mdavis6890

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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Actually I think that's exactly the concern - that people won't be allowed to keep their carbon-fuel heating systems, even as a backup.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Don’t worry! You would replace that with a new white knuckle anxiety that misconfiguring your infra deployment would exhaust your four figure cost limit, causing AWS to helpfully shutdown ALL of your infra to avoid any accidental overspend.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Ah, the good old days!
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I’m all for websites collecting less personal information. But I wish they wouldn’t base it in child status. Now all I read is “websites must collect a ton of personal information about you and send it to the government to verify your age,
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I wonder if charges can be configured to wait for a given time to begin charging. That way you could plug in your car whenever you want, but still get the benefit of waiting.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Not necessarily - reducing the workforce and closing stores may well be a healthy consolidation. Taking on debt may perform the same function on the balance sheet. You should worry if they take on debt to expand stores or the workforce.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
This is likely simply due to the fact that more homes have AC now: ... "By 1980 that number had risen to 63%, and in the 40 years since then air conditioning has grown exponentially and is now present in a whopping 95% of homes in the
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
The issues with these articles is that they focus on money, and the price of energy, which leads people to believe either consciously or not that something can be helped with money. It can't. There is a fundamental supply constraint th
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Instead of what? Making the switch will require tremendous effort that must come from something else, which Germany will necessarily lose (not produce). Likely this would be distributed through the economy so that there will be a bit less o
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
"I will do everything that's in my power" Will you pay money for the content you consume?
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I personally like it when the text is presented as a gif. Especially a gif of cursive scrawl, containing a long URL.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
The problem with the word “costs” is that it’s too easy to conflate this with money, and just think it means spending more of an abstract and essentially unlimited resource (money). The reality is that it means we will HAVE LESS STUFF, food
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Thanks for the level head and second-order thinking. Still outrageous - but beware the knee-jerk reaction as you said.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I don’t know, I think there are a lot of people that might not want to be owners anymore, but they just can’t bring GM themselves to sell and pay the taxes. Especially if they are, say, 60 and in dubious health anyway. So they hold, and hol
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
It provides a large artificial financial incentive to hold onto a property that you otherwise would sell. I also think it's not right to create this kind of arbitrary, large tax break that only applies in specific circumstances. I thin
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Really the only problem here is the step-up cost-basis at death that you mention. This is indeed a big problem, and the fix is simple: Your heirs inherit your cost-basis as well (likely $0), so that when/if they sell it they have to pa
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Like gigawatts? Probably expressed as an expected average, rather than peak (or both).
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I think there is very little meat on the bone here. Possible? Sure! Certain? Hardly. Of course we’re going to start turning up chemicals in our bodies that weren’t there before we started using them. And the increased prevalence guarantees
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Gizmodo can say what they want about Epson, but right now the thing I am most irritated by is the adware on that page. I would buy an Epson printer if it would remove Gizmodo's ads.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
And I didn’t advocate either way of doing it in any case. I just offered an alternate that may or may not be better.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
This is a form of rationing in the face of reduced supply. Another option would be allow electricity prices to rise and people to make their own choices about how to respond to that.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I still do not understand how any human-developed carbon capture techniques is going to be better or more efficient than just planting a tree. A (living, growing) tree can capture quite a lot of carbon for almost no cost, directly from the
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Did they give you your money promptly? How?
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
"Today I decided I would try to change Google." The best part for me is "try to" rather than the much more common and nonsensical "try and" that I see all the time. I think I would pay for a Chrome extension to
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Yes - for clarification I'm talking about using a stove-top whirly-pop style pop-corn-popper. I can do about 250g at a time.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I think 2 weeks off roast is close enough to 'fresh' that the difference is going to be subtle. I'd love to see an experiment like this with 3-day old vs 2-months old. I'd guess most people could tell in that case. And m
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I don't think anyone is telling you to throw away old beans - the author is just providing accurate information that beans go stale in a couple of weeks and that you should try to plan accordingly if you care about good coffee. Avoid b
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I endorse Sweet Maria's! I've been ordering from them every few months for many years, and I think they're great. Aside from good raw coffee, they usually add a little postcard or other nice touch inside the package as well.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Can you imagine a service whereby the government provides table saw for use by the general public? I just do not think the government is equipped to manage this kind of risk.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Unfortunately, the supply and demand curves do not cross. I wonder how much of the operational cost is insurance.

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