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by wuliwong 2y ago
> After all, I’d flunked my way through elementary, middle, and high school math and science. I have to question the veracity of this sentence. How could they possible keep progressing to the next grade if they keep failing math and scie
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I think the correct approach is to understand the SQL that your ORM is using. If you can't have it create the correct query than roll your own. I think most of the trouble people get in with ORMs is not taking the time to understand th
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I've found this interesting and have read up a little on it. I believe there have been a good amount of studies trying to verify the different measurement methods. I believe they have made some progress in verifying the methods but I&#
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by wuliwong 3y ago
> overturning previous assumptions that competition and conflict were absent in hunter–gatherer societies What about Jericho? It has a wall that is older than this. Maybe it doesn't fall into the classification of "fortress&quo
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I've recently been learning about a bunch of sites near Göbekli Tepe and over towards Jericho. It's really fascinating to see the picture that is starting to form regarding the development during those times. I wonder if they did
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by wuliwong 3y ago
There are other sites that have continuous occupation and construction over thousands of years. It is really fascinating and I'm not really sure if there's any solid understanding of it but Göbekli Tepe and Jericho seemed to have
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by wuliwong 3y ago
It looks like this wikipedia article has not been updated since the publication of their work. The wikipedia article mentions the work is unpublished multiple times. Potentially, it has changed the view on this dating.
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by wuliwong 3y ago
Someone else mentioned about the differences between different categories of content on Twitter and I agree. Mainly, I like Twitter for sports. I have not experienced another platform that gives me this type of interactions with writers, sh
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by wuliwong 3y ago
Hmmm...I actually had to look up what crab mentality meant but I don't see how it applies here. From my quick lookup, crab mentality apparently refers to a reactionary state of mind where a person wants to sabotage another's succe
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I wanted to comment with a similar sentiment, particularly about housing. I think the Case Shiller index is a solid reference. My own anecdotal experienced had me buying a house and selling it 2.5 years later (in 2022) for 72% more than wha
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I am a bit more optimistic or just unfazed by all the AI hype. After seeing these "hype trains" before, it just seems like part of our collective process of figuring out what works. Sure, I think optimizing these cycles to burn le
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I am guessing that the reasoning is with less income tax revenue for the government, they will need to create more money to pay the bills. The only way to prevent this would be to reduce the spending the same amount as the reduction in tax
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I don't understand the math of this? If the company is paying way over asking price, they will be losing money for some number of years while renting the property. I guess the idea is that eventually they will turn cash flow positive?
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by wuliwong 3y ago
>I think people mean a more irrational feeling of safety, rather than hard statistics Also, the generic statistics of the probability of getting in an accident might not accurately apply to me. I might be a particularly good or bad drive
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I do think being proactive like you suggest is a good approach. It is pretty easy to couch it in a relaxed way that you are attempting to save everyone's time and it makes them show their hand first. That way you aren't reducing t
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by wuliwong 3y ago
99 comments and only 22 points? I also noticed this post drop from the front page #18 to somewhere like 500 in an instant. I guess some mod decided to tank this post. Why?
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by wuliwong 3y ago
> the good of the rest of society that needs to deal with the burden of caring for unnecessary injuries I understand that point of view but I do think it can be tyrannical to not let people live their lives even if they are making decisi
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by wuliwong 3y ago
One thing that I am hoping to get introduced to is better sources for the data points I use. I think they are mostly ok but I am no expert, so I could easily be citing something that is generally understood to be incorrect. Also, I could be
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I will change it all to be Wh or kWh. It is unnecessarily confusing. But I do believe the math does work. Thanks for taking a look! Would love to have confirmation from someone else that I didn't do something stupid.
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I couldn't be further from a pusher of "green propaganda." I just thought I'd go after the lowest hanging fruit, like if EVs didn't even lower emissions when ignoring everything else, then it's a slam dunk. But
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by wuliwong 3y ago
That's not really the point I was trying to make. I was just trying to say "what if" we had the climate scientist's wish and all gas car were magically EVs. Would that actually be better from an emissions perspective?
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by wuliwong 3y ago
It isn't misleading. I state this in the first paragraph. > I ignore the potentially, important environmental impact of the manufacturing processes of the two types of vehicles. And in the second paragraph I discuss it further. >
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I do that calculation in the article. >We can also use 24.2 mpg as the average fuel economy for a gas powered vehicle in the U.S. [10] to expand on our approach, slightly. Using this value we find a slightly largely value for total gallo
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I would agree on the main point that either way, having cleaner air, water, etc. has its benefits beyond the veracity of man made climate change. I would disagree that it also causes huge amounts of economic growth and significantly cheaper
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by wuliwong 3y ago
BTW, thanks for all the feedback! I am not some climate scientist or anything, I've just wondered about this question and started putting down notes and decided to make a little capsule about it. It has actually evolved a lot already,
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by wuliwong 3y ago
How is it flawed? I state that I am doing the calculation for cars. How can not including trucks be a flaw in calculating the value for cars? >To the point: 73% of what exactly? 80% of total emissions? 40%? 10%? I do not understand what
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by wuliwong 3y ago
Hey, so honestly, from sending it to friends. Sometimes I can get feedback online but it's a pretty crowded, noisy place. :) I made this capsule site as a way for more casual publishing of ideas by "regular" people. I thought
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What If All the Gasoline Cars Became Electric Vehicles?(capsulel.ink)
22 points by wuliwong 3y ago|101 comments
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by wuliwong 3y ago
I definitely find this to be true. I started with a little notepad calculation on the question of "what if we replaced all gas cars with EVs?" I started adding some details and eventually put it out for anyone to see https:/
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by wuliwong 3y ago
You are making analogies between things that are not alike. A person comparing an HOA rule to Stalin's repressions is consciously being hyperbolic. I think your issue with OPs comparison of media influence by the US and Russian governm

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