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by strommen 10y ago
That's also the problem with antibiotic resistance due to natural selection - the test/debug cycle is only a few lifetimes.
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Lots of Smart People Don't Understand Climate Change(uscleanenergyfund.com)
4 points by strommen 10y ago|0 comments
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by strommen 10y ago
> different organisms will thrive Like mosquitos, ticks and other disease-carrying insects that kill 1 million humans every year.
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by strommen 10y ago
As usual, Tom Murphy has a great top-down analysis of why cars don't get 100 mpg: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/100-mpg-on-gasol... Spoiler alert: it's mainly because cars are shaped l
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by strommen 10y ago
Sure, but when air-conditioning would be used that equation flips around. Not only do you lose electricity as heat, you need to use more electricity to counteract that heat. And in most places, far more money is spent on cooling than he
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by strommen 10y ago
I love this guy's writing. Why oh why does he make it so hard to know when he's posted something new? No RSS, no email list, not even a Twitter account. I've had to resort to setting up a changedetection.com alert on his home
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by strommen 10y ago
Do you know of studies or other hard data that tracks _why_ people don't vote? The article claims it is the difficulty of the process, but I would have guessed the top reason is voter apathy (which isn't really a technology issue)
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by strommen 10y ago
Apparently it depends on if you're raising over 500K [1]: "A company offering more than $500,000 but not more than $1 million of securities relying on these rules for the first time would be permitted to provide reviewed rather th
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by strommen 10y ago
A few people are wondering about regulations and oversight. Here's a brief summary for this law: * Max $1 million total fund-raising * Max $2,000 or 5% net-worth from each unaccredited (i.e. non-rich) investor * Must file audited finan
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by strommen 10y ago
The chart label of "% change since 2001" is pretty unclear, but based on the quote "ridership...has dropped a staggering 23 percent since 2001", it seems to mean "% difference from 2001", not "% change y
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by strommen 10y ago
Maybe I need to take off my tin-foil hat - but I think this reads exactly as if somebody paid the newspaper to write a story about the "failure of mass transit", and the writers/editors snuck in this graph as a hidden message
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by strommen 10y ago
The people that work in the FDA are experts in the safety of food and drugs. The representatives in Congress are...not. Either group can be bought off by a tobacco company, which seems to be what happened in this case.
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by strommen 10y ago
Gravitational storage is hard. For perspective: if the U.S. loaded up all 1.5 million of its rail freight cars to 30-ton capacity and sent them 4km up to the top of Mt. Rainier, that would store 494 GWh of energy. That's just over an h
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by strommen 10y ago
A typical wind turbine is 80m high and and generates 1.5MW [1]. Gravitational storage in Joules is (mass in kg) * (height in m) * 9.8 (gravity). Divide by 3.6 million to convert to kWh. Suppose we raise a 30-ton weight (i.e. a big shipping
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by strommen 10y ago
So California requires employers to document their employees' lunch breaks. Does anybody think that this law was passed simply on a whim? Of course not. And the same is true for nearly other regulation that is taking up business'
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by strommen 10y ago
Blockbuster video was notorious for this around the year 2000. Put small video rental shops out of business with 99 cent rentals, then jack it up to $4 once the competition was gone.
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by strommen 10y ago
"Convicted monopolist" really doesn't have much of a ring to it. Especially when the only thing his company was ever found guilty of was bundling a web browser with the OS...
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by strommen 10y ago
It's all about context. If your software team works on code with lots of binary trees, interview questions about them makes a ton of sense. If your software team is making a website that just displays stuff from databases and web servi
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by strommen 10y ago
I'd like to thoroughly debunk this myth with a more illustrative reference[1]. Over its entire lifecycle, utility-scale photovoltaic power creates 48g of CO2-equivalent emissions per kWh. Natural gas emits 10x this; coal 17x . Furth
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by strommen 10y ago
Tough to get more carbon-intensive than coal! Seriously, from a GHG perspective anything is better. So good for them.
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by strommen 10y ago
It's noteworthy that 90% of energy used in the Netherlands is fossil fuels[1] (as of 2013, anyway). This means electric cars will emit GHGs comparable to a 40-50mpg gasoline-powered car. Hopefully they do some major work to clean up th
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by strommen 10y ago
I live in a major U.S. metro that is not in California. Around here, I'd estimate that 75% of web development work is done in C# or Java. Thousands of jobs in both frameworks.
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Carbon Tax Simulator(uscleanenergyfund.com)
2 points by strommen 10y ago|1 comments
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by strommen 10y ago
Well the defensive player guarding Kobe better be positioned next to Kobe! Really, all the positioning is dictated by the offense. Defense ends up just inside the 3-point line because the offensive player sets up just outside the 3-point
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by strommen 10y ago
> In poor neighborhoods the rents cost as much as people are able to pay, no more, no less. This is a bit of a tautology. Low-rent housing is usually pretty bad, so when people can afford to pay more they just move to a nicer place. As f
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by strommen 10y ago
A large part of the Basic Income's appeal is that its simplicity would dramatically reduce government overhead. Existing entitlement programs are complicated as hell, and it takes a lot of work to enforce and refine eligibility rules.
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by strommen 11y ago
> 1. Find a way to proxy requests so that there’s no CORS Turns out this is really, really easy. I tried this recently on a cookie-authenticated web api (after discovering that CORS cookies are useless because mobile Safari will always b
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by strommen 11y ago
FYI, Safari on iOS will never send cookies cross-domain, regardless of how you configure the server or call your XmlHttpRequest (the user can enable 3rd-party cookies in Settings, but literally nobody will ever do this): https:/&#x2
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by strommen 11y ago
At my university (Minnesota), the intro-level programming class for CS majors was based on the SICP textbook and all the assignments were in Scheme. One really nice side effect of this was to level the playing field with regard to prior pro
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by strommen 11y ago
Based on reading this: http://www.hi-energy.org.uk/Renewables/Renewables.htm and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Scotland ...it appears most of that is wind energy, with a little

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