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psud ,

Back when I worked a job with a target (25 work items in this case) it would have been reasonably cheap for them to massively increase productivity by doing that

Finish the day's work and go home

Instead they demanded 25 work items, gave us enough work to deliver around 15 each and wanted us on site regardless of whether work was done

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Even walking the same route is enjoyable. You get to notice the small things - moonrise, birds, people walking the same or opposite way each day

I'm 30 km from my workplace so I cycle, and have a choice of about three paths. When I travel at the same time, same way, I see the same people walking their dogs, jogging, cycling (passing me; me passing them)

It's the shallowest acquaintance, but still nice

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Paris really is beautiful, I have seen many places as nice in Europe, but Paris stands out

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Many native Americans have adopted the group name "Indian". You might not like it, but they do.

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Sometimes people will down vote a comment because they agree with a contrary reply above it. I don't like the way people punish people for asking

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Sorry if I misinterpreted your question mark as indicating you questioned the use of the term ;)

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From the recent guess the build series. Joel's session, I believe

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Each participant runs the game on their channel with a different theme

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I'm sure I have seen the most radical anti-meat opinions here.

Like it's worth destroying the ecosystems that depend on large herbivores to ensure the carbon they would move from grass to air back to grass instead is liberated by fire when the grasses grow unchecked, possibly forever when the grasses are no longer fertilised by the animals they support

I'm all for ending the worst animal agriculture. Get rid of the factory farms, get rid of methods that don't last. I easy meat, but I pick my meat from the stuff grown in places they are a net benefit or at worst displace other herbivores that aren't as tasty as cows

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And, of course the seventh day adventists, but for ruttyness control

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Sure but the problem isn't the name "unskilled worker", if we renamed the category the people in it would still be easy to replace and so have low wages because training a new person in the job is still going to be cheap and easy

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🎵It's raining man, hallelujah but why did they blend him?

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The Earth is in fact larger than a beach ball

Larger to us than a beach ball is to an ant (which can't perceive the curve of the ball)

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Another solution is mass transit. That right of way could support light rail and still have several car lanes in each direction

The light rail also gives work from home people a way to get to shops, shows, and sports without driving

Light rail also can be built to not get stuck in traffic, which makes it faster than driving too

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Suburban rail is heavier than trams, the London tube is suburban rail, as are Sydney trains

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If you design your cities well people live near the places which people want to visit, and pedestrian speed is fine

Lots of cities are well designed, though most that were so designed in the US got modified after cars became important

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My town does buses better than that, but peak hour buses get stuck in traffic

So times when it's a 20 minute drive, it's 30 or 40 minutes by bus, when the same drive is 45 minutes in slow traffic, the bus is not a lot worse, at 1 hr

Anyway the better solution has busses only as a last mile solution, with trunks covered by rail

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Part of it is that the organisations that design and build roads are also the ones who assess whether a road is needed. No big surprise that they "forget" about induced demand

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I mean we really don't need cities, just make hundred lane roads in their place

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My town wants to widen a section of road near me. It's the only part of the road with only one lane each way

I'm torn. I know widening the road won't help traffic (right now that narrow bit reduces through traffic, making it a nice bit of road to drive) but if they do widen it, they will also add cycle lanes.

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Suburban centres to city centres, in places where that's the traffic flow

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You know what would work just as well, but without isolating people?

Mixed zoning and mass rapid transit

Let people work walking distance to their home, give those who need to go somewhere a way of going there quicker than traffic

It'd also be good to mandate easy availability of work from home for anyone in a job where that is practical

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My small city's main suburb to centre link is a 100km/h, two lane each way parkway, until it merges with a similar road from a different centre, grows to 3 lanes each way, and slows down sharply as it gets close to the centre

Between the last traffic lights and the spaghetti junction that merges it with a similar road it's free flowing and fine. The slow lane goes about 95, the fast lane about 100 to 110, with occasional slight slowdowns when a 95km/h car catches up with a slower one

But on that stretch there's about 300 metres of slow traffic due to a fixed speed camera. People going 95 who think their speedometer might be wrong the opposite way to which it is slow to 80; people doing 110 slow to well below 100, people following too close brake heavily, the fast lane ends up with a standing wave with a peak (or is it a trough?) of 60km/h

Then as you get past the camera it gets loud with even the slow cars rebelling against the slowdown give much throttle. That camera must cost so much CO2. I doubt it catches anyone except during the lightest traffic times. In even medium traffic you couldn't speed through that bit of road if you tried

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The bus must stop at other stops, wait at an interchange for passengers, then drive in the same lanes as cars (though there are limited lanes on some major roads)

There are no dedicated lanes on the route in my example, though it also is an express bus which doesn't stop at the interchange between where I live and the town centre. Also it is speed limited slower than the rest of traffic on the main road of the route

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If you want to also be pedantically technically correct, 9V batteries are often made from 6 AAAA cells. Most of the things people call battery are actually cells, the common batteries are 9V (6x1.5V cells) and 6V (4x1.5V cells) alkalines, 12V lead-acid (6x2V cells) and electric vehicle batteries (lots of 3-ish volt cells of various lithium technologies)

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Two words is two words. The three word part was not part of the two words

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The only really dangerous animal we have is the crocodile, but only far north

We all learn how to treat a snake bite, but the only people who get bitten by snakes are snake handlers

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Drowning is the biggest danger for people just arrived in Sydney

It's pretty rare to hear of a shark attack.

