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by uvdiv 14y ago
Afaik there aren't any service agreements that prevent consumers from unlocking. Here's one: WIRELESS CUSTOMER AGREEMENT ("Agreement") 3.0 TERMS RELATING TO YOUR DEVICE AND CONTENT 3.1 Your Device [...] You agree that you won’t
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Unlocking phones is explicitly their complaint. They didn't divide the issue into contract and non-contract phones: the White House lawyers created that separation.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
[...] which along with this phrase -- "decreases the resale value of devices that consumers have paid for in full" -- seems to be included highlight the fact that the situation where a phone has been paid for in full is potentially differe
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Maybe that "falsehood" doesn't conform to your beliefs about what sort of unlocking should be allowed, I think their definition disagrees with most peoples' definitions, including the one in the petition itself: "As of January 26, cons
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Meanwhile, progress is being made to legalize cellphone unlocking. With grassroots groups leading the charge, the Obama administration announced its support for overturning the ban last week. I'm astonished that people overwhelmingly bel
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I think what most resembles Soviet-style propaganda is the public denouncement of Russian oligarchs as a pretext for collective punishment of Cypriot depositors.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The naive one that measures the average heat output of a human (about 100 watts, or 2,000 kilocalories/day). This an upper bound on mechanical work.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
That's not comparable: one is subsidy, one is spending. US spends money in New Mexico by maintaining military bases and hiring New Mexico residents to work for them [1]. They serve the entire country, not just New Mexico. In contrast, the E
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by uvdiv 14y ago
That's "Human Achievement Hour": http://cei.org/hah I doubt he will have a problem, given that efficiency is not a concern for him Except one hour of this costs essentially nothing, just like one hour of "earth hour" saves a negligible
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Lomborg is right here. This graph (2.7, page 2) shows IEA projecting 3-4% of 2035 primary energy to be "other renewables" (including wind, solar, and geothermal, by their definition). Biomass (wood burning in the 3rd world) is much larger.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The government also extended a bank holiday that was put in place to try to stop a run on the banks. The holiday was supposed to end Monday night. Now, banks will not be opening their doors Tuesday, as planned. There was talk that they mig
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Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone(nytimes.com)
73 points by uvdiv 14y ago|86 comments
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I parse that as €492,000 in total . Another source supports this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/19/spain
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Totalitarian nutcase. What we need are very deep changes in human relationships—trust between people. The integral revolution isn't about changing the economic system, it's about changing everything, changing the human being. We’re talking
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It's also symptomatic of a shortage. Being able to meet everyone's needs every time means keeping certain overcapacity.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Is that why the US has four times as many MRI machines per person? http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2011-en/04/... And has no queues for MRI scans, where France has a 32-day mean waiting period? http://mjperry.blogspot.co
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Before you derisively dismiss this, you might want to take a look at their response to the cellphone unlocking petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel... The one that clearly says they won't support unlock
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by uvdiv 14y ago
A previous thread answers this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5211221
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Wikipedia claims those estimates are obsolete, and the new ones are an order of magnitude smaller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate#Reservoir_si... In which case the largest fossil-fuel resource is coal.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Electric heat pumps are more efficient than any of those. Whole system included. The combination of {heat engine + heat pump} -- i.e., the power plant generating electricity, followed by the electricity powering a heat pump in your house --
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Thirdly, I didn't get the wood-burning thing at all because we don't have fireplaces in south india. Aren't wood-burning stoves pretty common? Like these, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_India#Fuel_wo...
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Here's a free PDF of the toxicology paper he cites: "Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review" http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/publications/2006%20pubs... (update): More supporting references here (he should have linked this one): http:/
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The Fireplace Delusion(samharris.org)
322 points by uvdiv 14y ago|288 comments
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I think the Economist delivers the best response to this so far: IN JONATHAN SWIFT’S 1726 novel, “Gulliver’s Travels”, the Yahoos are a degraded band of humanoids kept tethered in stalls by their equine captors... http://www.economist.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
What is this site? This is awful journalism. The first known domestic use of a drone to arrest a U.S. citizen occurred last year in the small town of Lakota, North Dakota when rancher Rodney Brossart was arrested for refusing to return six
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Your calculation is off by 10^6 -- I think you mixed up m/s with km/s? Also the air density should be far lower -- at your altitude (53 km) it's 7.2e-4 kg/m^3 or so. I don't think streamlining makes much difference at hypersonic speeds -- a
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by uvdiv 14y ago
No. Electric propulsion works by bringing ions to very high energies/speeds. This isn't practical in a dense atmosphere, because ions make too many collisions with air molecules. Their energy is dissipated almost immediately, as heat. Moreo
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by uvdiv 14y ago
swapping SIM cards occasionally (OK, I cannot come up with a reason why Because if you travel, your contract provider will charge you extortionate fees. It's one of the ways they nickle-and-dime. You can get cheaper plans from foreign tel
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Why would you unlock a phone when you are still on your contract? So that you can switch telecoms when you're travelling, to avoid extortionate fees. This is one of the complaints in the petition.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The White House answered an entirely different question from the one asked! Emphasis mine: * "And if you have paid for your mobile device, and aren't bound by a service agreement or other obligation , you should be able to use it on anothe

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