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Yet Japan is possibly the worst in the world when it comes to plastic waste. They often divide every 2 items from the convenience store into separate bags. Hell, it’s the land of individually plastic wrapped bite sized cookies served in an oversized plastic tray inside a bag with box outside of it.

As an even worse real life example, if you buy a slice of cake and tell them you’ll be eating it in 5 minutes, they get out a laminated box for a slice that can be eaten in 2 bites, insert a plastic ice pack, wrap the box in a tight layer of plastic, tape it, then put that inside a plastic bag large and sturdy enough to carry 2 toddlers. Just for a slice of cake I’ll eat almost immediately. Explain to them you don’t need it, and they can’t comprehend that you’d eat 5 minute warmed cake and do it anyways.

America at least has reusable water bottles and fountains for them in many places. I’ve yet to see such a thing in Japan. People would probably not want to use it because they’d fear it’s unsanitary. Except for some EU countries, America is way ahead of the curve here.
Yes. H2 is easily dissociated by UV. (Re)combination of 2H0 (two neutral hydrogen atoms) can't happen in the gas phase without a third body to take away the recombination energy. Quantum mechanics again. So there has to be a third thing around (another atom, molecule, or surface) to make H2 out of 2H0.
Interesting, I just realized that I am emulating 1860s pictorialism, instead of 1860s limitations in technology for vintage photos.

That's hella meta. But I can also accept being a pictorialist, as much as an impressionist isn't just emulating a vintage style but is subscribing to an entire genre.
While it didn't happen for the topic of FPH, my subjective experience is that it _did_ happen for racism. I've mostly been subscribed to smaller subreddits for about 5 years, and while the likes of r/European and r/coontown were at their peak, there wasn't the constant stream of insinuations about immigrants or outright racism at the low (and sometimes not so low) end in subreddits like r/Ireland or r/Europe there is now.
It has to do with the resistance between the two terminals. Every person is different, so the cutoff will be different between every person
Is there a market for reusable washable straws (perhaps metal?) for people with disability who require straws for everyday use? I know they already exist in some form. I've bought a rubber one for my toddler.

The answer doesn't need to be that everyone uses plastic straws just to cater for a niche market.
Anorexia and bulimia - real eating disorders - don't take 20 years to kill.

And the bad faith of OP is exemplified by the original version of this nasty little point-scoring BS where she claimed to diagnose Dorsey as starving himself to death by looking at a list of foods he ate once a day and assuming he was getting <2k calories a day (she had apparently never heard of intermittent fasting).
Oh boo, I skimmed over that. Thanks for the clarification.
That's only true of you prioritize minimization of e-waste over personal convenience, which most (including me) do not. The regulation delay is exactly the problem: had politicians standardized micro-usb, we would still be on it rather than usb-c.
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What are the commercial uses for the hemp you grow? I notice hemp seeds are becoming a lot more popular as a natural protein & healthy fat source.
Oh interesting! Thanks for sharing that.
I call BS - you make too much sense to be a manager.
We all need to eat. But we don't all need to eat food produced by small farms. We all need to wear clothes, but we don't all need hand-stitched wool coats. We all need shelter, but we don't all need bespoke architecture and locally sourced organic timber framing.

I think I understand the sentiment, but I don't agree with it. I am not grateful to small farmers, at least, not especially. I suppose I'm glad that everyone is playing their part, but I feel this way about anyone contributing to our society. They sell nothing that I cannot get just as good and cheaper from large and industrial farms.

I work on something that I would argue many people "need" in their life. But I don't expect anyone to be grateful to me. Of course they shouldn't. I'm doing my work for my own benefit, mostly. I think very little about the end users whose lives are made slightly easier by my work. I am certainly not doing my work out of a sense of altruism toward their well-being. I suspect that most farmers are the same. The production is too far removed from the consumption. This is not therapy, massage, teaching, or housekeeping. This is business.

To the extent small farmers do think of me, I hope they realize that I would rather pay a dollar less for the same eggs, even if it means they don't get to keep working their ideal job. It's a little sad, but I have bills, and childcare, and rent to pay. Those things are no less important than the expenses of a farmer.
I would argue that the industry do this already. On the part of Apple, lightning was undoubtedly better than micro-usb, and switching immediately to usb-c would arguably create more e-waste. Also, Apple is probably more sustainable than many other companies.
When did you TA?

I was TA for 1911 (I think?) around 2008-2009 and don't recall any automated grading system. It would have been so nice too, as labs would end up with students trying (struggling!) to complete the lab, get the lab graded, and ask questions about lecture material they hadn't yet understood.

The grading would inevitably take up almost all the lab...
How about that corrugated cardboard heat protector for the reusable metal cup?

