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by adrianN 2y ago
Wood is technically not dishwasher safe, but I have wooden spoons that I’ve inherited from my grandma and they still hold up despite being in the dishwasher regularly.
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by adrianN 2y ago
If you group emissions sufficiently finely, no single measure has any effect. We need to do hundreds of little changes to reach carbon neutrality. The discussion what to prioritize is not easy, but dismissing things just because they only c
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by adrianN 2y ago
Almost(?) everybody is poorer than Bezos. Pretty much by definition he invests in people poorer than him. I don't claim that trickle down economics are real; it is my understanding that trickle down economics claims something much much
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by adrianN 2y ago
By investing most of your wealth you loan it to somebody poorer so that they can produce value with it.
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Of course, when I used the word „write“ I meant writing by hand.
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by adrianN 2y ago
If you learn languages you quickly notice that knowing the 99% most frequent words still means that you need to look up a word every paragraph or two and that you have trouble expressing yourself. To write Chinese you need to know several t
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by adrianN 2y ago
I know multiple „elderly“ (barely over seventy) people who lost all quality of life after falling and breaking a bone. Two crushed vertebrae, one broken hip. All of them essentially bedridden now. Training balance and strength can definitel
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by adrianN 2y ago
I don't think we'll get every other person to choose farming as a career again.
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by adrianN 2y ago
There is not a single city on the planet that managed to eradicate rats, and the only cities without cockroaches are in climates where they don't survive.
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Since dogs are everywhere and very few people get sick from them, the risks seem to be quite low.
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That depends on how it is designed.
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Do we know the time spans with sufficient accuracy? How long did the great oxygenation take for example? Surely longer than civilization so far?
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by adrianN 2y ago
Was Verne more, or less, misogynist and racist than his contemporaries? I was under the impression that both were common during his day. From the little Verne that I've read, I didn't have the impression that he had a particularly
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by adrianN 2y ago
That philosophers talk about p-zombies seems like evidence to me that at least some of them don't believe that consciousness needs to have observable effects that can't be explained without consciousness. I don't say that I b
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by adrianN 2y ago
It is my understanding that Penrose doesn’t claim that brains are needed for cognition, just that brains are needed for a somewhat nebulous „conscious experience“, which need not have any observable effects. I think that it’s fairly uncontr
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by adrianN 2y ago
States do a lot of things with taxes that benefit commercial interests. Why should this data be an exception?
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by adrianN 2y ago
It's not such a massive gamble if you can just keep relying on natural gas peaker plants in case storage is somehow unsolvable, which seems quite unlikely given that we have a dozen completely different technologies for storage in the
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by adrianN 2y ago
You shouldn’t consider just one day, you should at least look at a time frame comparable to the construction time of your power source of choice.
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by adrianN 2y ago
Five years ago batteries weren’t anywhere near grid scale either. Arguably they still aren’t. That doesn’t mean we should not consider them when talking snot the grid in 2040.
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by adrianN 2y ago
Lazard had figures that include a couple of hours of storage for years. https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost...
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by adrianN 2y ago
The difference between minimum and maximum demand is not that far from 100%.
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No, there are more options. In fact it’s rather impossible to choose „everybody is rioting“ in democratic countries, and very difficult in dictatorships.
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Start of construction is many years after start of the project though.
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I was under the impression that China had large coal deposits of its own. Do they really import a lot of coal?
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Batteries and hydro are not the only storage options.
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No, what we need to do now is not "just shut off electricity lol". It's building carbon free alternatives as quickly as we can.
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There is a lot of gas in the US.
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by adrianN 2y ago
Nuclear plants are not a replacement for batteries. You either have enough nuclear plants to cover peak demand, in which case you don't need any renewables at all, or you need batteries (or rather, storage, batteries are not the only o
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The consequences of "just shutting of coal" right now would be blackouts. People would riot and people would die. It would kill any support for climate action.
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Dying young six months after diagnosis might be cheaper for society than a long malaise during old age.

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