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by bigfudge 2y ago
Provided you don’t later conclude it’s an unsatisfying account of many fundamental questions for modern humans, and then need to leave a community or repress interesting and valid ideas.
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There is massive confounding here. Think of the counterfactual — kids who live in a house with a failing relationship, or one where the adults can’t meet each other’s needs. It’s not at all obvious this would be better, and none of the rese
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by bigfudge 2y ago
There is a strong winners history effect driving your thinking here. Marrying the wrong person and sticking with them does not make anyone happy. Some of us resist SOFA as late as our mid 40s on the basis that we made a promise, marriage is
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by bigfudge 2y ago
While I don’t doubt that’s true in some discussions, HN is not Reddit and I don’t see this confusion so much here.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Did you mean to say fusion? In which case yes.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
It’s not ideal to have solar/wind and nuclear though. Nuclear doesn’t throttle well (or at least, economically). And Even building gas peak plants to cover still cloudy days is an order of magnitude lower in capital cost and risk than
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Presumably co2 emissions in LEO would end up in the atmosphere though?
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I think it’s ludicrously optimistic to think that this would substitute for reductions elsewhere. What possible mechanism could reduce 10% of global co2 emissions when many of these launches will be tourists and starlinks?
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by bigfudge 2y ago
We don’t tax the shit out of it relative to income earned though. And in the UK we don’t even tax the property in any meaningful way. Do you in the US?
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I mostly agree, but it does assume rational actors in charge. If the goal of conflict is to cement the position of a dictatorial elite, it’s not clear to me that ‘smaller scale’ nuclear exchanges are ruled out, especially if leaders are iso
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by bigfudge 2y ago
It seems like they are fairly close to their non-nuclear limits though. I guess they could fuel air bomb Kiev but that would likely change the calculus re nato involvement so is not obviously an aid to their cause.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
This is really cool, but I wonder why the UK rail (commuter or long distance) network isn't shown very completely. There are _lots_ more trains around Birmingham or up north that don't get displayed. Even the network in the SE is
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I like that you like it, but as a minor PSA many people who care about the environment might not realise that a really long shower is probably one of the easiest wins in terms of carbon reduction they can make. I really enjoyed showing in
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by bigfudge 2y ago
In my view a free market cant include massive asymmetries of power between actors. Individual authors face large costs for not playing the game, and Elsevier and others have used their market power to do everything they can to perpetuate a
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I tried this trick too, but What if it’s sunny/too hot for a coat?
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Good students select and focus on the most relevant information in a class, and rehearse it for themselves or practice skills outside it. There is some limited evidence that making note taking easier or notes easier to read leads to worse m
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This assumes some of the the 2 millions lines weren’t written specifically to introduce loopholes.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
This is dumb. I can’t really imagine a situation where the slot I the traffic I just left to overtake isn’t still available. The truck you’ve overtaking would have to be 100m long for slowing down to be a worse option.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I’ve been a driver for 30 years. If stuck behind an actually slow vehicle it’s possible to overtake. If stuck behind someone close to the speed limit it’s not. If someone killed my family while speeding and overtaking I would be angry and a
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by bigfudge 2y ago
This scenario doesn’t make sense. In every case if you slow down and pull in you will have less chance of hitting a car coming the other way. If limits were there it sounds like you think this scenario would also become less common?
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Because k = .5mv^2. Even 5mph makes a big difference. Most people don’t have a good intuition for this, but it’s especially relevant when on streets with pedestrians.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Do you have any evidence this is the case? All the research I’ve ever read has said that speed is the major contributing factor to injury and death. Also, if this gets mandated then you would very soon not be the only car limited. These ki
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by bigfudge 2y ago
GPS plus mapping/routing software with some idea of how roads connect would get you a long way though. Even Strava and similar apps do this for trails which are close but not connected.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I completely agree let’s just frame this as my freedom not to be mown down by speeding distracted drivers and be done with it. If you want to speed, pay for a track day.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
You sound like a motoring journalist. Honestly, if you’re exceeding the speed limit to pass you’re unlikely to be gaining much anyway. 99% of the time people should just chill out and accept that driving a car already comes with so many unp
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I think it sounds like premature optimisation too. To ever hit these problems would mean the project had been a roaring success. And they would be much easier to fix later than complicating installs early on.
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In a small area, Inside a tube the size of a large truck. Not facing outwards from a large space station …
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They've been ruining his life for longer than five years haven't they?
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But in both cases it's because of weird corporate tax loopholes rather than the underlying productivity or utility to the median individual.
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These are mean figures, not median.

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