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by adrianN 11mo ago
If it can be used to heat houses in winter it’s not irrelevant.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
I’m relatively sure that at least in Germany the environmental movement had a lot of influence preventing the aggressive pursuit of nuclear power. Your point about subsidies still stands of course, but economics of power generation notoriou
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by adrianN 11mo ago
To my knowledge Siemens is currently making a lot of money by adding spinning inertia to the grid because that is easier than getting the response time/power out of electronics.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
I wonder whether it’s better to pump air down instead of pumping water up.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
Either you build enough nuclear to cover 95% of peak demand and essentially only run it a few weeks a year (because most of the time you have plenty of renewable supply) for terrible ROI or you need storage and peaker plants anyway. Nuclea
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by adrianN 1y ago
The prevention paradox only really applies when the bad event has significant costs. It seems to me that getting hacked has at worst mild consequences. Cisco for example is still doing well despite numerous embarrassing backdoors.
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by adrianN 1y ago
It depends on how many jobs AI replaces and which. It is unlikely that LLMs will replaces plumbers any time soon for example. Many technological inventions have replaced humans in lots of jobs, the economy has only grown since then.
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by adrianN 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand why the economy would collapse if AI replaced humans. Wouldn't the companies just make more profit because they save labor costs and stonks go up?
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by adrianN 1y ago
Many people manage to reach bankruptcy much faster than eight decades.
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by adrianN 1y ago
I believe they also recommend encryption but I wouldn’t conclude that encrypted data doesn’t make their job harder.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Compilers regularly delete null pointer checks when they can see that the pointer is dereferenced.
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by adrianN 1y ago
That doesn’t sound so different from using a programming language that guarantees safety. The compiler proves that its translations are safe.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Technology might be enough to save us from climate change, but it’s open whether ideology trumps (No pun intended) economics on this topic.
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by adrianN 1y ago
If you prevent every ailment you don’t become frail and just take care of yourself.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Solar panel construction is very easy to automate, I don’t think labor is a big driver of cost.
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by adrianN 1y ago
The European champion would still be ten times smaller than the Chinese but would have factual monopoly in Europe. I don’t think blocking the merger was entirely unreasonable.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Most sufficiently large companies don’t have the luxury of „after hours“ because they have customers in every time zone.
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by adrianN 1y ago
The whole project kind of died with Gödel.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Setting the price that high would mean starvation for a lot of people and this isn’t feasible. Ramping the price up slowly is probably too slow to avoid the worst tipping points, so we need pricing signals together with other policies for t
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by adrianN 1y ago
That doesn’t mean that you can’t purchase it for x tons of carbon and use that to set the price.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Jerryrigging a setup of used batteries and an inverter for my fridge sounds like a great way to save two euros a months in exchange for burning my apartment down :D.
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by adrianN 1y ago
With the panels I have on my balcony I get about 200 watts even on overcast days. I would love to have appliances that were optimized for lower peak consumption. But many appliances like the fridge have low average consumption but high peak
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by adrianN 1y ago
I wonder how many cubes they exploded in the making of that robot
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by adrianN 1y ago
In theory it’s certainly right that imperative programs are harder to reason about. In practice programmers tend to avoid writing the kind of program where anything can happen.
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by adrianN 1y ago
We’re pretty good at making lots of simple stuff like solar panels. We’re less good at building small numbers of complex things like reactors.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Authoritarian states and walkable cities are orthogonal problems. You can have car centric city planning in democratic states (see for example the USA).
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by adrianN 1y ago
Production of calories is a solved problem. Distribution of food to people in need on the other hand…
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by adrianN 1y ago
People can use money to buy shares in companies to participate in their profits. Owners of companies carry the risk that the company goes bankrupt.
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by adrianN 1y ago
In areas where bombs are dropped there is generally a large majority in favor of stopping that, but they have little influence.
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by adrianN 1y ago
Very few individuals can influence whether or not bombs drop. The best way to avoid having bombs dropped on your head is moving to a place where fewer bombs are dropped.

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