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It doesn't detail it in the articles and it's quite hard to find details without looking at a specific bill or a specific provider, but for my provider in NYS, the cents/kwh for electricity cost does not include transmission costs or the fee for being connected to the grid. Those are separate line items that cover the cost of the lines and infrastructure for the community. On a more arguable note, even if you only use "one big line" to connect, you're stil part of the grid and should be shouldering some of the burden to maintain that grid and not just your line.

This feels like the difference between science and engineering. Although to be fair to you, this paper really feels like somewhere on that spectrum and not fully on the side of science. It's similar to how every battery advancement doesn't always make it to manufacturing.

To address the things that you thought of off the top of your head: * Anything done on land will be less carbon intensive as we transition to renewables. * Trains are incredibly efficient at transport, and depending on the quarry might already be established. * Boats are so good at shipping heavy weights because of those hydrodynamics, so as long as some reduced returns are okay (reduced cargo space), there's plenty of space on those cargo ships. The real limiter is stability of steering in canals and depth of ports/canals.

I'm not fully informed about pumped storage, but twenty minutes is more than enough for most hydroelectric plants to go from 0 to full power, and that's probably the case for pumped storage as well. Eg,

In the case of Cruachan Power Station: “It takes just two minutes for a turbine to run up from rest to generate mode,” says Martin McGhie, Operations and Maintenance Manager at the power station. “It takes slightly longer for the turbines to run down from generate to rest, but whatever function the turbines are performing, they can reach it within a matter of minutes.”

https://www.drax.com/power-generation/in-energy-storage-timi...

For the first part, I totally misread that several times. Sorry about that.

Looking around, the exact number is quite hard to pin down because of the definition of it, but ~30% is probably a very fair estimate based on https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-number-those-who-dont...

Where did you get 30% from? I'm just curious since NWS data is widely used as a source for creating weather forecasts, which if I had to guess near 100% of people use in one way, shape, or form. I think Google uses it, so anyone with an Android phone is one click away from a forecast using the data.

On the matter of taxes being proportional to income, I'm not going to argue about progressive taxation or any moralistic standpoint of proportional taxation. From purely a utility standpoint, those handful of people probably reap way more value from that NWS data being available. The richest people (those paying the millions for NWS) usually are that rich from the labor of others, and those labor forces all get value from the data to help plan their days, including getting to the workplace safely. Another even more direct use for the economy would be routing of trucks through snowy passes, or planning for large construction companies.

It was supposed to be "the feds", short for "the federal government", but missing the s led to autocorrect on my phone correcting it to "the Fed". I can't edit it now, luckily I think the message is still pretty clear.

California is not a great example, since they pay out to the Fed so much more than they receive, so that infusion isn't really an infusion when you consider the overall budgets.

As someone from the US, I consider all those industries to be almost fully for profit. Our k-12 education is public, but constantly under fire to move those public funds to private providers via various voucher programs. I would say that each of those industries have various regulations around them, so maybe that's why the commenter thinks it's socialized.

At least in New York state, they've recently tried to deal with this discrepancy while still keeping the incentive to install solar. There's a flat rate fee for all electricity customers to be hooked up to the grid to support grid infrastructure. There's also an additional fee to those that have solar panels called the Customer Benefit Contribution that is based off your generation to help fund energy efficiency projects and low-income programs.

From the author, it's a newsletter on what she's thinking. I didn't see any advertising of shoddy medicine or claims of being scientific. Do we call out authors for writing poetry on the human experience? Why should we apply intellectual rigor on some observations made by an artist?

I prefer the corollary: Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

At this point, whether it's stupidity, or others taking advantage of that stupidity to induce malicious actions. It doesn't really matter and they should be regarded as malicious and stopped.

I've also filled out insurance quote forms several times to see the interplay of the questions and price. Quite often many of the questions do not change the quote. So the existence of the question in a form does not imply a change in price, or any true guess at the magnitude of the change at all.

At least at places I've worked, terminating the logger would cause a security incident, and the central logging service have some general heuristics that should trigger a review if a log is filled with junk. Of course with enough time and root, there's ways to avoid that. But that's also usually why those with root are limited to a small subset of users, and assuming root usually requires a reason and is time gated.

While I ostensibly agree about learning how to deal constructively with opposing perspectives, I also don't think online discourse (main stream avenues) will ever be the place to learn or partake in those sorts of conversations. Even in smaller subreddits, your comments will be viewed by thousands of people, some of whom are explicitly there to troll or to argue in bad faith or even people literally having mental breakdowns. You also end up in situations where every reply is to a new person, so you're not really having a discourse with anyone just an amorphous entity. Look at things like "Godwin's law" or "Poe's law", for some long running beliefs/commentary on internet discourse.

