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by surfmike 7y ago
Do those prices for solar and wind factor in storage?
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by surfmike 7y ago
Whenever I used Zipcar, I only used the car at pickup, and then always take the key out for any stops during my rental. Would that have prevented this?
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by surfmike 7y ago
I’d asking recommend people try to air seal as well as they possibly can from the attic side too. And install fire proof covers over all recessed cans.
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by surfmike 7y ago
“Life is a cancer”
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by surfmike 7y ago
They have?
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by surfmike 7y ago
Don’t you then need to worry about enforcement mechanisms to keep those trees from getting cut down? If they’re all harvested after say n decades, there’s no net effect on climate.
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by surfmike 7y ago
Most candidates still support keeping private insurance and making Medicare 4 all one of the available options.
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by surfmike 7y ago
You mean like the National Institutes of Health?
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by surfmike 7y ago
Citation? We also created a lot of public housing projects in cities after WWII.
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by surfmike 7y ago
In California it will never get resolved at a city level since cities are almost all against upzoning. Agreed that state is appropriate place to handle it though (not federal).
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by surfmike 7y ago
It reflects a decent chunk of people, but you’re in a bubble for sure based on the data of the article. Data point: just had over half my friends move from cities (SF) to the burbs (peninsula) as they had kids.
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by surfmike 7y ago
So if you sold it, then used that money to buy food, would it count?
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by surfmike 7y ago
How much waste do the molten salt and fast reactors create?
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by surfmike 7y ago
I got a air quality monitor when we had the California wildfires, and I was shocked to learn that my air quality was worse indoors when cooking than outdoors during the wildfires. (I am now in the process of getting a properly vented range
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by surfmike 7y ago
When I click on “Bubble” in mobile Safari I don’t see anything. Should I be looking somewhere else for the effect?
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by surfmike 8y ago
Not surprising given that they don't tax electric cars and that normal petrol cars have taxes that can be around 100%, doubling their value. Also, electric cars in Norway have lots of other incentives: reduced road tolls, registration
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by surfmike 8y ago
Because their insurance pays.
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by surfmike 8y ago
Well, I've had them many times since and just as good... So either this burger chain is fraudulently selling meat patties as tofu veggie, or they're legit.
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by surfmike 8y ago
The best fake meat patties I've ever had were the veggie patties ("Soul burger") at Hero burger in Canada. My wife (who is vegetarian) thought it was real at first and was upset they had made a mistake and had me try, and I a
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by surfmike 8y ago
There is no way people answer truthfully on these surveys, since the numbers don't come anywhere close to actual emigration; it seems more of a vote of dissent against the government.
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by surfmike 8y ago
Might be a way to do it with a tax on private stadium construction. Allow deducting (private costs - all public subsidies). So for any local subsidies you receive, you have a commensurate increase in taxes. Similar problems exist with subsi
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by surfmike 8y ago
Should be extended to require: * Prices _actually_ paid vs. list price for procedures * All-in prices for the ten most common/expensive procedures (e.g. all associated costs of a heart surgery).
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by surfmike 8y ago
Is it a ghost town if it's not deserted?
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by surfmike 8y ago
Even if energy production were competitive (the various Bay area counties have switched to sourcing power themselves), PG&E still owns the power lines and you can't have much of a competitive market for that. I pay my bill to penin
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by surfmike 8y ago
Funny enough, the residents of my SF peninsula town (San Carlos, but most others have the same attitude) have had enough of people moving here and want the flow to stop. Glad to see this initiative by Tulsa.
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by surfmike 8y ago
Technically speaking he's treating those as two different concepts not conflating them. But in any case, he's talking specifically about Japan which is definitely xenophobic— for example read about their attitudes toward Korean im
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by surfmike 8y ago
I know the study didn't cover it but would be interesting to measure the change in Instagram usage at same time. Anecdotally a lot of people I know have become active on Instagram and stopped posting to FB.
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by surfmike 8y ago
Architectural monoculture isn't necessarily a bad thing, compared to a post-modern collection of different styles. Some of the most beautiful cities/town in the world (think places like Italian coastal towns, Austrian mountain vil
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by surfmike 8y ago
Other than "bivalve sea creatures" don't the rest fall into a vegan diet?
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by surfmike 8y ago
I've been in that boat. My situation ended up being similar to what you're worried about— wasn't able to develop any idea or business substantially. My advice from my limited experience is: if you want to go it alone enough,

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