I think combined with reusable metal cups, it could help.
Ahh yeah, you guys probably get a lot more extremes. :)
Floridian here too, Jaxson to be exact. You must be in south Florida or somewhere not near North Florida. There's no ban here on straws at the beaches.
Southern Florida is much more progressive than North Florida (See any election result).
We're basically Southern Georgia.
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I feel like dirty dishes have been a problem in every place I have worked. Have any companies wised up and installed a dishwasher in each kitchen, and have someone assigned to run them every night? Or even just pay someone to wash the dishes by hand?
I run in Vivobarefoot shoes - they feel pretty much the same when new and after years of running.

Also play various cutting/running sports (soccer, ultimate) and don't notice much of a difference between old and new shoes. My current turf shoes are about eight years old, with multiple games per week over most of that period.
No, the saddest thing is that she hasn't accepted the miracle of Just Intonation.
The NWS produces expert commentary (aka "forecaster's discussion") that can explain the deviations from forecasted weather. For example, there is a stalled weak cold front over the US right now. Many areas are getting variants of "Though not currently included in our forecast, very minor rain chances could return on Wednesday with models indicating some eastward movement of the ridge and an increase in PWAT values" based on the underlying uncertainty behind where exactly this frontal system will stall out.
Cups seem like they’d be easy enough to clean. Travel coffee cup lids are another story. I have a hard time cleaning mine, and I’m only concerned about cleaning out my own germs.
NIF didn't work. It failed to achieve ignition. The simulation codes were bad.

A project called LIFE, to use NIF results to design an actual fusion reactor, was quietly terminated not too long after NIF failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy

Even if NIF had achieved ignition, it would likely, IMO, never have led to workable reactors. The targets are simply too expensive, and there's likely no way to protect the final optics (which have to be in line of sight of the targets) from hundreds of millions of explosions.
Isn't it obvious?

The Model 3 was a completely different market segment from the Model S, so they could hype the Model 3 to the moon without impacting Model S orders (atleast for a time).

With the Model Y, they can't brag how much better it is than the Model 3 because it will cause prospective Model 3 buyers to wait for the Model Y, rather than buying a Model 3 and Tesla needs Model 3 cash flow to fund the Y program.
Don't forget the implicit:

6) Using my preferred programming language.
I've worked at places that had a fridge where people stored their boxed meals, and they had a rule that the fridge is emptied (to the garbage) on the weekend, to avoid accumulating people's forgotten rotting food.

Seems like it can be applied to cups as well.
The truth is property is worth basically nothing without public infrastructure and services. So taxes pay for the maintenance of the public infrastructure and services that give the land it's value.
Yeah the amount is secondary. I don't really have a good feel for 0.01 inches vs. 0.1 inches anyway (both seem small and then I constantly get surprised). Trouble is when they literally say no chance of rain and then I get soaked, or when they say it'll rain and there's not a single drop.
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Exactly the problem. I have no idea. Ender's Game?
> Unless you’re twiddling atoms

Or married to someone twiddling atoms, or needing to support someone twiddling atoms, or married to someone who needs to support someone twiddling atoms... Or have such level of arrogance and greeds (:gasp:) as to want to be near a family member who needs to twiddle atoms... Or if you're straight up greedy and don't want to live in the middle of nowhere.
"But what I can't understand is why it costs so much for a piece of rubber and some canvas (or cloth), only to wear out in a few months time! "

Because they spend a tremendous amount of money marketing shoes to consumers.
Splitting hairs, but we already are paying for the container.
Corruption, or so.

There was almost legislation to stop them from distributing data to the public directly, because then companies can make more money doing it.
Find your "Hell Yes". Settling for lukewarm is almost always a bad choice.
What if someone wants to go somewhere where they most likely won't be paid much? (e.g. art, music) Can Lambda School extend there?
Hyundai does not want to meet the demand for the car because it is a compliance car and they are losing money on each sale.
We don't know how many were taken discreetly (perhaps lesser known people), but the case that caused much concern was the bookstore owners disappearances [1].

Owners of a bookstore that sold PRC-censored books were taken to China secretly, trialed and convicted. One of them was even a Swedish national, but the CCP insisted he was "Chinese". He released a video "admitting" to his crimes of drunk driving a few years prior but his name in the records didn't even match his actual name, i.e. he was obviously forced to admit to a crime he didn't commit. Another one reappeared in Hong Kong, said he would take his family to China, praised Chinese living quality, and went back to China.

When the law is passed, the CCP doesn't need to abduct people discreetly anymore. They would simply order Hong Kong's officials to transfer them. In short, once this law is passed, no one is safe. Not even foreigners.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
Colorado limits the total increase in tax revenue to the sum of the population increase and inflation increase. This typically 4% a year.

