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by scythe 3y ago
>When I think of "suppressed" demand, I think of economically useful demand that needs to exist. There are cases where this is true: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d... When
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by scythe 3y ago
>It baffles me. My hypothesis, which I rarely hear anyone else mention, is that we no longer look to our children for entertainment. Life used to be really boring. Kids are excited by things adults find painfully dull. Having a weird lit
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by scythe 3y ago
Condos are politically caught between a rock and a hard place: leftists who think they turn cities into playgrounds for the rich, and reactionaries who think the government is trying to force everyone into multi-unit buildings. Ownership is
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by scythe 3y ago
Curiously, some places (notably San Francisco) in the United States have the opposite system: rents are unregulated for the first few decades of a building's life, and then annual increases are capped after that. This ensures that the
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by scythe 3y ago
>International Building Code As I've explained before, it's the World Series of building codes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39050267
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by scythe 3y ago
When I (American) had an apartment in Wuhan, the fridge was not particularly small and our 3-bedroom apartment didn't feel cramped. The beds were hard, but normal size. The bathroom was a little weird — no separation of the shower — bu
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by scythe 3y ago
Hijacking my own comment: I feel like I started talking about heat pumps a long time ago. I'm unable to find evidence for this before 2021. Anyway, it's certainly hit the cultural mainstream really fast over the last couple of yea
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https://archive.ph/NkfeK
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I think it's pretty unlikely that the Chevron doctrine would be overturned completely. The specifics of the case before the Court involve a case where the NMFS has interpreted a fisheries act to require fishers to pay the salaries of g
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There's something I don't really understand in this discussion, and though it looks like it's already been flagged, I suppose I'll try my luck anyway. The question "is it ethical to farm octopus?" sounds to me
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The better ski resorts in the Northeast — Killington, Sugarloaf — aren't as close to the big cities. NH is sort of an exception. But in general, you can drive there on Friday, ski on the weekend, and drive home on Sunday, or you can&#x
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by scythe 3y ago
Hydrogen as a sole technology is going to keep eating that 2-3x energy penalty versus batteries regardless of storage tech. Hydrogen IC has even worse efficiency than FC. The only exception would be if hydrogen mining yields world-changing
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by scythe 3y ago
I think a lot of it started because of one of the better intended projects — the One Laptop Per Child movement that tried to give laptops to kids in poor countries. A key premise was that a laptop could be cheaper than all of the textbooks
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by scythe 3y ago
It's a little misleading to suggest that "co-production" of iron and chlorine can meaningfully save energy. Annual production of steel is about 2000 Mt, of Cl2 is about 100 Mt (a similar figure for NaOH). So you'll get m
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US counties often ban wind or solar power plants(usatoday.com)
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by scythe 3y ago
>The US is just a particularly violent place with extraordinarily well-funded police departments. Compared to peer nations, the US spends a decidedly ordinary amount of money on the police: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounde
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by scythe 3y ago
Wikipedia gives Typhoon Ida (not to be confused with various hurricanes named Ida) a wind speed of "only" 175 knots (325 kph; 202 mph) which accounts for the largest outlier in the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by scythe 3y ago
If expected admission scores are too close to perfect, the tests should be harder.
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by scythe 3y ago
Trivially, NaN != NaN, so this function is not even properly reflexive (i.e. for a = b = NaN we find cmp(&a,&b) = cmp(&b,&a) = 1).
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The article is heavy on cork production, light on use cases. >“Compared with materials like polyurethane foam [used for thermal insulation], products made with cork require less energy and produce less CO2 emissions.” Polyurethane foam i
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Car insurance in America is too cheap(economist.com)
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Monetary policy could probably be implemented through some other means than real estate, which is what I interpreted the suggestion to mean. QE as it has existed was a real example of Friedman's "nothing so permanent as a temporar
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The existing parties in the United States have already shown to be vulnerable to entryism, so I'm not convinced this makes a difference.
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by scythe 3y ago
That's a clever argument, though I wonder if it would be defeated by some restrictions on the chromatic polynomial. In your example, the number of 3-colorings up to isomorphism is extremely large, because the colors of any brick and it
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> - Clusters of minority populations tend to not get as much representation, because they are but a small voice in a bigger ocean of voices. This is largely solved by the districtized version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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>But then I realized how much heavier cars have gotten, and how much of a disadvantage they are in a collision so we will be getting a heavier car. Part of the problem is that liability coverage hasn't risen appropriately with medic
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>flow batteries Not a type of fuel. The only advantage is that they're easy for hobbyists to build. Otherwise it's just a battery with more stuff that can break.
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>biofuels Absolutely not. The land use impacts are enormous.
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This finding definitely supports a brain protein hypothesis, but it could just as easily point to tau protein as amyloid. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399531/
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Worth noting that the most prevalent protein in blood is albumin, and the major protein in eggs is, yep, albumin.

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