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by rory096 7y ago
This is an op-ed by a law professor at Columbia, not the Times' editorial opinion.
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by rory096 7y ago
Can you point me to that law? Do 'legal persons' qualify?
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by rory096 7y ago
NORAD doesn't publish TLEs for X-37, but here's a spot from April 2018: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2018/0065.html Here's a TLE from Oct 17: https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/
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by rory096 7y ago
That TLE is from 2014. It's for OTV-3, eleven days before landing.
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by rory096 7y ago
Can you link a cite for those standards for grid-tied inverters? I've never heard of grid-commanded curtailment for home solar — generally those frequency signals are created by the inverter to tell the (AC-coupled) PV to turn off when
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by rory096 7y ago
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station in Virginia stores 24GWh. It was built between 1977 and 1985 at a nominal cost of $1.6 billion.[0] If we conservatively take those as 1985 dollars, that's equivalent to $3.9 billion in 2019 dollar
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by rory096 7y ago
>www.pecva.org - looks like last link just shows planning details and doesn't show opposition. They oppose utility-scale solar anywhere except existing industrial land, in favor of the "low hanging fruit" of rooftop solar.
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by rory096 7y ago
>Grid scale solar is significantly cheaper due to the economies of scale. Utility scale solar has met the same ardent opposition in land use decisionmaking fora as denser housing, including from 'environmental' organizations. S
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by rory096 7y ago
>To think with all that money we could build better infrastructure and denser housing. Denser housing isn't built because our local land use policymaking paradigms give the power to block it to the people who don't want it, not
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by rory096 7y ago
>Totally worth demolishing an ancient fort and levelling the hill it stood on to make room for it. 1780 CE isn't exactly ancient. As to whether it was "worth it," I imagine the intended benefits were more about providing s
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by rory096 7y ago
>including foreign, via tariffs Border adjustments, not tariffs.
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by rory096 7y ago
There's no shortage of demand for apartments. There's a shortage of supply of apartments. The main reason people want a home is to have a safe place to sleep and live. That by far trumps the concerns you listed.
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by rory096 7y ago
It's longitudinal tax data. >We 1st identified the relationship between walkability and upward mobility using tax data from approximately 10 million Americans born between 1980 and 1982.
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by rory096 7y ago
>Of course in practice eventually someone breaks and declares the whole thing silly, restores the real chair and continues the meeting, adopts the accounts etc .... then you go to court because the chair wasn't valid and therefore t
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by rory096 7y ago
TIL, never seen a DC-coupled PW2 in the field. Looks like it was killed off in 2017. (i.e. before PW2 was widely available) https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-new-tesla-p... https://www.so
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by rory096 7y ago
>That is the way forward for urban/suburban solar power. No way. The future of residential solar is coupled with storage. And the future of storage is in DC coupling, not wastefully inverting solar to AC just to invert back to put i
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by rory096 7y ago
Shareholder resolutions are generally non-binding (precatory) as was the Chevron case, though it's possible to have binding resolutions depending on the state and the company's bylaws. https://www.law.cornell.edu/c
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by rory096 7y ago
If you look at the trading desk logs, most recent operations have been reverse repos rather than repo operations. In other words, this week the Fed lent cash & borrowed treasuries to inject cash into the market, while in the recen
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by rory096 7y ago
>Landlords who choose to increase rents at the maximum rate permitted each year do so at the risk that they will be undercut by competing property owners who do not do so. Price ceilings (even non-binding ones) can create market power fo
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by rory096 7y ago
Smack in the middle of SPI (Solar Power International/Energy Storage International) seems like an odd choice of time.
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by rory096 7y ago
Techdirt link is a reblog of this ProPublica piece: https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-ag...
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by rory096 7y ago
This Business Insider link is a reblog of https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/business/how-uber-got-los...
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by rory096 7y ago
Phonics dates to at least 1570: https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Methode_Or_Comfortabl...
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by rory096 7y ago
>Why is this something that requires a non-profit to do? Facebook, Google and Amazon are desperate to get more eyeballs and clicks on their apps. Facebook tried something along these lines in India. It did not go well. https:/&#x2F
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by rory096 7y ago
c.f.: the Impossible Trinity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
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by rory096 7y ago
n.b.: The 2015 International Building Code removed the requirement for at least one room with a minimum 120sf. Rooms must now have a minimum of 70sf. http://media.iccsafe.org/news/eNews/2014v11n20/2015_irc_sig
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by rory096 7y ago
>These could be cashed in early if rates rise I don't think that's how T-bonds work. You can sell them on the secondary market, but that doesn't matter to the government — it locks in the rate it sold them at.
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by rory096 7y ago
It's not just a backup camera, it's a stitched video from four cameras to create a "birds-eye view" of the "car" and its surroundings from overhead. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbpqDZ
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by rory096 7y ago
Seems to have started to really take off in late 2012: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%... Might be a result of Free People launching a line with that term in July 2011: https:&#x2F
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by rory096 7y ago
>In both the real and hypothetical cases, the reduced demand for one material should result in an increased price for the other material, since the price of producing a cow is independent of the sale price of its byproducts. This would e

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