Tried to adopt this puppy, it got adopted right before I got there. Then the owner returned it after a week. Now she's mine!

andyroohoo · 2 months

A reputable shelter won't even consider adopting out a dog with food agression issues unless the adopter has extensive experience successfully training difficult dogs.

andyroohoo · 2 months

Classic way to address this is to tire her out physically, then have a willing "stranger" approach her with treats. If she is a snapper, you need to do this sort of carefully, but not fearfully, because dogs pick up on that and feed off of it.

Do it over and over again until she associates strangers with getting treats.

tt23 · 5 months

Yes, they actually have machines that do that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_storage_air_conditioning

But they don't really lower the electricity requirements, they just time shift the requirements so more nuclear baseload can be absorbed, rather than coal or nat gas peaking loads.

I wasn't really aware there was serious consideration of magnetic refrigeration cycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_refrigeration Sounds like it may be like fusion though, always x years in the future.

I have heard about utilizing thermoacoustic refrigeration cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoacoustic_hot_air_engine

tt23 · 5 months

I don't think Texas is a great candidate for PV for the heat/efficiency reason. We should be building solar thermal plants where the efficiency goes up with higher radiant heat.

Solar and wind each aren't about half of the cost of conventional electric options, they're more like 50% more costly. So when you have to build both, to get the same output because one works at times when the other doesn't, you're talking about tripling or more the cost to produce a kwh.

tt23 · 5 months

How do you shade them?

Green builders talk about roof overhangs to shade windows, and then only put about 2 foot overhangs on their houses. That only shades the windows for a couple hours a day. To really make a difference they need to be at least 4 feet wide for each 10 feet of building height.

Solar films work pretty good. Drapes work ok, but allow more heat in if hung inside and largely cover the windows.

Having lots of trees around a house can make a huge difference. My parents house is almost covered with trees over the roof and all sides. It creates a risk of damage during wind storms, and it takes decades to grow this kind of cover if the house isn't built around it. But their summer electrical bills are about half that of friends with similar size houses.

tt23 · 5 months

So ERCOT smartly recognized the limitations of wind and appropriately planned for the lower output during peak demand time. That doesn't mean that wind power makes sense in Texas. Texas needs alternative power that can be counted on during the highest demand times like summer afternoon airconditioning peaks.

Though wind still might make sense in moderation if wind contributes the most power when demand is above the nuclear base load, meaning wind is still able to displace coal or nat gas generation.

tt23 · 5 months

How do you get lower power cooling?

I agree Texas should require much better insulation, and better reflectivity of roofing materials.

tt23 · 5 months

Why would you want to live or work in a building that has no or very few windows? I work in a Texas office building that has no windows. I'm there 9 hrs a day. I can tell it affects my mood and productivity, and I have to spend money on lunch because I need to get out of there if only for an hour.

Yes we should be required to use double pane windows with solar films for as best insulation as possible. But there's no reason to make yourself miserable just to be energy efficient.

RevInstant · 6 months

If you drink over 2 liters in an hour it might be too much. Four liters in a day isn't too much as long as you have a normal American's relatively high sodium intake. Drinking so much water that you dilute the salt content of your blood quickly can lead to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Chewing lots of sugar free gum that contains sugar alcohols like xylitol can lead to diarrhea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

colinnwn · 7 months

Sounds like the mixture wasn't set right if it is adjustable, or your winds aloft were different than reported.

brainburger · 7 months

I imagine it'd be more of a novelty like skydiving out of a 727, or from a hot air balloon or helicopter that you do a couple times in your career.

You'd get a lot more of that swallowing your stomach feeling in the beginning than you'd get from a plane. It also doesn't lend itself to the type of quick turnaround skydiving that is done from planes to get good economics and enable lots of jumps in a day for each diver. Most skydive places operate aircraft that can go from 0 to 14k feet in 15 minutes, then get back on the ground in under 5 minutes to do it again. They frequently beat the last several skydivers to the ground.

UsingLogicNotFaith · 7 months

I don't know if Groupon contract allows merchants to do this, but as long as Groupon allows you to get a refund from them on a purchased voucher, the merchant would have to pay you more than the purchase price of the voucher to make it worth your consideration, while the merchant only received 50% of your purchase price in the first place.

And if they are paying you to not be their customer, chances are you won't have a favorable impression of the merchant and you won't return. That kinda defeats the whole point of running the groupon.

idontgiveitout · 8 months

The founder of Cici's is very religious. He goes to my ex-boss' church.

colinnwn · 8 months

Why do you consider those items always fast food (as in junk food)?

Pizza tends to have a lot of carbs per serving no matter how it is made. But tacos and subs can be made with small whole grain starch servings, lots of veggies, no cheese, no mayo or other oily dressing, and some lean meats, and be very healthy as long as you are also mindful of the sodium added.

