing fundamental about lidar that means it can't reduce in price. The 20th century is littered with examples of highly complex devices that we made in such high volume that they became cheap. Integrated circuits, optica
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by leoedin 4y ago
You almost certainly can't teach whatever it is that makes a great artist great. Just like you can't really teach the mindset and thought processes that make a great engineer great. But you can teach techniques, and you can encour
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by leoedin 4y ago
I have no real problem with writing "Turkiye" if that's what those from the country prefer - but I don't even know how to type an umlaut on my keyboard. So in that sense, yes, it is too much to ask. I'm not going to
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by leoedin 4y ago
I understand this sentiment, but I've also been at the other end of it. The reality is that most people have a limited amount of travel time, fairly limited amount of money and a longer list of trips they'd like to make. I've
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by leoedin 4y ago
Labour is 4x cheaper. Bill of material cost is going to be pretty much the same everywhere. Depending on the product, the labour cost of manufacturing might only be 20% - so that 4x turns into a 15% saving on cost of goods. That needs to be
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by leoedin 4y ago
And if you don't value the commute time. I'd love to have a 15 minute walking commute each way. It has diminishing returns though.
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by leoedin 4y ago
There is a bit of truth in your friends thoughts - when cars are crash tested it's using their own kinetic energy, so a bigger heavier car must be proportionally stronger to resist the crash forces, and get the same rating. So all thin
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by leoedin 4y ago
Why is the US a special case though? Every other country replaced these old card machines more than a decade ago. Every other country has airline ticket counters too.
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by leoedin 4y ago
OK - but the shorter side is still 4'. The width of a truck is unlikely to be an issue there.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Do sheet materials ever come in larger sizes than 4' x 8'? The CNC wouldn't need to be much larger than the largest sheet it could cut.
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by leoedin 4y ago
In many ways it's a shame when a useful tool turns into a high growth startup. They're going to hire a bunch of developers who will need to justify their existence by adding features, they'll probably eventually either fail o
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by leoedin 4y ago
It's looking at total energy consumption, not electricity consumption. The UK only generates about 4500 kWh per person each year - far off that 30,000 kWh number. In the UK (not sure about the US, but it's probably similar), about
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by leoedin 4y ago
That's fascinating. I had a manual hire car this summer and I kept getting the 1st - 2nd shift wrong and juddering - I was wondering why I suddenly couldn't shift well (I've exclusively driven manuals for years, so it wasn&#x
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by leoedin 4y ago
400W is 400W - so yes, any electric appliance which generates heat is as efficient as a resistive electric heater is. Whatever tiny amounts of power are leaking as light or sound or electromagnetic waves are miniscule compared to the heat.
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by leoedin 4y ago
I agree with your point about AWS - but interestingly there's plenty of "prestige" businesses (finance, law) that rent desirable office space solely to get the address, and do most of their back office stuff elsewhere.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Do you have any information on the learn/teach distinction you mention? I couldn't find anything by googling - although those are very common words. Those two words seem very distinct in my mind, so it would be interesting to lear
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by leoedin 4y ago
I wanted to buy a prius - great fuel economy, practical storage, reliable powertrain - but the prospect of drunk people trying to get into your car at every junction when you drive through the city at night put me right off.
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by leoedin 4y ago
Setting aside the day to day practicalities of off grid living (always watching energy use, no electric heat or cooking, the possibility of running out), the main issue is that this is the middle of the city. A block of apartments might be
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by leoedin 4y ago
For someone who lives in a different country without this type of tax - is the amount paid directly proportional to the assessed value? (Ie tax is 0.1% of value, or whatever) Or is the value just used to decide the relative amounts of tax e

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