Robotbeat

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   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   Looks nice, but $20k??
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   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   A $400 Oculus Quest is cheaper than almost any laptop I can find. (Can pair a Bluetooth keyboard, too.)
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   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   I think it's worse than that. What Twitter especially does is make it easy to find people who are the worst possible version of those you disagree with. Every "nobody REALLY thinks that" is easy to disprove (although still ge
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   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   Not exactly exponentially.
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   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   Sure, but it’s just way too easy for China to employ Whataboutism when we have concentration camps on our border. Without having the moral high ground, actions against much deeper abuses (even like genocide) ring hollow and appear like mere
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   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   Actions like these would be much more effective if we addressed our own human rights abuses like concentration camps of refugees and others at the border, rampant over-incarceration, and police brutality.
7. 2947.▲
   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   Doesn’t mean nothing can be learned from doing it. Not every test need be a double blind placebo controlled trial.
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   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   So I think that’s not really true. Even existing battery chemistry could do 1000km per stop (although it still needs certification for aircraft) and at comparable speed as HSR. That’s much longer than the California HSR project that was can
9. 2949.▲
   by Robotbeat 6y ago

   Electric aircraft like the Eviation Alice could do similar speeds and 1000km miles between stops. Comparable to HSR (early routes in CA were about 500km).
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Yeah... I think explicit ethnic quotas can be really problematic. but ethnic quotas would've been better than how things worked out (i.e. genocide), though. (I should point out that tribal membership is more complicated than just genet
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    The EU is not under US Federal jurisdiction, as apparently Indian Nations are.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    I wonder about that. Right now, the fact that the Nations don’t have direct representation in Congress (yes, I understand citizens can vote in the state the reservation resides in) makes them appear more like subjects of an Empire than as c
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    “Indian Nation” is sometimes used, if I understand correctly.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    I think that figure would be on the order of 100 billion to 1 trillion people on Earth itself. And I agree about population stagnation at about 10-12 billion for the foreseeable future.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Over billions of years, sure. But no appreciably over a single lifetime.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Indefinite parabolic growth (at least, for billions of years) is possible.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Resources and energy and the ability to meet basic human needs are, in fact, almost entirely NOT zero sum. Virtually every resource we have, whether oil, minerals, food, shelter, entertainment, education, etc, is drastically expanded and in
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Not great for the climate, unfortunately. If fossil fuel companies can just go bankrupt and clear all their debt while continuing to operate without skipping a beat, it's nigh impossible for something like renewable energy to compete.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    There was some early evidence it could be effective. I’m actually supportive of the FDA’s move to do both the emergency approval and the retraction. Without the ability to take calculated risks in a situation where either approving or unapp
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    If airplanes were completely zero emissions, it wouldn’t be a problem. Here’s hoping...
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Yup. If your boat is powered by fossil fuels, airplane still beats it because you need to haul around a miniature apartment instead of just a lightweight seat for each person. Folks under-estimate how efficient airplanes are and how ineffic
22. 2962.▲
    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Airplanes are cheaper than boats. To go on a freighter from the US to mainland Europe takes about 18 days and costs $100/day including meals. $3600 two-way. To make the same trip in an airplane if booked in advance is around $600 (can
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Tires are also filled with carbon black, which is fairly similar to soot/ash from fires, so I wouldn’t say it’s a completely unprecedented compound in nature, either.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    BTW, I generally dislike such discussions of "who is subsidizing whom" because they often miss the obvious point: both "sides" benefit from having a larger market to spread fixed costs over. There is no "subsidy&quo
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    The marginal costs for Shuttle missions were less than that, say about $250 million, and they often launched multiple satellites as well as performing other missions. It’s complicated.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Humans have done something like repairs on telecom satellites... If they got stuck in LEO before insertion to GEO. Also, ISS.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    It's the typical EPA range figure that everyone has to use. It's already greater than more than a few mid-size SUVs, such as this BMW: https://www.cars.com/research/bmw-x6_m-2017/ Or this Lexus: https:&
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Mines are basically non-mobile versions of these.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    You could make it aesthetically pleasing. Just make sure the data is boiled down to just a handful of bytes first and there won’t be anyway to reverse it.
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    by Robotbeat 6y ago

    Wow, yeah: > "Libraries must pay up to 4X the retail price for digital versions of books (which only one user can have access to at a time)."