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by tinco 5y ago
I think it's not specifically thinking that you should stop doing, but worrying. "Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles" is not a phrase he says while thinking, he says it while sulking. Part of living in the
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by tinco 5y ago
Its design is good enough. There's just enough protocol to make it portable, and it's almost completely extensible so you can make it do basically anything.
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by tinco 5y ago
A yeah 100%. You couldn't replace an ICE with an electric motor, at least not with current technology, but you could definitely replace it with a more efficient one. Maybe even with a hybrid if you're willing to give up some room.
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by tinco 5y ago
Well if you want to be good for the environment you also have to consider nitrate emissions and fine particles. Also, it was my understanding that most of a (ICE) car can be melted and reused, so maybe the mining impact is lower but I don&#
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by tinco 5y ago
Your wording makes it a bit unclear, just for clarity: this means that GP is wrong, it's definitely better for the climate to have your old car crushed and buy a new car. The amount of CO2 expended during manufacturing of your car is n
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by tinco 5y ago
You could make it conditional on some things. The goal is to compensate for discomfort, not to compensate lost income. So you could say you only compensate primary residences and self operated businesses, both occupied for 3+ years. Or you
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by tinco 5y ago
Also, wouldn't it be even nicer to pump up the cold water? That way you decrease the acidity of the surface water more strongly, increasing the acidic uptake of the surface water, and you also cool it down more. If we did that for exam
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by tinco 5y ago
Where did you learn about this idea? I've been trying to get up to speed on climate change solutions and I thought I heard just about everything but this is the first I've heard this solution and it sounds like it might make total
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by tinco 5y ago
No it isn't. We should strife to zero carbon emissions. No amount of insulation or reduction of consumption will achieve this. The best these reductions do is delay the onset of the negative consequences of climate change. The solution
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by tinco 5y ago
So it's basically perfect.
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by tinco 5y ago
Javascript was created in 2 weeks. It then took two decades to become nearly tolerable to use. That it would cost 2 years to make a language is an absolutely arbitrary amount of time. Most great languages took significantly longer than that
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by tinco 5y ago
"Tesla limits driving range through software then sell the vehicle at a lower price" The battery is the most expensive part in the car, no way manufacturers would put them in and not expose them through software just to sell at a
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by tinco 5y ago
When did that happen? I bought a spool just over a year ago and the sales person didn't bat an eye. This was in The Netherlands, if we don't have the same law then maybe there's your answer?
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by tinco 5y ago
I meant we don't get a chance to spend time on reflecting critically. What I was thinking of specifically is how many people that depend on Log4j have actually read the Log4j source code and reflected on whether its complexity was a se
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by tinco 5y ago
I recently spend 3 months in the US with my partner, we didn't stay in a hotel. It took some exploring but we eventually found all we needed to eat well. For some reason most supermarkets don't stock fresh bread. I think most Amer
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by tinco 5y ago
For sure. The problem isn't the people, though they definitely can be part of it, the problem is the process. We never get a chance to reflect critically on our product. Imagine if an architect always would have their first draft const
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by tinco 5y ago
His responsibility is primarily to enabling his clients (the musicians) to make money from selling their music. Regardless of his feelings Apple was offering a sales channel for his musicians.
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by tinco 5y ago
A meeting with a hundred of your closest friends isn't a meeting, much less a private meeting, it's a public announcement. Maybe if all of those hundred are your employees you could consider it private, but assuming it wouldn&#x27
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by tinco 5y ago
I won't dispute that Westinghouse was a failure. They failed at designing a power plant that meets safety criteria for it to be build in the US. Toshiba bet they could do it efficiently, and lost 9 billion on that bet. None of that has
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by tinco 5y ago
No it didn't. "Westinghouse Electric Company would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of US$9 billion of losses from nuclear reactor construction projects. The projects responsible for this loss are mostly the construction of
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by tinco 5y ago
Why would you put a battery in a train?
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by tinco 5y ago
Thank you for your hard work David! Do I understand correctly that the source of energy for the conversion is (mostly) the hydrogen? I've been interested in if we could use large bodies of water (like lakes or ponds) to both get a lot
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by tinco 5y ago
It definitely should, I'm not sure making your A/C work harder deliberately makes sense economically, I guess you'd have to do the math. PVT or even just thermal panels (i.e. rolls of garden hose painted black in a glass cov
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by tinco 5y ago
Why do you mention Chernobyl and Fukushima together? Fukushima basically only did some economic damage, Chernobyl was a catastrophe. Also given how densely populated Germany is, it's wildly irresponsible that they operate so many coal
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by tinco 5y ago
Yeah for a family home that seems about right. 250ft is not very deep at all, and you need to store a lot of energy to past a whole winter/summer.
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by tinco 5y ago
Awesome! Do you sink heat into it during the summer, or do you also use it for airco?
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by tinco 5y ago
A 60m borehole is not a source of energy, it is a store of energy. It only makes sense if you can sink enough heat into it in the summer, to use that energy in the winter. Or vice versa in warmer climates.
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by tinco 5y ago
You are correct in that the earth core is really well insulated from the surface. So well that the light of the sun delivers an order of magnitude more energy per M2 to the Earth's surface. That information also answers your question,
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by tinco 5y ago
I never doubted you were. That's why I'm saying you're not serious if you say you don't know these things that you obviously do. I'm 100% sure you'd ace the first ten lines of Twitter's html question. I wa
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by tinco 5y ago
I'm sorry but if you don't understand most of the first ten lines of twitter.com (or any website) you're just not a senior frontend web developer. He's not asking you to recite them from the top of your head, he's a

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