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by 7952 5y ago
I have worked on major construction projects and a complicating factor is the sheer number of different disciplines involved. Teams work with their own systems and maintain their own state and then inexorably get out of sync. In computing
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by 7952 5y ago
Biodegrade means that living organisms have decomposed the substance. But it can still degrade in other ways.
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by 7952 5y ago
People have a very simplistic view of nature vs industrial. That could make sense in some untouched part of the Nevada desert. But a lot of the world it is just more complicated than that. We act like the landscape is untouched, unblemis
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by 7952 5y ago
Are they garden plants?
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by 7952 5y ago
But surely that would be best done at height rather than tilting the tower. Climb up from a boat or fly in on a helicopter.
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by 7952 5y ago
And yet despite the challenges batteries do get better. There is an economic situation where customers and vendors win from improvements in technology and that can spur innovation. That makes me optimistic.
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by 7952 5y ago
The alternative could people taking their chances with covid. The do nothing option is not a neutral outcome.
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by 7952 5y ago
Why not assemble onshore and tow it out fully assembled rather than messing around with tilting the turbine?
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by 7952 5y ago
In a complex system like the atmosphere anything and everything can have an effect. But some categories of input can have a greater magnitude of effect than others. In one year volcanism may have a massive effect and then have little effe
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by 7952 5y ago
And if NASA had kept its funding after the moon landings we would have a base on Mars now. But we don't. We have to make do with what we can achieve within the society we live in. Not compare our world to some alternative history.
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by 7952 5y ago
How to do that quickly though? It took decades to build that existing capacity.
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by 7952 5y ago
Do you imagine a world in which nuclear reactors are as easy to mass produce as solar cells and batteries?
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by 7952 5y ago
Suprised me a bit that hair color of an ex would even come up in conversation.
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by 7952 5y ago
I was in this state for years, thinking in an imperative way. The change for me was realising that your starting point is every possible combination of the rows in the tables. Just start with that (regardless of how massive) and then filt
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by 7952 5y ago
Its all the same CO2. Everyone has to do their bit.
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by 7952 5y ago
A lot of things have no objective measure at all. We still have to make decisions and act. And people will naturally see a perspective based on their own experience and understanding. We put the burden of proof on one side or the other.
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by 7952 5y ago
Humans can spread ideas massively better than other species. Our phenotype is distinct among extant species. Just like plants are distinct from animals. I say that as a matter of fact rather that trying to suggest any particular moral i
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by 7952 5y ago
Yes, if you use wishy washy terms like "mother earth" then everything can treated as abstract and distant. I care about humans and want them to survive and prosper. I care about wildlife and don't want species to be killed.
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by 7952 5y ago
It seems biased to assume apocalyptism. It is perfectly possible to predict mass negative outcomes in a cool headed and honest way. Like predicting massive overspends on a major construction project.
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by 7952 5y ago
It also means "read Harry Potter". I wonder how many of these kids got to that stage.
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by 7952 5y ago
And if we use your co2 per mile approach we can all conclude that a rocket is the way to travel. People judge these things in terms of how much co2 is emitted by industry, companies, individuals etc. The particular mechanism of emissions i
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by 7952 5y ago
In it's current form it isn't scalable compared to renewables. Maybe modular reactors will change that.
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by 7952 5y ago
I think this tendency may be related to theory of mind. A monster isn't just a danger, it is something that we have attributed with intent, desire and emotions. Those emotions just happen to be malicious. That trait helps us to conc
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by 7952 5y ago
Could make life easier for tourists wanting to get round a language barrier.
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by 7952 5y ago
Well it depends on the level of abstraction you use. You could think of the operating system as the platform, and each piece of software as a plugin. That can work well enough. I can save a PNG in photoshop, and then open it in other pro
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by 7952 5y ago
There are some high quality creative apps on Android for things like photo editing, drawing, video editing etc. This could disrupt the space in which Adobe currently operates. Android could add a lot of diversity to windows in terms of pr
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by 7952 5y ago
Maybe we need to have a latin/binomial nomenclature like in species naming. So pluvialis apricaria instead of golden plover. mensa elephantus for PostgreSQL. mensa parvus for SQLite. The purpose is to have an agreed name in al
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by 7952 5y ago
Exactly. In an emergency the last thing the pilot wants to do is navigate a map interface for anything. Better to just select the alternate flight plan that was setup hours ago during flight planning.
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by 7952 5y ago
That assumes that deep navigation of a UI is necessary or desirable in an emergency. I think most of the important stuff is done with the main controls, dedicated switches, and screens/dials that are always on and ready.
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by 7952 5y ago
An intelligent response without consciousness is different to an intelligent response with consciousness. That is the re-definition. We can speculate that the full human experience of pain may exist in the absence of a brain. And we can e

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