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by saulrh 10y ago
There are two different regulatory things going on here. The first is a tax rebate for installing solar. The second is a policy requiring utilities to purchase excess energy from people with solar installations. My interpretation of the art
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by saulrh 10y ago
If the failure mode is "public utilities have achieved regulatory capture", then isn't having something like Tesla come in with billions of dollars of support an effective solution?
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by saulrh 10y ago
I bet that you chose all of your dozen-plus vehicles knowing that you'd be driving extensively on dirt roads every day for the life of the car. I also bet that if you tried it with a $70k luxury sedan it'd have a major mechanica
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by saulrh 10y ago
He kind of had to be if electric vehicles were going to have a chance. Look at the "batteries are fire hazards" shitstorm - because his company is new and interesting, the press is going to be much harder on it than they would b
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by saulrh 10y ago
During their service in WWII, the 16-inch guns on the Iowa-class battleships had a life of about 300 rounds. They didn't reach their current 3500-round lifetime until we figured out polyeurethane bags in the 70s. So 1000 rounds is soli
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by saulrh 10y ago
Professional pride, along with "this is unusual and I am being graded on it", can be a significant motivator. I'd actually be more worried about the surgeons being tested being under too much stress, not too little stress
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by saulrh 10y ago
Out of curiosity - per day or week: how many people ride the DC Metro, how many people die on the Metro, how many people drive, and how many people die driving? Metro services have the same issue as airlines in that a non-issue failure rate
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by saulrh 10y ago
> Another way to look at it was in working with Purdue, he was able to demonstrate his ability to define and walk around FDA approvals by understanding and guiding product language to get approval. Isn't subverting the system like t
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by saulrh 10y ago
Sorry, started thinking like I was writing a paper. Not a Tesla Motors employee. Used "our filter" to separate it from "the TSA's filter". For the actual question: you probably leave the filter in place until it&#x2
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by saulrh 10y ago
Then their DRM isn't up to the task of protecting their stuff, and that's their fault. They were the ones that decided to put it there.
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by saulrh 11y ago
The TSA would be completely, perfectly effective if it simply didn't let anybody get on planes. That defeats the purpose of the TSA, of course; they have to let people on planes. Our filter, by comparison, is allowed to stop everyth
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by saulrh 11y ago
If you have a sensor that can detect things the size of bioweapon pathogens at concentrations where airborne pathogens would be dangerous, then yes, you absolutely can test for them. And, what do you know, some common bioweapon bacteria are
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by saulrh 11y ago
Also because we're propelling it into space using disintegrating totem poles. Lofting it using something like a momentum exchange tether, launch loop, or space fountain would also make habitats of that scale much cheaper. Better materi
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by saulrh 11y ago
I figured the numbers were something like that. Darn.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Lots of differences that can be pulled out algorithmically. Gunshots are much sharper, as they're mechanical/aerodynamic rather than chemical, and are linear rather than point sources. Receivers placed across the city will record
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by saulrh 11y ago
> without making any substantial change to civil (non-military) aviation. Having known a bunch of aerospace people: this is in the works, it's just that we won't see it come out for a while because civil aero moves really slow
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by saulrh 11y ago
So what do you want to do instead? Do you intend to only do things that we know are safe? If so, how do you intend to prove anything to be absolutely safe? Or, if not, do you intend to do things that we're "pretty sure" are
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by saulrh 11y ago
Part of the problem with this idea is that your cell phone exposes your brain to trivial quantities of EM radiation in both absolute and relative terms. If EM in that spectrum had any kind of effect, we'd have seen it long since in p
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by saulrh 11y ago
You'd be forcing them into another ecological niche, where without additional changes to adapt them to their new diet they'd likely be outcompeted and die. It'd be a complicated and inefficient route to eradicating them just
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by saulrh 11y ago
Amusingly, anthropophilia versus zoophilia is genetic. If we all cleared out of Africa completely, those problematic mosquito strains may well go extinct. Now I'm wondering how fast they'd re-evolve. So it's probably more lik
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by saulrh 11y ago
I did some more looking around. Oral MTBE is a carcinogen at levels above 200mg/kg/day in rats. When inhaled it has acute toxic effects before it has carcinogenic effects. MTBE tastes bad enough to render drinking water unpalatabl
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by saulrh 11y ago
Something like 30 out of the 500 anopheles species are capable of carrying malaria. Of those, only those two matter, because the rest won't bite humans. Eradicating those two would be sufficient and another species (that doesn't
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by saulrh 11y ago
Most of the "whoops" tales are people that didn't listen to their scientists telling them not to, didn't have scientists at all, or were from long enough ago that we can discard their stories as irrelevant in the same wa
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by saulrh 11y ago
MBTE is unconfirmed as a carcinogen except at very high doses and can be efficiently and economically removed from water with simple bioreactors. It is better than either lead additive or the health effects of increased pollution from inf
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by saulrh 11y ago
If you're talking about the one way up near the top of the page, the justification on that one is just impressively subtle. Try to follow columns of characters up and down the page.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Doesn't using function* make laziness part of the type system, thereby allowing us to detect when we're mixing lazy and eager in functions in the same way we might detect mixing integer and floating-point math in variables?
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by saulrh 11y ago
I did this for a while. I had to switch to stow when I got a new job that had data security requirements - I had to keep the "work" bits of my dotfiles separate from the non-work parts, and so couldn't keep everything in the
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by saulrh 11y ago
There is a paragraph in there about low levels of stress having an anti-aging effect. Very interesting, thanks for the link. I guess the question, then, is where the therapeutic/hormetic level of stress is. I'd have very much gues
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by saulrh 11y ago
> I wonder if it's becuase living in a place like New York City requires one to be a little stronger and resilant to every day things. I would expect the opposite to happen - the extra grinding-down every day would result in people
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by saulrh 11y ago
This is actually why I immediately discard use of the system package manager. One library version set per OS installation means that I can't run two things on the same machine unless I get really lucky with dependency versioning. N

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