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by 7952 5y ago
I am starting to wonder if administrative boundaries should be drawn to match transport catchments instead of historical artifacts.
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by 7952 5y ago
Exactly. Eeking out every ounce of productivity from land is different to getting the highest return on a financial investment. My hunch is that small farms are cash poor but time rich and that has implications. At some point the bottlene
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by 7952 5y ago
Battery storage is profitable if you can sell for more than you buy. It just needs to be connected to the grid and not necessarily connected to a particular generator. Although battery storage may still be located close to generation. One
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by 7952 5y ago
The UK is not reliant on Russian gas. Most imports come from Norway. And we have an active program to build new nuclear power stations to replace those at end of life. Also, the UK currently has 20GW of battery storage in the pipeline. I
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by 7952 5y ago
The UK pipeline for battery storage is over 20GW.
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by 7952 5y ago
A spacecraft may need to be super accurate at docking, but outside of that precision is far less important.
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by 7952 5y ago
I think the effect is the same once the patient is quarantined. If they survive two days or two weeks the virus is unable to spread either way.
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by 7952 5y ago
I agree the difficulty is organisational. But that does not make it an easier problem to solve
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by 7952 5y ago
It could be a way of demonstrating fitness to mate. And with less risk of injury to your own family.
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by 7952 5y ago
My guess is that it's a consequence of theory of mind. Humans have an amazing capacity to imagine properties and feelings within other things. You are able to model how the predator stalking you is thinking. It may not be scientific
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by 7952 5y ago
It is possible that this kind of magical thinking is a side effect of genes that are actually beneficial. And beneficial in a wider range of situations than buying pendants. These kind of traits have obviously been in our genes for a very
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by 7952 5y ago
You will encounter different bias the second time around. Although maybe this kind of stuff is less common in space industry. People could want to correct the mistakes of the first time. Spend time optimising things and taking more time.
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by 7952 5y ago
Those comparisons are a pet peave of mine. What kind of bridge can you automatically tear down and rebuild from a blueprint? Or be reliably built on top of layers of technology you barely understand. That does create moral hazard. But i
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by 7952 5y ago
I wrote an essay for university around 2003 which reviewed a site that was vector based and very impressive for its time. I think it might have been viamichelin or viaeuropa.
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by 7952 5y ago
Redordering reviews by date helps a lot.
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by 7952 5y ago
I went to a funeral for a Jehovah's Witnesses once. The priest came and talked to me and my 2 atheist friends afterwards. He asked if we were baptized. And then said how in his church they wait until people are older to decide for
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by 7952 5y ago
Facts need to be balanced with analytical skills and that is often missing.
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by 7952 5y ago
And there will be bias. The contractor will be optimistic about their own abilities and excited about the project. The client will become emotionally attached to the end goal. And everyone will underestimate the overhead of communication
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by 7952 5y ago
In life the effect is to reproduce genes. The mechanism could be anything. To release seeds at a particular time. Or be tasty to humans. Or have pretend eyes that deter predators. The effect is the same. A pet cat is not getting propo
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by 7952 5y ago
I wonder if these could be useful materials to grow on Mars.
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by 7952 5y ago
I guess it turns into a cost benefit analysis where you have to compare maintenance to demolition and land value. Beyond a certain point that estimate would become less predictable. But the design will have margins of safety that increas
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by 7952 5y ago
I guess the downside of lower frequency is more potential for interference and contention for bandwidth. Having smaller cells could help solve that.
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by 7952 5y ago
Death rates look pretty low in Portugal. Not sure if that counts as "saving humanity", but it does seem to be saving lives.
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by 7952 5y ago
Such a system would need a box in the basement and lots of seperate wires to outlets, which would be expensive. Or it would need to put more smarts in wall sockets, similar to adding USB. This is more of a safety risk than just plugging in
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by 7952 5y ago
Originally houses were only wired for light and people would plug their appliances into the light socket.
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by 7952 5y ago
Comparing to a baseline is useful because that is what our culture, technology and habits are adapted to. And the conditions that ecosystems can be based on. An increase in temperature away from that has consequences that need to be under
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by 7952 5y ago
It just seems foolish to generalise about something that existed for a long time in different guises.
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by 7952 5y ago
I wish there was better data on products. The companies know the quality of the parts and level of returns. Maybe we should have some of thia data. At least give some information on grade of cotton in clothes.
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by 7952 5y ago
I run some websites that consult the public on new construction developments over a few weeks. We use Power Automate to route comments and bookings from a form into email, notifications, MS Teams, calendars and spreadsheets. It avoids nee
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by 7952 5y ago
To survive you probably need to be part of a larger community anyway, and someone will know how and can do it at reasonable scale. And you would need that scale to be able to get enough resources.

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