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by 7952 4y ago
Surely the free road system is the most serious distortion in the market. And free access to public transport could help rebalance that. We may end up with unintended consequences, but that is likely to be better than the negative consequ
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by 7952 4y ago
Maybe certain genes facilitate a particular strategy to evolution. And part of an organisms phenotype makes the species evolve in a particular way that gives genes an advantage over successive species. Adapting to the evolutionary environ
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by 7952 4y ago
I think road wear is axle weight to the fourth power. So lorries are massively more damaging than cars. And cars are massively more damaging than bikes. Anecdotally the issue with bike and pedestrian paths is intruding vegetation which sl
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by 7952 4y ago
A lot of the UK is actually pretty empty. You can often go a couple miles of the main road and you barely see anyone for hours. Obviously that tranquillity is something that should be protected. But I don't think a few drones will c
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by 7952 4y ago
Most roads in the UK were co-opted from farm tracks and never really designed for cars. A lot of the grading of roads is just wishful thinking and not linked to the engineering specification of the road. And people are constantly surprise
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by 7952 4y ago
The UK has a special arrangement for nationally significant infrastructure projects. They are decided by a public enquiry rather than local authorities and can use powers like compulsory purchase.
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by 7952 4y ago
People will selectively care a lot about animals. Just look at how may people become bird lovers when they want to stop a wind turbine.
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by 7952 4y ago
Aeroplanes rely on light and strong materials with a high power to weight ratio energy source. Without that it is difficult to make the physics work. The internal combustion engine made it more possible.
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by 7952 4y ago
Even if the experiments succeed that could still be a long way from a plant that is commercially viable.
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by 7952 4y ago
I wonder if it could apply to internal company systems. Like the corporate SharePoint or file server. And a lot of those kind of systems have external users also. If a client uploads some data do I have to scan it for illegal content?
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by 7952 4y ago
I agree. Mushroom growing needs to be hygienic but depends on conditions that are not normally considered hygienic. Having some help in terms of the inputs and conditions would provide reassurance. There are lots of products like that in
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by 7952 4y ago
Setting prices in advance can still be good sense as it could be used to guarantee prices lower than wholesale prices when oil becomes expensive.
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by 7952 4y ago
Maybe the future is to record perfectly and then add the imperfections later. That gives you the most flexibility and control. I think it is common for studios to record raw data from guitars and then routed through amplifier and effects
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by 7952 4y ago
I think Lego is used in the same way as "milk". You have to arbitrarily divide it and has no natural division. You don't have some milks and you don't have some Legos. A Lego set is like a glass of milk. But sooner or
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by 7952 4y ago
But it isn't a competition between technology. It is a competition between industrial-societal complexes that include supply chains, resources, training, politics and a large number of flawed human beings. Having the best technology
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by 7952 4y ago
And you can have cured and air dried sausages.
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by 7952 4y ago
More and more these are culture war arguments rather than NIMBYism.
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by 7952 4y ago
Sometimes you are just a small part of a global movement. I doubt any single company Will ever move the dial much by itself. But you should still try.
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by 7952 4y ago
It probably depends a lot on what you are going to hit as you fall. A drop onto a safety line over an empty void may be safer than a 2m fall onto a piece of equipment.
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by 7952 4y ago
His safety is based on skill rather than technology and documented rules. That can work really well for an individual working with minimal assistance which is exactly how Dibner worked. It just doesn't scale to teams.
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by 7952 4y ago
I am in favour of nuclear power but it is not so black and white. You have just listed three types of project with access to vast resources. The number of nuclear powered vessels is vanishingly small. And spacecraft overwhelmingly use sol
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by 7952 4y ago
Its not though. It is modest and conservative iteration of existing technology that is very well understood and easy to model.
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by 7952 4y ago
Water companies tend to use a lot of energy which is a major cost for them. That is the math that is going to be most significant.
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by 7952 4y ago
Giant solar farms (like Solar Star in LA) will connect to the higher voltage grid rather than the low voltage grid used domestically. Exporting large amounts of power and moving that power geographically is exactly what this is designed fo
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by 7952 4y ago
Could make sense for short distance, low frequency. I know of a few services on branch lines that have long linger times at stations. They will do a 10 minute journey twice an hour and stay in the station between trips.
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by 7952 4y ago
Obviously it is wrong to influence hiring/firing or purchasing decisions. But do you think there are grounds for removing cults in a general sense from a company? Surely it is an aspect of people private lives in the same way that re
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by 7952 4y ago
Esri is becoming like the Microsoft Office/SharePoint/Teams/Power ecosystem. Many of the individual products are of limited quality and better alternatives exist. But taken together they have network effects and are easier
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by 7952 4y ago
Looks cool!. Any support for PostGIS?
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by 7952 4y ago
Surely tractors are more important than cars as they help massively in food production. Simply moving about is easily done on foot. And the range of terrain that cars can cross is very restricted. Without regular traffic and maintaince I
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by 7952 4y ago
I was arguing that we shouldn't put all our eggs in one basket and the scale of the challenge really confirms that. But yes, I do think that the battery industry has the best chance of scaling up and achieving order of magnitude impro

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