D_Alex

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by D_Alex 5y ago
>Calling NATO membership "the root cause" is victim-blaming in the worst possible way. He did not say that. He said "reckless foreign policy by the United States in particular" is the root cause. >Either Ukrainians
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by D_Alex 5y ago
Man... I clicked on the link and skimmed the headings... for a moment I was convinced this will be about geopolitics.
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by D_Alex 5y ago
Brushless motors, variable speed controls on everything, keyless chucks... new tools such as 3D printer... or this: https://www.shapertools.com/en-us/
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by D_Alex 5y ago
Presumably also the human species had time to co-evolve some resistance to these illnesses. I shudder to think at the cost... hundreds of millions of lives for smallpox alone...
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by D_Alex 5y ago
I agree with everything you wrote, however - when we bet, we need to consider the stakes and the payoff. So the important question is: should "we" take the bet on that immunity escape? Or should we not take that chance? My opini
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by D_Alex 5y ago
After reading the article, I am not sure what "the law of net design costs" actually is. Is it "there is no substitute for judgement"??
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by D_Alex 5y ago
It seems pretty clear that Google has made their search worse to sell more ads.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
What if we move the aluminium smelters to Sahara?
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Unfortunately higher inflation comes with higher interest rates. So if you have "negative wealth" you are no better off.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
>Say these monkeys were intelligent enough... Great questions, we will need some good answers soon. Not so much for the monkeys, but for AI.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Um... Taras Bulba really should not be quoted in support of "responsibility"...
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by D_Alex 6y ago
>a little less than half of German losses where on the eastern front Where did you get this from? According to Wikipedia, and most other sources, 70-80% of German military casualties were on the Eastern Front. >The US footed a lot of
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by D_Alex 6y ago
OTOH, a large number of infected people means a large pool of viruses to mutate into potentially re-infective strains.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
You could certainly run such an engine, very efficiently at that, from vaporisation of LNG.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
It is 95%, not 100%... and amazingly that looks accurate. As an example, a 32" CRT with remote control (eg Sony Trinitron) cost about $1500-2000 back in 1997. Today, you can buy a 32" TV for $85, delivered. And even though this wi
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by much poorer... in any case here is a list of European countries which have a higher median wealth per adult than the US, roughly in order of wealth per adult: Switzerland, Iceland, Luxmbourg, Belgium, Ireland
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Heaps of links in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240
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by D_Alex 6y ago
A380 has zero hull losses and zero fatalities.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
What a nasty little article. Reeks of petty malice. And from someone who claims he's interested in "being a good person".
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by D_Alex 6y ago
And yet, Chinese workers earn way less, but they are building like crazy. No, it's not money, it's something else. "Build Culture" is a good name for it, whatever it is.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Or: Work = Force * Distance, so the energy spent per mile will be proportional to drag force, which is proportional to speed^2. Either way, its 21% increase in energy consumed per mile in this case.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
By golly, I agree! And I would agree even if I wasn't working on technology to achieve this. Unfortunately, the article does not say how the zinc oxide nanoparticles will help with being able to use solar/wind power to produce syn
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Speaking of "low ground pressure' vehicles: if you have not seen it before, take a look at the Sherp! https://sherpatv.com/
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by D_Alex 6y ago
So, in my industry, moving 10,000 tonne loads is routine(-ish). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wp41alE8Mg
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by D_Alex 6y ago
>that means that LOCKDOWN_COVID19_MORTALITY_REDUCTION - LOCKDOWN_EXTERNALITIES >= 20 million wellbeing-years. Absolutely wrong. And you are missing: - lockdown reduction in suffering, due both to the acute phase of the disease and aft
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Must-read article for people in charge of "re-opening" of Europe and US states! The extent of the measures taken to prevent further infections and the re-emergence of the epidemic are truly eye-opening.
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by D_Alex 6y ago
I agree. It seems extraordinarily risky to let another disease spread among the world population. - What if there are long term effects? - What if it becomes a seasonal disease? - What if the next mutation is more severe? Each country shoul
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by D_Alex 6y ago
ALL wells, including the "very cheap wells" are easy to shut in, by design. It is an essential safety feature, mandated by all relevant codes, rules and regulations. SOME wells can be a little difficult to restart after a shut-in
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by D_Alex 6y ago
Since you want to discuss, and clearly looked into this: I do not agree on any single one of your numbered points. 1) "eradication is not possible" just does not follow from "this is a highly transmissible respiratory virus&q
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by D_Alex 7y ago
If you look at the integers between say Graham's number ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number ) and TREE3( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem ) you can observe

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