seanflyon

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by seanflyon 11y ago
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Nit pick: Electrolysis is more like 70% efficient, but once you add the losses from compression and turning that hydrogen back into electricity, your 30% figure sounds about right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrol
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I'm not arguing in favor of our current regulation, I'm saying that it is hard to fix and you can't throw it out altogether.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I don't think unregulated nuclear is a good idea. Safer reactors would require less regulation and you could argue that even for current reactors our regulation is excessive. The bottom line is that efficient regulation is a hard pro
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> the tsunami it experienced was accepted by the best engineering data at the time to be impossible. I find that hard to believe. It was the 4th largest earthquake in the last century and doesn't make the Wikipedia list of "Me
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> not actually convicted of doing what is alleged Do you mean "not actually guilty even though they were found guilty" or do we put people on sex offender registries without due process?
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> as part of an issued sentence or punishment for an original crime. I think this is the key point. You have a fundamental right to work for anyone who wants to hire you. The government can take away that right (and other fundamental r
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> Many countries already do this. I don't think I could name a 1st world county that doesn't do that.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Minimum wage guarantees you will make a minimum of $0 + all eligible welfare benefits.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
With BI, You will never be in a situation where you will be poorer for earning a dollar you just won't be an entire dollar richer.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Any electric heater will be approximately 100% efficient, but electricity is generally much more expensive per unit energy than than natural gas or oil. If you have decided that electricity is your best option, you should compare convenien
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Though on Earth it's our atmosphere that stops the high energy particles.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
This enables a self driving car to charge. Your car can drop you off and go park.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Which is not a fair comparison because gas stations must meet 100% of the refueling demands of gasoline cars and charging stations only need to meet a tiny percentage because most charging takes place at home or at work.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I think that would still fit pretty well with "those providing 'real' value are so productive that they support all that dead weight and yet still continue to grow".
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> it's not related to censorsphip at all. Censorship: the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. Isn't the suppression of "unacceptable" information the stated goal
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Could you explicitly state what it is you are referring to? I'm not familiar with github's content restrictions.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> Marginal cost generally increases after a while That is possible, but I would generally expect the opposite with economies of scale.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Define "regressive" because when I google it I get "(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes". Are you talking about the wealthy having greater ability to find tax loopholes or do de
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> You assume we are already paying everyone fairly for the value they create. No, they are assuming that some employees are generate less than $15 of value per hour. They could be 'worth' $14 and currently paid $9.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I think it would become much more palatable if someone came up with a plan for basic income that didn't require tripling the federal budget.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
It's sad that they mistook kilowatts for kilowatt-hours, but I think acre-foot is a good unit for measuring volumes of water. It helps communicate the scale of water use.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
It seems like you are drawing a distinction between "tank" and "pressure vessel", could you explain what the difference is?
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I agree with you about the e-Golf. I had previously seen numbers like this: http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/ that make the e-golf look like they were converting a few hundred cars to electric driv
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Already exists: http://www.edison2.com/
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by seanflyon 11y ago
With the exception of the Leaf, all those fully electric cars seem more like tests or prototypes than serious attempts to win the market. Nissan is anything but passive when it comes to fully electric cars, but all the other major car make
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by seanflyon 11y ago
You just completely ignored the question you replied to.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
The conversation ended.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> Uber is a giant negative externality Could you elaborate on this?
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> Even if companies wanted to do the right thing and keep the overall pay constant It has nothing to do with what companies want. They don't pay an employee $X because they like to get rid of money, they pay $X because if they offe

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