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by sologoub 4y ago
“ The journalists have been without a contract since March 2021 and staff haven’t gotten raises in more than two years despite decades-high inflation and rent increases. Meanwhile, they say the company has done exceptionally well in recent
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New York Times' Lunchbox Perk Backfires Amid Work-from-Home Protest(bloomberg.com)
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The thing is, the less we take out of the environment, the more water is left for things like fish, birds, insects and so on. Desalination is not without environmental costs, but we are not considering all the externalities of diverting wat
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by sologoub 4y ago
It’s frankly appalling, but people are easy to manipulate with false promises of nearly free water efficiency and paint desalination as an expensive waste. LA county water districts are further busy cleaning recycled water enough to pump as
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by sologoub 4y ago
Interesting thought experiment - for the same capacity, we’d need 2300 sq.mi of photovoltaic gross land[1], assuming we need to way overbuild let’s make that 3x (6900 sq. mi). That’s equivalent to ~15% of Mojave desert being covered in sola
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by sologoub 4y ago
I rarely mention this these days, but people basically don’t believe me in the US when I describe how we survived the 90s by subsistence framing our little dacha plot. We got good at it too and helped neighbors survive couple winters. It’s
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by sologoub 4y ago
There is another facility that is supposedly progressing better in nearby Dana Point, but given our current state of affairs the denial is borderline criminal: https://www.kcet.org/news-community/can-desalination-be-a-s
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by sologoub 4y ago
Depends on what you are comparing to - if a dedicated whole house system, then possibly (depends on ducting and such). Any portable systems are likely to be less efficient when compared on throughput. The major win for me is that it all jus
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by sologoub 4y ago
Check out mini-splits and ducted mini-splits. The latter can be setup to look like traditional forced air systems. These include heat pump system (cooling/heating) and ability to dehumidify. Zoning the home is also very easy, you do ne
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by sologoub 4y ago
As others have pointed out - it’s the city of Glasgow trialing this work week. That said, in most (all?) countries, workplace is a regulated relationship. That means there are labor laws and you as an employer of others have to follow them.
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by sologoub 4y ago
Could someone who understands this professionally comment on the findings? There are references to them using “5-fluorouracil (5FU)”, which appears to be a chemotherapy drug.
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by sologoub 4y ago
We have that too, but to water our trees that would mean I need a truck and at least a 250 gallon tank. Hardly an efficient or green solution since I’d be burning quite a bit of fuel to do this.
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In 1991 there was talk of a Columbia river project. This article basically sums up the attitudes: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-21/columbia-ri...
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by sologoub 4y ago
Exactly! Don’t want it? No problem. Want it? Pay please (and we can work in subsidies for those that need them)
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by sologoub 4y ago
You don’t want purple pipe in the house, just at the street for your irrigation.
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by sologoub 4y ago
As others have said - we already have it. I literally have it in my street, but it can only be connected to by commercial or city (think schools) entities. So the incremental cost of connecting me and my neighbors is very small and allows a
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by sologoub 4y ago
It’s a solved problem - backflow prevention devices will not let water from one user to flow to others, with inspections, etc there is no issue. Want recycled water? Pay for inspections and protective devices. Business users have been doing
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by sologoub 4y ago
And at the same time we are being prohibited from paying for more water production (desalination) by the coastal commission and various activists: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-12/resident..
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by sologoub 4y ago
On mountains and inland valleys, CA population is concentrated on the coast, so this is not as much of an issue. Just build enough for households of the largest metro areas and leave the rest the water we would have used. This doesn’t solve
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by sologoub 4y ago
California grazing issue is much more complex than consumer preferences for beef. Humans have basically destroyed the grazing populations that used to live there, including Buffalo. If you take the current land used for grazing and just sto
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by sologoub 4y ago
Israel also uses a lot of desalination: “ Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants.” [1] While CA is busy stonew
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by sologoub 4y ago
Wow, as someone who went to a much more humble institution than an ivy school, that sounds terrible. We did have some kids like that in my classes, but our groups were small and somehow more than half of us truly wanted to engage with the s
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by sologoub 4y ago
Those numbers seem off based on what CUNY calculated for 2021-2022: https://www.cuny.edu/financial-aid/tuition-and-college-costs... They put highest total at $27,091, or basically right within your 30k projection. That
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by sologoub 4y ago
For some, yes. Unfortunately, this is not as evenly available as one might hope or even as widely as it was used during pandemic.
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by sologoub 4y ago
Not in the Bay Area, this is article from 2020 and even then $384k got you only in the top 10%. $105k was basically median. Source: https://amp.thecalifornian.com/amp/4625295002 The national percentile doesn’t really m
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by sologoub 4y ago
Swiss 26 Gbit/s symmetrical… while in US getting 1Gbit/s down is a minor miracle and anything resembling that up is downright impossible. My area in a major VHCOL metro area has a wonderful choice of 1 cable provider and maybe 2 f
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by sologoub 5y ago
Care to include sources for any of these claims that you say have been observed? I definitely don’t sell software, but I do see it as my responsibility to make sure all of my team members are heard. On the exploitation, unfortunately domest
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by sologoub 5y ago
> Also WFH tends to discriminate people doing "less important" jobs, You are mixing pandemic with WFH. When you work, you still need childcare and otherwise be working. Doing chores and house work during breaks is a nice “perk”
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by sologoub 5y ago
While I have not read Jacek Dukaj (I’ll add to my list), I wonder if it’s less of not supposed to work vs had the option of indulging in less lucrative pursuits than even todays elite. Historically, wealth was largely land-driven and the el
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by sologoub 5y ago
You left out a few time zones - there are 9 in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States As others pointed out, some with the actual foresight have been in standard without switching.

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