DuskStar

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by DuskStar 5y ago
Unfortunately, people tend to build nuke magnets in places that they are fine with nukes landing. Kansas, South Dakota, Idaho...
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Since my personal opinion on "modern" art (read: essentially everything you'll see in a museum that was made after 1900) is that it sucks, this isn't a particularly compelling argument to me!
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by DuskStar 5y ago
And in the age of water, running shafts to the waterwheel was vastly easier than having a wheel at each station.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Doesn't work yet but plausibly will in the future or if there's sufficient demand for it
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by DuskStar 5y ago
If you're willing to do things like extract uranium from seawater (which IIRC is about 10 times more expensive than mining, but the cost of mining uranium is not a significant fraction of the cost of running a nuclear power plant) and
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by DuskStar 5y ago
The power at night and when the wind doesn't blow comes from either: 1. Batteries (insignificant) 2. Hydro 3. Nuclear 4. Fossil Fuels Germany killed number three, and they did not build sufficient hydro or batteries to compensate. That
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by DuskStar 5y ago
But there might have been a time where it was reasonable to expect every movie to be on DVD and mailed to you.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Most batteries don't have the power density to output their entire capacity in 30 (or 60, or 120) seconds though, if I'm remembering correctly.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Anomalous would be my guess
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by DuskStar 5y ago
That's just the federal budget, and does not include state and local spending. Most education funding is at the state and local level, though.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
That's still the law in the US today. Specifically, able-bodied men from 17 to 45. "10 USC Ch. 12: THE MILITIA" https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title10/sub...
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Is there a generalized "governmental mass killings" page?
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by DuskStar 5y ago
The pithy response is that it's not me deciding that your life is worth less than my stuff, it's you deciding that and me agreeing.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Even better - automaton cost today < cost of never automating because the union won't let you cut jobs
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by DuskStar 5y ago
When your nuke uses kilotons as a pre-detonation measure of weight, you've done something wrong.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Which houses, where? Because iirc sea levels aren't expected to go up by more than 1m this century, and also IIRC that's not enough to make New Orleans or Orlando infeasible.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
This is of course true for people on both sides of the political aisle, but for different subjects.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
"no reason to do X" means to me that it doesn't work, not "it's unproven that it works" or "there's a 10 percent chance of works".
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by DuskStar 5y ago
It wasn't a trolley problem - that would be "sacrifice person A to save B, C and D". This was "person A is going to die, no matter what. Killing them now instead of in 30 minutes saves B, C and D". The subtle but cr
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by DuskStar 5y ago
In the US, both (most) death threats and "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" (actually protesting US involvement in the first world war; seriously look up the origin of that phrase) are both legal. Death threats have to b
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by DuskStar 5y ago
The first quarter of the fall distance takes half of the time.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Imagine that there's a market for which day a politician will die on. Initially, all of these daily contracts are priced very low because there is a very low chance of a politician dying on any given day. So, you buy quite a few of one
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by DuskStar 5y ago
And now TODO_OR_DIE_SKIP is set in prod and will never be disabled.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
The problem is incredibly ill defined. Do they want the sum of the temperatures calculated above? (Nonsensical) The temperature that the galaxy would have if you mixed everything together? (Insufficient information on star size and material
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by DuskStar 5y ago
> I don’t think anyone is concerned about the motives of MIT researchers. Until you become a public figure with the wrong set of opinions, maybe.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
> That also means that very big, complex artificial intelligences run on dry silicon will produce big, complex, unhuman-like minds. Incidentally, this is exactly what the AI superintelligence people are terrified of, and what the papercl
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Imagine a law stating that if your neighbor came to your door and asked for a cup of sugar because they ran out, you had to give it to them. Now, this might be common decency, and the sort of thing that you'd always do for those around
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by DuskStar 5y ago
"all of the things that are evil also don't work" is very a convenient belief. It's also wrong.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Bonus - once you say that, the evidence you produce is no longer legally admissible.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
> we’re stuck with bringing our gas everywhere. Bringing your own gas is fine. The real problem with space travel is you need to bring your own roads . Because what you're short of isn't energy, it's something to push aga

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