cameldrv

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by cameldrv 4y ago
Daily cases are doubling every 12 days or so. Now maybe that won’t hold up in the general population, but it’s thousands of people already. I’m very disappointed to not see a anything approaching a robust response given what we’ve gone th
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by cameldrv 4y ago
I don't think that there are any Sarbecoronaviruses other than SARS2 that have an FCS. This paper from 2021 supports that conclusion [1]. There are other Coronaviruses that have an FCS, but not Sarbecoronaviruses, and none of them us
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by cameldrv 4y ago
This is not true. Ralph Baric developed (and patented) a seamless technique to assemble coronaviruses in 2002 [1]. Baric was a close collaborator of the Coronavirus group at WIV. Since then there has been even more progress. Since 2015 o
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by cameldrv 4y ago
It’s a great feature. Funnily enough this was a feature of the Grail web browser which actually came out a few months before the first version of Netscape with JavaScript (livescript) support
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by cameldrv 4y ago
And yet, even your tomato sauce in the glass jar went through probably hundreds of yards of plastic tubing that leaches phthalates in the factory. It's essentially impossible to get away from this stuff entirely, although I do think y
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by cameldrv 4y ago
But essentially no light vehicles damage the roads at all. Virtually all road damage is caused by heavy trucks. If legislators cared about charging for road damage, they would heavily tax diesel.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
In the incidents I've seen it's been sensors/interpretation, things like simply not detecting a vehicle.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Yep. With unlimited energy you don’t even need sunlight to grow crops, you can use artificial light in any quantity you want.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
That’s possible. However there are also a huge number of things that would be great for the environment like really complete recycling, very land efficient agriculture, ocean cleanup, etc, that would become economically feasible if energy
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by cameldrv 4y ago
I don't think that we should institute caning, but I do think that new forms of punishment are needed. Jail and prison are terrible forms of punishment. Someone who goes to prison is going to lose their job, maybe lose their house and
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Depending on your network in SF, you may be able to source contract work from there while working in Germany. If you can put up with not having local coworkers, you can get SF rates and pay small-town Bavaria costs and have her family to h
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Organic is good. Organic kitty litter for nuclear waste is very bad.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
The reason banks have so many Vice Presidents is that to bind a company to a contract, you need to be a corporate officer. A Vice President is a corporate officer but a director isn't. If you want to issue loans, etc, you practically
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by cameldrv 4y ago
We already have a geologic repository. It's called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and has been receiving military waste for 23 years. All that needs to be done is for Congress to authorize it for civilian waste as well.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Well you have to consider the margin. If you change out your gas stove, where is the extra bit of electricity going to come from? Probably gas, although they may build some more renewable if enough people switch. A gas stove is one of the
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by cameldrv 4y ago
It’s probably pretty close to a wash. A gas stove is about 40% efficient. A good combined cycle has power plant is about 60%, transmission is about 90%, and an induction stove is about 85%. That gives a net efficiency of 46%.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
With us heading into a huge global grain shortage this seems like a very bad idea.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
IME that's all true. To say that they need to do more to create a more positive environment for research engineers though depends on the perspective. From the perspective of the university and the PI, they can just get a graduate stud
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Why is it so important to you for other people to get sick?
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by cameldrv 4y ago
This is why we need slow chargers everywhere. Even a basic 120V outlet can provide 1.5kW of vehicle charging. Over the course of the night, this is 18kWh, which is enough for about 80 miles of charge for a Tesla Model 3. This is more tha
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Sure. However, IMO it's more useful to look at it from this standpoint: Most usage of energy has to go through a thermal->mechanical energy conversion step. Carnot efficiency practically limits this to 20-60% efficiency or so. I
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Electric cars are usually about 4x as efficient as ICE in terms of energy input -> propulsive energy[1], so it's more like $5.50/gallon, but still pretty expensive. [1] http://www.afteroilev.com/Pub/EFF_Tan
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Just because it’s possible to buy a gun on the black market doesn’t mean a potential mass shooter would go there. They may not know who to contact or have the social skills to negotiate the transaction, or they may not have the money. Just
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by cameldrv 4y ago
I agree that gangs and criminals will find ways to illegally acquire guns. However, a large majority of the mass shootings have happened with legally purchased guns. In the Uvalde shooting today, everything was purchased completely legally
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by cameldrv 4y ago
The issue is that in rem jurisdiction was originally intended and justified for cases where the owner of the property was unknown or beyond the reach of the law (say overseas.) The early cases were things like an overseas shipper not payin
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Well I suppose you only care about a correction factor to a binary model when it breaks a tie. You wouldn't want to apply a tiebreaker correction twice though.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Because the least economically valuable use of the water is agricultural, which is also by far the highest use of water. It makes no sense for a city to desalinate water for ten times the price that it's being sold for agricultural pu
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Seems like sort of a classic debt vs. equity problem. The government obviously cannot deliver on a promise of X amount of water regardless of rainfall. It would make a lot more sense if the rightsholders received a percentage of the inflo
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Well one thing you wouldn’t want to do is take the output of this model and then apply a correction factor for race on top of it, because the model is already taking that into account.
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by cameldrv 4y ago
Yeah but they don't change within a few seconds. You constantly see the lane lines wiggling on these displays and that suggests to me that they have a problem with integrating information over time about objects.

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