Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. Lol, the sponsor pitch here is basically "I'm not advocating for anyone to buy carbon offsets...but if you do it anyway choose Wren!".
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  2. Still more logical than place names in England.
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  3. "being an HVAC tech is a great job" By "HVAC" do you mean "Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning" or "High Voltage Alternating Current"? Both would fit to the theme of this video.
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  4. "You have, at least, failed to take soccer into account." I suspect it's because he focused on the American sports leagues spreading into China. Soccer isn't as big as the sports discussed in this video in the US and the biggest soccer leagues aren't American.
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  5. Is there a train line across?
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  6. However, an inanimate object isn't a good analogy for a state or society. A living organism would be a closer analogy. Wounds can heal over time.
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  7.  LenNay : "Hockey - net , puck and a hockey stick" And ice. That's the difficult part. Except if you live in a cold climate but even then it's probably only during the winter. In warmer climates and in summer you need a special facility that can facilitate the ice and that isn't so cheap.
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  8. "There is no border between Australian and Indonesian waters. There is only a border of EEZs, which is limited to jurisdiction over fishing and other economic activities." I think you can say that Sam made no mistake here. The terms "Australian waters" and "Indonesian waters" aren't official technical terms so they can easily refer to territorial waters, contiguous zones, or exclusive economic zones depending on context. Also, the jurisdiction over fishing is what matters here.
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  9.  @jypsridic  "You don't have to be rich to pick up a gun and shoot at the cartels." Who can realistically think "if I start shooting at the cartels, the problems in Mexico will be solved"?
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  10.  @Batmans_Pet_Goldfish  "Paying the once a day congestion charge is still cheaper than the public transportation cost for most people." Some people use public transport even though there is no congestion charge yet. If the get gets narrower, more people can be expected to choose that option. And if the charge isn't enough to make anyone to not drive, it can always be increased until it does. And even if there's still no effect, it's a better way to collect revenue than taxes which can have distortionary effects on incentives and lead to deadweight loss.
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  11.  @athenaP24  Though technically speaking even Armenia hasn't officially recognized Artsakh.
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  12.  @mjc0961  "I've been stuck behind too many cars going 10mph or more under a speed limit to know that it never works." Would such people exceed 130 km/h if there were no speed limit?
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  13.  @blotzkrog  I don't know any English dialect that would spell "epples" but I think both [ɪ'ɹɑn] and ['aɪɹæn] are used in different dialects of English.
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  14.  @x--. : Surely the constitution doesn't prohibit a population information system? And surely it wouldn't prohibit using such a system to carry a portion of the census every 10 years?
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  15. It's a minimum for the (maximum) speed limit.
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  16. "I always thought AC power is best for long range power transfer and that's why it won over DC." AC won over Edison's DC idea which was to not step up or down the voltage at all but rather use low voltage all the way from power plant to the final consumer. It's this low voltage which would have entailed high transmission losses.
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  17. Pun intended?
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  18. "Why would you convert electricity to AC after reaching destination (city), when most electronics use DC?" Because you need to step down the voltage using transformers.
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  19.  @nicholaspalmer5957  I wasn't talking about enterprise value because I was talking about assets minus liabilities.
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  20.  @lugovoiarena  "I think you are comparing Enterprise Value of the Mile+ Programme..." If that $21.9 billion is the enterprise value, then yes, sort of. "You would need to apply leverage ratio pro-rata to figure out equity value of the Mile+ Programme." But I wasn't interested in that figure here. I just stated that to me it's striking that United's all other assets are worth over $10 billion less than all their liabilities. Yes, here I'm including any debt by Mileage Plus Holdings in United's liabilities but the figure is still quite surprising IMHO.
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  21. What's the problem? whence /wɛns/ adverb from what place or source. "whence does Parliament derive this power?" adverb from which; from where. "the Ural mountains, whence the ore is procured"
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  22.  @robertlomax543  "Having said that I would love to see the actual design for the step down converter. That's a hell of a shift in DC voltage. I wonder if they are using vacuum tubes or solid state and what switching frequency is used?" I'm not an expert but here's what I've seen on the subject. HVDC lines have converter stations at both ends. The DC voltage itself isn't stepped up or down but the converter stations that convert AC to DC and DC to AC also have transformers that step up the voltage before conversion to DC and down before conversion to AC. Nowadays the conversion is done with thyristor banks. In the AC to DC conversion they work similarly to diodes and then any ripple is filtered out with big capacitors and inductors. In the DC to AC conversion the thyristors are switched based on signal from the receiving grid making sure the phases are in sync. This kind of switching produces square waves. Then harmonics are filtered out using capacitors and inductors turning it into sine wave.
