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by Retric 4mo ago
> OK so maybe they're both jobs programs, but .mil is bigger and employs more people Which is a direct function of its budget not a function of what it does. > (almost certainly at a lower per capita cost). DoD is extremely expen
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by Retric 4mo ago
The government is largely incompetent about proactively sifting through vast amounts of information for relevant bits. That’s minimal defense, but it’s worth remembering the difference between what it in theory knows and what its actually p
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by Retric 4mo ago
A CB radio can’t actually be replaced by a cellphone, the phone doesn’t actually do voicemail that’s a separate service you’re paying for so it works when your phone dies, it’s also listening multiple different phones etc. But it’s an add,
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by Retric 4mo ago
> It includes what else, weed overdoses? People intentionally committing suicide is one of the big issues, but also people who die from any drug from Tylenol to prescription drugs. That 75k includes accidental poisoning from drain cleane
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by Retric 4mo ago
Complaining about not enough police is still people being unhappy with the police force. I’ve heard people complaining about them eating donuts in such environments, you don’t hear that as much in rich areas because they have plenty of p
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by Retric 4mo ago
Edit: Grid scale solar is its own thing for many reasons, one of which is not sticking things in a roof tends to dramatically lower risks and costs. But another is they are significantly more optimized. > could both not be oversized on
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by Retric 4mo ago
A flawed argument doesn’t mean the position is incorrect, only that the person making the argument failed. > So you agree that hard drugs are poison (or even worse than poison, about 75K vs about 100K deaths / year). Read my first
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by Retric 4mo ago
Which is significantly less of a concern in wealthy areas. When fines are meaningless and police plentiful people’s attitude changes.
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by Retric 4mo ago
> to full capacity every day. A common misconception you don’t need to hit 100%, you need enough energy to make it either from that day or from prior days. At grid scale daily production is never 0 and it’s never 100%. You can guarantee
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by Retric 4mo ago
In the US, “unintentional poisoning deaths numbered 75,761 in 2023” > About 100,000 die annually from drugs in the US alone. A single substance vs all drugs including prescription, over the counter, and hard drugs while including suicide
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by Retric 4mo ago
So is bleach, that doesn’t inherently justify anything past a warning label.
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by Retric 4mo ago
> you were limited by the one definition you had in mind Intentionally misunderstanding what someone said is at best wordplay, and wordplay is fucking boring. Stop being boring.
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by Retric 4mo ago
Nightly storage is cost effective because you use it 365 times a year. Seasonal storage is solving a different problem.
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by Retric 4mo ago
Meanwhile I’ve spent way too much time around people in real life on both sides of the isle that absolutely loathed the police. The general attitude seems extremely positively correlated with income, and the average American isn’t particula
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by Retric 4mo ago
We’re optimizing for cost here, nothing else matters. You can always turn off a wind turbine. If you’re proposing seasonal storage as a viable option then cutting total storage needs by 90% (to handle a 10 day lull vs 90 day gap) is inhere
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by Retric 4mo ago
Long periods of low output isn’t 0 energy output over a ~3 month long winter. Beyond that wind for each location is somewhat seasonal so if you’re doing this for winter energy you pick areas with better wind in winter.
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by Retric 4mo ago
I think you misunderstood, I am saying 20MW of solar power is less expensive than 1GWh of energy storage. Nothing in my post suggests 1GWh of storage is cheap.
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by Retric 4mo ago
> So By acknowledging that nobody considers these objective truths, there’s nothing interesting to say on the topic. You were playing around with the linguistic ambiguity for whatever reason using a different definition than was used by
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by Retric 4mo ago
You can generally solve seasonal shortfalls cheaply by simply adding more solar / wind until you no longer have a seasonal shortfall just a massive surplus in a different part of the year. Put another way if you want to store power say
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by Retric 4mo ago
The English language has multiple independent definitions of the same word. You’re misusing that ambiguity here. “sincerity in action, character, and utterance” is different than “the body of real things, events, and facts” This distinctio
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by Retric 4mo ago
> thinks like that These aren’t truths. It’s cases like “is the earth flat?” that have an answer in objective reality and people still argue about it where some people are simply wrong.
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by Retric 4mo ago
Basic government functions like the military aren’t communist. Communism however is when the government does everything. Thus there’s a threshold where more government control is more Communist. 40% of US corn is turned into ethanol not
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by Retric 4mo ago
Such short term issues from massive economic collapse suggests building more housing works.
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by Retric 4mo ago
East India company and its armies are something of a counter argument to your second point.
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by Retric 4mo ago
> I promise I wouldn’t argue Fair, to be clear I wouldn’t actually call the US a communist country either. I would say it’s more communist than modern day China, granted that’s a low bar. What’s IMO worth considering is just how much mor
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by Retric 4mo ago
If you’re open to a wider discussion. Norway's and Alaska’s use of oil wealth to subsidize their population via state ownership of that wealth is very communist in nature. Ancient Rome’s huge grain dole similarly was quite communist in
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by Retric 4mo ago
Ok that seems like a reasonable argument, but it’s got a glaring hole. The reason for these rules is lockup periods. There’s presumably many people really want to sell significant SpaceX stock at the current price who can’t yet . Effective
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by Retric 4mo ago
> It is indeed known to have issues at railway crossings: At scale you can “have issues” and still work 99% of the time. If it’s completely incapable of handling railroad crossings that’s relatively easy to verify. > AFAIK, there&#x2
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by Retric 4mo ago
At minimum it needs to pay attention to railroad crossing bars and bridges. They show a 2D representation to the driver because that’s good enough for drivers, but I wouldn’t assume that represents how the system operates internally at ev
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by Retric 4mo ago
It’s not likely but it could definitely happen. > A supernova peaks over the course of days People do long exposures over hours and sometimes multiple days. An algorithm assuming a static image could discard a relatively slow increase in

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