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by skosch 8y ago
You make it revenue neutral – look up fee and dividend, the method favoured by most economists. The bottom ~2/3rd of households would, on average, get more money back than the tax would cost them.
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by skosch 8y ago
I'm surprised you dislike Redux simply because it's a form of global state. Sure, global variables make debugging difficult when you don't know which function changed them where and when and why. But that doesn't happen
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by skosch 8y ago
1. Tiny houses are nothing like what you are comparing them to. 2. For sure, 150sqft is unreasonably small, even if it's a very luxurious 150sqft. But that's a strawman. If all of the sensationalism around this extreme end of the
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by skosch 8y ago
... and why not celebrate that as a healthy development? Living small and mindfully doesn't mean living poorly. "Embracing experiences and minimalism over material possessions" is precisely what philosophers and spiritual tea
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by skosch 8y ago
Article: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/50/E11817 Awful headline. This isn't about "how does my dog see the world", but about an energy-preservation mechanism in the retina. They found that w
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by skosch 8y ago
Your average household uses somewhere between 30 and 60 gallons of hot water a day [0], and a bigger tank will just have water sitting in it, going cold. Any extra surface area costs you extra heat, even if the marginal loss decreases with
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by skosch 8y ago
They aren't anymore. This article is from 2014; the rule was amended a year later to make an exception for grid-enabled electric water heaters.[0] [0] https://www.phcppros.com/articles/5312-water-heater-regulati..
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by skosch 8y ago
> ATCs being less accountable to the .gov for funding them makes them more accountable to customers That's one potential issue right there – would this arrangement put airlines or airports into a position to squeeze concessions out
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by skosch 8y ago
Elixir obviously is Erlang under the hood, but its syntax was inspired by Ruby's simplicity. José Valim, the creator, was also a Ruby contributor IIRC.
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by skosch 8y ago
OpenAI has "Requests for Research" from easy to very difficult: https://openai.com/requests-for-research/ https://blog.openai.com/requests-for-research-2/
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If this was 1980, then I'd be right with you. But it's 2018. We've had 40 years of unmistakable data, and at this point, anyone pushing this "the science isn't settled" talking point – adopted from the tobacco
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by skosch 8y ago
Please abstain from propagating the "both sides" nonsense. One can admit to degrees of model uncertainty without insinuating that climate change is a matter of opinion.
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by skosch 8y ago
Ignore the doom-and-gloom headlines. Climate change is still a solvable problem. We have all the tools we need. 1. Learn about the best ways to get carbon out of the atmosphere [0] 2. Help build the political will for carbon pricing, ideall
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by skosch 8y ago
I really enjoyed your post, having never used AWS, and always been a bit intimidated by it. Your list maps perfectly onto my existing mental models in a very reassuring way. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.
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by skosch 8y ago
> since higher CO2 means plants can keep their stomata closed more [e.g. 5] And that apparent silver lining's actually got a downside, too. Plants working hard to draw up water is a Good Thing, because that water is the only source
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by skosch 8y ago
Soap is really tricky. The realistic alternatives at a commercial scale are coconut oil (but coconuts take twice the land to grow, compared to palm kernels) or animal fat (which you may not want in your soap). Sustainably sourced palm oil i
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by skosch 8y ago
I've worked with both. Typescript is (and feels) bolted-on, and can fail in dozens of ways. ReasonML's type checker is 100% airtight. It also has pattern matching and piping, to help make your code more concise. Typescript is easy
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by skosch 8y ago
More than you ever wanted to know, in one well-illustrated blog post: http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/
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by skosch 8y ago
Thanks, I had no idea it was that guy!
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by skosch 8y ago
Whether or not the world has been warmer in the past is entirely and completely irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that we are provably massively accelerating the current warming, causing changes to weather, water and food systems w
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by skosch 8y ago
It's more complex than that. To heat up by those 2C, water takes over 4 times as much energy as air does. On the other hand, most of the warming happens in the upper layer of the ocean, which is a big issue because it messes with the o
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by skosch 8y ago
Yes – probably one of the best organizations to donate your time to: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ Carbon pricing is what really is going to set things in motion on a large scale.
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by skosch 8y ago
Unfortunately, Hans Rosling's research has dealt with the last few decades, which saw massive socioeconomic improvements that humanity bought on environmental credit. The next few decades are going to be about whether or not we will be
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by skosch 8y ago
Sure, when you use hundreds of watts over several minutes. The decay over distance should be roughly exponential: every x millimeters, you're left with only half of the radiation. Given the radiation caused by a cellphone in your poc
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by skosch 8y ago
Yes, this is important. Regenerative Agriculture is ranked #11 in Project Drawdown's list of solutions to climate change, higher than offshore wind turbines (#22), nuclear (#20), or electric cars (#49) [0]. This will be a political bat
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by skosch 8y ago
Another endorsement for "Why we sleep" here. The book isn't so much about "why we sleep" but rather "why you should sleep more" – 350 pages of Walker telling you about study after study after study after s
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by skosch 8y ago
For anyone interested in CRDT, I can recommend the deep-dive writeup to Raph Levien's Xi editor: https://xi-editor.github.io/xi-editor/docs.html
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by skosch 8y ago
Similar situation here – I've found that using Typescript and declaring (most) variables const already goes a long way, although the peace of mind still isn't quite the same.
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by skosch 8y ago
Feedbro isn't open source, unfortunately. Brief is atrocious-looking out of the box, but you can enter your own CSS to override the styling. I've been pretty happy with it for the last few years.
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MIP solvers work themselves through the search tree using all sorts of clever tricks, constantly running LPs on relaxations (approximations) of the problem to prune the tree. They can be very efficient, but the constraints need to be linear

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