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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Even with sources and pushback from other moderators, it’s hard to compete with people with an agenda and a lot of time. Exactly! This, writ large, is why a small disciplined group can take over a bureaucracy that allows open participa
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Meh, these pacts are basically PR (public relations, not people's republic). None of these pacts are binding, nothing happens to you when you break such a pact, and none of the leaders present have the authority to bind their successor
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Lucky you! I miss those quirky cars.
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It would be pretty awesome if they wagged their fingers at us, since the first thing they'd do is export those nuclear plants, and I'm sure they'd be cheaper and more efficient than any domestic model.
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Wait, Saabs are still around? They made it to the touchscreen era?
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Interesting! Would it be possible for you to not accept credit card but accept ACH?
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When Orson Welles crossed paths with Hitler and Churchill [video](youtube.com)
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Miami is fantastic. Phoenix has air quality problems, but I find the desert to be beautiful. To each his own.
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I heard good things about Oklahoma City
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No, you can't. The only way you can truly prevent states from having their interests overriden by a majority of the nation is to give them a direct role in the legislative process. Democracy is three wolves and two sheep voting on what
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That's the purpose of the Senate. The Senate is there to represent states, not people. The House is there to represent people. Both need to agree in order to get something done. This ensures that something that is passed is approved by
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As someone who spent most of his life at or below 32° latitude, but has visited cities in the north a few times, I find NYC too gray and depressing. The light is very different there, the water is gray instead of blue-green, the bricks are
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It's evidence of a minimum viable standard for rule of law. Take, for example, Barbados, which is dependent on foreign tourism and foreign investment. If you are going to invest in Barbados, you'd like to know that your property r
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me: At best we have "ideas" but these have not been actually deployed at scale. you: This just isn't correct. There are dozens of pilot projects for novel grid storage Really not sure what else needs to be said, so this i
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The price represents the intersection of supply and demand. Since supply of coal is steady, the higher price is coming from an increase in demand. Of course coal purchasers would prefer a lower price, but the fact that the price is high is
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All of the above facts are exactly correct. There is a huge financial incentive for storage. Right now. And yet the storage is not being built in any meaningful sense. At best we have "ideas" but these have not been actually dep
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> We need coal replacements before 2032. You are not going to get a replacement for coal before 2032. That's like 10 years away. If you work really hard and get incredibly lucky, you may limit the increase in coal use by 2032 to b
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Solar could be free, and still the battery costs would be prohibitive. In terms of "hard to believe", ask yourself why countries have not managed to roll out storage capacity to match the solar capacity? It's because solar is
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That's an interesting point. I'm not aware of any POS payment processor used by business that accepts debit cards but not credit cards. Not sure why that is.
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> A raw 3% of revenue is huge The business doesn't lose 3 percent of revenue, because it also saves money not dealing with cash: - eliminates cash theft - always a chronic problem for business. - reduces costs of transporting/d
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how are you getting that coal is not profitable? Demand for coal is at an all time high. Check out coal prices. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal We are also producing more coal than ever before (modulo the d
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It is those battery costs that make solar lose the price advantage, so yeah, it's a problem.
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Comparing the price of unreliable energy with the price of reliable energy is like comparing the yield of a bond without taking default risk into account. It's just terrible. Similarly thinking you can combine a bunch of unreliable ene
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Yeah, fast internet helps a lot, but being able to grab open source code, work on it, and then push in changes with something better than an email of diffs is certainly nice. The technology of pull requests/cloning has a lot of advanta
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Yeah, I'm familiar with feature flags, but that doesn't really solve the problem of needing well-defined releases and that these releases themselves need to be patched and possibly supported for a long period of time as determined
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I guess that depends on whether you believe electric vehicles will be a thing.
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> In 2020 alone China added 71.6GW of windpower. The problem here is that China's share of total energy from renewables has decreased from about 33% in 1990 to 13% in 2018[1]. Solar and Wind are not particularly useful given they
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While it's true that the bonus scandal is a thing, that's about trimming trees in urban areas near powerlines, and is unrelated to the problem of how one can run lines through millions of acres of forests that should never exist i
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I think talking about "no birds" is extreme, but I do agree that covering the planet with trillions of solar panels is not environmentally friendly. The size of the footprint has to be taken into account.
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I think that's fine for solo development but as soon as you have a real collaborative project -- which, supposedly, is why you need a peer-to-peer vcs, then there comes a time when dev A is working on some feature for the future, and d

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