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  23.  @SpencerHHO  "The input takes the standard high voltage 3 phase, runs it through a transformer that phase shifts it to make it 6 phases" This is slightly off. You can already get 6 phases from 3 phase power by using both phases (opposite) phases from each line. However, you can further increase this to 12 phases by using two transformers. One transformer should use a delta configuration on one side and wye on the other. This causes the phases to be rotated by 30° relative to ones from a transformer with the same configuration on both sides. In the case of 12 phases the phases next to each other are 30° apart so this way you can get 12 phases.
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  24.  @akolyt  "in case you didn't notice Portugal is not socialist" I think it is nominally though not in actuality.
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  25. Even if all of that money was embezzled, the congestion charges would still be a net benefit.
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  26.  @granand  Just selling oil does not make them not green. For that what matters is how much greenhouse gasses they themselves emit.
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  27.  @johnniesalomon1942  It was PolyMatter though others have made videos about it too (but not Sam).
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  28. The EU/EEA still has external borders. There are similarly e.g. migrants crossing the Mediterranian and sometimes drowning.
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  29.  @Skullair313  "nuclear plants are just bad for environment" No, they aren't. They're way less harmful than coal.
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  30.  @RickJaeger  OK, got it. I think he meant to claim that 99% (or something) calls it "tram" when speaking English. I don't know if it's true or not, but that 99% would have to be of the world population that has some English proficiency as more than 1% of the total world population probably has none.
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  31. 0:20 The slope doesn't counteract the centripetal force, it's what provides the centripetal force.
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  32. "13 years to fully buy a house in NYC? That sounds a little low…" Note, this is if you used 100% of your income on the house and didn't have to pay interest (nor utilities, etc.).
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  33.  @Nwtrino  Even if you can control the output of a nuclear plant it usually doesn't make economic sense. Nuclear is cheap to run. It's usually more economical to first reduce the output of an energy source with a more expensive fuel. Therefore nuclear plants are usually kept as close to maximum capacity as possible. France is an exception and uses load following nuclear plants because the share of nuclear there is so high that using other forms of energy for load following wouldn't suffice.
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  34. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  35. No, I think those happened over a longer period of time than in China.
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  36. No snow in Helsinki, Finland either. :(
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  37. "Zip (or postal) code does determine your economic mobility growing up in the US. Mine was 10454." 10454? That sounds like a lot of mobility.
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  38. A fee per car should already incentivize that. A car with more people doesn't take any less space.
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  39. I've read that the US freight lines moved to "precision scheduled railroading" in the '90s but based on this video it seems that they're now less scheduled and less precise.
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  40.  @Wileybot2004 : "Half as wendover" Why not "Interesting Productions"?
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  41. Is there data on whether correlation with race was stronger than correlation with income.
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  42. I think that figure wasn't supposed to represent a record but a more typical travel time.
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  43.  @SecularSynthesis  He's probably referring to the phenomenon called "TV pickup" causing surges in demand. That phenomenon is real even if he's exaggerating how much it requires preparing for.
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  44.  @whuzzzup  In recent years all biggest the TV pickup demands listed by Wikipedia have been during football games. Those are still something that people watch at the same time.
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  45.  @artilleryisbetter  That's extremely cheap.
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  46. Except the people in the reservations are also US citizens and have all the rights that come with it including the right to live in most other places in the US.
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  47.  @xenomorphbiologist-xx1214  "trains are better for small countries like the European ones and planes are better for large countries like Canada, Australia and the US" I don't think that's a good argument. Many US states are of a similar size to European countries so trains should be equally viable in both.
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  48. "What do you think flys all over Alaska, south America, the Caribbean?" Companies that only employ a single family worth of people (who also own the company)? Somehow, I doubt it.
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  49.  @esweet100  OK, I looked it up and it seems to have 47 employees. That's quite a bit more than just "mom and pop". It still counts as a small business but only barely.
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  50. +AnythingFixer Actually both 'learned' and 'learnt' are correct with former being the American and the latter being the British spelling.
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