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by phil248 9y ago
It's almost as if initial government investment has allowed the technology to advance to the point that it no longer requires subsidy to be cost effective. Kind of like every other major industrial and technological breakthrough over t
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"Solar does no good at night," There are already several thermal storage solar facilities in operation, with more under construction. The best of these can maintain output all night long. One is in Spain, one in Australia, a proto
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And prices continue to drop precipitously. Given the tariff phase out, the market will probably return to 2017 equivalent in short order, and then continue to get cheaper in spite of the tariffs.
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by phil248 9y ago
It means you provide the minimum hardware necessary to provide a quality experience now, without regard to (and in anticipation of) near-future developments that render that hardware under-powered.
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by phil248 9y ago
The idea that "big marijuana" will take over defies every trend we've seen over the last 20 years. It's nonsensical on it's face. It's a desperate argument by people who don't like (or understand) marijuan
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by phil248 9y ago
I stand corrected. I've been buying a new video card every 2-4 years for 20+ years and I have never seen these kind of markups or out of stock items.
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by phil248 9y ago
There's always farmer's markets. And hardware stores, butcher shops, clothing stores, cafes, bars, and boutiques of all varieties. In fact, I can't think of any staff I interact with less than a cashier at a convenience/
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by phil248 9y ago
You can still get a video card that can play 90% of current games at max settings for around $200-$250, same as 10 years ago. But the upper end does seem to have expanded and become more expensive.
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"A lot of people can't bear it" You wouldn't know if by the tens of millions of people who live in those densest cities. It seems like an astronomical numbers of people can "bear it" just fine.
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by phil248 9y ago
So does the lack of universal voting rights for a couple hundred years. Sometimes old ideas are wrong and should be mocked an then ignored.
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by phil248 9y ago
I always imagine worst case scenarios involving thousands of deaths and probably explosions. This is just a very, very expensive train. I'm not sure why anyone would think building something in a very expensive state would not itself b
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by phil248 9y ago
I enjoyed the Linux comment too. It's as if they were only concerned with the other 97% of the market! Those fools.
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by phil248 9y ago
I'd argue otherwise. You'd have to ignore literally the entirety of the natural world to even begin to think that lobsters are not food.
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Just rest assured that whatever you do to a lobster, nature has done far, far worse to uncountable trillions of creatures over a few billion years.
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by phil248 9y ago
Destroying some wild land while restoring other wild land is better than just destroying wild land, full stop.
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by phil248 9y ago
I still don't understand how or why, but I am able to pay for marijuana from a local medical dispensary in CA with a credit card. Anyone know what is up with that?
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by phil248 9y ago
Two things this article leaves out, both relating to China. First, China has mandated that its domestic automakers sell 12% of their vehicles as all-electric or hybrid by 2020. There's your jumpstart for demand, as artificial as it may
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by phil248 9y ago
This isn't about costs, it's about incentives. You may have money to get a ride home, but prefer to drive drunk. An incentive will change the minds of some percentage of those people, resulting in less drunk drivers.
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I've seen people do this at multiple small startups. I guess if an office is small enough for you to know everyone, then they know firsthand if you're lazy or not and don't have to make assumptions just because you're na
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A rare happy ending!
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But there are so many problems with that depending on circumstances. Assuming an urban apartment, it is likely very small. It may be loud throughout the day. You may have a partner who also wants to work from home. You may have family comin
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by phil248 9y ago
I've stuck to a policy of never reclining my seat on domestic and daytime flights. Unless of course the person in front of me starts a chain reaction. I believe it is a reasonable policy, but no one else seems to follow it.
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Thirty-nine percent of membership is "freelancers and independent workers" while another 20% are companies with 1,000 or more employees. You can get a desk in Oakland for $340/month or a private office for $730/month. If
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I have a hard time relating to these kinds of critiques. I limit my phone's notifications pretty severely. My phone only bothers me for texts and calls, period. Those are usually human beings I know who want my immediate attention, so
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by phil248 9y ago
For purely practical reasons, we should make efforts to disperse power within society away from severe concentrations. Not uniformly, not absolutely, but we should work to keep the trend from becoming too strong in the direction of concentr
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The new Tesla installation in Southern Australia is 100MW. I don't know the specifics, but the combined battery capacity of the two big Southern California utilities is at least 120MW, including one 80MW installation (also by Tesla). T
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by phil248 9y ago
At this point, I'm dealing with so many pop-ups asking me to turn off my ad-blocker that the original purpose of the ad-blocker (don't bother me) is becoming moot. If this effort by Google can somehow raise the quality of online a
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Once we teach kids how to do their taxes and vote we can move on the hard stuff like Leap Years. You could also send your kids to public school and then supplement their education on your own, a tactic sometimes referred to as "parenti
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Currently, it seems like thermal storage is likely to achieve widespread grid-scale capacity before battery storage. But there are battery storage systems that have capacities over 100MW, so even today it's not just in the 10-20 MW ran
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Depends on the show. A lot of media is incredibly stimulating and stick with you for hours or days (or more) after you've watched it. Even complex shows like Game of Thrones can be stimulating simply because of the complexity, even if

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