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by pilom 11y ago
Same story in comic form: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/bees_vs_hornets
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by pilom 11y ago
This is showing that the Dave Ramsey "debt snowball" (pay off smallest debts first to get a psychological win and some breathing room by having fewer minimum payments) is a more effective way to get people to pay off many separate
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by pilom 11y ago
I totally agree with your opinion of the default contract system. With mods it becomes WAY better. Contract Configurator [1] makes it really easy for people to make new contract packs with a simple config file and there are some pretty grea
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by pilom 11y ago
For a less biased view about why Vanguard really does do things wrong in the eye of the law even if it sounds perfectly reasonable to you and me, try this: http://www.joshuakennon.com/vanguard-accused-of-nearly-35-bi...
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by pilom 11y ago
NASA has sent over 600 people into space not to mention orbit or the moon and killed around 17 along the way. Private companies have sent about 10 people into space and killed 2(?). Given the choice, I'd rather go to space with NASA.
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by pilom 11y ago
The problem for Net Neutrality advocates is that T-Mobile's customers don't care one bit. They love the fact that they don't have to pay for streaming video and that they pay less for video on non-supported services. It is ev
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by pilom 11y ago
This sounds so much like WiMax and that didn't succeed. Why would I believe this will?
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by pilom 11y ago
"Why would you want a vehicle that sits idle 90% of the day?" I don't, but I do want access to a cheap to operate vehicle that I can load my kayaks on top of and my camping gear inside of and then go drive to a river as far a
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by pilom 11y ago
Denver is only recorded as "not dense" because the city technically includes all the land around the airport where there is very little built. If you don't include the airport property the density is pretty close to San Jose.
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by pilom 11y ago
I made a similar map (though much less pretty) for the US a few years ago: http://whitewatermap.com
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by pilom 11y ago
We do at my work. It has much more robust options. You can keep multiple jobs from running at the same time if one takes too long. You can auto kill it after a time limit. You get a web UI for all logging from the job. You get great built i
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by pilom 11y ago
In addition to CI, we use it for all of our Selenium testing and for jobs that would otherwise just be cron jobs. The UI for logging and built in email alerting when jobs fail are invaluable.
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by pilom 11y ago
Later on on page 44 he changes the assumptions based on 50% efficient farms growing plant matter for biomass. Even if you had 50% efficient panels and you covered 200m^2 per person with them (there are only about 900 m^2 per person that are
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by pilom 11y ago
The problem is scale. Here is a really good analysis of renewable resources in the UK: http://www.withouthotair.com/ Conclusion: The UK doesn't receive enough sunlight or have enough wind/waves/tidal pools&#x
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by pilom 11y ago
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 but the recession and my now wife convinced me to stick around for another year to get my masters. Got a job with a defense contractor which inflated my salary about ~15% compared to peers b
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by pilom 11y ago
Are you surprised by this? Median student loan debt of graduates is around $15k. Is it really that hard to expect some people to prioritize their debt to the tune of $6k/year?
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by pilom 11y ago
I agree that he was thinking a 401k loan but the biggest downside of 401k loans is that if you leave your current employer (are fired or choose to leave) the full amount of the loan is due immediately. This is a huge set of handcuffs to you
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by pilom 11y ago
If you just want the real time data and don't need to integrate it with your monitoring software, the current data in graph form is available at: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ace-real-time-solar-wind
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by pilom 11y ago
Limited Partner. I.e. the people with the money behind the venture capital firms. The big VC firms solicit money from LPs to fund startups which the VC managing partners select.
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by pilom 11y ago
Why can't all of this just be done in the charge controller? The logic seems pretty simple. When plugged in, accept all power, charge the high capacity battery at its highest rate, any extra power available goes to the fast charging ba
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by pilom 11y ago
I get around this by just casting my phone's screen. It works great out of the box. Just cast your phone's screen, start the Amazon Prime Video app and start your show. The phone will automatically full screen and orient correctly
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by pilom 11y ago
Other than the "buy now" aspect, this doesn't seem any better for calculating solar savings than http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/ I used PVwatts when sizing my home system in Denver and thought it did a great job.
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by pilom 12y ago
I completely disagree on the SUV being the perfect "form factor" for electric. At least if the SUV is being used for things like carrying gear for an excursion or off-roading. In those cases, it is a terrible form factor (especial
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by pilom 12y ago
What makes you think this doesn't happen already. Arizona called in the National Guard on California during construction of tunnels out of Lake Mead. Mexico has threatened to take the US to international court over the salinity of the
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by pilom 12y ago
The train example is very informative because if you don't price the fine high enough you encourage people not to buy tickets. There actually was a mob-run "insurance" plan for train riders in India. The fine was about 20x th
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by pilom 12y ago
The format of the old version [1] is so much better. The independent variable is how long I need to live in my house to break even, not how cheap do I need to find a place to rent. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive&#x2F
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by pilom 12y ago
The New York Times has had this same calculator for years with all the same options and a much better interface: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula... Why did they make it worse?
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by pilom 12y ago
The barrel is just a metal tube. How do you regulate metal tubes?
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by pilom 12y ago
This needs multiplayer so badly. Even locally so you can stand next to someone and interact with them.
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by pilom 13y ago
Would you have a 4th database of your own site's usernames and scrypt(local password) used for logging in?

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