neolefty

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by neolefty 10y ago
Is it worth generating methane from electricity instead of hydrogen? Sabatier reaction etc?
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by neolefty 10y ago
Absolutely. We are such a hilarious / terrifying mix of capability and limitation.
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by neolefty 10y ago
They've written it down -- it's the board for big things and "shared among other employees" for others. It actually sounds pretty practical to me. As people become more responsible and self-regulating, there's less
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by neolefty 10y ago
I thought the title was pretty accurate -- the article had the content I expected and hoped for after seeing the headline. Maybe headline writing has shifted to what would have been "clickbait" a couple of years ago?
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by neolefty 10y ago
Haha, or the opposite -- "homeopathic" cough drops with significant zinc in them, which is actually therapeutic according to solid research that somehow hasn't registered with the popular consciousness. Maybe zinc's prob
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by neolefty 10y ago
Charging for your articles to support journalism is a legitimate business practice. Produce something valuable, using skill and effort, and make a living at it.
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by neolefty 10y ago
In another comment [1] in this thread, owenversteeg says that Tesla batteries are not space-constrained, but rather weight-constrained, and that the cylindrical shape is only suboptimal in its space efficiency, not any other important desig
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by neolefty 10y ago
Different meaning of misdemeanor. "High crimes and misdemeanors" was a phrase in common use at the time of its writing: http://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/high-crimes-and-misdemean...
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by neolefty 10y ago
Or in Hacker News terms: Downvote only if the comment detracts from the discussion, not just if you disagree. Impeach only if the President commits crimes while in office, not just if you dislike the President's politics more than the
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by neolefty 10y ago
That's the useful fiction. Reality: Dollars contributed to campaigns.
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by neolefty 10y ago
I have ridden those trains (spent 2011-2016 in China), and they're pretty great, but they're hard to justify economically: > The overall bill is already high. China Railway Corporation, the state-owned operator of the train sys
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by neolefty 10y ago
To clarify definitions, data rate will always be less than or equal to capacity. In practice, average rate will be much less than peak capacity.
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by neolefty 10y ago
What if we separate this into two questions: (1) What if you have a fabric of "free" processors, and the real cost is energy? (2) How would <foo> programming paradigm work on this fabric?
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by neolefty 10y ago
My guess: They will not have Linux for long after their purchase.
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by neolefty 10y ago
But it earns them revenue in the same way that setting your house on fire will warm you up.
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by neolefty 10y ago
> This situation is somewhat akin to OS X uninstalling Spotify. Yes, Spotify and AdNauseum disrupt iTunes and Google, but I don't think it's a fair comparison because Spotify is a competitor (in that it provides music) whereas
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by neolefty 10y ago
There is also growing sympathy for animals in China, in my experience, but it's a few generations behind the West. My family just moved back to the US from 5 years there. (1) A story: My two younger daughters, probably 9 and 11 at the
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by neolefty 10y ago
Seems like there are two kinds: The opaque, crinkly ones -- they seem like the plastic that's in shopping bags. Maybe it's okay to deflate them and recycle them together? Even if your municipal recycling doesn't take them, I&
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by neolefty 10y ago
It will take you a couple of days to adapt, and it's good for your brain plasticity.
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by neolefty 10y ago
It could be sustainable but far from optimal. How long can we live at the edge of dysfunction?
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by neolefty 10y ago
It's not individual savers, but institutional investors that collectively hold ~$100tn, as estimated by the IMF. They're risk-averse, which leads to rent-seeking. That's $100,000,000,000,000. I don't get to write that ma
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by neolefty 10y ago
I should have read the article before replying! Indeed, the article seems blind to capital taxes, focusing instead on income tax. Wealth tax is a pretty alien concept in the US -- I think it would face strong cultural resistance, and cause
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by neolefty 10y ago
It's indirect, but if institutions stopped loaning the US Gov't money, it would have to raise bond rates -- wouldn't that force the Federal Reserve to raise its rates as well? That would connect the market to the rates.
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by neolefty 10y ago
From the video: > One peak is the mountain of debt ... that is casting its shadow over the whole world ... We all recognize the mountain of debt. > But few people recognize its twin: A mountain of idle cash, belonging to rich savers a
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by neolefty 10y ago
> artificially low interest rates I'm pretty sure this is market forces. Glut of savings --> low rates. Sure there are local exceptions and regulatory impacts, but those generally can't stand against the tide, so I'd sa
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by neolefty 10y ago
I recommend you give up on this one. It sounds defensive and isn't helping your argument.
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by neolefty 10y ago
I love this chart: Delta-V required for various solar system destinations: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/534ylb/elon_musk_on...
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by neolefty 10y ago
Also, it will be frozen solid; in a dome shape it could support itself. Construction: Start with a solid dome, layer water/fiber composite on from the outside, then remove the solid dome from the inside?
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by neolefty 10y ago
It will freeze; water-fiber composite roof material, sprayed/laminated from the outside?
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by neolefty 10y ago
I think it's the other way around -- existing Chinese culture gave rise to what we call "Maoism". Mao took things to an extreme that were already present: the susceptibility to groupthink, frankness about people's weakne

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