PaulAJ

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by PaulAJ 7y ago
The basic fallacy here is the proposition that all economic activity involves physical work, and hence energy == economic activity. However this is not the case. My economic activity consists of staring at a screen and pressing buttons. It
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
One thing about helium: once its released to the atmosphere its gone forever. Because it is so light it not only heads upwards, the velocity of the atoms is high enough that some exceed the Earth's escape velocity and don't come d
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
So what is the efficiency of your process? How many joules of chemical energy do you get from 1 kilowatt hour? (i.e. 3.6MJ)
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
You mean like wind turbines do?
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
"Unburning" CO2 takes energy. Where does your energy come from?
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by PaulAJ 7y ago
Having grown up on Guernsey and been to Sark several times, I have a slightly less romantic view of the island. The Sarkees regard tourists as another form of cattle, there to be milked. Everything costs, and by the time you have paid for s
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
One issue about the "bitey dog" MCAS not mentioned was the story of Air France 447 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 ). Thats the one that stalled into the Atlantic in 2009. The flight crew
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Your last words are ironic. Anyone writing on the subject at the time would have ended with "we're being left in the dust by Japan".
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
If you have other income you can just go to the HMRC web site and fill in the forms on-line. I've had to do it a few times, and its not a big deal. If you have a simple one-off event (like a capital gain when selling something) then yo
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
The poster makes a point about conservatism in large companies, but doesn't explore this further. Its actually a more complicated matter than just technical ignorance in managers. The real problem is that programming languages are seen
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Admissions Scandal: A lecturer's perspective on dumb-but-entitled students(theguardian.com)
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On the one hand I know what you mean: I know practically no category theory (basically I know enough to expect "co" as a prefix to mean "everything the other way around"), but I can still produce good Haskell code. But o
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
One option would be on the sign-up side: get them to "test" the recovery option. Keep bugging them about it every log-in until they do. This has two advantages: 1: This sends the message that you think it important, which might he
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
A more common problem is eye infection. This is an issue for contact lens wearers, and amoebas can also get in your eyes when you go swimming. https://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/acanthamoeba-keratit...
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Why the extra 5 percentage points every weekend?
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
A centimillionaire is someone with assets of $10k. Perhaps you meant a hectamillionaire ($100M).
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
See also "Moneyland": https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/07/moneyland-oliv...
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Terry Pratchett wrote a letter to The Times about taxes, reproduced in "A Slip of the Keyboard". In it he says: I have been enormously buoyed up, though, by hearing from journalists and other pundits that ‘the rich won’t end up pa
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
There is a mention of cartridges, so presumably the intention is that the Al never gets out.
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
I started to try to explain in detail why this is wrong, but it is so incoherent I gave up. First you say organ donors are either "brain dead" or in "ciruclatory death", but according to the Wikipedia article only a few
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Lost me with the description of Satoshi Nakamoto as "possibly fake". Pseudonymous is not the same as fake. The rest of the article is a combination of straw-men and ad-hominems. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Obviously, a Republican News Network gives a "fair and balanced" version of the news, while a CNN is just the opposite.
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Given that most art dealers "add value" by putting something in an expensive window and talking it up to people with money to burn, yes.
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Reading about the choice between reasonable pay and rewarding work, I was reminded of this Dilbert cartoon. As usual, Scott Adams got there first. http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-02
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that i
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Back in the 70s there was indeed a concern (no stronger than that) that we might have been heading for a new ice age over the next few centuries. That concern was based on the fact that we are in an interglacial period and ought to start
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
On the other hand, what if you say, for instance, that you got your degree in '93, but actually it was '92? The trouble with the law is that it doesn't distinguish between whoppers, fibs and clerical errors. They are all fals
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
Eiffel dates back to the 1990s. Java was going to have Eiffel-style invariants, but they got chopped out because Bill Joy had a deadline to meet.
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I was an Eiffel fanboy in the early 90s, when the only alternatives were Smalltalk and C++. It was obvious to me that garbage collection was necessary for modular systems, and that Eiffel assertions were the sweet spot in formal specificati
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by PaulAJ 8y ago
From the article: It is much more difficult to be a fraudster in a society in which people only do business with relatives, or where commerce is based on family networks going back centuries. It is much easier to carry out a securities frau

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