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by yungchin 7y ago
Not sure if this other scandal has a name yet, but it's basically a combined diesel+petrolgate, and certainly involves more than just VW: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/05/bmw-daimler.
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by yungchin 7y ago
I'm not sure this is bad news for Tesla, I'd say it's mostly bad news for the rest of us. Tesla has reached enough scale to be more or less sustainable (in the sense that they don't need to be posting losses anymore), an
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by yungchin 8y ago
Yes, we've got this on our shower drain. In this configuration it does better than a degree or two, recovering some 50% of the heat, in fact.
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by yungchin 8y ago
I think when I did the numbers for our heat pump, a catastrophic leak that would release all its refrigerant would result in a GHG contribution equivalent to a year of emissions from our (previous) natural gas heating. Can't find the f
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by yungchin 8y ago
You could do some heat recovery from the sewer, but it would be a yucky affair - they already tend to clog even without heat sink fins in them :) Here are some calculations suggesting that the numbers simply don't add up for ground-sou
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Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy(papers.ssrn.com)
207 points by yungchin 8y ago|133 comments
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Why we let you decide your own membership fee at the Correspondent(medium.com)
1 points by yungchin 8y ago|0 comments
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EU climate law could cause deforestation(theguardian.com)
13 points by yungchin 8y ago|1 comments
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by yungchin 8y ago
> Enriching the soil with compost also helps increase fertility. As a result, the overall size of vegetables increases, diluting the amount of lead they contain. The effects of using compost can be striking. In the study, addition of com
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by yungchin 8y ago
Yes but going by these numbers, even 1 hour of use a day would produce a marginal profit on every scooter added. An hour sounds attainable. And coming up with clever operations hacks that push utilisation towards two hours a day sounds like
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by yungchin 8y ago
> Like one would say, what about the effects of water vapor on climate change? Is that a skeptics' thing? The answer is, water vapour is yet another positive feedback. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feat
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by yungchin 8y ago
> Perhaps it's not. AMZN is a for-profit entity. Their shareholders come first. Profit comes first. The good news is that that's a myth, apparently: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/
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by yungchin 9y ago
They limit themselves to only those solutions which have been vetted by the scientific process, and that could be readily implemented with currently available technology. In a way you're right that that's not an optimistic take, b
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by yungchin 9y ago
I'd recommend reading The Procrastination Equation. It sets out a simple model of how your brain makes these choices, and makes it clear what all the levers are to help you "game" your brain. It explains why shorter productiv
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by yungchin 9y ago
The context for that quote was missing I think (that is, missing from the original article, not your comment), but it makes more sense if they're talking about turning rock into fertile soil. You would have had a whole succession of di
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by yungchin 10y ago
If we're to believe https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601514/germany-runs-up-ag... then the Germans didn't quite "have to [...] start building coal fired plants", but they have trouble stoppin
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by yungchin 10y ago
Indeed this is due to missing options in the installer: with some manual fiddling, it's long been possible to make grub boot from encrypted disk (thus removing the need for a separate /boot and its space issues): https:/&#x2
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by yungchin 10y ago
I did, but I (perhaps naively) took it as someone cheerfully geeking out about something cool their friends built, and which they're now interfacing with. I do appreciate you're pointing out this alternative take. I guess what clo
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by yungchin 10y ago
Thanks very much for this. Based on the one or two private individuals featuring on both lists, I'm inclined to think your original post was exceedingly strongly worded.
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by yungchin 10y ago
I couldn't decide whether to up- or downvote this: it sounds like equal parts 1) information worth bringing to people's attention and 2) slandering a team that seem really nice fellas to me. So I looked both companies up on Crunch
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by yungchin 10y ago
> Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the working poor) is not a solution. As for taxing the poor, that's fixable: the legislation should have all revenues from a carbon tax returned as per-capita "rebates" (I&#x
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Secretive Alphabet division aims to fix public transit in US(theguardian.com)
5 points by yungchin 10y ago|1 comments
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Will your driverless car be willing to kill you to save the lives of others?(theguardian.com)
2 points by yungchin 10y ago|0 comments
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All top-selling cars break emissions limits in 'real world' tests(theguardian.com)
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Fossil fuel electricity with no pollution? This company is [] to prove it(vox.com)
1 points by yungchin 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: [UK specific] is the Y Combinator SAFE or an equivalent SEIS-compatible?
3 points by yungchin 11y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 11y ago
I'm sure someone else will chime in to name the logical fallacy you're setting us off on. It's completely besides the point whom these actions were targeted against. And if they objected to her on merits, they should have obj
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Why Facebook Won, and Other Hard Truths(hapgood.us)
3 points by yungchin 11y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 11y ago
Ah, thanks, those threads are great reading. Yeah there's not too much new here, although I was surprised to read that some employees and customers got out, apparently in protest to the pay raises.
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Amazon's been profitable lately, but don't expect it to last(vox.com)
2 points by yungchin 11y ago|0 comments

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