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by Retric 11mo ago
IE and EQ do however positively correlate with each other.
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by Retric 11mo ago
> pure BEVs are still the significantly more expensive option New technology often has ‘new’ tradeoffs, are GPU’s are sill only situationally better than CPU’s. DC fast charging is several times more expensive than home charging which he
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by Retric 11mo ago
Politicians don’t need to know the details, they need to be advised by competent people with the best interests of the public in mind. Which may sound straightforward while being really difficult to get right.
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by Retric 11mo ago
The space shuttle’s design was also deeply flawed to the point it failed to do the core objective, significantly lowering costs. Instead the core mission was sacrificed to meet some arbitrary design goals such as being able to de-orbit hea
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by Retric 11mo ago
People do make it work in the US with tiny incomes and a better standard of living than you’d see in a typical 1960’s household. I know people raising a family of 4 on 1 income well below the median wage without a collage degree. They do g
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by Retric 11mo ago
> Generally, they're good for about eight hours. That’s a function of how aircraft dropped sonobuoys are used. Subs aren’t going to stay still and the ocean is a big place so long lifespans are pointless. However for harbors you wa
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by Retric 11mo ago
Thanks, I misunderstood your point. Sure Elixir is fine to work with, the thing is in the back of my mind I’m thinking it’s way more likely to end up embedding Python libraries in Elixir code than the reverse. It’s those little bits of fri
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by Retric 11mo ago
You can do a similar Python REPL. So I’m really unsure what you mean here? I mean it’s a little better for displaying data structures but I never really found that particularly useful.
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by Retric 11mo ago
Between Python and Elixir or Golang, I’ll stick with Python for an exploratory side project. It’s just a better fit when you’re not quite sure what you’re building. You just gain more on the 99% of projects that never go anywhere than you
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by Retric 1y ago
It’s a huge design space. One easy to understand example is a passive sonar underwater drone that stays close enough to the surface to gather sunlight and easily communicate with satellites without also being visible on the surface or makin
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by Retric 1y ago
10 TW * 1 year = 8,760 TWh / year. The current rate of energy production is ~42TW and slowly dropping over billions of years, so even after efficiency losses gathering 1% of what’s produced is several times current energy consumption.
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by Retric 1y ago
Not really how that works. Also earths core is being heated from nuclear decay and tidal effects. It’s getting 10’s or TW worth of heat until the sun expands and eats the earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth'
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by Retric 1y ago
That’s overly simplified, and these lakes normally only fully mix every few years. In winter surface water is colder than sub surface water so if you start pumping water to create a cold and more dense column of water in a pipe you can stop
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by Retric 1y ago
Companies are also heavily cooking the books with IP and trade. Netflix Canada Inc and Netflix Services Canada Ulc two local companies are collecting payments in Canada and they don’t want to look like they have any profits whatsoever. ht
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by Retric 1y ago
Dubai is paying ~$2,450 per acre-foot of desalinated water. You generally need around 2 acre feet of water per acre of farmland assuming near zero rain, it varies by crop type but goes up with temperature and down with humidity. Farms growi
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by Retric 1y ago
I agree learning should happen, but you don’t learn to drive a car by someone handing you the keys on day 1. Learning just about anything looks very different than handling the full responsibility of doing the thing correctly in your own.
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by Retric 1y ago
The drinking age is 21 in the US 18 is not quite full adulthood, so 12 is still quite young. Even just 1 year is a big deal for kids, 6 years is a huge jump look at 0 vs 6 vs 12 vs 18 and these are very different people. You see my last se
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by Retric 1y ago
That’s a strategy doomed to failure. 12 year old kids are still developing the brain structures to be able to handle discipline. Meanwhile a large fraction of adults are failing to do what you’re expecting a 12 year old to get right. When
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by Retric 1y ago
If you own water rights, selling them to a city at near desalination rates is way more profitable than farming. So desalination only makes economic sense after removing all farms from an area.
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by Retric 1y ago
The drone’s goal is to locate it, you’d then send something else to destroy it if you’re in an actual war. America uses surface buoy’s to similar effect, going underwater would allow drones to be harder to detect. https://idstch.
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by Retric 1y ago
> Assume you mean more expensive than nuclear in the second point? No, but I clarified the comment. My point is when taken in isolation nighttime nuclear costs less than nighttime batteries on a near zero carbon grid, however the econom
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by Retric 1y ago
Storage is cheaper than peaking power which is why it’s common to add huge battery bank to solar power plants. It’s simply more profitable to add storage. Net result renewables currently save you money until ~80% annual electricity supply.
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by Retric 1y ago
It’s way cheaper to build a drone that doesn’t need to travel quickly or carry huge amount high explosives.
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by Retric 1y ago
Facts are neutral, when someone says something incorrect it’s worth pointing out the truth. UAE, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Russia, and Australia are mid sized countries that emit more CO2 than the US per capita but you need to come up with a ne
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by Retric 1y ago
America has huge trade deficit from China but America imports more from the EU (605.8) and Mexico (505.9) than China (438.9) followed closely by Canada (412.7). At the same time just under 15% of China’s exports are going to the US, so Amer
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by Retric 1y ago
America isn’t #1 in pollution per capita, that’s largely a function of per capita income and America is a long way from #1 on that metric. For example, we where ranked 16th in terms of CO2 per capita in 2023. https://en.wikipedia
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by Retric 1y ago
If you want to steel man the argument it’s worth acknowledging that China is also concerned with backdoors in what they import. > allegations of a future scenario There’s been plenty of CCP aligned hacking, backdoors, and industrial espi
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by Retric 1y ago
I was going back to 1940 as recent history, back in say 1840 the largest southern city was New Orleans followed by Charleston, SC at 29k people and Louisville, KY at 21k. To wonder where the wealth went you need to look at places that wher
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by Retric 1y ago
US didn’t have many large prosperous cities in the west or most of the south until very recently. Railroads and AC really changed where people lived in America. https://1940census.com/Img/1940_census_map_usa.jpg vs zo
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by Retric 1y ago
Article is light on details but there’s a few options such as using sunlight or earths magnetic field to move around without propellent tanks near earth.

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