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by thsksbd 3y ago
"...geothermal heat pumps" There's your answer, isnt it? With geothermal it doesn't really matter how cold it gets outside. But you have to dig a really deep hole, fill it with pipes and refrigerant, and offer sacrifices
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Heat pumps can heat in cold temperatures, but at decreasing efficiency or COP, which is how much heat you pump from the outside divided by how much heat it took to run the compressor. The theoretical COP is infinite if $\Delta T = 0$, and
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Unless you're using a speciality paint, latex is too porous (for vapor, not liquid water) and gypsum too large a chemical potential well.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I run my bathroom fan for hours after I shower. Drywall is a sponge after all
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by thsksbd 3y ago
They're dumping alkalinity into the soil. What could go wrong?
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by thsksbd 3y ago
He's not trying to bait anyone to loose their job. He's trying to ensure that governments have processes in place to quickly and effectively serve citizens according to the law. I actually expect them to serve us with a smile and
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Police killings are pretty rare (but unfortunately not sufficiently prosecuted)
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by thsksbd 3y ago
By both, which sucks either way.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
And a massive billy club they weren't afraid to bludgeon people with.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Reversing the roles of the players. Typically the little guy gets crushed by capital's freedom to flow. In this case, it's the little guy that exploits the freedom of goods (ie low tariffs) to avoid the big guy's power.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
This person is doing the dirty ground work of protecting our rights, and incurring legal fees because of it. The entitled prima donnas are the public employees of Seattle that seem to have the attitude that they shouldn't be bothered t
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by thsksbd 3y ago
A warrant is required for all government search, and I can just as easily waive my right for a warrant w/ the police. In fact, a workers for the municipality is the very last government level Id want snooping in my house. Next thing I
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by thsksbd 3y ago
And did you have to sign it? What would have happened if you hadn't? Why do you have to sign a legally enforceable document because some idiot messed up?
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by thsksbd 3y ago
No. When you buy something it's yours. Full stop. The law cant even stop you from reverse engineering it or making a copy. It only stops you from distributing a copy. IP law is only meant to setup an artificial monopoly and then only
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Absolutely not. Its not even immoral. Grey market refers to third parties buying a good in country A to resell in country B. As long as they pay the import levies the good is 100% legal. Manufacturers (phones, cameras, books) hate this beca
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Its a cute theory, but police need to be respected to do their job. A dorky uniform is contrary to that. A police force that is not respected will lead to escalation of violence. We might not like what I wrote, but's basic human phycol
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by thsksbd 3y ago
But if all the minutes don't add up to an empty slot in the airport between its operating times, then it's for naught.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
That was awesome, thank you.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Harmless fun? If you're able to empathize and have a bit of social anxiety Frasier is the most high stakes show ever. The brothers get themselves into the stupidest situations, make asses of themselves, and never come out on top. Its t
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I used to hate English spelling, but I live it now English's spelling is part of the world's cultural heritage. Centuries of history are captured within it.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Another woman than a fake grandma
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by thsksbd 3y ago
The milky way just lost 90% of its dark matter. Maybe dark matter... isnt
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by thsksbd 3y ago
The problem is not the uber app. Its the browser. Right now I should be napping for a long evening. Im reading HN instead
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by thsksbd 3y ago
I wish I could buy a real, high quality feature phone. The only apps Id enjoy is a calendar, a flashlight, a quality camera, and -maybe- navigation. None of my asks are attention drains.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
The winner takes all biases towards a two party system, but has actually been baked into law by the big two parties to discourage competition. Ballot access is extremely difficult unless you're one of the Big Two
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Todays HN is as interesting as it was back in 2011. But it is not privacy minded like it once was (was it ever?) at all.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
How would we know? The code is not open source
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by thsksbd 3y ago
"It would have to be a mass on the order of magnitude of a moon" Here I am overcomplicating things in terms of E=mc2, and you come and point out the obvious.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
And ludicrously energetically expensive. But that's science proposal writing, isn't it? Propose something that would be ludicrous even if it were physical.
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by thsksbd 3y ago
Why did they think it would have negative gravitational attraction? I always thought it would be attractive mass and didn't realize that was to be proven. EDIT: now that I think about it, what are the implications for the "arrow o

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