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by 7952 4y ago
There could be a difference in labour required though and that is they key. Potatos made workers available who were not needed for farming.
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by 7952 4y ago
I have worked on large infrastructure projects and this doesn't surprise me at all. * Repeat projects bring a new set of biases. People see it as an opportunity to "get it right this time". * People are excited about the new
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by 7952 4y ago
My complaint about cad is the exact opposite. That those traditional techniques have too much influence on how people use cad and how cad software was designed. People use low level abstractions that leave far too much to interpretation.
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by 7952 4y ago
I wonder if you could require that some data be made accessible to the user. Like transaction logs and actions relating to those transactions. So that you have direct incontrovertible evidennce of the internal state. That could then be u
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by 7952 4y ago
Its a greeting that confirms a certain level of intamacy. You don't have to answer with anything more than the same question. Like a modern "how do you do".
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by 7952 4y ago
I live near a track that was converted a few years ago and runs at 125mph. It is very very quiet and barely noticeable even when you are close. There is no engine noise like you get on diesels.
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by 7952 4y ago
Surely there is an ethical duty for the doctor to offer options. It is not for them to decide what path the patient should take and holding back something that the patient may want is unethical.
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by 7952 4y ago
You can definitely see paralels in fashion trends. Just look at the use of ruffs or extravegent cod pieces in medieval Europe.
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by 7952 4y ago
I was talking about the squared front ends that reduce visibility directly in front of the vehicle.
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by 7952 4y ago
I know two couples who both started out with small efficient cars. And then had to upgrade because they could not fit a stroller in the back. It feels like car companies just want to have skews that are intentionally compromised to push p
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by 7952 4y ago
Yes. Just look at the appalling forward blind spot on a lot of trucks and SUVs. Or the way cars have become taller at the expense of aerodynamics.
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by 7952 4y ago
I wonder how the craft word was adapted to mean the boat object. I think for river travel it was common to build a boat/raft to make a journey and then break it up at the destination. In that context maybe the object of the boat was s
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by 7952 4y ago
This only really matters if cyclists eat more than motorists. And you might as well include other lifestyle factors at the same time.
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by 7952 4y ago
Having off-site control of configuration and sensor information seems desirable and obtainable regardless. And once that is in place it is just a commercial decision. If spending x on cloud modelling delivers a multiple of x then its a si
555.
by 7952 4y ago
I think you are overestimating the rationality of car customers. Legacy car companies have been pulling a slight of hand for years. Build an aspirational dynamic brand that delivers compromised products that hurt the customer. People wil
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by 7952 4y ago
And yet for all the scepticism about renewables it has almost caught up with nuclear in a much shorter time. But my wider point is that we need to be more consistent in how we apply scepticism and optimism to different technologies. In som
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by 7952 4y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. It seems wrong to strip the branding and has obvious copyright issues. However, there really is a use case for using web services to build content that you want to host elsewhere. APIs and iframes help b
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by 7952 4y ago
Does not scale, I hear that a lot about everything that isn't nuclear. Maybe people said that to the semiconductor industry before the explosion in person computers or smart phones. Nuclear has got to have the worse scalability story
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by 7952 4y ago
You can't adequately model energy with a single price per MWh. There is more to it than that and that is true of all energy types. But the low cost of renewables is still a feature that grids can exploit. It will make storage viable
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by 7952 4y ago
The electricity grid does not have a last mile problem for supply. And just putting them anywhere will just raise costs. Better to put multiple units next to an existing substation on the backbone. Then those units can supply electricity
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by 7952 4y ago
The rules are not really strict at all and mostly common sense.
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by 7952 4y ago
It was a way of escaping the boredom of being stuck in doors. And unaffected by COVID rules.
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by 7952 4y ago
Very strict standards would become political very quickly and lead to conflict. There is a huge difference of opinion about what constitutes tidy and weed free. My plot has stinging nettles on it. They are a useful habit that attracts be
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by 7952 4y ago
It is obviously technically possible to build a couple terawatts of nuclear. But is there good evidence that the industry and supply chains can scale up quickly? How many new engineers and scientists do you need? And could that work in d
565.
by 7952 4y ago
Tech like this works if you can make it cheap enough.
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by 7952 4y ago
Thats just plain wrong. In this case the environment means grass + wild flowers + insects + birds eating insects + insects and fungus that lives in the soil. That all survives under the panels and is ok with some shade and cooling. In fa
567.
by 7952 4y ago
Whatever source we use it needs to be built out at breakneck speed. It just seems that wind, solar, and batteries are more amenable to that than nuclear in a basic logistical sense. All of the ways people suggest to make nuclear faster an
568.
by 7952 4y ago
It seems dubious to apply this kind of population statistics to individuals at all.
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by 7952 4y ago
Have you been to a consultation event for a wind farm? It can get pretty aggressive.
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by 7952 4y ago
The UK government system is more nuanced than that. The operator bids for a strike price and communicate something with the bid they offer. That price is then locked in. We will never pay less than that, but we will never pay more either

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