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by Qem 2y ago
Musk doesn't refrain from using his companies, mainly Twitter, as weapons in petty personal disputes and showdowns. It's a situation that allows piercing the corporate veil, even under US law. See https://en.m.wikipedia
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by Qem 2y ago
> This defeats the purpose of corporations. I'm this context, this declaration makes me believe the purpose of corporations is to allow billionaires to disregard laws.
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by Qem 2y ago
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2024/05/15/find-out-how-ille...
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by Qem 2y ago
> by the time you’re dealing with actual fuel rods you can stick in a reactor not just ore or 99.3% U235 0.7% U235 metal. It's actually possible to run a reactor on natural unenriched uranium. IIRC the first man-made reactor ever, t
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by Qem 2y ago
Beware the Asymptotic Burnout hypothesis proposed to explain the Fermi Paradox: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.002...
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by Qem 2y ago
I bet Durov arrest has little to do with any bullshit charges the French government is accusing him of, and more to do with Telegram being used to document the Gaza genocide. Once a platform allows the world see images of children bodies to
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by Qem 2y ago
Meanwhile big oil keeps America addicted to the black goo while profiting from greenwashing and sham carbon credits: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/big-oil-i...
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by Qem 2y ago
> what we really need for SCOTUS is time limits and automatic replacements at intervals to take politics out of the process a little bit Wouldn't the need for periodically choose replacements add politics instead?
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Mapped: Which countries have reported mpox cases so far?(aljazeera.com)
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by Qem 2y ago
Now it seems Elon is trying to displace the Toyota Hilux and disrupt the technical improvised combat vehicle market. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)
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by Qem 2y ago
> Considering the long-term health risks to astronauts, especially those who are younger, from the perspective of their families carries a different emotional weight than thinking purely about oneself. “I’m not sure if I was the mother o
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by Qem 2y ago
I admire Glenn, he did a great job reporting on Snowden revelations and the Vaza-Jato scandal in Brazil. I believe his stand is principled, but he appears to have the shortcoming of often trying to apply concepts from the US legal and insti
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by Qem 2y ago
I wonder how many we could fit into powerline pylons too.
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by Qem 2y ago
> Elon would not be trying to buff his "Evil Billionaire" rep...right? Elon: the billionaire that promised Mars, but delivered mercury.
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by Qem 2y ago
Also the robots were cool.
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by Qem 2y ago
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/AmS...
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20240808132856/https://theinterce...
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by Qem 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, NK fertility rate is 1.91, while SK currently at 0.72. One takes log(0.05)/log(1.91/2) ~= 65 generations to reduce birth cohorts to 1/20 of the initial population size. The other does the trick in log(
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by Qem 2y ago
By taxing the super-rich, so the productivity gains in the economy are fairly shared with workers to raise children and sustain their families, and do not end mostly stashed in tax heavens.
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by Qem 2y ago
Wonder if people becoming even more overworked than what they already are will manage to drop the fertility rate in SK from ~0.7 to ~0.5.
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by Qem 2y ago
Immigration probably makes housing more affordable, as building still a labour intensive activity, and immigration reduces labour costs. We have car assembling robots, but not house building robots, or plumber robots. But we can't coun
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by Qem 2y ago
I don't know about India or Africa, but births peaked in Brazil by 2012. By stable I think GP meant resistant to measures that governments take to purposely increase birthrates, like slightly better childcare benefits.
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by Qem 2y ago
> There's a historical model that proposes that the Renaissance directly came out of the Black Death—the decrease in population gave the working class more bargaining power The Black Death didn't left a survivors cohort compose
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by Qem 2y ago
Presumably those young people forced to work their asses off 6 days/week will be even less inclined to become parents, further compounding the problem. Trying to solve lack of workers due to sub-replacement fertility by squeezing more
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Jet stream use for sustainable airship and balloon transport of cargo and H2(sciencedirect.com)
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by Qem 2y ago
If there's life in the atmosphere of Venus, it should be quite starved of heavy elements, but with a lot of solar energy available. I wonder if we could settle the issue by making the equivalent of an ocean fertilization experiment in
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by Qem 2y ago
It's not necessary to assume a single hard step to explain the rarity of intelligent life. Considerations about the late appearance of a technological civilization on Earth point to between five and six hard steps from origin of life t
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by Qem 2y ago
> But just to circle back on junk DNA—-most of it is non-functional baggage—-the result of our constant battles with viruses and replication errors. So, like the middle managers for the genome.
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by Qem 2y ago
This nails it. If Elon Musk loses 220 billion, he still does just fine. If a subsistence farmer in a remote place loses his couple hectares cassava crop, he and his family risks famine.
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by Qem 2y ago
> I mean, the North Koreans are starving even when they go to try and catch fish for food. They grow shorter than South Koreans due to poor nutrition. Yet NK fertility rate is 1.91, while SK currently at 0.72.

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