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Warren Buffet's mobile home empire preys on the poor(publicintegrity.org)
6 points by spenrose 12y ago|3 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
Another way to think about that point is that the error ranges for many of these values are quite large.
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by spenrose 12y ago
Oh, note that @voodoomagicman was right; 4% for one coal plant was off by a factor of about 100, mostly b/c I overestimated how much coal it used.
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by spenrose 12y ago
This is huge. That 10 TWh compares to 20,000 TWh used worldwide [1], or 1/2,000th of world use. ~3,500 TWh of world use is from dams [2] and another ~3,000 TWh from nuclear, so CA utility solar PV has displaced more like 1/1,500th
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How much of the world's fossil fuel can we burn?(theguardian.com)
1 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
[Edit: an up-to-date piece focusing directly on the carbon budget: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/keep-it-in-the-ground... ] There are a lot more than 25 coal plants in the world, and we must stop using them ve
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by spenrose 12y ago
The 500GT budget is total. That plant is using roughly 4% of our let's-not-wildly-destabilize-civilization GHG budget every year. We've got about 30 years to radically restructure our energy use. More here (among many places): ht
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by spenrose 12y ago
"I really wish that articles like this would give more context for all the numbers that inevitably get thrown around. > China Huaneng Group Corp.’s 845-megawatt power plant What percent of the city's electricity is that?"
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by spenrose 12y ago
"What the massive snowfall in Boston tells us about global warming" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201... “Sea surface temperatures off the coast of New England right now a
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What Hilary Clinton's emails hide about Washington(vox.com)
2 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
Ezra Klein is good on this: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/4/8146295/hillary-clinton-emails-t...
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by spenrose 12y ago
This is a Steven Levy interview. He gets access in exchange for allowing the VIP to tell her story her way. (I happen to be anti-anti-Mayer, but that's a different issue.)
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by spenrose 12y ago
“It is more useful to look at what the power system needs in terms of energy, capacity, and flexibility and what the best resource mix is,” explained American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Research Director Michael Goggin, “rather than cat
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How renewables are changing the way we operate the grid(utilitydive.com)
12 points by spenrose 12y ago|1 comments
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“More research” into geoengineering is not such a hot idea(grist.org)
1 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
“I would like to thank the Mozilla Foundation for the first draft of my remarks tonight,” the chairman said, “and President Obama for his edits.”
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The FCC chair's Internet pivot(politico.com)
2 points by spenrose 12y ago|1 comments
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Coal carbon capture could increase future climate risks, study finds(carbonbrief.org)
11 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
First, my apologies for not remembering that you might read my comment. Second, more apologies for writing "alpha geek can overcome the filter" when what I should have said was very different: "HN readers upvote alpha geek ma
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by spenrose 12y ago
[Edit: I regret this comment. See my reply to Jacques below.] Jacques regularly posts wonderful material that fits HN perfectly. Let's say for rhetorical purposes that this post happens to be a stinker. Question: is its prominence on H
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We can solve climate change, but it won’t be cheap or easy(grist.org)
4 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
"Of the 24 empirical papers subject to in-house replication review since September 2012, [1] only 4 packages required no modifications. Of the remaining 20 papers, 13 had code that would not execute without errors, 8 failed to include
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A Decade of Replications Lessons from the Quarterly Journal of Political Science(thepoliticalmethodologist.com)
7 points by spenrose 12y ago|1 comments
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Is there a 10x gap between best and average programmers?(cacm.acm.org)
3 points by spenrose 12y ago|2 comments
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When Women Stopped Coding in 1980’s: As we repeat the same mistakes(computinged.wordpress.com)
7 points by spenrose 12y ago|2 comments
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We don’t, and can’t, know how much it will cost to tackle climate change(grist.org)
4 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 12y ago
Piketty cites 1914->1945 over and over in his book as the one period when r < g, and discusses the implications for his theory over dozens of pages. Yet Gates somehow seems to think WWI and the Great Depression are a gotcha! he has co
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by spenrose 12y ago
I did something similar in Python, using Redis for the "operating system" and Linux processes. The system managed wide sets of parallel I/O operations with second-level latency. Worked great, albeit orders of magnitude slower
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They Still Haven't Found What They're Looking For(youtube.com)
1 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments
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Carbon intensity has to fall 6% each year if we want to stop global warming(vox.com)
3 points by spenrose 12y ago|0 comments

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