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by 7952 4y ago
Dividing things into intrinsically human and not is a false dichotomy. Our experience is always a mix of what comes from our biology and what comes from culture. Finding enjoyment in a craft or a puzzle may well have existed for thousands
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by 7952 4y ago
We shouldn't put all our eggs in one basket. But I don't think rapid growth of the battery industry is far fetched at all. It has already experienced massive growth and is ridiculously mass producable. And we will need batterie
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by 7952 4y ago
Not the parent but have some experience with this on the UK. Typically energy companies will start with the technology they want to develop and then find a site that will suit it. Starting with the plot of land is the wrong way around. A
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It probably isn't worth it as rural sites will just be cheaper and easier. Also, there is more of a safety risk when people can go underneath a turbine. In the unlikely event that it topples over it count hurt people. There is also
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by 7952 4y ago
A beautiful landscape will still be beautiful.
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by 7952 4y ago
Or the slow speeds on some of the other "mainlines" into London. Bournemouth is less than 100 miles and takes 2hrs+.
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by 7952 4y ago
Crossrail is not part of the the London Underground and uses its own tunnels. The trains will be longer, fatter and use overhead electrification instead of the third rail used on the underground. Although the same signalling system is being
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by 7952 4y ago
Yes, people can have very strong instinct to have a baby. It is unreasonable to expect people to suppress that.
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by 7952 4y ago
It isn't efficient exactly but it can make financial sense depending on the cost of electricity. Efficiency is not the only metric and needs to be balanced with other issues. An ice engine may be less efficient than a turbine but th
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by 7952 4y ago
You see weird reaction in debates about feminism. People go along with the belief that men and women are the same. And then use that to justify male anger about unfairness by just parotting the same talking points. When actually feminist
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by 7952 4y ago
I think it depends on the specific technology. I know older people who were excited to get a smart TV where younger people use a phone, dongles or even a laptops. Sometimes they need the smarts more and are less able to escape it. And the
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by 7952 4y ago
I wonder if biomass + carbon capture and storage could play a role here. If the biomass was source in a controlled way (and that's a big if) you could have the characteristics of a thermal power station and be carbon negative.
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by 7952 4y ago
But there is a benefit in standardising on something across different domains. So that your weight, money and quantitaties are in the same base. Particularly when you are doing more complex things. We have to worry about binary, but we d
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by 7952 4y ago
I had this teacher in middle school. We would do long term projects where we picked a subject and then gave a presentation on it. You could make models, do experiments, read books as research, do art around your chosen subject etc. It wa
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by 7952 4y ago
My hunch is that Inaturalist gets traction because it is social, which makes it fun, which makes it successful.
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by 7952 4y ago
Inaturalist uses GPS and date to help with this. So it shouldn't show you stinging nettles in November.
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by 7952 4y ago
It is still an incredibly effective brand from a marketing perspective and that can sell vehicles.
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by 7952 4y ago
It still seems far less bad than other types of campaigning.
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by 7952 4y ago
I like the design of the article viewer on PNAS. Does anyone know anything about the stack they use?
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by 7952 4y ago
Or rather people felt hat the benefit outweighed the risk. That was just not the case for some people with GMO.
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by 7952 4y ago
Being able to change your mind is a feature of democracy.
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by 7952 4y ago
Battery storage projects have tended to be smaller and in the UK average around 20MW. They have followed the pattern of distributed energy rather than big projects connecting at 400kV. In the UK there is over 20GW in the pipeline.
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by 7952 4y ago
It's understandable though. These are inherently political questions and people are locked out of that process. And there really isn't an objective solution to balancing those factors I have worked in air quality assessment and
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by 7952 4y ago
I think building up expertise and understanding at a lower level is brilliant. Brushing your teeth is important (to stretch your comparison). There are implicit assumptions in highway standards that people don't really understand. Eng
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by 7952 4y ago
Cars and bikes are a bad solution to long commutes. The best solution is short commutes or WFH. In that situation bikes are fine and even cars are less bad.
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by 7952 4y ago
Sure, but technology doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the political will, finance, a skilled workforce, industrial capacity etc. Solar just wins in those areas. And the maths works fine if you can build that capacity fast and chea
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by 7952 4y ago
You are just optimising for different things. One side is optimising for gender equality and statistical diversity. You are trying to optimise for competency. But outside of a perfect mathematical universe competency is multi dimensional
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by 7952 4y ago
I think religion is exactly the right word. Humans build story's and meaning around otherwise innocuous things. And that didn't just stop with the rise of the secular world.
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My school used to block opening windows file explorer as a way of preventing installation of software. We used to install games by opening explorer through help.
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And in terms of evolution it makes sense. A lack of vitamin d early in life could effect reproductive success. Skin cancer in your fifties not so much. There just isn't selective pressure.

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