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by prottog 4y ago
Literally billions of lives have been lifted out of poverty due to fossil fuels providing cheap energy. As long as we continue to have an abundance of energy, the effects of climate change will be successfully mitigated. People love to harp
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by prottog 4y ago
> That's why any decent country has some employee protection in its law. You can probably draw a linear relationship between the amount of employee protection in the laws of a country and its unemployment rate, especially among youn
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by prottog 4y ago
> what competitors are offering What's the competition out there? It seems like every year I scope out Apple Maps and Bing Maps and get disappointed and come back to Google Maps. Is there stuff out there that I'm just not aware
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by prottog 4y ago
Like other commenters said, a GSHP will work excellently in terms of keeping you comfortable at a low ongoing price, but your initial costs will far exceed a $10k budget and you will likely never make that investment back ;-)
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by prottog 4y ago
> how many successive good, responsible governments can we expect before one of them goes bad? Any system of government that relies on a successive chain of responsible people in power is doomed to fail more quickly than anyone thinks. T
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by prottog 4y ago
> Also, they are designed to run constantly in order to maintain the set temperature Not all heat pumps are variable-speed like you describe. My own home, built in 2000, has a single-speed heat pump that kicks on 100% or off, like a regu
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by prottog 4y ago
In the Northeast with that much square footage, you would be better off with ground-source heat pumps (whether open or closed loop), rather than the normal air-source heat pumps.
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by prottog 4y ago
> The good thing about digital currencies is that'll actually take power away from commercial banks. Right now you need to go through someone like Barclays, HSBC, etc, to get your money. CBDC actually lets you keep your balance dire
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by prottog 4y ago
Exactly. You're mark-to-market red on your bonds, since if you tried to sell your 2%-yielding bonds in a market where new bonds yield 4% obviously your bond will be worth less than what you bought it for; but you'll still continue
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by prottog 4y ago
Unbridled safetyism is good for no one. If we banned everything that was "proven scientifically" to be bad for children, we would quickly go back to pre-Industrial Revolution living standards. If indoor air pollution from the usag
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by prottog 4y ago
> trying to sabotage a system they see as unjust. You should see something wrong with someone actively sabotaging a system. It's fine and maybe encouraged to protest or move on to a better opportunity, but sabotage just means they&#
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm a visibly nonwhite minority here in the deep south of America with friends of every skin tone, including those who are black. Not once has anyone younger than 40 been afraid of his physical safety due to the color of his skin, othe
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by prottog 4y ago
To put in other units: a rise from previous targets of $58/MWh to $89/MWh, more than 50%, not including a $30/MWh subsidy (so the true cost is actually $119/MWh). To be fair, it says the cost increases are mainly due to
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by prottog 4y ago
Groupthink, yes, definitely. The shareholders, through the board, are responsible for hiring and firing management; so I guess shareholders haven't lost confidence in the CEOs yet, or perhaps it's too early still.
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by prottog 4y ago
Just buy a printer with two paper trays and reserve one for A4 paper. Problem solved!
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by prottog 4y ago
> regulating interstate commerce The same Interstate Commerce Clause that in Wickard v. Filburn the federal judiciary interpreted as giving the federal legislature the authority to regulate intrastate non-commerce; and in turn relied upo
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by prottog 4y ago
With the higher salary in the US, especially as a software engineer, you could easily put a little bit aside to pay for a healthcare exchange plan for a while if you do ever lose your job.
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm not well-versed on what the fearmongering was that turned out to be bullshit, because I wasn't a voter for most of it. Besides obvious hysteria, were there strong, substantive arguments against it that turned out to be false?
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by prottog 4y ago
I do appreciate the sentiment, but I wonder if there's any actual market demand for a car with nothing smart whatsoever that isn't also a budget econobox?
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by prottog 4y ago
You're just listing (D) talking points about (R) positions without taking a critical eye. In the spirit of HN, how about a steelmanning exercise? > They seem to deny that a government can do anything Counterpoint: government share o
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by prottog 4y ago
> Unless you can think of an actual ethical reason that gay marriage should be banned? Registered republican voters support gay marriage by a significant margin, according to recent polls.
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by prottog 4y ago
> if the president is dead the military have some workaround to launch the misiles. The presidential line of succession exists for a reason. It's the office of the president that has the power to authorize a nuclear strike, not the
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by prottog 4y ago
What part of GP's take on the American federalist system are you describing as radical? Seems to me that the truly radical thing is what the federal government has morphed into over the years, its founding constitutional document notwi
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by prottog 4y ago
I agree. This further degrades the meaning of owning private property.
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by prottog 4y ago
> It sold social status to wealthy customers rather than basic transportation to an abandoned market. I thought their plan explicitly was to start with low-volume, high-margin exotic cars (the Roaster), followed by the slightly higher-vo
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by prottog 4y ago
What a strange response to this story.
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by prottog 4y ago
Clearly people find it distasteful when politicians do legal but immoral things. It's a non-issue legally speaking, but one wonders why this gaping source of misaligned incentives remains.
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by prottog 4y ago
Their overall shrinkage is in line after they closed stores and put in counter-theft measures. It doesn't say anything about whether they need to further close stores in such areas, or whether mom-and-pop stores can survive in the same
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by prottog 4y ago
Yeah, it's at least the third time I've seen this same article on HN in the past couple of weeks. Walgreens is only walking it back because their additional anti-theft measures are costing them in expenses and lost sales, not beca
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by prottog 4y ago
If you're a programmer who owns a home, there's a lot of electrician stuff you can do around the house. ;-)

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