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Relatedly, I made an embedded product. I built a live CD (yes this was a while ago) for my employer with the entire development environment. As long as you can find an x86 machine …

Another way to look at the social model is kids playing in neighborhoods. It's not unsafe to walk from one place to another because of lousy sidewalks or excessive leaves: it's the…

No, because the phosphors glow for much longer than human persistence of vision.

Long distance trucking gets heavily subsidized by all other road users. Damage is caused by the fourth power of weight, but trucking only paid 35% of maintenance while being respon…

I hate having to come up with different variable names than `list` so I don't shadow the function `list`. Repeat that for a lot of common words: count, first, length, map, max, min…

That's a stupid point to be trying to make and irrelevant.

Building interconnects costs money. What's the ROI on building more? Positive ROI becomes present if Texas has large amounts of nondispatchable power and the neighboring areas do n…

GGP didn't say ERCOT, they said "Texas". Which further demonstrates how ignorant it is to say there are "no major connections".

Every place I'm familiar with has demand charges on large-scale users that is supposed to pay for that equipment. The real problem is boomers have stopped allowing things to be bui…

Texas is the second-biggest state. Where are they going to make major connections to -- the Great Prairie? There's a whole New Mexico-worth of sparse population between Dallas/Aust…

You're looking for "deep adaptation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation

> because there is no realistic path for nuclear reactors to compete with PV+batteries It's not that in Northern climates, it's PV+batteries+Natural Gas turbines, because PV doesn'…

Have you considered electric heaters to run for a few hours just if temperatures are consistently low for multiple consecutive days?

I was thinking the same thing 10 years ago, but people are still buying houses, the stock market keeps going up. It doesn't make sense. But I lost a lot of money not being more hea…

> In 2013 you couldn't say that prices have nearly doubled since 2013 under ZIRP, which is the argument that buying now would be buying high. But in 2013 you could say they've near…

It's the same. Dextromethorphan gets you high; there were only 17 deaths from 2000-2010, as I said. That's per-week numbers for acetaminophen.

Nothing you said is wrong, but you could say that in 2013 too, and in that time apparently prices have nearly doubled and you missed out if you didn't take advantage. Mortgages are…

That's the bank's problem.

Lets say housing appreciates +50% everywhere. Your podunk home went up $50k. HCOL home went up $500k. Better deal would be to hold the expensive house.

Why is it a sin in America to take advantage of economies of scale for cooking but not for anything else?

First, cough syrup ID checking is not about deaths, as nearly none are associated with dextromethorphan abuse (17 from 2000-2010, and most not from OTC). But an estimated 980 death…

Essentially no one in the USA fails to get a license if they try for one. There's no ongoing competence testing. Washington State recently failed to advance legislation to make the…

>> Cars harm kids > This is tobacco-industry rhetoric. The relevant facts are frequency, magnitude and novelty Cars are literally the number one killer of children 0-14 in the Unit…

> whereas O2 is 20% of the air. The goal of a gasoline engine's sensor is to accurately and precisely measure the point where O2 concentration reaches zero, so ambient air levels a…

China's coal use alone is more than all energy sources in the USA combined. Something like 70% of all energy, then oil, then about 10% renewable. USA is also near 90% fossil fuel b…