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by zizee 7y ago
Sure. I was responding to a comment saying the reason rooftop solar makes sense is the sunk cost in the land overwhich the roof lives. Rooftop Solar make a lot of sense, but probably the main reason is the electricity generated does not com
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by zizee 7y ago
There was an Israeli company trying to do this. Telsas now seem to be built around the battery pack, which is now a large flat heavy sled. I wouldn't be surprised if it was all to do with the practicality of low center of gravity, stru
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by zizee 7y ago
Thinking about this more, and extending/tweaking the kernel of your original idea of solar close to consumption, and providing shading: an ideal place for solar is to use it as shading in car parks. Underutilized land, demand in the ne
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by zizee 7y ago
Please read my comment in the context that it was a reply to someone saying electricity companies in Australia are not moving into rooftop solar because it would undermine their current investments. I am not arguing rooftop solar does not m
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by zizee 7y ago
That sounds very difficult to maintain. Land outside cities is cheap, and the percentage of loss transmitting electricity long distances (at very high voltages) is usually overinflated in most people's minds. Better to put them out in
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by zizee 7y ago
If they charged the true cost of the grid and dropped kw pricing to the true cost, people would have little incentive to conserve the limited resource that is electricity generated. It is more like the supply/demand has set a price for
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by zizee 7y ago
I think you'd be surprised how cheap land can get outside of cities.
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by zizee 7y ago
> A 6.6 kW system installed retails at(AUD 2700 /USD 1870) That sounds too little to pay for a decent quality system which will last 20 years. For decent components, from a reputable supplier you'd be expecting to pay around t
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by zizee 7y ago
It's possibly the same reason people wear clothing with a large brand-name printed across the back/front. People often associate brands with their "tribe", and liking posts could be another way to signal that they are pa
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by zizee 7y ago
Interestingly the three responses to my comment are quite similar, which makes me wonder that I misunderstood what the grandparent was writing. > That logic assumes humans want to share equitably the ownership of robots and their benefit
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by zizee 7y ago
I often see this pessimistic prediction, and I don't get it. What benefit would someone have to not pass on cost savings to consumers if they had a super effective robot to do something? And regardless of their motives, how would they
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by zizee 7y ago
Yes, clearly suggesting limiting reproduction is equivalent to suggesting a person should kill themselves /sarcasm. Many of the world's problems are a result of overpopulation. It is not an unreasonable point to make that individu
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by zizee 7y ago
Interestingly Western Australia is within their rights (granted under the constitution) to succeed from the federation.
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by zizee 7y ago
I don't know who said it first, but we see a lot of blog posts that could have been condensed into tweets, and a lot of books could be condensed into a blog posts.
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by zizee 7y ago
Gitlab also raised 100 mil on a 1.1 billion valuation fairly recently: https://www.businessinsider.com/gitlab-valuation-microsoft-g...
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by zizee 7y ago
I know you're just being humourous, but your joke highlights a challenge with people and safety equipment. People resist using safety stuff for a variety of reasons. E.g. not looking cool, convenience, anti-authoritarism etc. We could
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by zizee 7y ago
I think that you can recognise that there would be key differences though. It would be less conspicuous, easier to put on, and not an all or nothing proposition.
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by zizee 7y ago
I wonder why Volvo never went further with this? I can't imagine the cost would be prohibitive to add these to a high end vehicle like Volvo produces, and it would fit perfectly with there safety first image.
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by zizee 7y ago
That is rather horrific. I am sorry to hear that happened. I like the idea of some sort of head restraint. The challenge with a head restraint would be making something not restrictive, and silly looking, otherwise people would just not use
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by zizee 7y ago
Tangent to the article: I have often wondered if it would be advantageous to start offering an optional 2nd sash belt to better secure the passenger to lateral movement, and spread the belt load across more area.
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by zizee 7y ago
I understand and sympathize with your point of view. However the risk of the international economy losing trust in Hong Kong and leaving is probably the biggest lever people calling for the continued independence of Hong Kong have availabl
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by zizee 7y ago
I suspect the grandparent was hinting that if we went ahead and generated 10x more electrical energy than now, we'd use it to just stop using fossil fuels entirely, rather than keep using fossil fuels and then pulling that CO2 back out
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by zizee 7y ago
Good point, I stand corrected/educated. From GCP's top level SLA: https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla 99.00% - < 99.99% - 10% off your monthly spend 95.00% - < 99.00% - 25% off your monthly spend <
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by zizee 7y ago
Cynical view: By making people jump through hoops to make the request, a lot of people will not bother. Assuming they only refund the service costs for the hours of outage, only the largest of customers will be owed a refund that is greater
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by zizee 7y ago
I was quoting from the article linked to by the grandparent. I presume that article provides references?
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by zizee 7y ago
From your linked article, the reason people spend a greater percentage of their incomes on food is not because of the cost of food, but that their incomes are much lower: > The figures do not mean that food is more expensive in Nigeria t
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by zizee 7y ago
This definitely happens in IT departments of large orgs. Centralization happens under the guise of efficiency / role specialization. That works for a while until clients at the edge can no longer get the service they used to get when t
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by zizee 7y ago
I believe this is partly a cultural artifact of Japan being earthquake prone. The severity and frequency of earthquakes used to make it difficult to build housing that would last.
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by zizee 7y ago
FWIW, I believe most if not all of these settings are also available under preferences | search.
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by zizee 7y ago
Why not discuss with your current employer the option of taking a leave of absence or use all of your accrued leave in one block? During that break from work you could then work on your side project full time and get a feeling of whether yo

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