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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yes, that's what the data suggests. It's just not what the question was... Of course, the data is necessarily all about short term exposure, not non-stop. I'm inclined to think that it won't be too bad, if there is a dir
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Atmospheric levels are increasing. You can't use ventilation to bring the indoor CO2 concentration down to, say, 350ppm like it used to be outdoors. But I think the answer is... practical, sure I guess. expensive? energy intensive? was
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Surely better than debt financed coal plants in other countries... right? At least China definitely has the domestic manufacturing base required to replace with solar or nuclear. And I do think the incentive is stronger for them from an eco
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by neltnerb 5y ago
> They will move away from coal as soon as it become economically advantageous to do so and no sooner, which is not all that different to how poorer countries will deal with their coal generation. The incentives are aligned, the solar pa
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I hate packaging. It frustrates me so much that I don't buy my two favorite Japanese candies because I refuse to throw out so much trash just for one of those (admittedly amazing) kiwi gummies that most of you are probably familiar wit
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Honestly, that's a great outcome. At least if the coal plants are physically in China then China can, basically at its leisure, replace them with the solar panels that they themselves make. I definitely picture China as 100% nuclear, h
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Feeling disconnected from the team because you're all remote doesn't necessarily mean you want to be in the office. I think it's more like... you aren't as loyal to the team and company and so make career moves for perso
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by neltnerb 5y ago
They absolutely invented machine guns in the Civil War, as well as metal ships. "In 1862, Richard Jordan Gatling invented a multi-barreled, rotating gun operated by a hand crank that could fire up to 200 rounds a minute." https:&
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Although true, for sure, when considering cash flow -- it's a fairly big upside that at the end despite having tenants pay most of the principal you end up owning it. Extra risk, etc, but housing prices falling is exactly the risk you&
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Sales tax is highly regressive (in the technical sense) and makes up a larger fraction of the income of a poor person.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
This is amazing, is it always about money? Surely there are other examples.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Wasn't that the point? They're talking about being mad about someone taking 2 months of PTO off and then talk about how they always take 6-8 weeks cough of PTO with no one batting an eye. So the reason for being mad is the compa
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Imagine including the search term "movie".
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by neltnerb 5y ago
So you are arguing that the market is overvalued -- because tech stocks are overvalued? Makes sense, perhaps the apparent overvalue is simply because of companies like Uber and Tesla.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I'm with you, I remember watching these when I left my very first physics lecture as a freshman. I have no trouble remembering it, so I assume this is mostly for people who have never seen it.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I do sure wish it was further along, and agree that it makes more sense to sequester it or convert to syngas for converting it back to useful products with more free energy. It seems like a lot is simple once most electricity has a low marg
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by neltnerb 5y ago
1 and 2 are easy. The rest are regional and don't help much from everything I've seen about the topic. I want glass, paper, and cardboard packaging to make a comeback. We shouldn't be using space age high performance single u
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Landfill as an imagined route to sequestration is easily seen through with the right thought experiment. If you incinerate the trash instead of burying it, carbon does indeed get released. If you burned enough coal/naturalgas/oil
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by neltnerb 5y ago
If you do incineration right (with pollution controls and energy recovery), simply burning it is more direct. Gasification is a nice intermediate step if you need to mix it with syngas or natural gas to augment supplies, but if you really j
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I don't doubt it, but not in standard curbside recycling bins basically anywhere.
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Not our lifetime. I disagree with the original poster. Often times manufacturing fresh polymer, while cheaper, uses many times the carbon content of the polymer in process energy. Just as an example I know about offhand, isoprene rubber tak
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I think the joke was that the satellite isn't supposed to be in the "air".
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by neltnerb 5y ago
LIGO's size is also deceptive, the legs are kilometers long but the design is an L with the important bit being to vibrationally isolate things, maintain dimensional stability, and maintain vacuum. ITER is likely bigger in terms of vol
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by neltnerb 5y ago
This is only true if you will do the job correctly in a similar amount of time to your accountant. But I do agree, when I had just W2 income and a mortgage it was no big deal to do them myself. I definitely wouldn't use an accountant i
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I have! I ended up having to export my entire general ledger as an excel file for them to have any hope of using it. It cost me a ton of money and time to massage into a format that an accountant could work with, they are too expensive per
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Yup, to me they're known just a bit less than TI and Analog Devices (now that Atmel and ST Micro are gone) and more than Microchip or ST because they serve so, so many high power applications. I just think those high power applications
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by neltnerb 5y ago
I know that I cannot access my protonmail email under a wide variety of circumstances that I make efforts to avoid. Two of them involve forgetting complicated passwords, either of which would render my entire (historical) email vault unread
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Right, of course. I'm talking about decrypting the past messages. Obviously they can modify their software to capture your decryption password, my question is more out of curiosity than it being a serious advantage against a state acto
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by neltnerb 5y ago
Can Google decrypt without your permission? Honest question, because that's the obvious difference (if you believe ProtonMail claims).
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by neltnerb 5y ago
And that the bridge exposes your IP address if you aren't using Tor. This isn't a complaint, it should be pretty obvious. Though it'd be neat if they integrated Tor into the Bridge such that they cannot tell where the connect

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