Property taxes are the assessed value scaled to this total. Its possible for the tax to decrease even if the assessed value increases, if the increase is less than the average increase.

This model of taxation doesnt take into account that government gradually provides more new services, like more healthcare etc.
Since most phone cameras already reverse the image when shooting with the front camera, you decided to take it one further and go inverted too?
Another thing that's rarely mentioned is that the power density of tokamaks will be very bad.

ITER's power density is 0.05 MW/m^3 (gross fusion power divided by volume of the reactor machinery; plasma volume is smaller). The power density of the MIT's ARC reactor is somewhat better, at 0.5 MW/m^3.

But the power density of a PWR reactor vessel is 20 MW/m^3, a factor of 40x better than ARC and 400x better than ITER.

Given that fusion reactors are much more intricate and use much more sophisticated materials and systems than a PWR reactor vessel, and are also much larger, the fusion reactors cannot help but be much more expensive per unit of thermal power output than fission reactors.

BTW, the main reason p11B fusion gets less investment is that for a given magnetic field the peak fusion rate of a p11B plasma is three orders of magnitude worse than for DT.
It's not a full up-front cost risk to students. Federal loans (90% of disbursements) qualify for income based repayment where the maximum you will pay is 10% of income above 1.5x the Federal poverty limit. If you end up stuck as a barista making $25k a year, you'll pay back very little of the overall cost over the 20 year repayment.

Also if you get through a few semesters at an accredited university and decide you hate it those credits will generally transfer somewhere else. The same is not true of unaccredited programs.
I used to think that once a product was created it made no sense to try to produce another one. It's not a valid reason not to try. If you can make the product better or have a way to monetize it then it's a good idea to try.

The hardest way to succeed it to create a brand new product no one has seen since you have to not only find the market you are selling to but convince them that they need the product plus teach that market how to use the product. Something that's expensive and time-consuming. So in a way having a product in the market is an advantage to someone that wants to compete in that area.
Could this be used to create a niche CRM? I've got someone asking me to develop a CRM for them in their business domain.
I primarily meant farmers in general, not small farmers (though that may have been an error, given the context).

But you might want to re-think your position, because you can also be on the receiving end. That big egg grower? He may feed the chickens exotic chemicals if it means they lay more frequently, in order to produce your one-dollar-cheaper eggs. Those same chemicals may reach any females in your household, either through the eggs or the groundwater, and may do interesting things to their monthly cycles. And so on with other chemicals and other kinds of farmers. It might be worth a buck to support smaller farmers, presuming that they see their customers as human beings who can't be fed that stuff.
Pretending to be ignorant of externalities doesn't mean they stop existing
The high capital cost of fusion follows from some fundamental aspects of fusion reactor engineering.

http://orcutt.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Trou...
> and sanctions Hotel chains that treat Taiwan as separate country

but that's a close as they ever got to having their flag fly on taiwan...
Funny, the women I know (in Japan) WANT to get married and quit their jobs and just take care of the household, because their jobs are unfulfilling, overtime, etc. They just can't find a man who can do it for them (wages in this part of the country aren't very sustainable)

I'm gonna have to go look up surveys on why women don't marry now
> With the decline of Apple hardware, this is less true, and modern Linux hardware support is, at worst, no worse than what other OSes provide, in my experience.

I will still take a perceived regression in hardware from Apple over anything else on the market today. They are that far ahead. Still the best touchpad and connectivity support which are the two most important factors in my book. Also still the most aesthetically pleasing and known brand of laptop in the world. The latter point is not so important in my book, but I do believe it helps contribute to the resale value of the Mac, which again is class leading in terms of mass produced laptops.
The potential benefit is lots of electricity, which may be abundant that when amortized over the "high capital costs" could be much more cost effective than wind, solar, and storage, or may not be. We have to invest in these relatively small projects to figure that out.

Furthermore, the highly geographically concentrated energy production from fusion power could work really well for energy consumers with a similarly localized nature. I'm thinking large scale carbon capture, energy intensive materials manufacturing or processing, or large scale ocean water desalination.
Once again, you are absolutely right. I just reviewed the guidelines again, but thank you for the reminder.
You're mostly hedging against weather.

One region gets flooded or hit by a drought, and then produces essentially nothing. So you want N+M regional redundancy, where you can lose the output of M regions and the remaining N can produce enough for the whole.
We've got a dishwasher in each office, and the office manager/reception tidy up. Most people put their own plates away.

However like with litter and graffiti in the streets, if people let even a small amount of cups & plates build up - then everyone seems to think it's time to dump their stuff in the sink too.
Yes, but would be more expensive (a higher percentage of income), although loans are a higher percentage as well.
If the gross fusion power output of ITER were converted to electricity at 40% efficiency, and you ignored the power needed to run the reactor, and also ignored the cost of the breeding blanket, turbines, and generators (which ITER doesn't have) then the capital cost would be about $100/W(e).

