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Kiln drying is an interesting idea to speed it up and prevent premature rot, but might offset some of the carbon impact since most industrial kilns use fossil fuels directly or upstream if electric.

Maybe it would be more effective to drop wet lumber off in the desert for a few years by rail before moving the dry lumber to permanent underground storage. This assumes two stages of transport to and from the desert would cost less carbon than transport to a kiln and then to storage.

I’m not convinced that the wood even needs to be dried before burying, though.


Of course, ships sink all the time.

Consider this my feedback as well. The slider range feels way too narrow.

> Canada. Even Quebec, which insists on doing everything in French.

Quebec would be the one place in Canada where you’re expected to do business in French. Maybe New Brunswick? Even right across the river in Ottawa you’d have no reason to use French in any official capacity.

Sure, you might want a FR/EN selector at the top of your site since Quebec is a big market (within Canada).


> From my conservative perspective, companies should have the flexibility to offshore production

This is a very (neo)liberal viewpoint. It’s economic liberalism. There’s nothing “conservative” about it at all.


The corn laws were interesting. They were tarrifs on food imports, supported by the land owners.

> the repeal of the Corn Laws benefitted the bottom 90% of income earners in the United Kingdom economically, while causing income losses for the top 10% of income earners.

Obviously it’s not hard to see why the wealthiest like tarrifs.


American conservatives, until recently, espoused economic liberalism.

It is considered "conservative" because it has been the status quo for a rather long period, and they advocated conserving it.


Earth's magnetic field isn't static, though.


Negligibly so. The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in about 5 seconds than the magnetic field loses in 1,000 years.


The magnetic field is coherent. The energy from the Sun is not.


It’s not universal, but yes there is some coverage for young, old, and disabled people.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/dental/dental-car...


This is a response to decades of poor planning in an appropriately compromised way. Ideally, big chunks of low density California should be bulldozed and be rezoned to be more like Paris or Amsterdam, but this will have to do.

Work with what’s there.


Investors.


A solar flare could take out every computer on the planet and someone on HN would say “this is good for bitcoin”


It's like a token burn. These are always bullish.


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