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by lkbm 4y ago
My initial reaction to the gas stove thing when NYC started on it a few months ago was definitely "this is not the big culprit in climate change". There are clearly other laws and policies that are more important that we're
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by lkbm 4y ago
> But most does not. So, this seems like putting the cart before the horse. Why not focus on improving how we generate electricity before we tear out all the gas? What percentage should be from renewables before we start switching? What
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by lkbm 4y ago
High ceilings will help. Next step would be to add paint the joints and latticework (or run some colorful tape), and maybe add some LEDs. Black light tape along the latticework, black light at the top of the room. Other lighting is all dim
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by lkbm 4y ago
If you push air down, it's going to displace the air below it off to the sides, so I don't think it'll make a big difference. My main concern would be that the filters limit flow, and thus it might be more likely to pull air
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by lkbm 4y ago
> Transportation? We don't have nearly the tax rate on fuel that, say, European countries typically do. Sure, but how many miles does the average European drive in a year, and what's their MPG? Before he semi-retired, my dad&#x
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by lkbm 4y ago
wtf is up with that page? Side bar and chart: > Least Debt: Tennessee ($875.12) List: > States with the Least Debt > 1. Texas > > Texas has the lowest debt of any state in the U.S. Alaska's total liabilities add up to $
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by lkbm 4y ago
They're demonstrably bad rules. You know how when kids first hear about tax brackets and misunderstand them to mean that someone earning near the top of one bracket could get a raise of $x and end up having their tax bill increase by m
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by lkbm 4y ago
They drive in a different place than you do. I don't drive a lot, but at least a couple times in recent memory when I've signaled/started to merge only to realize there was a car there. They didn't honk. Maybe if I hadn&
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by lkbm 4y ago
> You've obviously studied this, but having actually lived in a city center police sirens are actually fairly rare. Despite what you say they rarely sound them at night unless they really have a need, at least in Nottingham. I do th
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by lkbm 4y ago
The article talks about using it for environmental cleanup, but the paper seems more focused on recycling back into fresh PET[0]: > ...and a circular carbon economy for PET is theoretically attainable through rapid enzymatic depolymeriza
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by lkbm 4y ago
Yes, and that's very nice if you have a heat pump. I suspect people with heat pumps use them for heat. It'd be weird if they didn't. But, to restate my previous comment: if you have a natural gas furnace and a GPU, but no hea
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by lkbm 4y ago
Sure, but what % of heating is just natural gas furnaces? We should evaluate things against what the actual, real world alternative would be, not just against the best possible world. (That said, I should acknowledge that a large part of th
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by lkbm 4y ago
Might be more, but it's still a minority of their grid. Wikipedia has a graph for 2016: 18.1% nuclear, 47.9% natural gas, and 15.7% coal.[0] "Energy Matters" says that EU energy production was 26% nuclear in 2015, but only 12
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by lkbm 4y ago
This Twitter thread goes into some details of why you shouldn't take this claim too seriously: https://twitter.com/ColdOneder/status/1524941362411479043 (Actual picking apart the study starts down on tweet 9:
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by lkbm 4y ago
True. One difference is that bicycle week spokes are tension-based, whereas I assume chariot wheel spokes were mostly about resisting compression.
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by lkbm 4y ago
> wasn't one of their initial proposals that deworming medications should be sent to rural Africa Yes, and it's heavily funded by EA givers (yours truly included). People like to harp on the weird edge-cases, but Givewell.org i
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by lkbm 4y ago
Disconnect the phone number from that old account and allow him to create a new account using the phone number. If I cancel my phone service, and someone else later ends up with my phone number, does it make sense that that person can never
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by lkbm 4y ago
> Google is constantly tracking your every move by default without you turning anything on. They are. And you decided to take issue with a default-off feature instead. Of all the tracking features your phone has, this one seems like the
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by lkbm 4y ago
You probably have it, but it's just a feature. In this case, it's a default-off feature that allows contact tracing in a particular region if you actively choose to enable that. Google ships features to my phone with every major u
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by lkbm 4y ago
Well, if the renewables in question were hydro, I'd say you're wrong, because hydro is fantastic for scaling up and down on demand. But since we're mostly talking about solar, that doesn't apply. What may apply is that
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by lkbm 5y ago
True, it's not a full loss. A heat pump can easily be 400% efficient, though, so I'd rather lean on that except in extreme cold. Still, not a bad idea to run Folding@Home all winter.
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by lkbm 5y ago
Is there a different post where they used this date format? None of their other incident reports even have a date in the title. Yet this one does, and in a weird format. Maybe there's something novel about the date, and it's writt
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by lkbm 5y ago
If you're trying to write a date parser for their outage report titles, the problem isn't the format of this date. It's that this is their only outage report with a date for the title. It's the title because it's
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by lkbm 5y ago
Identity validation doesn't mean public real name. It means that Twitter has my real name so I want to create 1,000 spam accounts, it can internally see they're all one person. They could then trivially enforce a per-identity ac
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by lkbm 5y ago
I've always loved the "Email Hates The Living" talk[0] and am sad it's not available in higher quality. This is a great alternative. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s9IjkMAmns
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by lkbm 5y ago
Mailgun has an API endpoint that works pretty well. If you enter "foo@gnail.con", it suggests "foo@gmail.com". It's overkill for an HN registration form, where if I type my email wrong, I can just re-register, but f
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by lkbm 5y ago
Milton Friedman once commented that property tax is particularly unpopular because it's the only tax for which people still have to write a check[0]. That said, we could make income tax more visible without requiring tax professionals.
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by lkbm 5y ago
I don't really trust China's numbers, but I'll agree that they've been much better than the US'. That said, while the Zero COVID policy was generally good and successful until recently, it no longer appears to be wo
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by lkbm 5y ago
There's a belief that stop signs will slow traffic. Instead, they'll often result in people flooring it between stops, making up for lost time or whatever. Other traffic calming measures do more to slow drivers down and improve sa
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by lkbm 5y ago
I don't know of a workaround, though I've never tried. I would assume there's none, since it's not a "three free stories"-style paywall.

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