DennisP

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by DennisP 1y ago
The animal kingdom also lacked built infrastructure and tools. If the environment had been full of hand tools for a hundred million years, how many animals would have evolved to use them? Some of your listed features could still work though
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So you can buy one robot that does everything and stays busy all day, or a bunch of robots that each do one thing and otherwise stay in closets. If you have a factory, idle equipment costs you money. Right now our factories have only specia
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Roads weren't designed for humans, but vehicles generally were. I don't think we need our robots to be able to drive 70mph on highways when we've already built millions of vehicles. We've had buildings with flat surfaces
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In the air we were starting from scratch. Back on the ground, I guess it's possible that some general purpose non-humanoid robot will be able to use our tools and built environment better than people, but I have a hard time imagining w
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We might have to start meeting in person again.
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I guess one approach would be to have multiple independently-developed provers, and use them all for each proof. You'd spend more computation doing proofs but you wouldn't slow the network down since you could do it in parallel.
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by DennisP 1y ago
About a decade ago I was at a climate conference at MIT, and talked with someone who said she'd gone to visit several certified carbon projects that turned out to not exist at all.
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Sure, I'm not saying it's cheap. I'm just saying there are lots of software developers and whatnot who could keep themselves in UV air filters if they really wanted to.
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From a quick search, they are not millionaire-level expensive. Here for example is a 20W 222nm lamp that costs $436, with a lifetime of several thousand hours. https://uv-can.com/products/gerani-far-uv-light?srsltid=Afm
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A lot of details haven't been explained clearly, as far as I know, but the basic idea is in Nelson's books. There's no embedded markup. Links and formatting is off to the side in other documents, referencing locations in the
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by DennisP 1y ago
For a long time I played around with ideas for hypertext that would be fully decentralized, but implement much of what Xanadu was supposed to do (without micropayments, but with personalized filtering). Several years ago I wrote the core of
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Same as a really sharp knife. In general though, dull knives are more dangerous. You have to cut with more pressure and they're more likely to slip.
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They did say to avoid getting sunburn, which is the main cause of melanoma.
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Double-blind experiments on this are probably impossible, but it's not like large population studies are totally worthless. It's probably best to go where the evidence points, and the article mentions other studies with similar co
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Another way of looking at it is that we're preserving things for our descendants.
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"Boxing out the next generation" is exactly what the law is for. I guess we have to decide whether we want more natural wilderness or more luxury homes with nice views. The only way I can think of to preserve the wilderness withou
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by DennisP 1y ago
Maybe you're the person to answer this question then. How can I find the price of battery storage, per kWh delivered to the customer, assuming a pure wind/solar/battery grid? I can easily find the price per kWh of battery cap
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by DennisP 1y ago
If it really is the goal to increase treasuries demand by means of stablecoins, then I would expect them to enforce this. If the stablecoins aren't really buying the assets then they do nothing for demand. If another goal is to enrich
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by DennisP 1y ago
Aside from tax implications, there's no difference between spending $1000 from your salary, and spending $1000 in Bitcoin and rebuying that amount from your salary.
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Corporate involvement isn't that bad as long as the user can exit to fully decentralized operation in case of abuse.
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by DennisP 1y ago
Well in fairness they really have reimagined how money moves to anyone anywhere, they just haven't changed it yet. Plus they used a verb tense suggesting the process is ongoing. If they said "we changed how money moves to anyone
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Times are changing: > The GENIUS Act requires permitted payment stablecoin issuers to maintain reserves backing outstanding payment stablecoins on at least a one-to-one basis, and provides that reserves may only consist of certain specif
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by DennisP 1y ago
For safety, the order to turn things off is coal, oil, biomass, natural gas, hydropower, wind, then nuclear. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
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Yes, and in terms of overall deaths per terawatt-hour, nuclear is similar to renewables.
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The trouble with liability is that if your nuclear plant has an accident and the cancer rate in the area doesn't detectably change, everybody in the area who gets cancer will sue you anyway.
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And then there's coal. The difference between nuclear and coal is that when nuclear has a horrible accident, it kills fewer people than coal kills as part of its normal expected operation.
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True, a quarter inch longer and eighth inch wider. Smaller both ways than the Max, at least. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/09/all-of-the-iphone-17-model...
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It still takes up less room in your pocket.
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Until we can manufacture solar panels on Mars, maybe the best option is solar power satellites with microwave transmission. One of the big drawbacks on Earth is that you have to launch the satellite to orbit. For Mars, stuff is in orbit whe
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I guess this part applies: > by this time it ships li-ion advances will match it But the reason it applies is that this new battery is a li-ion advance so it only has to match itself.

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