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by sxates 7y ago
Well to be fair, there's some effort in setting up the RasPi to begin with - flashing a memory card and installing the linux os flavor (which one?), etc. There's a lot of steps. I'm a total newbie and figured it out, but didn
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by sxates 7y ago
Tesla will be fine, for several reasons: 1. They're way ahead of everyone else in terms of energy efficiency. Compare a Model S or X to the Jaguar iPace or Audi e-tron - the Tesla gets 30-50% more range out of the same size battery. Th
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by sxates 7y ago
Oh my god - it even has a watermark
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by sxates 7y ago
I would would have liked to see Montana...
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by sxates 7y ago
Anyone know details about how the solar panels resulted in fires?
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by sxates 7y ago
If I were a researcher and wanted to study this issue, I'd look at people who work in churches. Many churches with tall steeples lease space in them to wireless network providers, and those who work in churches are working under these
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by sxates 7y ago
The best is typing that 20 character mixed-case-plus-numbers-and-symbols password for Netflix into your TV app using an on screen keyboard and directional arrows...
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by sxates 7y ago
I had this feature on my old 2007 Audi A6, which replaced the moon roof with a solar sun roof, which powered a fresh air fan when parked in the sun. I purchased it off-lease, and it was pretty much maxed out on features. I never saw another
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by sxates 7y ago
Agreed. So many little details were watered down. Concept was amazing, production seems like such a missed opportunity.
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by sxates 7y ago
Have you actually been to Oakland? There are a lot of homeless people here for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is that the 'progressives' you call out aren't making homelessness illegal. They aren't making law
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by sxates 7y ago
Are you talking about oakland specifically or American cities generally? I don't really think this applies to oakland, which was built out 50-100 years ago and has almost no new roads in the last several decades. Maintenance was deferr
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by sxates 7y ago
More than 0, hopefully less than will be offset. But I think part of why you were accused of short term thinking here is that if we don't spend the carbon to build things like solar panels now, we'll never move off a carbon econom
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by sxates 7y ago
Either way you're reducing carbon emissions, which is good. Ideally you do both! It doesn't matter how many solar panels you have - if you're driving an ICE car you're always emitting carbon.
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by sxates 7y ago
Separate thought related to this-- I've personally made the following investments to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide I'm directly emitting -- and these are the sorts of things we'll need millions of people to do in the co
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by sxates 7y ago
I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure it's analogous. Lets say the cost of gasoline triples in the next 5 years because we're killing all subsidies, ending federal leases, etc., enough to justify everyone to make in
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by sxates 7y ago
These are all good ideas, but the ferocity of change worries me. And I'm the sort of person who thinks climate change is the single biggest policy issue facing our country (and all the other countries) and and spending big $ personally
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by sxates 7y ago
The SFH has domain over their property - and that's where it should reasonably end. Giving them domain over what gets built on everyone else's property is where we get into trouble.
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by sxates 7y ago
Great! I used a service like this many years ago and they shut down after a few years. Have been looking for the same thing for years but seems like nobody's been doing it, or at least not in a user friendly way. Will give this a try.
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by sxates 7y ago
Well I think when it's part of a main house there's probably a middle ground. I've got a separate exterior entry, building out a full kitchen, bathroom, etc. Not trying to just rent a room. But I think we'd do well to fi
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by sxates 7y ago
Well the upside is that the city actually allows this at all. If I were still living in Texas, land of freedom, this would be completely forbidden in most cities.
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by sxates 7y ago
I'm currently in construction on the lower level of my house in Oakland, which will be split in half and include an ADU (accessory dwelling unit) that we'll be able to rent out. There are two ways of doing this in Oakland, and pre
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by sxates 7y ago
It's actually the other way around. The junk mail is paying for your mailman to come by every day. The $.50 for a stamp doesn't cover the cost of delivering a letter.
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by sxates 7y ago
If I can plug an app I found helpful in reducing robocalls: Try RoboKiller (iPhone, not sure about android). I tried Mr. Number and a couple other free options which didn't seem to block much. I paid $30/yr for RoboKiller and unwa
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by sxates 7y ago
If you live in the Bay Area, I think a quick dip in the ocean will do similar things for free.
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by sxates 7y ago
Figma has killed the whole 'native mac' benefit in my head. It runs faster than native competitor Sketch, and it does it on any platform, in a browser. Would be amazing to have that kind of portability in a dev environment. But I&
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by sxates 8y ago
This would only apply to online services with > 100 million active users. And is it safe to assume that means 100 million Americans? Not sure how we'd apply to the law to users outside the US. How many online services have that many
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by sxates 8y ago
Here's my test for phone addiction (for men): If you are pissing into a urinal and need to look at your phone during those 15 seconds, you have a problem. And I see this a lot . A scary game: when in stop and go traffic, have a look a
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by sxates 8y ago
Qwest had similar commercials in 1999 [0]. "Every movie ever made any time" was kind of mind blowing at the time - then 10 years later it happened. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno
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by sxates 8y ago
This reminds me of a time back in college when I was getting to know my future ex-wife - I was teasing her about something, and made some kind of tickle attempt and her response was to immediately punch me in the stomach. Her father had nev
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by sxates 8y ago
a "golden cow" so to speak?

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