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by bertil 3y ago
I definitely want to echo wkat4242’s answers: - Most of your concerns are already taken care of by healthcare, notably psychiatry that is free and well funded (people who work there would disagree, but everyone who needs to see a doctor wil
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by bertil 3y ago
To extract a thousand tons, estimates are around 6,700 kWh [0]. That’s a bit less than what one of the larger windmills can produce in an hour (7.5 MW). The largest mine I know produces 25.6 million tonnes of ore per year, so (/365&#x2
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by bertil 3y ago
The mines and the tracks absolutely do. Setting up energy generation to power it on site, rather than drag more energy transport that cuts through more of the local ecosystem, doesn’t.
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by bertil 3y ago
I do not doubt that those trains will be powered by electricity (solar or wind: no one will object to either near a mine or along tracks). Similarly, if they need hydrogen as a reduction agent, they will produce it locally — i.e., not ask a
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by bertil 3y ago
Some people in this thread have concerns about how hot the cable might get[0] I’m curious if one could take the heat from the cable and use it to warm the battery. It feels way too much to ask for an already busy port, and the timing might
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by bertil 3y ago
Electrek targets casual readers: distance remains what most people relate to—although I would recommend giving two values, one for a representative small car and one for a larger model, if only to hammer that larger cars are what makes char
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by bertil 3y ago
I would be less worried about their interest through stock ownership than how much this article and others like it reads like a passable re-wording of the press release. I own stock in Tesla and other renewable technology companies (product
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by bertil 3y ago
I was curious how much fossil fuel lobbyists are pushing hydrogen (they keep assuming electricity is free but somehow not competitive with hydrogen). It’s increasingly starting to look like they anticipate having plants synthesize methane i
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by bertil 3y ago
I find the presentation on colocating agrovoltaics inexplicably endearing: it’s the softer side of Solar-punk, I guess. I will always fondly remember a presentation explaining that you could have strawberry fields or goat-herding under the
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by bertil 3y ago
[Citation needed]
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by bertil 3y ago
There are countless opportunities to capture the CO2 from industrial applications, not from the air. I’m hoping that many of them will be replaced by carbon neutral option soon, but things like burning domestic waste might not disappear soo
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by bertil 3y ago
I agree with you. There’s a pattern that I see a lot, of having: 1. large powerful players doing something not entirely helpful; 2. victims of that protesting that change vehemently; all that in vain because the players are powerful and hav
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by bertil 3y ago
I had to google to check, and I’ve found so many interpretations that I feel like a linguist would have a field day with that word alone.
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by bertil 3y ago
Having signs on the side showing complex information (how is that metric defined, exactly?) unrelated to the task at hand (driving safely) won’t help much. Showing relevant information with a clear impact on the driver has proven to work ef
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by bertil 3y ago
The model of how AI would influence work, including splitting work into tasks, classifying tasks by what type of AI could complete it, the complementarity of prediction with other aspects in an organization, etc., all have been studied for
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by bertil 3y ago
You hire Tom Hanks because he’s a genuinely warm and considerate person, and that allows him to embody people like Mr. Rogers with sincerity. I’m not sure you will be able to do the same with just computers: there have been many efforts to
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by bertil 3y ago
For the same reason that you still pay for games, even when they run on your machine? There’s a lot that Netflix can sell, including proprietary code, creatively unique prompts, etc.
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by bertil 3y ago
There are union minimum rates [1] for actors, and a lot of people are paid as much, so, in practice, this is not an absurdly unspecified question but a genuinely easy one to answer: $250M / $1,082 = 231,053 days of work. [1] https:&#x
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by bertil 3y ago
One of the reasons actors are striking is because they are worried that their work will be replaced with deep-fakes, but also because they have already been offered that kind of contract at a rate they deem far too low (one day of work).
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by bertil 3y ago
Better than "Further research is warranted" and love "Further research is warranted." I really wish they didn't get that one wrong.
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by bertil 3y ago
If you hesitate to read it, let me say that the post denounces “kurtotic barbarities.” If that expression alone doesn’t convince you to read it, you might not be in the intended audience.
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by bertil 3y ago
We tried that in 1910s. What we got was a whole lot of dead people and no one wanted to ride bicycles anymore.
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by bertil 3y ago
For anyone who hasn’t been in an MRI: 40 hours is a lot . Those things are tight; not “look where you are going” tight, but you absolutely need to tell people beforehand that they will feel very uncomfortable inside, remind them that they
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by bertil 3y ago
I haven’t followed crypto very closely, but I noticed a few names. I’ve read the headlines for the last few weeks. It seems like most prominent players are now in legal trouble, enough to force them to cease operations. Who are the most pro
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by bertil 3y ago
Cat towers? As in: the furniture for feline pets?
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by bertil 3y ago
There’s drama on IG, but thankfully not among the people you follow. Why? Pseudonymous accounts. They are huge on Twitter, necessary, and Instagram supports them.
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by bertil 3y ago
It’s a text-based app, which dramatically changes expectations. Instagram Stories was, like Instagram, photos and videos. That allows consistency in how things work (not that it does in practice because some gestures were based on shared ex
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by bertil 3y ago
I really agree with your sentiment, although maybe not the details. All those efforts are gargantuan YC-scale world-changing efforts that can compensate… a small fraction of people not driving 50 miles to work daily. Or, at least, drive an
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by bertil 3y ago
I would say it’s quite uneven: most tools were better than the state of the art when they were introduced. For many, the world has moved on a lot since, and those tools feel obsolete but so embedded in practices that it’s unthinkable to app
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by bertil 3y ago
Those proceedings are expensive, and I can’t imagine Apple expects to win. I suspect it’s one of those proceedings that they feel compelled to run because they expect to lose the value of their trademark if they don’t. To me, it sounds like

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