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brandonmadeit OP t1_jeg9duk wrote

Reply to comment by atexit8 in The IRS is a piece of work by brandonmadeit

I’d go so far as to say most of America has a lack of knowledge on how taxes work, which is why we end up paying tax experts to handle it. As I went on a tangent I was saying there shouldn’t even be a need for “tax experts” when as a W2 (see I learn quickly) employee the government knows how much I make already. But that was besides my main point of, if I don’t have the letter via snail mail in my possession what is my next step to even knowing what was written on it? And if the phone number doesn’t connect to anyone but Siri how can I communicate my situation to anyone but Reddit?

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rafa-droppa t1_jeg9drv wrote

Reply to comment by Eokokok in Heat Pumps could supply 20% of building heating by 2030. Supercritical CO2 heat pump sales in Japan have now reached a total of 8.5 million units. by DisasterousGiraffe

To me the interesting idea is industrial uses.

Take steel making for example, you have molten iron at one stage, then at a later stage you water cool it.

With further engineering you could pump the heat from the water cooling stage to heat the container of molten iron.

Obviously we're a far way from using heat exchangers to melt iron, but the point is if you can work out something like a preheat so you're heating the iron to 200F before melting it you can use a lot less energy, plus you save energy and water from the water cooling process.

So if you could reduce energy used in steelmaking by like 10% and water by 20% - that would be huge globally.

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NoProblemsHere t1_jeg9czh wrote

Reply to comment by jpb103 in [WP] A medical robot on a long space flight has tried everything. Makeshift defibrillators, CPR, injecting adrenaline, but it's no use. The crew have died. As a last ditch effort, the robot downloads all information on "necromancy." by tehweave

Given that their replicator can apparently replicate live animals, I'm a little surprised that Cut Cut didn't just try to replicate the crew first. It seems fond of unconventional "medicine".

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iprothree t1_jeg9bxu wrote

Reply to comment by Befuddled_Cultist in Japan and China Connect Military Hotline to Reduce Tensions by bloomberg

You can but I think the planners saw it as it's much more expensive and complicated for little to no benefit. Phone calls only need about 60 kbps of bandwidth, everything above is essentially wasted space on a dedicated line. And due to how light works, adjusting modulation over glass is a bit harder vs copper. Most analog communication over fiber uses a converter to convert to digital.

Besides I think it'll probably just be tapping into existing infrastructure and being allocated dedicated bandwidth.

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NetHacks t1_jeg9bpb wrote

Reply to In your opinion, has Sununu (so far) been a relatively good, bad, meh governor for New Hampshire? by TheGraniteMoose

The reason that new hampshire is where it is today is because this administration has never had a plan for the economy, housing, or energy that had a direction as to where we're going. In the middle of a huge natural gas shortage, we're now seeing why having almost all of our power plants being natural gas is a bad idea. On top of that we're struggling to get net zero for solar moved up from one MW to 5 MW. While every state around us builds its way out of an energy crisis, we sit here and hope it will all blow over. Hassan and the democrats should have worked towards a solution for northern pass. But once that didn't go through, we needed another solution and we instead got nothing. Now we just shut down power plants with no plans on what to do down the road.

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