I know, I'm usually so awesome and cool that my comments get an automatic thumbs up... at least my mom thinks so...
>> ^curiousity:

>> ^gwiz665:
God did it...
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Actually, this is symptomatic of people that cannot accept responsibility for their own actions. They look to something "higher" that they can pin it on. No, the devil did not make her do it, she just did it, her choice, her responsibility. Like god also does nothing, the devil does nothing.

Actually I meant to downvote, not upvote your comment. Repetitive motion creates habits.

>> ^nock:

Inflation gets a bad rap, the Fed's job is to maintain yearly inflation of about 1-2%. Deflation is really bad because it means that my money is more valuable sitting in my pocket/under mattress/etc today than it will be tomorrow. So why would I buy a large item (car, house, etc) if my ability to purchase increases the more I hold onto my money? In essence, the economy stops because consumers earn more by spending less and companies must lower prices, which leads to layoffs which leads to decreased earnings which leads to less spending which leads to lower prices which leads to layoffs which...


The same logic could be applied for the purchase of technology; why buy today, when something awesome will come out in 6 months. In reality, people do not operate like that. Most people buy object A for X dollars in whenever X dollars is achieved.

Like I said in my comment before, when you start to swing money supply extreme in either direction, that is where the danger starts. Mild deflation or inflation is nothing to troubling. The real problem is there is no objective mathematical principle in which the fed operates the money supply. Minor inflation is smart when considering a continual rise in the population, but there is no standard metric that they follow for this because they ALSO try and heat and cool markets, something they shouldn't be in the business of doing.

Saying inflation is bad or good isn't really viable. Inflation is good for some, bad for others. Deflation is the same bed, good for some, bad for others. Most notably, it is bad for big business. It is in big business's best interest to have cheap money they can spend before it inflates to fill their coffers. Deflation places its power to individuals financing slower endeavors. What is "better" is a matter of taste of lifestyle, one that I don't think the government has any business regulating per say. And I say that in spite of the fact that, most likely, the decisions people would make would tend us towards a lifestyle that I don't enjoy as much (living in perpetual debt...house, car, cards, chrismas!!)...but so be it.

In short, debt as a source of wealth favors those that save money for others. Savings as a source of wealth favors those that save their own wealth for themselves and those they chose to share it with. Both work, but for whom and to what degree sways largely, and in our case, largely on the decisions unelected quzi-public servants make...unacceptable.

Almost all energy consumed by households is avoidable waste:
* think about the way you fry eggs. 99% of the heat from the burner is going into the air, not into the eggs. This should be solved by using small device that is well insulated on all sides and has an internal heating coil.
* Ovens have a high heat capacity and shitty insulation. More energy is wasted on heating up the oven itself than actually goes into the food. This could be solved by lining the inside of the oven with silica aerogel instead of metal. If an oven is properly insulated it will not feel very warm to the touch on the outside, even after being on for an hour.
* Most of your heating and cooling energy leaks out the windows -- if their inside surface feels significantly above or below ambient during extreme weather, your heating and cooling energy is being wasted and hemorrhaging out the windows. It would literally save energy to have a webcam on the roof and display that image on an LCD inside instead of having windows, if you live in a climate with extreme temperatures (especially in cold climates, as the energy used for the LCD would contribute to heating the house). All ventilation needs can be accomplished through a small portal with a fan (and a heat exchanger, of course).
* Hot water is produced very wastefully by just dumping energy into it instead of using a thermodynamic cycle to transfer heat and produce something cold as a byproduct. Hot water could be co-produced with cold water for AC / Refrigeration much more efficiently than doing them all separately.
* Hot water goes down the drain. This should at least go through a heat exchanger, which would dramatically lessen the amount of work that has to be done to heat up new hot water. A 7 Liter per minute showerhead putting water 30 degrees F above ambient down the drain is wasting over 8135 watts as long as it is running. However, I don't know of any houses yet designed with a heat exchanger between the shower drain water and the intake of the water heater.
* Fluorescent lights. Duh. Incandescent bulbs should be banned.
* Freezers built with the door on the top will waste much less energy to the convection of air when opened, for obvious reasons.

Here ends the lifestyle-neutral list of suggestions. The following would involve sacrificing something:

* Reduce excessive lighting -- if people wouldn't fuck up their retinas by driving just after sunrise or just before sunset, or seeing specular reflections of the sun on shiny cars and buildings outdoors, they wouldn't need such bright lights indoors. A 1 watt LED is plenty for reading. Sunlight could be used in the daytime instead of artificial lights.

Nice and cool

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*dead embedding disabled by request. Very weird and cool.

Like Bush ever backtracked on any fucking thing he has ever done.

But yeah wow. It's like okay and cool to do war crimes. The apathy in the US population is extraordinary but hey Monday Night Football is on.

Not a single intelligence agency has said that torture created any actionable intelligence.

The bottom line for me is that I don't really mind too much but it is possible to push things too far so that you undermine the status/meaning of channels in the first place.

On the other hand I agree that being too broad is a problem as well.

However being able to create a channel should be more than just a feather in one's cap. To up the value of a channel in the first place we need to add more channel specific features and cool stuff. Then the debate about how channels are created becomes more meaningful as it's far more than a playlist or clicking on a tag.

BTW if the community decides, perhaps two other sifters should second the channel nomination before it's put forward to everyone else.

Oh wow, so it looks like they actually modelled the cat with 3d maths and then rendered it with ascii

Thats pretty impressive and cool

Neat idea and cool table, but his description bothers me...

A "compass rose" is the thing on a map or chart that shows the cardinal directions (North, South, East, West), not the thing that is spinning inside the compass.

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*promote. Because it's interesting and cool.

>> ^schmawy:
This video has it all. Safe and helpful public service, a drunk German, a scathing review of the US's public transportation infrastructure, dance music, ice cream, and cool folding scoots.

QFT. Can't say it any better myself.

This video has it all. Safe and helpful public service, a drunk German, a scathing review of the US's public transportation infrastructure, dance music, ice cream, and cool folding scoots.

*quality, I say!

^ Did you even watch the video? How about arguing against his points of contention, rather than spewing opinions?

Is the word "trick" indicative of fraud when used in the context of scientific analysis?
Is the travesty of unexplained data something they were trying to hide?
Is the 11-year warming and cooling cycle an unsupported guess?

Anything at all that he just said that you can rebut, or are you just going to repeat talking points?

Two people together can get things done a lot more efficiently than one person living alone. The vast majority of the cost of the household is unaffected by the number of people living there -- rent, heating and cooling (aka 80% of the electric bill), and internet access.

It's no additional labor to cook for 2 than to cook for 1 -- just throw twice as much in the pot. Likewise for the labor of grocery shopping to find the best products at the lowest prices. Doing dishes for two people instead of one is considerably less than twice as much work.