Blue ring octopuses and stone fish don't seek you out

Dangerous jellyfish are only in the far north

The ocean is pretty safe around the populated parts of Australia for people who know how to be safe from drowning.

Swim on patrolled beaches, between the flags.

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Lol

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My house was built with vents, un-closable, always venting vents. Inside temperature equals outside air temperature plus a little draft as the air moves from inside to outside and outside to inside

Heating or cooling is economically impractical, except in two rooms, one with no vent and one with a vent blocked with foil

I look forward to a knock down/rebuild where the future house will be will insulated and will exchange air with the outside in measured, heat exchanged doses and solar powered air con can heat or cool the house in peak solar generation and the house will be pleasant the rest of the day and night. I'm comfortable in 18°C to about 26° in winter and a little offset upwards in summer, and it's pretty easy to build to not gain or lose more than 8° in 18 hours in my climate (lows in the single digit negatives Celcius; highs seldom more than 40°C)

psud ,

People consider 70 ideal, don't they? So 65 is only a saving in winter, you would set a higher temperature than ideal in summer

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10°C is fine in sunlight or still air. If there's a breeze it is cold. Great cycling weather though, you can dump so much heat and barely need gloves

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Clothes-wise sure, we put it 100W at rest, we need only capture that.

I really don't get why you can still buy cooling-only air conditioners when any heat pump can work just as well in either direction

Every aircon should heat or cool the indoor space as required

Then it becomes easy to cool or warm at ~400% efficiency

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One of the best things about living inland is having indoor relative humidity over 30% being high

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I have two types of vents:

  • floor vents - to send central heat to all the rooms
  • Ceiling vents - to send inside air outside

I can't see any problem with closing one of those types of vent

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Have you considered living in the tropics?

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If it had advantages over being what one was used to, it would be more popular. It's not, so it couldn't be.

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If it works for cooling there's no reason it wouldn't work for heating. If they need to stand in the air path for cooling they will need to stand in the air path for heat

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I think you misread my comment. I wasn't talking about closing vents attached to a blower

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Vents that they used to put in ceilings in houses in Australia to ensure there was good air exchange between the inside and outside. They vent indoor air to roof space.

They seem to have come from architects who lived in places without winter

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Chinese rules of thumb headed killed many Chinese Australians and Americans via death cap (truth in naming) mushrooms that look like paddy straw mushrooms

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Luckily they didn't, until they invented grain farming and storage and bread every day

Hunter gatherers before 10k years ago (before Egypt learnt to farm) had great teeth

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Sure. Tropical people have always had fruit, some had sugar cane. People fought and their teeth were damaged

But dental cavities and abscesses are caused by sugar in your mouth, and bread has always been good at getting stuck between people's teeth, while their saliva converts the starches to sugars

Archaeologists determine whether a skeleton came from a hunter gatherer or a settled farmer by their teeth

Microflora in your mouth - perhaps they did have different, there's no evidence, but if so I would guess that one's mouth microflora changes depending on what one eats

Note that the process that damages teeth is fermentation - where sugar is fermented, liberating energy, carbonic acid. That doesn't happen in the absence of sugar that persists in your mouth

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So your "their teeth were good due to different microflora" can be simplified to "their teeth were good because they didn't have tooth damaging food"

psud ,

know it's hard for the Tesla cultists to accept, rather like the Apple cultists before them, but Tesla products are not good products for the price.

Likewise, it must be hard for the Musk haters (and anti Apple people!) to accept it when Tesla (or Apple) make a good product at good value. I live in Australia and get no discount to the price of the car and call it good value.

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I'm pretty sure the other states have similar incentives [as Adelaide!]

Now look up Victoria. They have an extra tax to stop EV owners from dodging the excise on petrol

Where I am we have free registration for two years and the ability to drive in HOV lanes, which is a couple of hundred dollars of benefit

Australia is a Federation. Each state, and to some extent the two mainland territories, sets its own rules to a large extent. We have no federal incentives on EVs

Nice of you to accuse me of lying without looking for more than 15 seconds, arsehole

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The typo indicates you typed that in a huff and a hurry. Please watch the videos I linked. My optimism isn't completely misplaced.

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Yeah, you can't expect to be successful the first time you try to take down a stock exchange

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