Actually, there are some studies that show a anti-depressive effect from exposure to heat/fever like conditions. These are just two from a rudimentary Google search to check if I was remembering correctly. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6519523/ https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine-archive/node/2080

For the restaurants mentioned in the article, I fully agree. Especially because you're not losing much quality. A pizza hut pizza will be just as bad at a pizza hut as it will be 15 minutes later at home or in a park. The same goes for the mostly deep fried or microwaved food at Applebee's or a Wing Joint.

But I will still opt to eat in at nicer establishments, where I'm paying for quality and don't want to suffer any lose of it. A nice plus is they usually have a nice atmosphere and a selection of cocktails/cocktails that I wouldn't make at home.

Of course it varies by person, but they generally take small naps with the goal being that the nap is short enough the boat doesn't travel "past the horizon" or in other words past where they could see when they were at the helm. That's speed dependent, but I've seen them say 20-40 minutes naps. Further, there are systems like AIS (automatic identification system) that broadcast your location that depending on the area most boats above a certain length will have on, so your receiver can be set to alarm if a beacon comes within a certain distance. You can also set up a radar system to alarm if it detects anything in your path in a certain distance, those are notoriously unreliable though. Plus you have a VHF radio that can be set to scan and someone might hail you in time to stop a collision. With those on, people who are willing to accept more risk will sometimes take longer sleeps and just risk it, especially in less congested waters. That channel in particular recently had a comment about accidentally sleeping through their alarm and going for several hours unattended.

But solo sailing longer passages is inherently a dangerous proposition.

Not to be flippant, that sounds like working at a lot of big tech companies nowadays. More conceptually, you have the constant churn of in house tooling meaning what you wrote last year needs to be rewritten to work with the new version of X (be it the ticketing system or the new process to store secrets or the new frontend framework that will fix everything). And even more concretely, there are teams that will fully get sunset when a new product or service deprecates them or beats them to market. Famously, that was how the iPhone was developed, with teams competing internally in Apple. https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/28/iphone-creation-click-wheel-t...

I'm extremely skeptical for the value in this. I've already seen wasted hours responding to baseless claims that are lent credence by AI "reviews" of open source codebases. The claims would have happened before but these text generators know how to hallucinate in the correct verbiage to convince lay people and amateurs and are more annoying to deal with.

I'm not sure if you're just making a play on words, but I believe the commenter was talking about the streamer who sets up their fishtank to map to inputs and then let's their fish "play games". They beat pokemon sapphire supposedly. https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/9/21556590/fish-pokemon-sapp...

Not just that, unless you are eating them blindfolded or using food dye or in a more complex dish, a preference was shown to exist for pasture raised eggs. Visual stimuli is still part of the eating process and influences taste, it should not be ignored.

I know this is just another reddit post so could be fake, but supposedly debris is already washing ashore in Turks and Caicos. Specifically in this post a heat shield tile, but the poster mentions other stuff on the beach. So at least some debris probably dropped nearby.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1i3na4a/...

At least in this video, all the interviews and documents that they base their claims/opinions on are listed in the description, so you can easily also peruse them if you doubt the interpretation.

Diner's Club is equivalent to Discover card and is at least somewhat present in European countries. I don't know official numbers but I've seen it often enough and have used it once or twice.

I'm not sure if it was the point, but both United Healthcare Insurance and OptumRx are both owned by United Health Group. Also I think it's about 1 in 10 doctors in the US work for them in one form or another. They've been in the news a bunch this year.

The same argument could be made in the other direction though. More, but worse, coverage could lead to behavioral changes that result in worse outcomes. Specifically, people feel more confident and go swimming when normally they'd only do so in lifeguarded waters.

Really we need to wait and see what the data shows (if they review it), as the article states for now they haven't performed any rescues.

Not to minimize the experience, but don't the crew regularly "get trapped" on the boat weeks at a time without cellphone data? As in every time they do an ocean crossing.

I was reading an article here recently about the boats that fix the cables on the sea floor, they detailed that very situation and talked about how some ships are opting to add starlink but it's still very ship dependent.

One of the speedrunners in the community managed to beat the level on their own as well before the servers went down. Not as technically interesting, but it's super cool to see what those players are capable of nowadays.

https://youtu.be/Owc_rwlxUlc

Funny enough that sounds really similar to the actions of the CEO and others at Ebay: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-ebay-exec-heading-prison...

So it's not that surprising that they allow it on their platform.

The poor of today (2023) are the middle class of 2003-2008? That's a hard comparison with the housing crash of 2008, but I don't think the tide has risen enough for that comparison to be accurate.