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by zbrozek 5y ago
I bought 42 Sunpower X21-335 panels used for about $4700 shipped to my door a few years ago and couldn't be happier. As far as I could tell they weren't actually ever unboxed.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm actively trying to drive down my marginal cost of electricity explicitly so I can use more of it to make my life better. I am absolutely driving up my total energy consumption, not just switching fuels.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
What makes solid CO2 better for the purpose than liquid nitrogen or just the high-pressure air or maybe air mixed with super-chilled water? I'm sure the folks involved have thought about alternatives, but I'm most curious what pro
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by zbrozek 5y ago
arxiv link https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02780
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by zbrozek 5y ago
He's pointing out that focusing on issues that don't have real impact is starving us of our ability to focus on broader, more serious issues. The shrinking of the middle class is a tangible problem. Words being insufficiently incl
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm on two acres with hundreds of feet between houses. There's no justification, just NIMBYism.
607.
by zbrozek 5y ago
I thought the phrase was "dear sibling" since "big" might not be sufficiently inclusive.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
It should be fast to build houses. My family acquired land, designs, permits, and moved in to a place in rural TN in about 9 months. It's taken me 2 years to get a site development permit (permission to ask for a building permit) to mo
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Build, baby, build. But we need property rights to be able to do it. None of this discretionary permitting nonsense; that's how we got into this mess.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I end up paying a year in advance, cash, to avoid giving gyms anything to work with
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by zbrozek 5y ago
The house I bought had solar thermal panels (from 1975!) to heat pool water. I took them off last year and put photovoltaic panels up instead. That ~zeroed my electric bill and I'm starting to electrify to make use of the low-cost ener
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm also interested! I know a few classes of car destroyers. Some of them get into serious crashes. Some of them are more persistently mildly abusive or inattentive and do a lot of cosmetic and cleanliness damage. One person I know doe
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by zbrozek 5y ago
We desperately need property rights in the US if we want to build our way out of the housing crisis.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Maybe! But some folks would like some redundancy on infrastructure, particularly for emergencies. My elderly parents, for example, held on to a land line until they had both cell and fiber internet in their very-rural home. They wanted to h
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by zbrozek 5y ago
If the channel is is in-spec, then the geometry doesn't matter. The 802.3 series doesn't specify the cable geometry. They do specify channel parameters like FEXT, NEXT, IL, and RL across frequency ranges of interest. Maybe the CAT
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I live in Los Altos Hills but online correction software sees the zip (which we share) and corrects it to Los Altos, the next town over. This often causes confusion.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Anything you subsidize gets more expensive due to supply, demand, and availability of money. We see the same inflation in college tuition (cheap loans), home prices (mortgage subsidies), and health care (myriad things, but e.g. pre-tax HSA
618.
by zbrozek 5y ago
Man the inflation is real: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B003PGRR5W
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Now if only the portable fuel cans I'm able to buy were this good. Instead, they have nozzles that require a third hand to operate and they don't have breather tubes (by law these days, I think), so they make a mess every time. Fi
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by zbrozek 5y ago
House them where though? CA is short housing, that's one of our worst problems. And local homeless people have already put up tents and parked RVs everywhere. Could we have avoided this problem by building housing while labor could sti
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I watched pretty closely while I was changing from a KY vehicle registration to a CA registration. The staffer was plenty quick, there was just an absolute heap of stuff to do that all seemed pointless. I'm sure each of those little
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by zbrozek 5y ago
You have to live in a red state to build anything at all. I want to move to one to quit wasting lifespan trying to work my parcel. Sure I disagree with many of the social values, but those are abstract problems. I'm male, so I will nev
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by zbrozek 5y ago
The packet for a recent city council meeting in my town of ~8000 people was >500 pages long. It's ridiculous .
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by zbrozek 5y ago
This sounds fast for California. It's taken me about two years to get a site development permit to edit my roofline a bit to make it better at shedding water. I don't have a building permit yet. I desperately want to move out of t
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by zbrozek 5y ago
In a simple 100 mbps network where I needed good synchronization, I used the RXC pin of the MII bus as input to a PLL+VCXO and explicitly configured the PHYs in the link to be master-->slave in the desired clock distribution direction. P
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Then how did the high tax states get high tax?
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Utilities in general are in a similar position. PG&E has a magic combination of regulatory capture, monopoly, and too-big-to-fail.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
I want a constitutional amendment granting some property rights.
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by zbrozek 5y ago
What is the better way to satisfy housing demand than to build housing?
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by zbrozek 5y ago
Unfortunately, the local control approach isn't providing enough housing. Giving property owners rights will allow market forces to provide what is needed. Nobody is saying that the owner of the parking lot must develop housing on it

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