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by adrianN 2mo ago
You seem to believe that proof of feasibility is impossible before actually finishing the task. I disagree. And for the record, profit oriented market economies are extremely old. Much older than any large scale use of fossil fuels.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Fossil fuels can be replaced for every use case by electricity from carbon-free sources and some chemistry. The price point for replacement of course varies by application. There is no reason to assume that we can't have the same kind
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by adrianN 2mo ago
That seems to have very low chances of success.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Nuclear is a high-capex source of electricity. It doesn’t do well economically in a grid where power if essentially free on sunny or windy days but you need a lot of backup power for a few hundred hours per year.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Fingerprinting is usually insufficient for law enforcement.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
The people here maintain a list of things: https://drawdown.org/explorer Chiefly we need to replace fossil fuels with electricity from carbon free sources and electrify transportation, heating, and industry.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Even if we stopped emissions today, Earth will keep warming up for a couple of decades. We’re not at equilibrium temperature for the current CO2 levels.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
The point of VPNs often is hiding in the mass. Rolling your own kind of defeats that purpose.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Depends on what you compete on. If you compete on features and oncall is just some contractual obligation, then probably not, if you compete on customer service then perhaps yes
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Raw Data, Wrong Answers(theclimatebrink.com)
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by adrianN 2mo ago
I could easily be convinced that dictatorships make a big comeback this century, however I find it unlikely that they will have a good carbon policy.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
That is a terrible way to get the necessary support for climate action and would be actively harmful to the cause. This argument has been made so often and in so much detail that I’m surprised to still see people suggest climate terrorism i
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by adrianN 3mo ago
European citizens can travel in the EU without even noticing that they are crossing borders most of the time. I once got lost on my bike and accidentally ended up in France for example.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
There are a couple of species that remain essentially unchanged for the last couple million years. Why can't humans become one of them?
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Traditionally, harming other people and the environment has made it easier to feed your own children (or at least the children of your tribe) and have more of them.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
I believe the traits for humans you should look at are not physical like strength, but social. People with poor social skills are less likely to reproduce in our society. Likewise, culture (and hence memetic evolution) influences birth rate
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Finding a way to make money by capturing CO2 will get you an IPO. The technology you use is only of secondary concern.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
If we restrict ourselves to programs that can be stored inside the physical universe, suddenly everything switches from undecidable to O(1) :)
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by adrianN 3mo ago
> all code possible to run on a computer already exists You have to be careful; that line of thinking might get you trapped in L-space. You’d need a very skilled librarian and possibly a bag of peanuts to get back out.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
TFA claims that lights don’t reduce crime, but I‘d like to see the exact meaning of that statistic (eg dark places are less frequented hence less crime?).
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Putting astronomy on the dark side of the moon would probably work better than putting it into space because you can use some local material for construction.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
If your country’s industrial and defense policy relies on individual consumers making choices that are worse for them on almost all metrics, it’s time to think about on worse payroll your politicians are.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
You can buy faster bikes than what is allowed at the Tour, so the only concern would be making records incomparable.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
I don’t think that it is possible to both allow the use of LLM and not mandate them in modern metric driven work places. Either you ban them or you force people to use them for game theoretic reasons: they are slower than their peers and qu
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Alpha particles are essentially Helium, so by breeding large amounts of highly active alpha emitters you can produce Helium much more effectively than by fusion.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
I guess you never have to deal with text if you think that’s enough? What kind of software do you write in C?
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Is there even a government under true capitalism or is it more like the lunar anarchy described in „the moon is a harsh mistress“?
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by adrianN 3mo ago
From memory: The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a bad channel
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by adrianN 3mo ago
Cycling 50kWh of batteries daily seems like a very unusual level of consumption.
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by adrianN 3mo ago
We could have smaller transportation with combustion engines too, but the margins are lower and they cover fewer use cases, so marketing larger vehicles works really well.

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