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by warcher 2y ago
I think putting internet usage in the west and the developing world into the same bucket is… of questionable utility. I bet access to the wider world is in fact a benefit in many parts of the planet. But why on earth is that comparison wort
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by warcher 2y ago
Tires are a fair point, but kind of a goal post shift isn’t it? The problem with tires is not disposed tires, it’s tire wear . If there’s a plan for remediating tire shavings over the course of tires wearing down in any of these threads I
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by warcher 2y ago
“Where it ends up” is not a problem in the developed world. Everybody complains about it but there are zero problems with our landfills. All the environmental degradation is in the developing world, where they… do not value the environment
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by warcher 2y ago
Hey I don’t think you’re a bad person, just that that point didn’t land. Me, I’ll take my L too. I wasn’t really contributing to the conversation.
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by warcher 2y ago
But those more durable goods have a cost in hydrocarbons as well, don’t they? Lot of energy input in a hunk of steel. Are we really saving any fossil fuel conversion by swapping over? Has anyone measured?
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by warcher 2y ago
The aversion of unions to performance based pay always put me off. I think the fear is that management will rig performance metrics to punish union members in general and “troublemakers” in particular, but seniority systems always seem to r
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by warcher 2y ago
Watch into the spider verse sometime if you want to see what modern tech can be when it’s fully unleashed, versus kept under budget.
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by warcher 2y ago
Honestly the places that did it successfully didn’t try to make transit cheap, they didn’t subsidize cars. Requiring amenities like parking by law seems to be working at cross purposes to spending money on transit. For desirable real estate
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by warcher 2y ago
In the end the murder rate cannot be fudged, and it is quite favorable. https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/cities-wi...
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by warcher 2y ago
There’s a lot of dudes on a lot of roofs for solar. A lot of electrical work done, maybe by electricians, probably by mildly upskilled roofers. I would be highly skeptical that solar is safer than nuclear. There’s just so much poorly regula
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by warcher 2y ago
I think the unsaid story is all the coal plants that got built at “unsustainably low levels of utilization”. For whatever reason regional governors reallly liked building coal power plants, needed or not. And if the only factor is cost, coa
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by warcher 2y ago
Even that second thing is fair game in my opinion. You got some people with valuable thoughts in their brains, maybe you go to great lengths to keep them happy.
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by warcher 2y ago
I mean didn’t you just describe every performing artist ever?
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by warcher 2y ago
Last I heard there was speculation that the CPU was vulnerable to an alpha particle flipped bit error and fixing that was the eventual patch. A one in a million shot happens ten times a year (sic) when you ship ten million cars a year cover
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by warcher 2y ago
I mean at the very minimum there lies a great deal within our locus of control that can influence overall attractiveness. Are you in shape and well groomed? So many are not, and it’s weird that people don’t at least try to hit that Pareto i
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by warcher 2y ago
Wondering how that gets measured— the gig economy could skew this by a lot. In general it’s a tough road no matter the paycheck though.
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by warcher 2y ago
That was just getting fired for cause homie. If they catch you, you are definitely getting fired.
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by warcher 2y ago
Commercial leases are typically five years. It is 2024. COVID was 2020. If you don’t own your building you should be thinking hard about your new negotiating position with your landlord.
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by warcher 2y ago
There is nothing in the world stupider than driving into the office to get on a video call.
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by warcher 3y ago
There’s a lot of strange psychology at work in the plastics packaging media zeitgeist. It’s hard to think of comparable examples of stuff that matters so little in the grand scheme but gets so many people so bothered. People really really w
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by warcher 3y ago
Yeah, I'm just saying-- a big desalination plant is a solved problem. Grid scale energy storage has been ten years off for almost as long as nuclear fusion. The original author just hand waves their way through what would be the bigg
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by warcher 3y ago
What I'm saying is that the freshwater reservoir is a totally free grid scale battery for a desal plant. No need to save it, just make fresh water while the sun shines and drink it whenever.
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by warcher 3y ago
Batteries have proven extremely resistant to the scaling of solar panels. I would love to be wrong about this, but overwhelmingly people with an agenda just kind of hand-wave past grid scale energy storage problems that we have generatio
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by warcher 3y ago
“The intermittency problem is lessened when large geographical areas share their generation capacity.” Are we having a serious discussion here? We’re pretty darn good at transmitting power and there are physics problems at work here that ar
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by warcher 3y ago
You were insisting that we stop burning fossil fuels, withijt a suggestion on how to replace the base load. The base load must be replaced. I inferred you didn’t like nuclear power because most folks who are focused on climate do not. EVs a
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by warcher 3y ago
Yeah this is that thing you’re talking about. This is us stopping burning fossil fuels for energy. We can talk about everybody just riding their bike, which I agree would be better for all involved, but so far the data coming back from that
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by warcher 3y ago
I’m genuinely curious whether the outlier is the baby boom generation (extending to a lesser degree to the Xers). The macroeconomic factors that caused the boomers to thrive are pretty extreme and unsustainable. Is there any reason we expec
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by warcher 3y ago
It might be, but it also might not. If you're just cowboy chording, sure, but if you're playing chord melody you'll find the chord you choose is highly contextual based on what you're playing and where you're going
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by warcher 3y ago
There's always been a tendency towards shorthand-- medieval manuscripts elided certain parts of the harmony/accompaniment because it's just known to be there by the musicians of the day. Same for jazz lead sheets-- they give
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by warcher 4y ago
Wasn't this an anonymous tip, precluding the possibility of any form of dialogue?

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