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by seoaeu 4y ago
The land and concrete already exist in exactly the right places [1]! Sure, you might have to run more power line capacity and install the chargers themselves, but this isn't some insurmountable problem. The average power line running d
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Many power companies offer the option to pay a bit extra each month to be supplied 100% renewable energy
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Owning a specific solar panel seems strictly worse. What if yours malfunctions and has to be replaced? Averaged over all the solar panels in the plant that might be a negligible risk, but if you own just one then you could be the unlucky in
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by seoaeu 4y ago
What’s the excuse for US leaders to not pass appropriate taxes on gasoline? They’re afraid of the massive political backlash that would cause
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by seoaeu 4y ago
A highway rest stop may easily have 100 parking spots, and since most highways run through sparsely areas at many you could probably find space to increase that 10x if you wanted. That said, if you are looking for a modern and efficient (bu
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Issued coins aren’t the only possible kind of debt. They might also have taken out loans that wouldn’t show up on the blockchain but enable them to inflate their bank account balances
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by seoaeu 4y ago
How do you know that Dwayne Johnson didn’t cause EBITDA? He was born in 1972 so the timing fits even better than the ending of the gold standard
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by seoaeu 4y ago
No, #2 should be: "Calculate the value of deposits across issuer's bank accounts in USD and subtract any debts that the issuer has. "
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Are how do you suppose an instructor can identify which questions were too hard when a big chunk of the class got them right by cheating?
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by seoaeu 4y ago
All students in a class cannot take an oral exam simultaneously. This means that either: * everyone gets the same questions meaning later students can cheat by asking earlier students what was on the test, or * everyone gets different quest
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Maybe not a literal curve, but tons of instructors will compensate if an exam ends up being too hard (or too easy). Except the main way they tell whether the test difficulty was off is by looking at the grade distribution which obviously en
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Of course there’s a rational argument to using the distribution of scores to set the grades: If everyone in the class gets half the questions wrong on the final exam, you shouldn’t just fail the whole class! The test was probably just harde
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The calculation that actually matters is the amount of storage needed. Unfortunately, the article is extremely hand wavy about that part and so even though the cost estimate of storing a entire week’s energy consumption might not be far o
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Not the one you’re responding to, but I can take a stab: The article on battery capacity assumes a country would need to store an entire week of energy to have a dependable grid based on renewables. But it isn’t like the sun just might no
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Systematic changes are needed but it is naive to think that those systematic changes won’t impact everyday people
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The biggest problem is just the value of the phone. There’s just way too much risk handing a stranger a $500-1000 object that they could just run away with!
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by seoaeu 4y ago
OP is literally a story about someone asking strangers for directions and being given the cold shoulder. You proposal is to… ask those same unhelpful strangers directions to a different destination instead?
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by seoaeu 4y ago
You’re claiming that it is a human right to not pay any taxes ? I have a hard time imagining there’s much basis or precedent under international law to support such a position
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by seoaeu 4y ago
That’s just another restatement of your belief that you shouldn’t have to pay taxes. But I’ll add that claiming you have to work for free for part of the year is a silly way of looking at at. You’re never forced to work for free for even a
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by seoaeu 4y ago
It is wild how many folks on HN think they shouldn’t have to pay taxes
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I think the difference is whether you’re sharing that you donated, or parading around some disadvantaged people for your social media followers. Making a hungry person chose between a meal and their dignity isn’t charitable.
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by seoaeu 4y ago
> Can I assume that the author of this ransomware is American or at least is very immersed in American culture? No, they sound like someone who learned about the US from internet memes, but doesn’t have firsthand experience. For example,
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Depending on the context you could probably give away pizzas pretty easily/innocently. Walking up to some children you do not know and offering to take them to a secondary location in return for free food… would come across very differ
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Cost of “shelter” is already 32% of the CPI calculation. I really don’t understand this meme that housing costs aren’t factored in
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by seoaeu 4y ago
The stock market grows by an average of something like 10% per year. Mutual funds charge a couple percent fees but usually still make a profit. If you are losing money long term as an investor then you’re a bad one
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by seoaeu 4y ago
Jim’s view of ARM being a CISC architecture is rather unconventional. The Wikipedia page literally describes it otherwise in the very first sentence [1]: > ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines
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by seoaeu 4y ago
But lack of correlation is evidence that there’s no causation
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No, I assumed you were engaging in good faith when you mentioned rifles. Instead you were responding to strawman argument no one made about how banning rifles (but not pistols) wouldn’t work.
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The great thing about being able to dismiss anything just for being “political” is that you can label anything that way. Instant heckler’s veto!
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Your first link shows 2400 documented cases since 2019 which is more than I’d have expected. But clicking through those examples… many honestly don’t seem that sympathetic. Stuff like “shootout between X and Y, but Y shot second so it was s

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