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by Jedd 5y ago
> How on earth can we get out of lockdowns and get back to living our lives, unless we fully expect everyone to catch covid? You're painting two extremes and asserting one's not possible, and thereby concluding the other is in
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by Jedd 5y ago
Thanks for the assumption, despite me reading the linked article (I preferred the Guardian's take on the issue, from the same day[0]). I did not watch the video on which it's based, of course, as time is finite. GP (and to an exte
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by Jedd 5y ago
The claims in that article are a bit tenuous - such as 'we have no way to control the spread of delta', when in fact we do - isolation, quarantine, reduced travel, contact tracing, masks, social distancing, vaccination, etc. A yea
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Remember - long term, literally everyone is going to get covid. That is the only possible future. Very much not true. Literally many people will die if they get COVID (f.e. the extremely young, or the many people that are immuno-compro
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by Jedd 5y ago
> I'm not American either, but I'm intrigued about what could make you think that I was. Not parent, but the thing that made me think you were from the USA was this line: > From my circles, the vaccine/mask defiance is
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by Jedd 5y ago
Likewise, I expected kolab to appear in TFA's list of evaluated options, as I knew it has been around for a while and covered most (all?) of the author's requirements. IIRC it was a key element in Munich's initial 'let&
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by Jedd 5y ago
I'm not an Apple or Jobs apologist - I'm sure you've noticed - but I can see why someone who was would want to paint each individual example of poor behaviour as isolated, accidental, deeply regretted, not indicative etc - ra
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by Jedd 5y ago
It's possible that the phrase 'behind the meter' isn't universally understood - what I meant by that is that we can put storage systems (Lithium, Flow, etc) on the customer premises - on their side of the electricity met
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by Jedd 5y ago
> The problem with battery energy storage is not cost but scale. I'd posit that it's mostly cost, otherwise it would be a solved problem now. Certainly we can scale - even if it means putting low-cost batteries behind the meter
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by Jedd 5y ago
You're right. The first statement speaks to his reliance on others - continuing through his career - to develop the actual ground-breaking technologies that he was subsequently credited with. That annexation of credit is an awful tra
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by Jedd 5y ago
Thanks, but I know who he was and what he did. Personally I tend to side more with rms's position on the passing of Steve Jobs. I just wonder how credulous someone needs to be in order to assert that guy ".. completely transform
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by Jedd 5y ago
> He completely transformed modern life and changed the human trajectory for everyone on the planet, multiple times. Steve Jobs? This is going to need a fair amount of substantiation, because those are some wild claims.
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by Jedd 5y ago
'drops hostility to coal' is perhaps not the embrace of green energy that you may hope. {sigh} From March 2021 [0] "The Australian Labor Party will support an expansion of Australia’s gas industry" , From April 2021 [1]
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by Jedd 5y ago
In addition to being tone-deaf and/or incompetent on basically every big-ticket issue facing us, our (AU) power grid (mis)management is almost on a par with the US's E[R]COT debacle ... just stretched out over a few more decades,
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by Jedd 5y ago
> The Greens and Labour party are both actively hostile to coal ... That's not true. The Labor (note spelling) party in AU is actively pro-coal. Sadly most stories are paywalled - but check [0] for the gist - "Labor drops hosti
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Considering the vast majority of Sweden is basically uninhabited .. Okay then. Most of Australia is uninhabited, so let's compare those two (deaths per million). > But it's not like you can A/B test this stuff. You c
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Weren't a lot of Sweden's deaths very early and from nursing homes ... If the data in the graph shared by kybernetikos is correct, the claim that 'it's all because of elder deaths in early 2020' seems to be mis
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by Jedd 5y ago
Slightly tangential - I went to install Keybase on a new Debian build last night, and discovered the installation process is broken, evidently has been for some time, and upstream (on github) seems abandoned. Keybase, once a popular favouri
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by Jedd 5y ago
Yup, and as Al-Khwarizmi says in a sibling comment, we are entertained through the journey. Whether it diminishes your entertainment, once you get to the end of the story, to realise almost everything was pointless - in the fictional univ
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by Jedd 5y ago
You're right - I should have said 'done nothing until that point'. That leads to the question 'how could he have followed them?' but that's not a terribly difficult question to entertain, as there's severa
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by Jedd 5y ago
> There was so much attention to the logical flow of the story. In some ways, but the most famous observation (that I've heard) about the first Indiana film is that the outcome -- all the bad guys getting fried when they open the ar
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by Jedd 5y ago
Yup, see my reply to the sibling comment made at about the same time as yours. I've mucked up with the brown coal assumption (mining and power generation are not my thing) but I don't doubt the accuracy of the report from my engin
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by Jedd 5y ago
Hmm, you're right. This was a comment made to me about a decade or so ago, when this person was at, or had just left, Liddell power station. It was definitely gamed in the way I described - the best coal went into the one burner that
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by Jedd 5y ago
It's likely true, but quite probably even worse. A friend here in NSW Australia told me some years ago, while working at one of the larger coal-fired power plants we have, that emissions are measured on only one of the four stacks, and
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by Jedd 5y ago
Sailing faster than the apparent wind[0] has been going on for a while, especially on v.high performance land and water yachts. [1] The physics involved still twist my brain, but there's nothing terribly new here. [0] https:/&#x
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by Jedd 5y ago
> There have been societies that couldn't even think about that problem. This sounds like what Iain Banks referred to as an OCP - an Outside Context Problem [0]. As TFA describes: "Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the
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by Jedd 5y ago
32 years earlier - Underworld filmed a similar length clip for Underneath The Radar [0] in a single cut. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVrVERNeCPE
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by Jedd 5y ago
Fusion power generators? Absolutely - we should be throwing vast sums of money at R&D for this tech. Fission? Not so much - we don't have time, appetite, budget, or (politically) the governance/control needed.
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by Jedd 5y ago
Burn, by Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper (2019) - goes into the multitude of ways biochar can be utilised. It's a bit heavy, but in a good (here's the research that backs us up) way. https://www.chelseagreen.com&#x2F
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by Jedd 5y ago
When I was living in London back in 1999, one of my friends was working on the Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) project, which was extending the tube/underground out to the east. He told me that the bilge pumps running in many parts of the

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