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by beefield 8y ago
You happen to have any examples of positive externalities non-EV cars have that EV cars do not have?
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by beefield 8y ago
Wikipedia has a decent article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag... At least this one seems to be commercially viable: https://www.solarthermalworld.org/content/denmark-
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by beefield 8y ago
> Only seasonal storage (and perhaps the political challenges of long-range transmission) seem to be truly difficult problems. Seasonal storage of heat is not that difficult a problem, given that you have large enough need of low enough
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by beefield 8y ago
> Here's a regulation that I'd like considered: Well, I would rgeulate facebook and google so that they are required to offer their services to me at production cost + some decent margin, while guaranteeing that if I pay the pr
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by beefield 8y ago
No need to apologize, I am happy to be corrected. But that still means that if you disengage MCAS, you have a plane that flies out of certification specs (and by extension, out of the training), then?
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by beefield 8y ago
>So the pilot knows what's happening and take corrective action Except that now we have a plane that behaves differently compared to the plane the pilot actually is trained for (the whole reason to implement MCAS in the first place)
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by beefield 8y ago
Has someone already gotten flight data of all 737max flights from adsbexchange and put that into torrent so that all budding data scientists and investigative journalists can take a shot to find out how many flights actually have had this k
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by beefield 8y ago
I have been lately surprisingly happy with www.qwant.com . I feel like I need to add !g much more rarely than with duckduckgo.
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by beefield 8y ago
There is funny (or would be funny if it was not so serious in the societal concequences) research by Paul Piff on this phenomenom: https://planetsave.com/2013/12/23/a-rigged-game-of-monopoly-...
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by beefield 8y ago
And if you compare to anything but a handful of recent decades, you not only can afford to buy pretty much anything that only the very richest have had access to, you can easily buy things that even the richest have hardly even dreamed of.
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by beefield 8y ago
If you fancy for retirement at 40, why not first save money so much that you can do what you think you would do when retired for one year? It is quite likely that after this experiment: 1. You realize that actually having a work is quite ni
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by beefield 8y ago
Yes. Which means that Ethereum guys quite quickly after DAO hack started to think that "code as law" is actually a really stupid idea. What is beyond my understanding is how anyone believes into the smart contracts using Ethereum
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by beefield 8y ago
Yes, it is naive. All code has bugs. Some time ago some people though it would be good idea to encode contractual agreements with code. I guess it should be no sutprise that someone found a bug in the contract and got him/herself most
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by beefield 8y ago
>Which bank owns the database? Central bank? > Why should the other bank trust that database? Because if that database fails, it is likely that the failure is one of the smaller problems of the bank?
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by beefield 8y ago
> Cost does not really map to wall-time in any way This is a claim that is extremely difficult for me to believe. Because this statement says that you really can't say that a query in one system with cost of 10 is any more likely
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by beefield 8y ago
I am a bit frustrated with one question regarding explain cost. Namely how to map the cost to wall time. Based on my research so far, andwer is about "you can't". But that is difficult for me to understand. I mean, I do under
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by beefield 8y ago
> I'm under the illusion it's easier to influence a Swedish politician than it is to influence an order of magnitude more foreign politicians Yes. And that includes the fact that the dumbfucks who think pi should equal three be
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by beefield 8y ago
> Personally, I think it's sad. It's as if we're watching the destruction of all the national identities. I am perfectly willing to accept that you think this is sad. Just like I am willing to accept that some people like
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by beefield 8y ago
Just wondering, what exactly makes you think the laws shoved to your throat by Sweden would on average be any less idiotic? And why would just Sweden be the right size of entity that optimizes the idiocy of the laws, why independent Skåne w
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by beefield 8y ago
Actually my comments were not that well thought from the beginning...
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by beefield 8y ago
But I would still as a depositor have the promise from the bank that the bank will give me back my cryptocurrency when I want? If I do, there is practically zero difference how banks would work with crypto and fiat. And that promise can be
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by beefield 8y ago
So, how would you then like to arrange your mortgage if banks are not allowed as intermediaries managing the credit risk between depositors and yourself?
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by beefield 8y ago
> Why would I pay middlemen (banks) when there is no need to? Also why would I trust them, when there is no need to? Payments are only relative small function of financial sector. Much more important is to act in credit markets, i.e take
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by beefield 8y ago
I may be too cynical, but I assume most MBA curricula do not contain bounded rationality ot behavioral economics at least as obligatory subject, but are happily restricting themselves to the world view of 101.
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by beefield 8y ago
Funny the title calls economics. But the textbook economics with its utility maximizing rational agents is utterly incapable even accepting the existence of this kind of phenomena, much less analyzing...
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Fossil Vehicle Sales Are Officially Now Decreasing in China, Europe, and USA(cleantechnica.com)
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by beefield 8y ago
> Every script should leave the database in either the new state or the previous good state no matter how many times it's run. I wonder if there were somewhere a website to describe good idioms to achieve this?
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by beefield 8y ago
> My cries to use git were unheeded (would have required upskilling everyone on the team). What is the best practice workflow using git with SQL server views/procedures? Can you actually somehow track changes in the views/procs
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by beefield 8y ago
> Is there a tax on cash or something. Something. It is far from trivial to store significant amounts of cash. If it gets stolen, lost or destroyed, you basically have lost your money. Also, significant amounts of cash are not that liqui
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by beefield 8y ago
>I find it hard to see how a company will be able to have enough capacity for peak demand I would guess that in most cities the capacity is not limited by capital to buy cars, but capacity of the street network, which cars, autonomous or

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