mekdoonggi

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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
I am not seeing those numbers in the chart. For March, I see 37.6 solar, 53 wind, 26 hydro, 60.4 nuclear, 5.3 other, together for 182.3 vs 120 for gas.
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
I don't think the engineering talent was the bottleneck. The difference was the long-term planning and industrial policy of China. I think you're giving the US Universities far too much credence, and the US myopic political situat
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
Easy. US puts panels, turbines and batteries everywhere connected in big grid. Grid is big enough that something is always generating, and batteries smooth out the curve. Power is priced dynamically. Cheap solar at noon? Do big work. High d
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
Extending the life of existing power infra is low-hanging fruit for more power short term, but the economics of renewables are just unstoppable. Article states 93% of new generation capacity was renewable which is good, but I can sense that
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
I like the idea, but even with better funding availability, "missing middle" projects will struggle to get built. Accessibility requirements for elevators mean that the most profitable projects will be either single-family homes o
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
Incredibly confused by this comment. Does homogenization alter the smell? >Even boiled milk is awful What does this have to do with homogenization? I wouldn't want boiled milk either unless it was to be used in a soup or something.
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
I suspect the lawyers will use this as evidence as well. Meta can very quickly remove ads when it's going to cost them money.
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
I think these ads were to bait Meta into banning them (which they've done) and now the firm will follow up with a lawsuit because Meta suddenly is able to very rapidly decide what ads get shown if it's going to hurt their bottom l
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
This one actually cost them money.
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by mekdoonggi 6mo ago
I'm in the US, so I'm speaking only about pasteurized for short term refrigeration. There are places that produce that, just without the homogenization. I think it is still the same percentage of fat, but I just like shaking it up
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
A sidenote about unhomogenized milk, it's delicious. I don't know if it actually tastes any different, but something about shaking it up before using it just makes it feel different.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I had a great time with this game a few years ago. Glad to see it's still in development.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
It is not editorial censorship. The platform is still free to post what they want. It's just legal liability for what the users post. In my opinion, Section 230 should go away. If you're going to make money off the ads, you should
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
Perhaps the BRICS can create their own version of a Bancor, integrated with BRICSpay.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I really, really don't like the man, and it has nothing to do with his business decisions.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
Petrodollar creates demand for dollars. This is demand that no other currency gets. That's why US production is expensive vs other countries. China labor is cheaper and it is less regulated, but the petrodollar exacerbates the problem.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I'm as big of an Elon-hater as you'll find, but I kind of have to disagree. Working on the habitat before the rocket is cart before horse. The rocket is a prerequisite to even an experimental trip to Mars. If we ever do actually c
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
Still very common in the US. Predictably, there is also some phenomenon of people who loudly prefer gas for some reason.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I have a tabletop induction burner in my apartment which I can cook 95% of my family meals on to eliminate the use of the gas stove. Takes up counter space, but research increasingly supports this. Also, with a special pot you can make hotp
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I've lived in the Midwest most of my life and after living in the East for a year, chose to move to Twin Cities and stay. Weather sucks, but the cost of living is good. Opportunities are good, schools are good. If I can take a vacation
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I have a kid and it's the greatest joy ever but I am very lucky. It's totally okay to grieve that, but I often tell other childfree folks: there are many things you can do to feel a similar kind of joy. Mentoring, volunteering, ca
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
Agreed. We all collectively understand that we can't allow people to die in the streets because of their lack of health insurance. We already have universal healthcare, we just have the worlds dumbest way to pay for it.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
There's a way to insure old, sick people (who were once young and healthy) and it's how every other developed nation does so at lower cost. How is it lower cost? the profits from the young and sick don't get shoveled to priv
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I understand how insurance is supposed to work. The problem is that private insurance captures all of the value I pay in during my working life, and doesn't have to pick up the tab when I inevitably get old and sick. To use car insuran
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
By "the insurance" I was referring to Medicare. I'm a working, healthy person and rarely use healthcare outside of preventative care. You could raise my Medicare taxes by hundreds monthly and still be less than what I pay for
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
Difficult decisions for school districts surely. Maybe these buildings could be adapted to other uses. Maybe they could become public: table tennis courts, gyms, performance venues, event centers, reading cafes, farmers markets?
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I didn't read anything remotely of that attitude in the article, just reporting on the fact that schools are closing because of the drop in birth rates.
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
I think that some_random is saying sarcastically, "46493168, keep doing libel on people of white blood by stating that they vote against health insurance reform because they are racist, and maybe it will solve the problem."
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
You are extremely close to arriving at the solution, which is medicare for all. Cover everyone, then almost noone uses the insurance except when they need it, which is when they get old. If the US had the equivalence of Canadian health insu
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by mekdoonggi 7mo ago
If they are similar to khipus (used for accounting) perhaps we're looking at the invention of a central bank. Think about it, the village has a hard year, so they collectively borrow grain from another village. How do you settle disput

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