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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Engineers build cars and buildings for humans too. But before we worry about ergonomics and how good it makes the people feel, we focus on cars not exploding and bridges not buildings not falling down. We haven't even gotten to that le
902.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
It is intractable in practice since there's no outside force putting pressure to do so. Actual engineering disciplines seem to manage to have such standards, and it's in part because there are real legal and monetary liabilities a
903.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Lead, lead, and more lead. Then some mercury and a pinch of copper...
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Not exactly. Power plants + EV is more efficient than burning gas in an ICE. Plus you remove the pollution from population centers. And of course the EV will get greaner over its lifespan as electricity production is transitioned away from
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
I never assumed they weren't. We disagree about how high a priority it should be.
906.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Their main, and default client, still doesn't support multiple accounts. It's been years
907.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
What kind of interchangeable are you talking about? Vulkan and OpenCl exist. The CPU analogy for the GPU case isn't AMD and Intel, it's x86 and ARM.
908.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Naming them CON laws is a little on the nose isn't it?
909.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
They already have a bad track record of getting them built and having the public buy-in to keep them running. Given how long these usually take to build, and Taiwan's history of bungling them, I wonder how they plan on meeting the &quo
910.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Oh you are by far not alone. You'll enjoy: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/malcolm-gladwells-outl...
911.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Won't somebody please think of the children?
912.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Original discussion of the preprint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784591
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
That's my point. Your top 50 are going to stay your top 50. If you've always wanted to see the Mona Lisa in person you're not going to change your plan because you saw an image of it.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
I doubt it. People go to see the original Mona Lisa when they can own a reproduction for less than the cost of the flight. I don't see why those who would have gone to see it would suddenly accept a reproduction just because it's
915.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
They do. The good news is that the limit factor on that growth appears to be getting through the grid interconnect queue rather than a lack of people willing to pay to build them: https://emp.lbl.gov/news/grid-connectio
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> Until then, we need stable generation which does not spew CO2, which is, well, nuclear. A nuclear plant in the USA takes oh about 18 years to build. That's 18 years of solar, wind, and storage growth and cheapening.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> they can offset the load when the sun shines, or the wind blows, but can't provide a stable source. That they don't work when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow is such a tired and trite remake. Yes, th
918.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
That Germany's early retirement of its fleet was a bad idea does not mean that building more is a good idea.
919.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Surely this is sarcasm. None of the things you list are solely technical problem, or even technical at all. They are all political problems. The politics that you claim artificially limit solutions are simply a set of politics different t
920.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
"The population, which was around 900 [people] after World War II, dropped to 13 in 2017. At the same time, the number of cats was in the hundreds. Aging residents felt there were too many of them and not enough people to look after th
921.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
It is not. The comment I replied to starts with "economics just models what naturally happens as a result of how reality is constructed" and then says "a general rule of existing in this universe that fortune favors the fortu
922.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> At it's heart, economics just models what naturally happens as a result of how society is constructed by people . > It's just a general rule of existing in this universe that fortune favors the fortunate and misfortune
923.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
It's worse than going backwards. A real rolodex never sent out your personal information. A primate home computer didn't send anything.
924.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
I don't think pulling up the ladder is the correct analogy here. The inability of users to prevent companies from slurping up all of their contacts creates an environment which greatly benefits those company which simply take the data
925.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
An improvement, but each contact is still all or nothing. If an app needs phone numbers and I want to share that with it, I don't need it to have access to the birthdays, emails, addresses, etc. of all the contacts I share.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> I am not saying that they were not exploited. But they went from being among the richest to being among the poorer not because of that but because Europe (and the US) progressed and industrialised while they didn't. It's not
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
> China wasn't a part of the British empire No, but perhaps you have heard of the opium wars. > what does "trillions of wealth" even mean? Trillions of what? Pounds? Rupees? Literal gold most of the time: https:/&
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
This simply isn't true. They did not stagnate for no reason, they were purposefully exploited by the British (and French), first by the East India Company and then by the government itself.
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by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Yes, that's my point. You can't discuss why Britain isn't as well off as it used to be, without at least acknowledging where that past wealth came from.
930.
by _aavaa_ 2y ago
Not one word about colonialism. Just economic navel gazing about productivity measures lacking all context of the major contraction in the British empire. "When my parents were born, Britain had been the richest country in Europe for a

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