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by rwcarlsen 4y ago
If you use a heat pump in winter you do actually make outside colder. So there is that analog.
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by rwcarlsen 4y ago
It's not the magnitude of demand that affects price - it's the price elasticity - the demand and supply curves matter. Demand for petroleum (e.g. gas, etc.) is very stiff - so small changes in supply can have large impacts on pri
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by rwcarlsen 4y ago
While I'm sure some of that does occur some places in the region, my experience in the Utah/Idaho region is very much the opposite. Friendly and very merit oriented work environments.
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by rwcarlsen 4y ago
Depending on who you talk to and your definitions, nuclear is generally considered dispatchable. The only definitively non-dispatchable sources are e.g. wind and solar where they cannot guarantee power levels and availability during the di
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by rwcarlsen 4y ago
Global supply chain problems. Inflation problems. China still doing rolling lockdowns. Geopolitical conflicts. Ukraine. China-Taiwan. Off the heels of a not unlikely a lab evolved virus pandemic. Extreme political polarization in the U.S.
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by rwcarlsen 4y ago
It's not really overloading. it is associative: 2*time.Hour+1*time.second == time.Second+time.Hour*2
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
No they are technically correct. In the reactor world "shut down" explicitly and specifically refers to chain-reaction-running mode. The reactors do still require active cooling for several days+ to avoid plant damage scenarios.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Why is twitter not letting people see and talk about this? What happened to discourse? I'm completely unsurprised that a tweet that shows how extreme our covid discourse/mitigations have become has been removed/deleted.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
I agree it's absurd - which is why I wasn't sure why it sounded like you were making it. So since we established natural immunity is superior - why is it being ignored? Apparently it's not part of _the_ science.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
But what about people that have already engaged and benefited from that risk? For many of those people, the vaccine risk is not so negligible compared to the additional benefit they gain from any (much smaller) immune boost they might get.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
I'm a draw-bored mortise and tenon guy myself.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
You mean the shots that provide sterilizing immunity for diseases that have orders of magnitude higher mortality rates for children and healthy people? None of which is true with COVID - and anyone that disagrees can just look up the stats
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Yes - infected+vaccinated is more protected than infected. But infected is way more protected than vaccinated only. If your position is that everyone should meet the highest standard of infected+vaccinated - which is only marginally bet
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
From my evaluation and research, nearly all the economic damage is being caused by said mitigations - not the virus or pandemic itself. So... stop doing the things that damage the economy? People want to work. People want to travel. Peo
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
This is actually false and contradicts findings from several very reputable and large studies. See e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
That's a pretty poor analogy. Nails are often the right and often the wrong tool for different circumstances. And there are different kinds of nails. Lots of carpenters have preferences for what types of hardware they use - based on
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
"because it's inconvenient" seems like a pretty poor precedent to set for governments mandating (unnecessary) medical procedures.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Where is the discussion about the fact that a very large fraction of these employees likely already had far superior natural immunity - which is provable. So they were fired for refusing to undergo what amounts to an unnecessary medical pr
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
You are not alone. The authoritarian threat and government overreach problems are IMO orders of magnitude more important and concerning than the virus. I will almost certainly be taking a stand and be terminated by my employer over this w
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
So you're saying the tesla self driving capability is on par with humans driving at near their worst in a panic'd sort of circumstance. Great!
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
You really want covid to be categorically different than things we engage with every day and have since humans first began to walk the earth - but it really isn't. We make these sort of tradeoffs and engage with this sort of dilemma c
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
We allow people to make personal choices all the time that negatively impact others. I am acknowledging the gray area and have been the entire time. I'm saying that on the particular issue of seatbelts (and mask wearing) - I prefer
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
I argued nothing black and white at all. I said that these things are tradeoffs . In this case - it is something along the lines of a freedom <--> safety tradeoff. And why aren't people allowed to draw their own lines on that
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Yes - I believe seatbelts should also be a personal choice. Infinite safety was never a goal - and never should be. If it were, our speed limits should be 5 mph everywhere - then nobody would die in car crashes but oops, it causes too man
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Anecdotally, I frequently observe masks causing people to touch their faces more . Masks cause itches, need to be adjusted, must be removed for drinking/eating, etc. I would be very interested in large-scale empirical studies measur
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
To say nothing about the costs of globally increased hunger, unrest, depression, deaths of despair, neglected+abused children, and on and on - that billions of people in the world will continue to pay for years to come in order to try to sa
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
Decreased influenza was influenced by loads of changes - not just masks. Various social distancing measures, schools closing, travel being restricted, etc. I don't think you can conclude anything empirically about influenza and masks
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
After reading your comment I want searching around the nets - and discovered this: https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index . Hilarious yet insightful.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
You need to normalize to the dog population at least - rather than the human population.
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by rwcarlsen 5y ago
$40k only gets you permission to hook up. The inspections, excavation, and most of the plumbing work needs to be paid for by the owner independently. So all the work that actually costs resources to do is not part of that $40k fee.

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