DFHippie

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by DFHippie 3y ago
The problem is that all the CO2 is in the air from extracting usable energy from chemical bonds. Due to thermodynamics we need to expend more than the energy that was extracted to recreate these bonds. And the useful work is just addressing
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I agree with all of this. Much regulatory action amounts to forcing people to make different choices. If they just made those choices, we would need less regulation. There are cases where individual choice alone is inadequate, such as when
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And that balance is changing.
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Wind? Solar? Hydro? Tide? Geothermal?
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You can't feed microbes the surplus energy from your wind or solar farm, though.
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Maybe because it's more relevant? If you see one artist being ripped off, it's sad, but it's an outlier. When you see the entire sector being ripped off, you start paying attention. It helps if you care about the people being
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by DFHippie 3y ago
In addition to the reasons others have cited, I think the corrosive effect of wealth inequality on social cohesion is under-appreciated. The wealthy fear their wealth being taken, so they live in gated communities and hire guards. The socie
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Speaking only for "micro mobility", it seems useful to distinguish allowing someone to travel within a city from between cities from between continents. Sure, it's mobility, but there are different kinds or degrees of mobilit
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Receiving and trusting information is essential to being human. We don't have to prove everything to ourselves from sensory evidence and first principles because other people can credibly tell us things.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
According to this IEEE article, ICE fires are a greater danger than EV battery fires. https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-ion-battery-fires Recharge time is not the problem as much as recharge frequency. I can go on long trip
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by DFHippie 3y ago
The second link provided by jmyeet gives more details. Apparently they made a roughly flat surface by splitting the stone by cutting a line of holes into which they fit dried wooden wedges. Then they soaked the wedges in water, causing them
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by DFHippie 3y ago
The extremely wealthy aren't going to steal from self-checkout because they either shop in stores that lack it or they have employees who do their shopping for them.
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This reminds me of this Montgomery Burns quote: > If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift, or the Jumble to the quick-witted? Should th
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> I actually admire G. W. Bush's speed of thought here... That's a novel interpretation of the gaffe. So you're saying he repaired the expression mid utterance because it was better to sound like a bumbler who couldn'
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Albatrosses are monogamous, so a particular bird can be recognized both by its band and its mate. Apparently Wisdoms mate only recently stopped appearing with her, so any shenanigans like are alleged to have happened with Jeanne Calment wou
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by DFHippie 3y ago
My theory: People are treating them with different degrees of reverence. They are careful to polish anything off the IPK, causing it to lose weight gradually through abrasion. The others gain wait through random adhesions, perhaps oils pick
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by DFHippie 3y ago
The point of a UBI is not to redistribute wealth. It's to provide a minimum standard of living for everyone more efficiently than means-tested programs do. If you're going to provide a minimum standard of living to everyone, a UBI
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> you have removed any semblance of moral consideration from the equation I think rather we have invented the notion of life so that we can divide the world into things that are morally relevant and things that are not. People do this al
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That's been my impression. You want to be a small member of a large species. It's certainly true that human giants seldom live long lives and centenarians tend to be short and light.
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Poe benefited from having translators with a great deal of literary talent of their own. For example, Charles Baudelaire was one of his translators.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
A technique I've seen is that you put a reflective transparent surface in front of the autostereogram and gaze at your own reflection. This puts your eyes at the right focal point. I've been pretty good at seeing these in the past
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Plenty of women complain about the lack of pockets in women's pants. I think women feel others' judgment about their clothing choices more sharply than men do. This isn't a personality quirk. The condemnation comes down harde
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by DFHippie 3y ago
A title for a different article: "Therapy centre hack suspect faces, aggravated blackmail, other charges: three noun phrases without a conjunction."
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From the article: > Getting the dose right is important, as the study also showed that excessive amounts of spermidine led to poorer quality oocytes in mice.
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Well, shipworms, which are actually clams.
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I am not a philosopher of consciousness. I am simply a consciousness. I have a stake, but I have not made a study of this. Nevertheless, I will address your points. > Panpsychism only superficially looks as if it does not have boundaries
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The point is that that in one hypothesis you have two conditions and you must determine the boundary between them. In the other you have only one. You have no evidence to prove that there are two conditions that need to be distinguished; so
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"Asserting that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous does nothing to shed light on the way an experience of blueness is the way it is, and not some other way. Nor does it explain anything about the possible functions of consciou
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This might be a spelling accent. In Indian subcontinent languages you have to distinguish between t, th, d, and dh, so in roman script you expect the h to be there to represent aspiration. If you learn English from texts, from a teacher who
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That is my point, more or less. Or rather, we can't unroll "experience it" in a way that satisfies everyone.

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