Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 3y ago
I have read many books and seen many movies that I feel are worse artistic works than the best games, but I also think it's a hard comparison to make. There is no music that compares to "War and peace" or paintings like &quot
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I think books are still the best way for a single mind to communicate complex ideas. Movies and games are teamwork, many ideas from several people (for better and worse). Maybe generative AI will get to the point where a single author can c
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This used to be a comforting thought whenever computers beat humans in chess, but I think that time has passed. The paper mentions AlphaZero [1], which has beaten AlphaGo, which beat Lee Sedol back in 2016 [2]. [1] https://en.wik
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>Isn't there a better article? >maybe they mean 2 MWh, but if that's the case, it is a joke. There are tons of equally bad articles about this story, which is sad to see. Quality journalism might not be dead but it sure is o
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>It's basic CICO, from having skimmed it. The problem is this type of diet has the greatest likelihood of failing. I couldn't disagree more. THD is not really a diet, it just explains the baseline facts of weight loss and enabl
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>That seems like somewhat absurd speculation. A speculation for sure but I think it's realistic given the premise. Same safety standards as the Boeing 737 Max for nuclear power plants, same standards as coal power for storing the wa
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>I suppose my point here is that if we should hold nuclear to a reasonable standard of harm - say an order of magnitude less harm then we are presently living under - then the economics of nuclear will likely crush solar. You believe tha
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>Rooftop solar never really made sense in the big picture kind of way. I think it's in the big picture it actually does make sense. True it's not the cheapest, but it is the fastest way to actually get solar panels into sunshin
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>You've linked one of worlds worst nuclear disasters there. Not at all, it was a mere 93 grams of misplaced material and just one of many many examples of this happening all over the world. The US generates 20 000 000 times as much
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>You might have heard the funny story about a nuclear contamination incident Here is just one of many actually documented stories about nuclear contamination, none of them are particularly funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
> if we held nuclear to a similar safety standard to the airline, coal or solar industry it'd probably be cheaper No it would be much more expensive. Chernobyl and Fukushima are estimated to cost over 1000 billion usd each, and your
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
Nobody's perfect but the US with all it's flaws is vastly preferable to being conquered by a military dictatorship. Which basically was the other option for Europe during the past 80 years. Look at what happens the very second the
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How is productivity measured in the kinds of jobs that can be done from home? For manufacturing it's easy - just measure the output per day and number of working hours spent. But how is it done for finance, marketing, software develop
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>everything's going better now because fewer people die from pneumonia now than a hundred years ago. You're missing the bigger picture. I'm not talking about pneumonia though, and surely the bigger picture is that the aver
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>I think your comment is optimistic to the point of being naive. Wealth disparity has been increasing in the last 200 years. You mention disparity as if it is a problem but ignore that most of the population is much better off. Your sour
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20-30 years of savings is a fortune already though, how do we make it so that all professions allow for such savings to be accumulated if we don't allow for interest rates or dividends? And if the 20-30 years isn't enough, do we r
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>From different treatment by the government, to the justice system, to access to health care, education to getting in a position where being rich means you can exploit poor people to get richer with zero consequences All the things you m
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>As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing. It should be impossible to survive from saved money? Wouldn't that mean that everybody has to work until they die? >I totally fail to understand why this
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>There is nothing "cool" about it. Not now of course, but I think that they lost their way mostly after the first decade. For the first decade they launched a bunch of services that were so much better than anything else it see
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>All business is inherently unethical Ethics are not a law of nature, it's basically an opinion. Your opinion may be that all business is unethical, but most people disagree. Most people consider it to be ethical to trade money for
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Google makes me kind of sad. They used to be so cool, pushing technology forward, making it accessible to the masses, doing things that seemed almost impossible and making it mainstream. Ads were the money stream but they did it tastefully.
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It doesn't have to be batteries, hydrogen gas can be generated from solar at 80% efficiency, and storing hydrogen is way cheaper than batteries. Certainly way cheaper than nuclear.
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>The main problem with replacing a fossil fuel plant with renewable + batteries is finding a battery system that can hold energy over a sufficiently long period of time and has enough capacity to replace solar/wind when it is dark a
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>If not, and you concede that there's no way for you to change your mind, why are you trying to change my mind? I'm trying to change your mind because I honestly believe you are mistaken in your position on nuclear. Also becaus
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I think we have passed the threshold for production cost. According to this overview [1] solar was at 1 cent per kwh a few years ago and panels are even cheaper now. Hydrogen can be created at 80% efficiency, so it seems like we should be a
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>But here we were not talking about building new nuclear. We were talking about discontinuing existing nuclear. That's a fair point. The main argument in support of nuclear I can agree with is that once you've had nuclear opera
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>It looks to me it's the other way round. I never heard a pro-nuclear guy (I'm one) saying don't build solar or wind. It's the anti-nuclear guys (presumaby you're one) that say "DO NOT BUILD NUCLEAR". O
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>You mention underfunded, but not overfunded. >The civilian nuclear reactor operators in the US used to have to pay to a waste disposal fund, that currently has more than $44 BN The fund is supposed to finance Yucca Mountain but the c
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>If Sellafield handles both civilian and military waste, and Sellafield is bad, it follows that civilian nuclear waste is bad? That's your argument, right? No my point is not about waste it's about cost. Every country that ope
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Generating gas (=baseload power) from solar is also a solved problem, and is cheaper and safer than operating nuclear plants.

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