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by sxates 8y ago
> Just now: https://twitter.com/PaulGAllen/status/1051958128885940226 If my death is noteworthy, I really hope I'm not eulogized with a bunch of animated gifs of sad faces.
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by sxates 8y ago
I'm not arguing against Nuclear, just pointing out that it's one of several low-pollution options.
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by sxates 8y ago
Have any of these studies found places where insect populations have not declined at all?
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by sxates 8y ago
Or Solar or Wind or Hydro. In places like California and parts of Europe renewable sources are 1/3 or more of the electricity mix.
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by sxates 8y ago
How are you opting out of the air raid sirens?
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by sxates 8y ago
It depends. If you live in the Sunset neighborhood that's not true - in SOMA, yes.
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by sxates 8y ago
Has a power company ever voluntarily lowered rates?
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by sxates 8y ago
Something I've realized recently is how over lit our homes can be. Like most homes, mine have always had a bunch of lights I didn't really choose with simple on/off switches. But I'm remodeling my house now and have been
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by sxates 8y ago
The difficulty is not just in coding the UI, but crafting one that's easily and intuitively understood by users. We haven't yet established a universal design pattern for GUI's yet, to the parents point, just a bunch of conve
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by sxates 8y ago
Problem is it doesn't scale well for people. Imagine if everything you did in slack was via CLI - there are dozens, hundreds of commands to learn? Imagine if every app had dozens of commands you had to learn and memorize. Sure you coul
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by sxates 8y ago
SolarCity installed the PV system, so I figured it'd be easier for them to continue with the upgrade. But it sounds like things are kind of a mess over in Tesla/SC land these days, so who knows...
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by sxates 8y ago
Well, I'm not sure what happens to it if your house catches fire - but if your house burns down I don't see how the battery could have made it worse. So I imagine scenario 1 is your house doesn't catch fire, in which case it&
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by sxates 8y ago
This is something I've been thinking about recently due to a potential new policy from PG&E (Northern California electric utility) in which they would preemptively shut down electricity to high fire risk areas when red flag conditi
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by sxates 8y ago
Oh wow. At first with the way he was thrashing around I thought he was some kind of idiot. But the fact that he didn't die makes me think maybe he's actually some kind of driving god.
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by sxates 8y ago
Good for self-driving cars as well I assume.
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by sxates 8y ago
I'm assuming that the figures parent laid out as an example don't include the cost of the timeshare itself. So you're mortgaging the cost of the time share at a high interest rate, then it's $1200/yr./week on t
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by sxates 8y ago
If something changed, it's nice for everyone else to be made aware as well. I had noticed the same thing.
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by sxates 8y ago
I have AT&T fiber and am forced to use their modem.
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by sxates 8y ago
Perhaps being young and single and not having any large financial obligations like a mortgage contributed to my willingness to walk away. If my family depended on the paycheck I brought home with my misery, maybe I'd summon the strengt
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by sxates 8y ago
I got a summer job in college as a web designer for a startup in Texas. It paid $40/hr, which was a ludicrous amount of money for a 20 year old in 2001, or at least it felt like it after having made $5.50 in high school. So I spent abo
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by sxates 8y ago
This only seems to happen for accidents that turn into national news, speculating that Tesla was at fault (or with drivers actively accusing them of fault). Their response is (understandably I think) to defend themselves when they can show
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by sxates 8y ago
You're under-stating the return. Unlike other investments you can leverage the house with a mortgage. Assuming you put only 20% down you're making 50%/year gains.
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by sxates 8y ago
I'm unclear how the modified mosquitoes replicate and spread if the genetic alteration sterilizes them. Do you just have to continue releasing the GMO versions, or is it not entirely effective, or what am I missing?
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by sxates 8y ago
At least it was an honorable death.
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by sxates 8y ago
Berkeley can tax Soda but Oakland can't tax Coal?
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by sxates 8y ago
What's the carbon footprint of a thousand rocket launches?
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by sxates 8y ago
When walking a few blocks to find a scooter doubles the travel time of just having it at the start, it reduces the utility of the scooter.
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by sxates 8y ago
I rode a Bird scooter for the first time last week in SF from the Ferry Building to my office on Montgomery. Setup in the app was easy, and I got the hang of the scooter in just a couple blocks. It made me want to go buy one for myself - I
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by sxates 8y ago
The panels on my house are warrantied for 25 years, and expected to last years beyond that. There are no moving parts, not much to degrade, so the useful life is quite long. Though I expect in 30 years the newer panels will be more efficien
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by sxates 8y ago
Right - Solar really just front-loads the energy costs of the building. You pay for ~5-10 years of energy up front, and then recoup that investment over the next 30+ years, coming out ahead in the end. You could argue that this sort of poli

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