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jcranberry
·6 months ago·discuss
The tweet says blackstone. Thats a separate firm from blackrock. And the tweets misleading in the first place, it's looking at the bottom of a candle which wasn't even the current price at the time of the photograph? And the stock closed at about 154.

Besides all this says is that it matters for blackstone...not for the housing market at large.
jcranberry
·4 years ago·discuss
Most likely there are trustworthy certifications which you can look for depending on the product. But I agree it isn't always easy.

You can also participate in the used/2nd hand market. That makes a bigger difference than people often account for.

Otherwise there's changing to clean energy providers for your home, switching to electric vehicles, and eating less beef and dairy.

But I'm still all for the carbon tax.
jcranberry
·4 years ago·discuss
We should be approaching the problem from all avenues, so I agree. But this campaign that ordinary people shouldn't arsed to do anything because it won't make a difference is absurd.
jcranberry
·4 years ago·discuss
I did read it. 19% of global emissions from household power and 17% from mobility (cars and such) is not miniscule, and not agricultural/commercial usage.
jcranberry
·4 years ago·discuss
I remember reading some studies and IIRC it turned out that overall power usage including energy transfer efficiency and grid leakage for gas stoves and induction was about the same.

One other issue with gas stoves which I believe some California gov agency recently discovered is that even when you're not using them they may contribute to methane gas leakage.
jcranberry
·4 years ago·discuss
A quick google tells me household consumption contributes to 72% of GHG emissions:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es803496a
jcranberry
·4 years ago·discuss
In college I pirated things when I was living off a few hundred bucks a month. But nowadays when I'm making good money I pay for everything. Its frankly absurd to steal content when you're that well paid.
jcranberry
·5 years ago·discuss
I think you should be able to invest in your IRA however you like, but there really should have been a limit on how much is tax advantaged. Or perhaps just a limit in terms of how large disbursements can be while still being tax advantaged?
jcranberry
·5 years ago·discuss
My "theory" is that learning a language is like learning any other discipline to a high degree of fluency. If you study a couple hours a week even if you don't forget what you learned in short order it's something which requires a period of immersion for you to be able to recall it as well as the day you learned it. To be able to expound at length on a topic at the drop of a hat you essentially need to dedicate a few hours a day every day. I think languages work the same way.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
Psychedelics shouldn't be viewed as palliative. They help you to bring about changes to your self. For some people trips can be very frightening or even traumatizing.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
dead battery might have been my fault, I opened up the laptop to take a look at the hinge and may have shorted something...I think I used a screwdriver or metal tool to push in the connections when reassembling
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
acronyms?
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
I touch type everything but the function keys, including using shift, alt, and control.

I'm sure the lack of a touchbar is very annoying to people who have taken such a class but I'm skeptical that most people, or even a significant portion of developers, have taken computer typing.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
The latter. Maybe it's not that hard to learn but I suppose I've never really felt inclined to try and touch type since hitting the wrong function key can have a higher "cost" than just typing a wrong letter. Bringing up a help dialog, going full screen, developer console, etc.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
That's a good point. But I suppose this post is mostly about laptops and laptop keyboards don't typically have those groupings.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
I was about to disagree before I realized with my Precision 5520 (analogous to XPS 15) the left hinge is broken and my battery is dead, and they both broke after about a year.

I don't know about the battery but the hinge was certainly a problem with the line in general, since it was a flimsy plastic thing unable to hold the weight of the 4k screen it came with...I'd be a bit surprised if that hasn't been fixed in the around 2.5 years since I bought it though.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
To be fair, I doubt most people, even developers, use the function keys enough to touch type with them.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
It's also for people who might develop sleep problems. Or for just generally tracking your sleep schedule to help yourself be in good sleep hygiene.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
I thought the pain of setting up your email server was doing all the IT stuff to make sure that it's always working and you're not going to end up losing all your mail and all that.
jcranberry
·7 years ago·discuss
What's wrong with Dell? Their XPS and Precision lines are good, and have Linux support.