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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's not that they're " wrong " so much as that they're incoherent and largely non-sense. Sorry if that seems harsh, just.. this looks like someone's having some sort of crisis. It's worrisome.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The 9-lines thing. May've just drawn a circle and claimed that it describes all of science.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
That's >18 GJ/tonne, with a goal of 3.6 to 7.2 GJ/tonne, making it much less efficient than post-combustion capture (which I think tends to aim for <2 GJ/tonne now). Why not just do post-combustion capture if it&#x
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
That's basically the default approach that's been used for >100 years. [Patent US1783901A]( https://patents.google.com/patent/US1783901A/en ) (1930-ish) shows the basic closed-loop configuration that m
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
This looks like something that could be cool, though I'm having trouble finding a clear description of what it's really supposed to be. In particular: What do the nodes and connections on the graph represent? For example, once th
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It was common to have at least one clock per room. Wall-clocks were convenient, cheap, and provided comfort in the form of not needing to wear a watch around the house.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Glad that they're trying to simplify it, though it'ld seem obnoxious to maintain a 1-hour addition to the discrepancy between solar-time and clock-time. It'ld seem far more sensible to have a system that tries to align clock-
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
That's the Infinite-Probability-Drive for ya.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
There is yet a fourth theory which suggests that, if the prior three theories did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
First, worth clarifying that " information " can be misleading because it sounds like a very general term. For example, it may sound like it implies that there's some underlying super-reality that requires ~1.509 bits to mod
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Dunno if it'd mean much to say that the territory is the map. I think you might be referring to [non-realism]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-realism )? To explain: Normally, folks grow up seeing the world thr
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
This seems like confusion over [the map/territory relationship]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation ): > "A map is not the territory" Whatever reality might be considered to i
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I'm not getting the relevance. For example, gas-stations already ration gas: they won't sell you more than so much at a time (because the pumps only go so fast). And gas-stations ration how many vehicles they'll fill (becaus
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
CAFE isn't fuel-rationing. It's a miles-per-gallon efficiency standard. And non-compliance is punished with fees -- fees that're apparently so small that some luxury-brands seem to prefer to just pay them than comply. Leavin
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It was amusing until this part: > There’s a message from the Fed: “You have already spent more than the $400 maximum weekly limit on fossil fuels specified in the FedWallet User Agreement. Your remaining account balance cannot be used to
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> In a [court filing]( https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.75... ) last April, Abowd wrote that “our simulated attack showed that a conservative attack scenario using just 6 billion of the over
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Idiomatically, " shelved ideas ". Shelving can be more abstract, but generally it's not idiomatic for abstract-concepts to be " on a shelf ". Language aside, I think you're being inconsistent with that concept
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> Software practitioners should be licensed and be bound by a professional ethical code where violation of said code would result in the revocation of the license to practice software engineering. That seems like something that might mak
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The comment that I was responding to complained that the first two paragraphs of a Wikipedia article didn't mention a perspective that they considered important. I asked if it was a niche-perspective because that'd seem relevant t
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It would be sad to consider service-members making a fraudulent-claim to disobey orders. I mean, if they sincerely believed that they were created by a God and intended to follow God's laws, forcing them to refuse orders that they&#x27
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> It’s not philosophical- side effect risk for men under 40 is non trivial and if you have had COVID you already have some immunity. It's philosophical: > The issues stem from [a lawsuit]( https://www.militarytimes.com&
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> To pick an example of a group that is somewhat insular: if the majority of Wikipedia editors were Chinese, would Wikipedia look as it does today? Would Wikipedia be an equally-as-accurate reflection on the west as Wikipedia is today? T
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
" History's written by the victors " seems like a stretch that's only kinda truth-adjacent in some situations, e.g. where one side gets wiped out and there're no third-party observers, etc.. But, it doesn't ho
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I appreciate that you're able to show that some people hold such beliefs, but the numbers I'm finding suggest that it's still less common than beliefs in, say, 9/11-conspiracy theories. Don't get me wrong -- I appre
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> The fact that many believe that male circumcision is a grave violation of boys' rights to body autonomy is not. For reference, how many people believe that? Like, is it a view held by 50% of the population, 10% of the population,
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Dunno if it's too productive to fret over the appropriateness of computational-tools. I mean, when it comes to stuff like mass-surveillance, we can debate the merits of having such a mass-surveillance infrastructure. But when it comes
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> I am still trying to find the best way to communicate what we are doing. Hah.. yeah.. I like to remain anonymous, so it's difficult to discuss my own background and experience directly, but I fully get what you mean. I've sto
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It doesn't really matter, since beverages overall require very little CO2. So even if it were fully legal and practical, it wouldn't make much of a difference.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Typo: > You can do two things with carbon: you can capture it, or you can use it. Both are hard, but the latter is harder, mainly because carbon dioxide is so small. You can either store (CCS: " Carbon Capture and Storage ")
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yup, you're right: their more complex model was largely based in [continuum mechanics]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_mechanics ), just like CFD. Without specifically checking, I'd guess that they pr

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