newt_slowly

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by newt_slowly 4mo ago
I manage the Google Maps listings for two local Amish businesses, as well as send the occasional e-mail for them when a supplier or other business reason requires they use e-mail. They offered to pay me for my time, but I refused as I'
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by newt_slowly 7mo ago
My dad had tinnitus and it bothered him relentlessly. He was constantly following potential new treatments, talking to doctors about it, etc. I have it too. I've taken the approach of truly accepting it: "I will hear these sounds
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by newt_slowly 3y ago
If everyone pirated, the only people who would create content would be people doing it purely for the sake of art or their own enjoyment, far more people would be personally involved in creating art (in music for example, there would be far
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by newt_slowly 3y ago
I'm not arguing the way we live our life is the way everyone should live theirs. Just pointing out that this thread is echoing a false dichotomy of "many partners, no long term partnership" or "long term partnership, one
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by newt_slowly 3y ago
This statistic to me seems like one of the most obvious cases of correlation not equaling causation. How about this hypothesis: People who aren't good at (or aren't interested in) long term partnerships will tend to have more part
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by newt_slowly 3y ago
I completely agree; the same thing happened to me with me and my wife. The risk of marrying/pairing off early is that you can grow apart in your 20's, but the reward is that you can grow together in a way that I think is harder to
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by newt_slowly 3y ago
I can't relate to this - with most things I enjoy, the more I am able to do them, the more I want to do them. When I go without for a while, I forget about the pleasure something brings. Backpacking for a year didn't get me "
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by newt_slowly 3y ago
"Almost certainly"? We all have our hypotheses, and by all means promote yours, but do you really feel you have enough evidence to assign such a high confidence to yours? How do you reconcile it with statements like the following,
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by newt_slowly 4y ago
I was able to donate hundreds of dollars to Ukraine using the same credit card I use for everything else. What is special about crypto donations to Ukraine? I suspect that the fees of converting USD->BTC (or other crypto) and then the re
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by newt_slowly 4y ago
I also stopped using soap several years ago. I shower ~3 times a week, and still scrub areas like my armpits but only using water. As confirmed by friends and family, I don't smell. Granted, I've never had much body odor - I can&#
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by newt_slowly 4y ago
Chrome seems to me to be an example of how some users will never update regardless of how easy upgrading is. I can't count how many colleagues, when screen sharing, always have the red icon in their Chrome window showing that they need
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by newt_slowly 4y ago
The implementation of such a system doesn't even need to send energy back to the grid at all - simply by having your batteries kick in to power your own load when they would otherwise maintain a reserve you are in effect providing powe
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by newt_slowly 4y ago
If you only used your Powerwall for this program, and kept a 100% reserve otherwise, you would make $75,600 burning through the 37.8 MWh of throughput ($2 per kWh). That's a good deal more than the system cost, so to the extent that yo
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by newt_slowly 5y ago
> So how can it be feasible to afford enough energy to "unburn" a century's worth of burnt carbon if we can't even get enough energy to avoid burning new carbon in the first place? It isn't, and it won't be.
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by newt_slowly 5y ago
Since you didn't go into detail, I'm going to guess that you are referring to atmospheric CCS being widely deployed in the future. Unfortunately CCS is not and will not be practical. [1] [2] I can explain my critiques in more deta
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by newt_slowly 5y ago
It would be far to complicated to try and count every bit of emissions like this. Instead, the emissions are taxed at the source - when buying fuel. Therefore, the delivery company would be paying the carbon taxes, and they could choose to
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by newt_slowly 5y ago
Ten years? Just think of 60 years from now, a time that would be expected to be within the natural lifespan of children born today. I don't know how people don't understand that we face, without exaggeration, an existential crisis
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by newt_slowly 5y ago
You are basically acknowledging that technological development is a force that happens outside of our control, and that we are forced to keep up lest we be conquered by our neighbors. This is true, and it's what I believe also, but I d
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by newt_slowly 6y ago
This comment from early March links to several. https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fdf5fq/we_are_...
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by newt_slowly 6y ago
I don't think it is reasonable to compare other hostile environments to one where humans are literally incapable of being outside for extended periods of time. Even in harsh cold climates, it is possible to wear suitable clothing, or b
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by newt_slowly 6y ago
When the combination of heat and humidity gets high enough (look up wet bulb temperature) then it means death for even fit young people, even when sitting in the shade with access to drinking water. We are thermodynamically incapable of sur