Yeah, I'm not going to get rid of any. I was doing everything on thumb drives at the time, though, so it would be a bitch to actually try and find the exact one I used.
Of course, the value of the things will go to 0 whenever Q-day happens, and hopefully sooner when people realise it's a badly designed cryptocurrency. Maybe I should dig the old wallet up just to move things to an alt coin.
I mean, "consistently save in a diversified portfolio" would be a pretty boring answer, but it would be an answer I guess. I'm not sure what the equivalent for the poor would be; stay away from substances, maybe?
I'd be a bit more conservative with some of those numbers. I don't actually know how much they let the logs dry; it could be they're usually shipped green to avoid damage to them at the site of felling. Furthermore, 1,000km might be a more typical distance for wood to be shipped in Canada, since most of the forest is way up north, far from population centers. We've still got comfortably an order of magnitude, though.
Cutting the logs down to size probably takes negligible energy by comparison, and is going to be electricity-based at this point anyway. I'd also have used carbon mass rather than energy, but that's actually going to work in our favour, because petroleum gets a lot of it's energy from the hydrogen within it as well, while wood is effectively carbon+water for plant biology reasons.
I'm going to have to read this report. How does that work? There's no way cutting down a tree, shipping it and processing it requires a tree-worth of fuel. Yeah, you could let the forest keep growing, but from what I've heard it slows down pretty good at a certain point, and eventually starts decaying as well. Maybe way more of it is going to paper than I would have expected?
Yes. But only if they refuse to acknowledge that you're an adult and don't belong there. Otherwise it's just reading small books and adding numbers together manually.
Also not joining the rat race, and buying new shiny shit for the sake of it.
I still don't 100% get the mentality here. Otherwise intelligent people will sink huge money into luxury shit; it doesn't seem to bother them at all if you point out that someone else made up the whole concept of diamonds or whatever to get their money.
Underrated answer. Meritocracy is a lie, folks, even within the West. If you do everything perfectly you will climb a little bit, and only on average. All the counterexamples you're thinking of are people who won a lottery of some kind. And of course, birth is also a lottery.
Pretty much the same. Bought some Bitcoin in high school in the early 10's. It was just a novelty and I was a kid, so I didn't buy much, but if someone was kidnapped or something it would be worth it to go through my old drives.
You must have caught that schmuck on a really bad day. I'm not upset by it, because we are really hard to tell apart. Some people do take mild offence, but it's a pretty unfair thing to expect someone to guess.
Often, it's good to point out you're Canadian abroad, because we're just less hated globally. Occasionally being "American" can be handy, especially in America.
... Unless they're standing in the wrong building, or their parents don't have enough money to buy food under the near-total blockade, or they get cholera from open sewerage or...
Whataboutisms are useless to everyone. Atrocities have been committed on both sides. The question is, how do we make them stop? Neither Hamas nor Otzma Yehudit are likely to be part of that picture.
I mean, they would point out that you have a ton of hydro power potential that we don't. I would counter that we were drawing from the battery storage plants we have during that period, which were themselves charged up by the solar plants (since there's no reason to charge a battery off of a gas plant).
How to cheaply store renewables is kind of a trillion-dollar question right now, but I'm sure it will be answered. At the very least, we're good at drilling into things and could make some nice pumped air plants.
Hmm, let me try this.
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