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by 7952 6y ago
The Tesla giga factory is making 20 gWh per year. 10 factories for 5 years and we have 1tWh. And we would need to massively scale up battery production anyway for electric cars in a nuclear scenario. And remember that those batteries ar
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by 7952 6y ago
Easy. Create a market that makes it profitable to build storage and encourages price reduction.
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by 7952 6y ago
In terms of scaling up, renewables + batteries seems to have a clearer logistical and economic path. Batteries can be mass produced and we need to increase production capacity anyway for electric cars. And there is already a massive indus
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by 7952 6y ago
Human death is not the only dimension that matters. The cleanup could easily cost over $500 billion. That is a massive opportunity cost.
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by 7952 6y ago
I agree with the point about technical vs people. On HN people are more familiar with how the applies to software. It may be technically possible to write bug free safety critical code in C. But in the real world we are all human and mak
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by 7952 6y ago
Probably being cynical. But I wonder if the purpose of PowerApps is to create a platform that seems safe to IT managers in corporations. Using a real language makes people stress about security and maintainability. The simplicity makes p
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by 7952 6y ago
In my experience complex sites like railways, airports etc. tend to have a lot of nominally digital data already. Things like topographic surveys, engineering drawings, surveys etc. But usually they are more "drawing" than useful
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by 7952 6y ago
I think the Vikings tap into similar wish fulfillment ideas as zombie fiction. Chopping wood, hunting deer, being in charge, protecting your family. It is everything that bored middle aged suburbanites dream of! The empire is just more co
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by 7952 6y ago
May that is how the economy in star trek universe came about.
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by 7952 6y ago
With BLM I found myself thinking a lot about this question. Should we be understanding of slave owners and put them into hisorical context? Is it fair to hold people in the past to the morals of today? Where should the balance be struck?
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by 7952 6y ago
Unofficial live and let live systems carried on... https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2014/chiu-war Unwillingness to die is really common in war
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by 7952 6y ago
A few lies and myths can snowball into a narrative that makes war logical and even noble. Conspiracy theories turn every data point into something that confirms the myth. People really believe that they are in the right. And the most app
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by 7952 6y ago
I think a lot of the benefits can be achieved by making more sophisticated types a first class citizen in the language. So for example things like date/time, intervals, and geometries are just another type. And you use normal operato
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by 7952 6y ago
But the environment is deeply political! A seemingly simple decision can be fraught with unintended consequences across different groups of people. Just allowing or banning a pesticide could have impact on human health, insect population,
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by 7952 6y ago
My hunch is that the EU knew this all along and were vague on purpose to kick the issue down the road.
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by 7952 6y ago
That does not say anything about exclusivity of doses. It just states that manufacturing has to occur in particular places. What the EU gets out of this is parity between different purchasers within the group. Also it doesn't seem re
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by 7952 6y ago
Of course anyone could install charging points. It is much easier than running a petrol station and could be complimentary to a lot of other businesses. The opportunity for an investor is finding low hanging fruit. Or securing a higher
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by 7952 6y ago
Domestic power load already fluctuates a lot and the grid handles that fine. Most people are not going to need to recharge fully every day and the load could be spread throughout the night.
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by 7952 6y ago
Engineering difficulty is often put forward as a limiting factor. But actually I think history suggests that with enough resources we can accomplish things. And in fact it is possible for a project to have astonishingly brilliant engineer
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by 7952 6y ago
The situation can escalate very quickly in a fighter jet so that leaving the last resort to late could be fatal. Encouraging ejection may be a good idea when the pilots natural inclination is always to stay with the plane.
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by 7952 6y ago
Would anyone consider licenses the specifically exclude certain companies?
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by 7952 6y ago
This is hardly an unusual concept on earth. You are still subject to the laws of your flag nation when sailing in international waters. Antarctica is not officially owned by anyone but researchers may still be subject to laws at home.
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by 7952 6y ago
That is how I feel about WiFi. The fact that you can send out large amounts of data on shared channels is amazing. It is astonishing that it works as well as it does.
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by 7952 6y ago
It is up to the courts to decide if these things are illegal or not. Of course people should be held to the same standard. But there is obviously nuance in how a message may be recieved by others and a question of intent. A sitting pre
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by 7952 6y ago
We had lots of leverage over nature in the middle ages. By that point Britain had little woodland left, and what remained was often managed. People were digging ditches and creating hedgerow as a boundary. Larger mammals like bear, lynx, a
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by 7952 6y ago
Covid is an extreme example. But I think the trade-offs that people are willing to make have changed. The health of myself, friends and family is critically important to me. In a world where most of our needs are already met health is the
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by 7952 6y ago
A lot depends on the military and police. They have the ability to enforce the law or constitution. Or they can just stand aside and let things happen, like a peaceful revolution. You can't be a dictator from a prison cell after all
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The minimum power is what is needed to fly to the closest diversion airport. This could be at a lower altitude and reduced speed. It is substantially less than the power used in take off or go around. Airplanes work in a variety of condit
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The whole world consumes massive amounts of concrete for all kinds of construction project. The energy industry is a tiny part of that. We should definitely try and reduce the amount of embodied CO2 in wind turbines. But it is hardly a
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My mum grew up in one of those old farm houses that were heated by open fires. It was always freezing cold in the winter in most of the house. The whole place was later fitted with oil fired heating. My grandmother could never understand

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