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I was going to chime in to second this. In a former life I worked on power towers and we had designs for air receivers that would potentially work really well with this type of sys…

Portland, OR (NW Oregon in general) also has a lot of planted Giant Sequoias! So it may not be strictly true that they are super picky. I imagine as climate warms, the PNW will bec…

Source: https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/tracking-nationa...

I think the key paragraph is buried: "Though water itself does not absorb much light, and neither does the hydrogel material itself, when the two combine they become strong absorbe…

I wonder why Wired didn't provide any hyperlinks despite mentioning the site (italicized) several times. Seems like common internet courtesy. Perhaps just a direct-from-print copy.…

If you want all these things and exponential growth, check out Neptune's pride: https://np.ironhelmet.com/ for basically "diplomacy in space with a few extra dimensions". I haven't…

This appears to be a repost/summary/blogspam of a 2017 kotaku piece: https://kotaku.com/the-notorious-board-game-that-takes-1500-...

Thanks for the reply! Sorry I don't have any great sources off the top of my head. It makes sense that you'd want to restrict the scope of the article to make it more understandabl…

I like the structure of the article and it's a good procedure for evaluation compensation, but my nitpick would be it could be more helpful if it included more realistic numbers. D…

You mean like Optimizely? I thought most startups these days had absurd adjectiverbnoun names.

If you're looking to cut down on solar heating, steel roofs or even lighter colored or painted roofs would be a far more cost effective option.

I think the legal definition of NA beer is maximum of 0.5%. I may be misremembering, but I think Athletic Brewing mentioned their beers are closer to 0.2 -> 0.3% on average. But ev…

This is the important question. At my previous job the results of internal surveys would have these fairly high numbers, like 20% of employees don't think they will be here in a ye…

One of the first comments I heard from coworkers on work-life-balance was "hope you're not working with a team in Mountain View", and they weren't referring to just the time zone d…

Yes, I think your reading is correct. The article makes claims the paper does not about comparing Vertical vs. Horizontal wind turbines.

Caution though: this can lead to blind spots. I witnessed a critical bug become exacerbated by the first fix because the developer and reviewer had essentially co-wrote the solutio…

Summer months in most of the southern US are extremely hot (in Austin, 4-5 months of the year could have temps above 100F), so for example here is CA in August (see graph in articl…

I doubt the rotation speed is 1/s, that would imply pi*220m/s at the tips or 2488 km/hour! Based on animations, it looks more like 1 rotation per 20 or 30 seconds. 20-30kWh seems v…

If I had to guess, I'd say they were talking about (in most US restaurants) - Ask for check -> waiter brings check -> put card in fold, wait ?? minutes for waiter to return to grab…

After reading this, I searched for and found this report on earthquake impact from 2018 (for both "the big one" and a smaller, 6.8 portland hills quake), I believe based on the OP …

Nope, middle-tier US city. One of the offers was FAANG, but a small office. To be clear, I did not do most of this over email, but I used very similar wording in my phone calls. I …

I was reading this comment on my phone and had to jump on my computer to say: you should absolutely take this article/Haseeb seriously, yes people say these exact things over the p…

Tire particulates are worse than _exhaust particulates_, not necessarily emissions, an important distinction. CO and CO2 are not counted as particulates.