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by RC_ITR 4y ago
As many as it can comfortably sustain? Which RN looks like a lot less than 8bn (given climate change and all). Open to your ideas of how we fix that though! I think a resource-light society of many billions would be amazing
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The broader sense of acronym—the meaning of which includes terms pronounced as letters—is sometimes criticized, but it is the term's original meaning[1] and is in common use.Dictionary and style-guide editors are not in universal agree
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
You see the same thing with Middle East Leaders - MBS, MBZ, etc. When the names are even semi-complex and the reach is global, people default to acronyms.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
When they say “microdroplets” (I may be out of date here) they mean firing lasers at falling drops of molten tin and then capturing the energy that the tin gives off. Like anything, some of their PHDs were like “no that’s probably not going
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
There are things called “design rules” that the circuit designers (basically software developers who make the map for how the circuits should be laid out) need to follow for a process (basically “the software will allow you to do X, but the
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
New in the sense they gave up in 2018. https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/intel/7912-...
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
They’ve been trying to do this for years . The problem always is “Intel fabs are so deeply integrated with Intel circuit design that it’s hard for more general customers to use their process.” Intel foundry makes a bunch of ‘odd’ choices
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Wasn't the downfall of Betamax that the tapes were limited to 1 hour (which Sony thought was fine since that was the unit of commercial videotapes) and most people wanted to record sporting events that took longer than an hour?
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Imagine owning a social network that is a first class citizen to a global satellite network I guess the zeitgeist really did decide Net Neutrality is a bad thing. Like imagine a telecom owning a social network? Ok I imagined it and I
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>I feel most decent engineers Get ready for the definition of 'decent' to get a lot more scary...
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
What actually tends to happen is the following: -California is a desirable place to live, with the main limiting factor being cost of real estate -People who are already in tenuous living situations move to California because "Its not
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Its not like we are in a world crisis where marine life is dying I'm begging you to look into how plastic gets into the ocean. It's "recycling" it, not landfill escape. Additionally, you're missing the entire
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
So just some thoughts on that data. The three factors that PET scores poorly on are Ozone depletion (not a critical concern in 2022), depletion of oil reserves (good!), and depletion of “other abiotic resources.” I mean it’s fine that those
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
It sounds like those are noticeable bad effects of mining/smelting it? I agree if we could do that with plastic, then maybe we should think about it, but right now, we waste a whole bunch of fuel just to send our plastic to Vietnam
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>People living near Los Angeles oil wells have less lung strength and capacity than average for the region, on par with living near a freeway, researchers found Hmmm, no potential confounding factors there...
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Intel has two campuses in Chandler with multiple fabs, for example, which used about 16,000 acre-feet (5bn gallons) of municipal water in 2020... About 6,200 (1.5bn gallons) acre-feet of water were treated on-site and reused without ent
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I always find this so funny: In 2015, Intel, the largest semiconductor company by market capitalization, used nine billion gallons of water Hmm, I bet they build their factories by the Great lakes then! Oh - Intel’s new Arizona fabs to be
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
On what metrics? Based on what data? And btw, tetra pak is 15% plastic by weight! They're just plastic film laminated onto paper (that makes the paper unrecyclable) And aluminum cans are also plastic vaneered! Like I said, it's a
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>We don't recycle aluminium because mining/smelting all the aluminium would be noticeably bad. Ok then we why do we recycle aluminium? >Nor do we recycle paper and other wood products because cutting all the trees down would
890.
by RC_ITR 4y ago
Again, these are incremental problems. You can and should do both. But yours involves changing society at a fundamental level (who decides the people who can no longer see their relatives at Christmas?) and mine involves reversing a rec
891.
by RC_ITR 4y ago
>No downsides expect the environmental impact of resource extraction and refinement. Sure, but those are relatively solvable problems (they extract oil right in the middle of America's second largest city and almost no one notices)
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
This is a classic example of a 'Wicked Problem' [0] Plastic is a literal miracle material - light-weight, infinitely formable, strong, flexible, not made from observable natural resources (e.g. trees <> paper), water resis
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
You seem to be fine with the 30k Americans per year who die in car crashes. That number is probably too high for robots to do though. Humans are weird like that.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I know you’re being snarky, but a dictatorship with limited export opportunities and extreme inequality isn’t exactly the paradise you think it is.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
So, yes, cars that are programmed to have AEB: perform well at AEB and not other tasks. We are in agreement here. (I even agree with you that those cars use Radar for AEB). Now, where we disagree is you implying that cars with AEB-level rad
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The first famous autopilot crash was because a white semi-truck was washed out by the sun and confused for an overhead sign. That's literally trivial for a car with radar to detect. Amazing how people talk about stuff they have no idea
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>His goals are good: focusing on the 80% bandwidth of free speech, but getting there for sure is going to be tricky. This has to be by far the biggest risk factor. What I think will be the real litmus test is Azealia Banks, whose account
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Of all the links in the chain for the Opiate Crisis, you're going to blame the distributor of the pills? I get it, hindsight in 20/20 etc., but those pills were prescribed by highly-trained doctors and fulfilled by highly-traine
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Sure, but Apple books revenue gross and a lot of it is from components they buy from other people in other countries, which would be excluded from a GDP calculation. An extreme similar example of this is Mckesson [0], which does $260bn of r
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> sense of shame, fear of ostracism I think you have a loose definition of violence. “Go live in the forest” is very violent, in practice. The duty and and family stuff are arguably window dressing on the ostracism violence.

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