In contrast, the cost of installed utility scale PV is around $1/W.
This is the most non-story story I’ve ever read. Instagram has nearly a billion users. So there’s a segment of those users that seems to like a certain aesthetic. Great. There are millions of other users who have other aesthetic preferences.
Going for the CBD market?
http://www.recyclingadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03...
American society could use more circular educational systems like these, where the retired and the young could benefit in a healthy way from each other’s presence.

The young, by being read to and told history; the old, by being surrounded by hope.

I have seen some attempts at schools attached to retirement/end of life homes.
If you're building a server application, you should be aware of the kinds of information you're writing to your application log. The first obvious issue is that of possibly disclosing information if the traceback is returned to the client instead of saved in the server log. The second, less obvious question is what kinds of statutory requirements you are under regarding retention of PII in your logs. And in the worst case scenario, you could end up writing out things like plaintext passwords and unrelated PII from the environment.

I bring this up because this looks like it discloses variable values into the log that would not be printed in a standard traceback under most normal circumstances.
No, fusion could not allow humans to reach Alpha Centauri in a lifetime, unless you mean they flew through the Alpha Centauri system without stopping.

If you want human interstellar travel, that probably means beamed power propulsion. That's a better solution anyway, since it allows higher power density at the vehicle. There is no need for fusion for that.
Spain isn't really the model Americans think about in terms of Europe though. That the country that was literally a Fascist dictatorship until the mid 1970s has some right wing views isn't exactly a surprise. It's Scandinavia that's the model the US left wants to copy.
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Lambda School isn’t really software; we spent the first 18 months writing little to no code while we focused on building a world class school.

Now, of course, we’re using software to scale everything and data science to measure and optimize everything, but the core engine is a really great school and instructional design we created from the ground up, not code.
No, actually fusion is likely to be even more expensive than fission, and fission already cannot compete with wind and solar. Fusion takes the biggest problem of fission, high capital cost, and makes it worse, while reducing fuel costs, which are only a minor part of the cost of fission. It's bass-ackwards engineering.
> I think Reddit probably agreed with you for most of its existence, but evidence indicated that rationality and clear arguments weren't winning

It's even darker than that. There is an organized effort to destroy any public forum that is a place of discourse. For the people and organization paying for the bots, troll farms and social media influencers discourse is exactly what they paying to get rid of. Considering that reddit doesn't have any other business model they had to start fighting back.
Usually you can bypass the problem by making it a transfer tax thing. When you sell, all your taxes come due through the change in price.

For inheritances, you re-assess and consider it a sale. If the price went up lots, the kids can pay the tax and keep it, or they can sell the property and pay off the taxes.
Only tangentially related, but I really love Oscar Boyson's short documentary The Future of Cities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOOWk5yCMMs
Stories like these are always sad to me, but in the end I remember that stuff like this is totally natural and part of the act of invention. We simply found a better way of communicating information, and the printing press will never be able to compete with it in terms of information density, convenience, etc...
Thank you. Thats helpful.
This article is so bloated - - anybody got just an executive summary ?
>Density is the response to land scarcity that takes away power from landlords, not the other way around.

"Density" in my comment is population density, not construction density. Unfortunately, construction density (and height) is restricted by zoning and all kinds of bylaws. Most residential areas in North America allow only single-family houses and prohibit multi-tenant buildings with 3-4 floors or more. Landlords benefit from such zoning rules immensely, because they drive land price up.
Ahh yes $50 normal price. They’ve had several 20% off sales in the past 6 mos.

Still $50 is a bargain for a professional level vector illustration app.
I worked in an office with company mugs and a pair of dishwashers. It was great. We had no problems at all.
I read an article, I think on here, a few years ago talking about the reason brick buildings look so ugly so fast now is essentially that skilled bricklayers are no longer a thing.
Is that a unique SV situation? Where I live, most new housing is close to or only slightly above general market price for the corresponding market segment (e.g. 2br condo, 3br SFH, etc). It usually seems to come with pretty ordinary trappings- ordinary countertops, ordinary fixtures, maybe the floors are laminate, etc. Luxury appointment can be found, but nobody's building five hundred units with gold inlay.
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Fission and fusion have already lost. As Amory Lovins has pointed out, just the non-nuclear part of a fusion power plant would make it too expensive to compete. The reactor itself would have to cost negative dollars for the whole power plant to be competitive, and that's unlikely.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2014/09/07/fusion-p...
I recently discovered keynote for illustration and animation. I will still use it in certain scenarios, esp if animation is involved. It’s amazingly capable.