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by apsec112 3y ago
Renewables supplied 7% of global energy demand in 2022. If that doubles every five years - which is very fast! - they won't meet full demand until 2040. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2023/08/0
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by apsec112 3y ago
This title is silly. It suggests that gas is somehow displacing renewable projects, when in fact they have been growing ridiculously quickly; it just takes a long time to scale up a new tech to replacing all the existing energy infrastructu
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This isn't like trying to beat the stock market. There's no intrinsic reason why their predictions should be any good, and in fact they've been comically bad, coming in too low every year for 21 consecutive years: https:&#x2
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The most dangerous gas station in America(perfectrec.com)
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Yerkes-Dodson Law(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong(gizmodo.com)
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by apsec112 3y ago
I am... confused? My old PC has an X1800 XT, which is significantly more recent than that, and the Linux driver hasn't been updated since 2009. I don't think that driver even works with modern X.Org or Linux kernels. Could someone
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Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy(scientificdiscovery.dev)
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Four key principles for a delightful start to parenthood(mattbell.us)
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Snoo machine automatically rocks babies to sleep(happiestbaby.com)
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Tolka AI Therapeutics: Personalized Treatments Against Superbugs(tolka.ai)
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Vitara Biomedical: A New Era in Neonatal Care(vitara.com)
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Has the 'Sexlessness Epidemic' Been Overstated?(nuancepill.com)
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Fraudsters: Turn Yourself In(thingofthings.substack.com)
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DeepMind's 2023 Advances in AI(deepmind.google)
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Everyone already knows that a lot of the world sucks. The important question is how to make it better, but reading bad news stories won't help answer that.
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Positive news from 2023(gapminder.org)
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The whole article is about the rent going down in SF. Adjusted for US-wide inflation, it's down 30% since late 2019.
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by apsec112 3y ago
Possible the numbers are wrong, but "asking rent" means the non-rent-controlled price, ie. what you would get if you rented one new today.
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It's down 16% in nominal terms. From the article: "The city’s typical rent in November 2023 was 16.4% lower than the $2,620 in November 2019."
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by apsec112 3y ago
Adjusted for US-wide inflation, rent in SF is down 30% (not a typo) since the end of 2019. They're down because there's more supply and less demand, so landlords can't fill vacancies.
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San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels(sfchronicle.com)
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"What about, I don’t know, not stepping in front of buses? It certainly has a commandment (thou shalt not step in front of buses). It has notions of sin (stepping in front of buses) and virtue (not doing that). It has its rituals (look
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TV Detector Vans(en.wikipedia.org)
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This would have been an epic release two years ago, but there are now many well-established models in this area (DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion). It would be great to see some comparisons or benchmarks to show Imagen 2 is a better alt
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Supplementing aged female mice with spermidine nearly doubled their litter sizes(sciencemediacentre.es)
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Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project(en.wikipedia.org)
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How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth(medium.com)
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OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft(businessinsider.com)
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Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice(twitter.com)
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