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by phil21 9mo ago
I think the inverse has proven to be largely true. If a home that uses effectively net-zero power is still connected the grid, it becomes a liability to grid stablity and expense. There still needs to be enough power to supply to all those
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by phil21 9mo ago
> There is also an argument to be made that the R&D isn't finished and it still makes sense to subsidize it to drive the cost down further. Maybe there is an argument to be made, but it sounds like a very poor one if poor countr
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by phil21 9mo ago
> What kind of selfish point of view is this? Don't you want people to use energy sources that are better for our entire world, even if it costs you like $10 more in taxes per year? Only if those who make the same or more than me ar
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by phil21 9mo ago
> If anything, OpenZFS built upon that by now documenting the previously deeply hidden option to "rewind" ZFS uberblock if the breakage is recent enough. One of the most "wizardry" moments in my career I've perso
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by phil21 9mo ago
So long as the description stays it's not actually OEM - I see zero problem with this. The title is not misleading in this case - it's how you discover the item to being with, but if the description says "Samsung" as man
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by phil21 9mo ago
> First, US demand increased by 3.1%. That is bad It is not bad. Energy usage is the best proxy we have for societal wealth. It's starting to somewhat decouple, but I'd posit that's largely due to financial woo-woo than ac
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by phil21 9mo ago
You don't really have that many competent solar installers in most locations in the US. I basically gave up trying. I'm sure they exist, but if you don't want some financed/leased/etc. financial-product-as-a-solar-i
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by phil21 9mo ago
This is for a single home off-grid, meaning solar over-production is already implied. You need enough solar available to charge that 1MW battery in time for it to be useful during those seasonal differences which is going to be multiples of
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by phil21 9mo ago
> I'd expect most tech people will value the distributed nature of solar over equivilents, that by design require centralisation and commerical/state ownership and control. I do, but I do not find value in rich folks who can af
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by phil21 9mo ago
Because I've personally seen it. Engineer says this is silly, it will blow up in the long run - told to implement it anyways. Not much to lose for the engineer to simply do it. Substitute engineer for any line level employee in any ind
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by phil21 9mo ago
I'd guess some sort of middle management local maxima. Someone set some metric of X pages per day scraped, or Y bits per month - whatever. CEO gets what he wants. Then that got passed down to the engineers and those engineers got ridde
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by phil21 10mo ago
There are exceptions, like to everything in life. They just aren't really that interesting to discuss when talking about trends and averages. The average contractor servicing suburban and exurban properties in a work van is going to be
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by phil21 10mo ago
AWD is a luxury outside of the most extreme of extreme locations. I grew up in Minnesota driving rear wheel drive cars to start. They worked fine even in the olden days where plows would take a couple days to clear the country backroads and
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by phil21 10mo ago
Eh, this is just not proven true by observing what people do though. When I lived in Europe for a couple months, my first time there I grocery shopped like an American - filled up an entire cart with a week or two worth of groceries and the
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by phil21 10mo ago
Ah, I was talking about Blockclub Chicago. I am on the fence with Meta. I recognize that I am missing out - and I rely on my wife far too much to keep me in the loop on things, but she has her own interests so I miss 90% of the stuff I woul
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by phil21 10mo ago
It might be 100% the drugs, but just watching my friend group I can say it takes something more than the drugs to change habits. I'm not offended by the suggestion. It just doesn't make logical sense based on first person evidence
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by phil21 10mo ago
> How are you learning that habit when it’s hard to eat and you stay full ridiculously long? For me? By changing my diet, understanding what "full" actually feels like, and keeping certain things I know I will binge eat out of
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by phil21 10mo ago
I’m guessing I know the local newspaper/newsletter you speak about being in Chicago. I was a very early supporter of them when they started up, but canceled a couple years back when it was clear they care far less about reporting and m
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by phil21 10mo ago
It also coincides with the rise of manufactured foods available for incredibly cheap prices. And the average percentage of a monthly budget spent on food going down. Basically incredibly tasty food became plentiful and cheap and convenient
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by phil21 10mo ago
All that has changed is the environment and lifestyle humans live in, and it's quite obvious discipline and willpower cannot overpower that environment on average. The change was far too rapid for anything else to be remotely the prima
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by phil21 10mo ago
It absolutely can be. It was for me. Is it for everyone? Perhaps not. But to outright unequivocally say it's not is simply outright incorrect. It was absolutely motivation and discipline for me. One day I just decided enough was enough
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by phil21 10mo ago
> as it only causes a reduction in 10%-20% of body weight This was simply when the studies ended. Weight loss for most definitely tails off, but doesn't completely stop if you continue longer than the 18mo SURMOUNT-4[0] study went f
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by phil21 10mo ago
I grew up in a poor neighborhood. Busy doing what, exactly? This comment is so out of touch it must be a joke right? At least I hope so. Far more time was spent in front of the TV than any other activity by far by my peers and their familie
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by phil21 10mo ago
If you start looking around at the world you will likely start to notice an inverse correlation between those with “little free time due to working three jobs” and the amount of junk they feed their families. Turns out that if you care enou
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by phil21 10mo ago
The food deserts thing gets tired. It's a social media trope at this point. I lived in poorer neighborhoods growing up, and those who wanted to eat healthy made it happen. It just took more work, which is the point. Corner stores that
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by phil21 10mo ago
It also likely includes T2 diabetics, where these meds are more or less best-in-class treatment now.
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by phil21 10mo ago
fs.com sells primarily b2b. Account managers are normal and customary. Just decline politely. They are not a bad company in that regard. I have my issues with FS product itself, as it can be spotty sometimes in terms of compatibility and re
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by phil21 10mo ago
The "I have nothing to hide" argument doesn't work for security, and it doesn't work for health care records either. You might not have anything to hide now, but you might in the future. Someone you are closest to gets m
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by phil21 10mo ago
I have utterly horrible executive function. Diagnosed and everything. Sitting here on HN right now avoiding boring spreadsheet work to finish my day out. It’s not easy for anyone to develop these style of habits and routines. It’s just hard
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by phil21 10mo ago
They almost all had alternate builds. I believe for Technic it was near 100% of all sets. Unfortunately ended this somewhere around 2014 it looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQfL4hKuhE

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