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NIMBY may be the incorrect term, but objecting to building something that raises your electricity bill extends how far your “back yard” goes. Objecting because it raises your ram p…

Saying X if for A and B, implies a non exclusive logical or. Income is for daily necessities and long term investment.

It’s not that significant but don’t assume low calorie means a specific amount of caffeine. Monster Energy Ultra Sunrise, Sugar Free Energy Drink is 155mg which is an unusual numbe…

> hard time parsing the second half of your comment. I’ll put it as a spherical cow engineering problem. Let’s suppose the temperature is 30C and you want to dissipate 2GW of heat …

> didn't actually click through Actually, I think misunderstood what they said. Effectively all nutrition labels are just using the FDA’s numbers on their ingredients list. They kn…

That 3+:1 is actually from being pedantic. 2:1 implies 33% thermal efficiency to the grid which is commonly achieved in normal operations. Unfortunately engineering means you can’t…

At the bottom of the label it’s listing caffeine from all sources 160mg here: https://www.walmart.com/ip/12-Pack-Monster-Energy-Drink-Zero... So not the original is 160mg as are mo…

As long as it’s designed for those temperatures everything is fine, but efficiency still suffers.

Data centers can afford to spend way more per kWh of heat discharged. Nuclear needs to dump 3+kWh of heat per kWh of electricity generated.

> "Oh no!" No reason to flip out just because you demonstrated your assumption was incorrect. Don’t worry we won’t test if you actually drink strong coffee. > this person You can f…

> An ounce or two of heavy cream. That’s 6-12% of a 16 ounce serving and even more of your “nearly” 16oz beverage. McDonald’s is known for having strong coffee and a double espress…

And how much of that is milk, honey, or just water from making weak coffee? That’s the difference. What’s an extreme amount of caffeine compared to most people is presented as the …

Monster has roughly the same amount of caffeine per volume as black coffee but their standard size is 16oz which is a huge cup of undiluted coffee.

> something they do not need Except France very much does need AC. They may keep it off 99% of the time, but anyplace that experiences 38C+ temperatures should have AC systems inst…

Avoiding X% tax on money going in and paying X% tax on money going out aounds balanced. But you avoid the highest marginal tax rate when putting money in and social security alone …

It’s not limited to conquest, migration takes a heavy toll on languages spoken by a small number of people.

Debt always raises risks, it can be rational but an asset rich and debt free business is vastly less likely to suddenly fail which has a real impact on rational evaluation of the v…

401k reduces your taxable income when depositing money, this is more tax efficient than paying normal income taxes and then also paying capital gains. 401k lets you rebalance a por…

That reason was to generate more works. Before the conception of copyright artists would create physical works to be sold after they died to support their families in part because …

Shorter copyright terms don’t prevent someone from retiring after making it big. To do that you’d need to cap how much they could make in total not the number of years their work w…

People do care about income streams for their descendants or charitable organizations etc. So it’s not completely ineffective. What’s broken is extending copyright after a work was…

> Companies with projects that are doing well don't try to hire consultants who specialized in saving failing projects. Large companies where every project is going well are rare. …