I'm not a pizza fan, but I've made it with whole grain crust, little oil, lots of veggies, and just a little low fat cheese and chicken, and it is pretty healthy except for the somewhat high carbs.

I eat tacos and subs all the time and am not fat. But if you are getting your tacos from Taco Bell, and your subs from Subway on white with mayo, then I'll agree it's junk food.

mahkato · 8 months

Do you really want someone not involved in the transaction (ie, a 3rd party) deciding for you what you can pay or charge?

Yes. For better or worse, government is involved in much of the contract between my employer and I. And I'm largely ok with it.

mahkato · 8 months

Reasonable charges are determined by government bureaucrats all the time. Examples are utility rates and insurance premiums in certain states. It is based on business expenses and profit comparable to the industry sector.

Does that mean these companies have less incentive to reduce their expenses? Sure. But they still have motivation to improve their product to attract more customers to the point they aren't entrenched oligopilists. And it is better than the most common alternative to allow market players with undue power and advantage charge customers excessive rates. In the case of interchange rates, customers have very unattractive alternatives (cash and check).

I don't have a monopoly, or an oligopoly on the skillset that I supply my employer. My skills are quite fungible. So it isn't a germane comparison to ask me if I'd be ok with the government setting my wage. There is no comparable reason for the government to do that.

But assuming I did have an extremely unique and important skill to provide society, and the government set wage was reflective of the investment I had put into my skills, and in line with people in similar situations in other industries, I might be ok with it. I'd have to look at the specific circumstances.

mahkato · 8 months

The government isn't telling you anything. It is telling an oligopoly that the rates it sets to process your transaction must be reasonable to you and the merchant you are using.

While it doesn't always work as intended, the idea of regulation in a competitive market is to correct externalites that can't be naturally resolved. Network effects give enormous power to established market players and they can and do abuse that privilege or aren't pushed to compete strongly.

Another possible alternative is rather than regulating the interchange rate, create a quasi-government interchange group that issues cards and sets their interchange and discount rate at approximately what we think the private interchange should be. But this too would send free marketeers heads spinning.

MadManuel · 8 months

Torrenting would only speed the process up if the same client files were hosted on multiple servers with their own independent upload bandwidth. None of this is true from what can be inferred from the parent post. Torrenting wouldn't improve anything in his case.

geckospots · 8 months

All planes are excluded 30 miles from launch area. This plane is probably 60 miles away and uprange. There is no safety issue.

http://www.nbbd.com/events/nasa2.html

next89 · 8 months

You should delete this comment. Aircraft with passenger seat outlets are separately isolated and fused from the rest of the aircraft electronics. If the draw got to high, the circuit breaker would trip for that seat group, or for the whole system, or as a failsafe to the failsafe the pilot would notice the large current draw and shut down the passenger electric system.

MizzTasty · 8 months

Must be regional. I've only been to Chili's twice in the past 2 years, but the only thing I remember being over $15 was steak, and I don't order steak out because I think a Whole Foods steak cooked at home tastes better for less money.

I try to order only what I'll eat. But we almost always have leftovers when I eat with GF or family that I take home, because I also love having them.

Interesting trivia I live 2 miles from Norman Brinker's first restaurant (that is now a laundromat). http://bit.ly/jW4LHv . And I live 3 miles from the recently closed very first Chili's.

I don't eat sushi out much, because I've been spoiled by this place that is pretty far from me http://www.redfishhouston.com/index.php I've had sushi twice as expensive that wasn't as good.

MizzTasty · 8 months

I live in Dallas. I dine out pretty frequently, but only a couple times a year to a high end place.

When I go to Chili's or another corporate casual chain (not a big fan of that scene), unless it is a special occasion, I don't buy dinners over $12. Add in a $3 drink and splitting a $8 app or desert means I pay less than $20 per person pre-tip.

Obviously I expect to pay more in Cali or New York, but I have frequently been pleasantly surprised it wasn't as much more as I was afraid of.

acct_rdt · 8 months

In conventional economics, changing the price doesn't affect demand, only the quantity demanded by consumers. My understanding was the author increases the price when the book hits the best seller list.

When people see the book on the best seller list, they assume it is a good book and the demand for the book is therefore increased. When the demand is increased, one would expect the elasticity of demand for the book to have fallen.

If the elasticity of demand has fallen below 1, then increasing the price will result in more revenue to the author because fewer people buying will be more than offset by the higher selling price. If the elasticity of demand is still greater than 1, then the opposite will happen and total revenue to the author will fall on price increase, even though it is on the best seller list.

acct_rdt · 8 months

I wouldn't necessarily call that gaming the process. That is raising your price to match demand.

MizzTasty · 8 months

Ex-con means ex-convict, someone who has served a custodial sentence.

If you look up the actual stats in the USA, by far most are for non-violent drug offenses, not for rapes, murders, and aggravated assaults.

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