lifeonlars

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by lifeonlars 3y ago
What do you do when it doesn't work? This seems like a really bad outcome - they approved the design with the glaring flaw, which makes it hard for you to remove it, and they potentially also requested some other 'improvement&#x27
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Sorry, but read literally what you are claiming is totally acceptable and does not indicate that we shouldn't be using biofuels. You seem to be saying that biofuel generation including burning as fuel using a net positive amount of c
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
I accept your point about tallgrass prairies but you're back to the double-counting. The argument that 3 - biofuels are not carbon neutral, is established based on 1 and 2. Also, it might be true that prairies do long term accumulation
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Again, that's more or less a one-off effect of land use conversion, and further biofuels agriculture does not indefinitely continue to release carbon into the atmosphere.
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Sorry, but this is a frustrating topic full of double-counting and apples-to-oranges comparisons (arguably on both sides). Some praries burn regularly and some don't. Most (as I said above, most land types) do not have significant ongo
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
I know that different people not only have quite different preferences but also different working styles, but I generally agree with this. IME the slight extra friction of initiating a call acts as a filter which means that I am less likely
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
> Those people who say that they're much more productive at home must be a minority of a minority, and the rest of them just lie because they want to slack off. > As for myself, I do prefer the adhoc discussion of issues, brain s
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
That sounds like the worst of both worlds. You're on the hook for all the costs of an office, not just a small uptick in power and data use. You can't put on laundry or chat with your spouse during a break. And you have lost the a
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Pretty sure that burning things generally leads to a lot of carbon emissions..
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Did you read the next sentence after the two you quoted? The point is not how much carbon is stored in the prairie but how much it changes by each year. The prairie does not accumulate more carbon each year; it is roughly carbon neutral as
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
This seems suspicious. Converting land to be used for crops doesn't reduce the utility of that land as a carbon sink. It's generally the opposite. Most wilderness does not steadily accumulate carbon biomass, but stays at a steady
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
That's irrelevant. By definition, Ponzi schemes involve some investors making a lot of money and others losing. That doesn't make them any less illegal. If some people are harmed by unlawful behavior, that is a reason to prosecute
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
You are talking about a difference which would reduce recorded US infant mortality by around 15%, when it's nearly double that of Western European countries, and infant mortality in poor regions and for ethnic minorities is far more th
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
The figure 10-15% of GDP of a rich country seems to be concealing something important: in the US, it's nearly 20%. In Western Europe, it's generally around 10%, for the same, slightly better, or in some cases much better health
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
But doesn't the attitude that one should trust the 998 system also actively harm people with mental illness?
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
You're actually asking, would you rather be forced to have all your health needs taken care of, or have the freedom to choose inadequate healthcare in order to save money?
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Perhaps you don't understand the situation. Ireland is certainly a tax haven, and the number of jobs in Ireland created by the tax arrangements are trivial compared to the amount of business that flows through Ireland on paper. Most of
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
They are successfully competing with piracy, but not by being lower friction but by being more reliable and trustworthy. Nintendo are highly focussed on a market where the person making the buying decision isn't the person playing the
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
and "from 2017"
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Obviously to the investor, only the average case over a large number of investments matters.
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
I don't think you are accurately critiquing the point made above. It is right that founders have a vastly different risk/reward tradeoff to employee engineers. I don't think that is the socialist engineers' argument. Sup
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
> then one can simply create his/her own startup, bear all the risks (99% of startups fail) and reap all the rewards. How does that work? Most of the rewards go to the owners of the capital. That's literally the central idea of
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
minimum wage legislation does not have an exception for those in a 'temporary rough spot' there are lots of businesses which would be profitable if they didn't have to worry about laws or regulations, but which are unviable i
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
I'm not sure this is 'seen as normal' (by whom?) but I very much doubt it is legal under minimum wage legislation. Besides which, this is not the equivalent of making a bartender clock out during his break. It's the equi
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Not sure I agree with "most of the time", but anyway, isn't my friend's critique of ideas somewhat similar to my enemy's invective-filled ad hominem attack? Don't these all fall within perfectly ok behavior bet
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
How should we treat people who have chosen to post their political opinions on the Internet, when we strongly disagree with them? Isn't responding or critiquing the ideas in a podcast, Reddit thread or a tweet exactly how a) the Intern
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
But the only purpose of writing that paper is for you to practice doing research, thinking and writing. Most people who write deep, thought-provoking work started out doing assignments like that. What could possibly be the point of getting
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Not sure this is a representative sample of "people 2000 years ago".
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
Nothing has intrinsic recreational or attractive value, including the Grand Canyon, the Niagara Falls and Yosemite. Desire is often mimetic. The counterparts to this are that a) many people would rather go somewhere slightly less attracti
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by lifeonlars 3y ago
You're not aware of the existence of water fountains?

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