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Indian Coal

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-11 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
If I've read that right that's the second auction of coal mines in India with both sets of auctions having lots of no bids.



Anyone up for bidding $1 for a bunch in round 3?
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Re: Indian Coal

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-11 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
There's some combination of reserve price and revenue share model required for the later sets of auctions.

https://www.livemint.com/industry/energy/coal-mine-auction-34-bids-for-19-mines-in-second-tranche-11625830527240.html
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Re: Indian Coal

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-11 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Wardogs are our roll models.
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Re: Indian Coal

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-11 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)

The film about the US Department of Defence procurement system.

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Speedrun

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-11 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I like watching fake speedrun videos on Minecraft.
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Re: Speedrun

[personal profile] jducoeur 2021-07-19 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)

My standards for speedrunning got way inflated by my brief time in the industry. The QA folks play the same game, over and over, and wind up better than I would have naively expected to be humanly possible. (Eg, playing all the way through Thief in 55 minutes, just using the bow and trick arrows and never confronting or killing any NPCs. Or something like that -- I don't remember the details, but I remember going, "You can do that?")

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Green concrete

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-11 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Green concrete is a good example of what politics and states are for; a problem involving coordinated action, externalities, (prudently) conservative vested interests and variable timescales and the solution requires tax policy and regulation.
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Re: Green concrete

[personal profile] dewline 2021-07-11 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The project of inventing a process of climate-respectful cement/concrete(?) is certainly one worthy of investigation and investment on principle.
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Re: Green concrete

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-11 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely, big of emitter carbon, and as the world gets richer, more populous and more urban there's going to be a lot of building materials needed.
Edited 2021-07-11 18:08 (UTC)
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Re: Green concrete

[personal profile] armiphlage 2021-07-15 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
A large amount of concrete is currently used where other materials could work just as well, with far lower emissions. If concrete's cost included emissions charges, then we'd go back to using actual stone for pavestones and curbstones, instead of molded concrete. Concrete would be saved for the applications where it is truly useful.
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Re: Green concrete

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Undoubtedly true at the margin. I don't know how big that margin is. I wonder what the price (or more importantly overall cost) advantage of concrete over real stone is.

Re: Green concrete

[personal profile] doubtingmichael 2021-07-15 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
What I found interesting is that apparently governments mostly haven't introduced green concrete incentives yet, but the companies are investigating it in anticipation of those incentives being introduced later. Of course, as soon as one company has a good solution figured out, they'll start lobbying for incentives to be introduced as they'll get a competitive advantage from them. That will make them much more likely to be introduced. So it may only be the threat of incentives that will cause them to happen.
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Re: Green concrete

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-07-16 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you are spot on about the lobbying.
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Not wearing a mask

[personal profile] snippy 2021-07-11 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"more callous, hostile, and deceitful" certainly represents the people I know who refused/refuse to wear a mask.
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[personal profile] calimac 2021-07-12 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Not wearing a mask is associated with antisocial traits"

Ya think?

Masks and antisocial traits

[personal profile] anna_wing 2021-07-12 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
In countries where mask-wearing is merely an uncomfortable inconvenience, and does not attract the visceral irrationality that it does in much of the West, non-mask-wearing is associated in poorer countries with poverty, ignorance and supply-chain problems; in richer ones, with mental illness of the more antisocial kinds, or being an antisocial foreigner with entitlement issues.

The zoledronate information sounds very promising, especially in respect of extending "healthspan". Most countries with shorter lifespans could probably already extend them with basic public health interventions.
Edited 2021-07-12 05:50 (UTC)