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by rplst8 9y ago
How about we just reuse the concrete blocks? They don't wear out do they?
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by rplst8 9y ago
Better question - why can't we reuse the concrete blocks.
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by rplst8 9y ago
That's like a huge "duh, why didn't they do that" sort of thing. Wow. Theoretically, they could probably make all of the free space in the washer part of a giant tupperware style container and allow filling of differen
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by rplst8 9y ago
How do they go about spoofing the source numbers? That seems like a huge security risk overall for the phone system.
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by rplst8 9y ago
This is a great point - and was the primary idea behind charging for sending email by the message to combat spam. Someone years ago proposed that if we just charged 5 cents per message sent, most people would pay less than $5 a month while
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by rplst8 9y ago
First, I think you meant "Now substitute... 'innate linguistic capability' with 'innate technical interest'" right? Because it's the "interest in things" vs. "interest in people" argu
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by rplst8 9y ago
First, it depends on the age of the physician. At some point in the late 90s or early 00s most (if not all) of the medical boards require that doctors continue to take continuing education credits to keep up on changes in medicine. In add
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by rplst8 9y ago
If this is the case, then no one should lend any more credence to the term "full stack developer" than to the phrase "I like to work on all sorts of software" - because it's meaningless. What I do know is that there
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by rplst8 9y ago
> the playing field is by no means level, and neither of us chose to be born into our respective families. Agreed. However our parents did choose to have us, raise us, and give us the best fighting chance. Ignoring that ignores their h
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by rplst8 9y ago
I'm not sure what you are arguing in favor of exactly. Say we do make actual individual merit the only factor in hiring and pay. Would those "unlucky" enough to have been born a starving child in Africa ever have a chance at
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by rplst8 9y ago
Why should same responsibilities = same salary? What if Joe and I and have the same responsibilities. Just to build working code. However, I can produce 100 working/tested lines of code a day and Joe can produce 150 lines of the same
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by rplst8 9y ago
P.S. it's a tortious offence at best.
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by rplst8 9y ago
There is such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment. Getting 100 years for that "crime" of essentially violating a regulation is preposterous.
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by rplst8 9y ago
I didn't downvote him - as far as I know you can't downvote replies to your own comments. P.S. The other smart phone manufacturers are just as guilty, but Apple makes the most profit from externalizing their costs. The other ph
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by rplst8 9y ago
I 100% agree with you. When Mossberg left the WSJ this thread was on HN... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6414723 The tech press was then, and is now, a total joke compared to other forms of serious journalism. I wro
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by rplst8 9y ago
CO2 per capita is not the only measure of absurdity.
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by rplst8 9y ago
That's cheap for drilling from what I've been quoted. Most systems I looked at when I had a house before were in the $30k range installed. I have three friends/co-workers that had the systems installed. None were particular
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by rplst8 9y ago
I've said elsewhere in the thread, but insulation does little to help in the summer months. Fiberglass insulation mostly protects from convective cooling/heating (i.e. airflow). Heat in the summer is mostly through conduction an
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by rplst8 9y ago
Which requires another Carnot cycle.
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by rplst8 9y ago
To be fair, if you die from a heat wave - you probably weren't going to last that much longer anyway.
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by rplst8 9y ago
Having large groups living in mega city heat islands is also an absurd configuration but pretty much the entire world is guilty of that one.
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by rplst8 9y ago
Good insulation is pretty standard here in the US for everything built in the last two decades or so. That said, fiberglass insulation mostly only helps against convection cooling/heating. I.e. through the movement of air. Summertime
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by rplst8 9y ago
Yes. I was talking strictly about the air source style heat pumps and/or reverse Carnot cycle A/C units. Everyone knows GS heat pumps are more efficient.
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by rplst8 9y ago
Yes.
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by rplst8 9y ago
Bingo! WFH = less traffic, less industrial building construction, less heating/cooling of empty spaces (offices at night, homes during day), less indoor lighting usage (homes are usually very well lit from outside light while most cubi
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by rplst8 9y ago
While it's not the best thing to do, it doesn't matter much as the efficiency of the systems go way way up when the outside temp is near the same as the inside temp.
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by rplst8 9y ago
The challenge for these is the cost. First, you either have to drill wells that are ~500 feet deep or lay coils of tubing under your yard (if you have one) below the frost line. Doing either is expensive, though the wells are much more so
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by rplst8 9y ago
There are standardized efficiency measurements that all A/C manufacturers must conduct and publish in the US. You'll see terms like COP, EER, and SEER. Those allow you to compare pretty easily. Currently the minimum is a SEER of
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by rplst8 9y ago
Well, the efficiency of a heat pump/refrigerator is limited by Carnot's theorem. Essentially it boils down to the difference of the outside temperature compared to inside temperature. With an indoor temp of ~72F and outdoor ~90F
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by rplst8 9y ago
The effect you want - roughly the same volume through a whole track, can easily be achieved with tasteful use of compression. Some genres hardly need any to start with. There are a number of albums that were mastered quite well that have a

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