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by 7952 4y ago
The whole wellbeing thing being peddled in companies feels like such a scam. Like fad diets aimed at extracting money from vulnerable people.
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by 7952 4y ago
Ideally vehicles would monitor their own loudness and reject driver commands that would be too loud.
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by 7952 4y ago
I think WWII could actually be quite a fun time to be alive for young people on the home front in the UK (and maybe N America). They had much more social freedom, often worked in groups with other young people, and had a sense of purpose,
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by 7952 4y ago
I wonder if that plan is actually backed up with evidence from history. Because there seems to be a ridiculous number of counter examples. And close connection seems to increase the possible range of casus beli compared to more distant co
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by 7952 4y ago
And in order to come to any of those conclusions you have to get independent experts to perform a review. Your comment is an emotional defence of your own heuristics. Science requires verification. Also, the ad hominem attack on people wa
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by 7952 4y ago
Exactly, more studies are good. Third party review is a cornerstone of science.
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by 7952 4y ago
No one really does make decisions like that though. The world is not a lab where you can control all the variables. Nor can anyone have the breadth of knowledge to understand all relevant research. We just adopt a set of heuristics based
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by 7952 5y ago
So much better. I despise those little bottles that never have enough and then are untidy when empty.
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by 7952 5y ago
Surely the solution is liquid products in larger squirty containers.
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by 7952 5y ago
I think it is just plowed into a trench and covered back up.
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by 7952 5y ago
Large wind turbines are spread out so will probably occupy much more land but not cast shadow.
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by 7952 5y ago
The cable may be cheaper but what about land value?
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by 7952 5y ago
There are options like Bristol/Didcot/Oxford parkway that do exactly that. Some of the lines are very slow though and need a lot of modernisation to give quick access. I wonder if some of this could be solved one day using small
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by 7952 5y ago
And people who can afford it just feel a sense of entitlement because they have purchased something. And it is a resource we all own and have already paid for. We should have a basic right to access that resource. The problem is when peop
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by 7952 5y ago
A lot of the time people's mental model will be derived from the language though.
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by 7952 5y ago
In addition to dense cities suburban areas could have more natural planting instead of dead lawns.
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by 7952 5y ago
I think you can see faith as a fork like this. Because in a world without science and reason people just believed. Magical thinking was the best explanation going. It only became faith when you could effectively disprove it. And Christi
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by 7952 5y ago
Surely an expert actually does work to come to conclusions. They build a team, write papers, do research etc. Follow an objective process.
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by 7952 5y ago
Measuring expertise is particularly tricky with the nuclear industry. Is it enough to be an expert in the underlying physics? Should you be an engineer with experience in any one of the dozens of disciplines? Do you need to be familiar wi
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by 7952 5y ago
Looking at the devastation of wildfires it is hard to imagine that effects could be so contained. A nuclear war would be the biggest source of ignition imaginable in close proximity to forests and cropped fields. Also, I am a bit cautious
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by 7952 5y ago
Anything that can be branded as "leadership".
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by 7952 5y ago
I think kids lack a clear distinction between imagination and the real world. They can believe something at one level and disbelieve at another without feeling the inconsistency. That can be a great skill to have that adults lose. But al
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by 7952 5y ago
I guess the alternative to just phoning up is building an operation that would take time and money. In all likelihood the boss is honest and wants to protect the company. A lot of traditional intelligence did rely on the discretion and he
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by 7952 5y ago
And 35 factories lets you hit the 12hr mark within five years and deliver an 85% decarbonised grid. That may not be better but it could be more achievable.
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by 7952 5y ago
The Bristol Channel was hit by a tsunami in the 1600s. And a couple of nuclear stations in the UK had to have work done to address that risk after Fukushima. But it seems like a risk that can be mitigated. Build a massive bund, elevate c
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by 7952 5y ago
But hitting those big numbers is the whole point of scalability. It may be easier to build a few hundred giga factories than a few hundred nuclear plants. What you get is less useful, but politically and technically simpler. And work in
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by 7952 5y ago
But humans are irrational and politics does exist. Poor communication and politics is a bigger challenge than engineering or technology. And if you actually want to build something then you have to work within the constraints of society.
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by 7952 5y ago
Scaling battery storage does seem easier than scaling nuclear. They are mass producible as small modules and can utilise less skilled labour in factories. Grid scale developments have negligible civil engineering requirments, ridiculously
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by 7952 5y ago
But that behaviour (monogamous, courting and marriage) can absolutely be seen as an evolutionary adaption. Male birds do not really need to help a female build a nest or look after eggs. But if they don't the female will deny access
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by 7952 5y ago
It is a higher cost regardless of when that cost is incurred. Although with humans I would guess that the 9 months of pregnancy and years of care is the relevant sunk cost. Compare that to the relative ease of a male who could have many o

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