bluepanda928752

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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
Consciousness has an easy enough explanation requiring no quantum physics
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
Technology is pretty solid (no comparison to FSD), order of magnitude better than previous iterations of satellite internet. The solution is still getting our collective heads out of our asses and running fiber everywhere though
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
I think high-field HTS tokamaks projected costs are in a reasonable range despite the raw power density being lower. There could be additional savings related to radioactive waste processing since fusion should generate less and also contai
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
Not sure why lower power density might be a show-stopper here. Beryllium angle is interesting, haven't thought about that
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
The only fusion project which has a chance of producing excess heat at Q>2 within a decade is the MIT SPARC, using proven plasma physics and scaling the size/cost down dramatically with high-field HTS magnets (think ITER but sooner
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
The problem with surveillance is actually not the surveillance itself, but inequality in its application. This has been true for a long time; before the Internet age people with power just built higher fences And so, there are two distinct
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
Also, the parent is probably talking about EU intent to apply carbon tax to mass market airlines but exempt the private jets
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
Often but not always; Hong Kong is one of the exceptions I think (at least the MTR)
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
They'll decarbonize the poor
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
How much of this can be attributed to earlier diagnosis (death rate per year is obviously less for earlier stage cancers) and who much to better treatments available? Couldn't find an answer in the article
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
Wait until spraying the stratosphere doesn't work as intended..
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
What doesn't seem to be addressed is why COVID-19 germinal centre response might produce lasting immunity while, say, flu vaccination (which also produces germinal centre responses) doesn't
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4 A guy made a similar kind of spider silk using genetically modified yeast basically in his kitchen
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
I agree about LIDARs not being the best general 3D mapping method, my point was mostly about using it as a dumb physics-based safety system. For autonomous trucks, limited LIDAR range could be mitigated by reducing speed accordingly and&#x2
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
LIDARs unlikely since they require a line of sight forwards, backwards and possibly on the sides of the vehicle
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
But we might actually get a functioning Mars base out of this since that's where Musk will be hiding when the FTC finally wakes up /s
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
LIDAR is valuable as a safety feature, i.e. it can (unlike radars or cameras) reliably see (at least in clear weather) if there's anything in the car's path warranting evasion/braking maneuvers. In particular it's import
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
With what kind of reliability can LIDAR data be predicted with vision nowadays?
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
I understand why they made the "no-LIDAR" bet early when the LIDARs were completely unpractical for a production consumer car However, nowadays it starts to look that 100% reliable depth estimation from cameras might actually requ
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
Tesla's decision not to use the LIDAR as a safety feature (i.e. having reliable high-resolution data about things the car can collide with) is so incredibly indefensible, since solving the last 1% of this using only vision likely requi
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
TV series Fortitude (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498622 explores this kind of scenario happening on Svalbard, highly recommended. Features blindsight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsigh
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
I suppose we can extend the German analogy here as well, e.g. not trying to put half a country on trial might be the most reasonable option
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
If we don't either in this case, there's always a second option of doing the same thing Israel did to those who decided not to face a trial and ran away..
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by bluepanda928752 5y ago
I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs
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by bluepanda928752 6y ago
Also a perfect way to bribe someone in China
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by bluepanda928752 6y ago
One possible rational explanation for this (apart from the usual Elon's trolling) is a mostly legal way for Tesla to bribe some Chinese Bitcoin mining controlling interests