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50% Hydrogen for Europe: A Manifesto(energypost.eu)
2 points by chr1 7y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 7y ago
I live near a desert and i know that there is some life in deserts, and some deserts even look lush for a couple of weeks after rain. But the amount of life in a desert is orders of magnitude smaller than life in more lucky places that get
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by chr1 7y ago
Why declare a desert as a national park? It doesn't look like something much more worthy of protection than the southern Nevada.
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by chr1 7y ago
I would understand if this was about mining in a forest or near a city, but what is the value of a desert where nothing grows and no one lives? Would people be also opposed to building canals and converting the desert to agricultural land?
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by chr1 7y ago
Fossil fuel cars are bad in cities not because of CO2, but because of other harmful substances they produce. If there was a good fuel cell working with fossil fuels then your suggestion would work.
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by chr1 7y ago
I often find myself at the other side of this situation, when people compliment my work (which is rather ordinary) because i do not do anything else of note.
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Toshiba's new algorithm realizes largest-scale combinatorial optimization(phys.org)
2 points by chr1 8y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 8y ago
Would you support creation of genetically modified cows with no brain/very small brain so that they don't feel any pain?
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by chr1 8y ago
Religiousness is not genetic, many children from highly religious families become atheists or are moderately religious people who can bend or ignore religious rules when needed.
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by chr1 8y ago
A couple of years ago, i myself would downvote my comment above, as it is a complete heresy from a standpoint of someone who believes that people are ruining everything they are touching, and the world was so much nicer before technology, a
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by chr1 8y ago
If we are lucky a good solution to this problem could be significant increase in life expectancy and development of artificial womb that will allow people to have children later in life when they finally want to have children. But if the te
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by chr1 8y ago
There is no way to actually save money. You perform work for others in exchange for IOUs that you hope to exchange for someone else's work later. If at a later point there are not enough people to do new work, you can't exchange y
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by chr1 8y ago
That's a poor analogy, unlike bacteria we keep finding more and more efficient ways of using resources we have. And more importantly we can colonize deserts, ocean and nearby planets. So we have space for quite a few doublings before f
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by chr1 8y ago
Why is that a worry? Half of the land on earth is a desert, and 70% of earth is covered by ocean, most of which is also a desert. If we had enough people in rich countries who would want to spend their money on moving to new places, we woul
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by chr1 8y ago
I would argue that morality is not simply a philosophical matter, but also a strategy for a society to survive, that's why it changes with the technology. For instance strategy that was necessary and normal for hunter-gatherers: kill w
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by chr1 8y ago
> otherwise morality breaks down entirely exactly, but it doesn't help if we say that you have to indefinitely keep computing the future states of the ai because you have started doing it, or that you are not allowed to add two numb
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by chr1 8y ago
If you take the next step from brain in a jar, to the brain on hard disk, (where there is unlimited opportunity to copy, to take snapshots and to reset the state at will) would you still think that torturing a brain is a big deal? Do you th
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by chr1 8y ago
When we learn how to keep brain in a jar, then i agree that brain is a person and we need all the normal laws. But until that the choices we have here are nothingness and an experiment with unknown outcome. Given this choice i don't se
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by chr1 8y ago
> Death does. Pain and torture don't deprive you of your future. They take your time when you go through them, and possibly break your body in some way, which reduces the number of things you can do in the future. Of course there ma
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by chr1 8y ago
It is not about optimism, my point is that pain, torture, death are bad because they deprive you of future possibilities. If you are already dead, you do not have any future to lose, and in that case if your torture can help others, the rat
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by chr1 8y ago
If everyone's information is leaked, and it's obvious that everyone is a pervert in some way, maybe we won't need to pretend and lie about that anymore?
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by chr1 8y ago
But would they need privacy, or could they use open communications instead? It's one thing when you know peoples rights are being violated somewhere, it's another if you can see that live on youtube. I think if anything current te
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The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant 1T trees(cnn.com)
4 points by chr1 8y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 8y ago
In all cases i would not lose anything, because i would have already lost everything when dying. So in all cases it's a bonus time, and though being properly resurrected would be great, helping scientific progress and dying is still be
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by chr1 8y ago
It's sad that states can do this, but on the other hand it's a bit naive to hope that states would do anything else.
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Thailand accuses seasteaders in attempting to split the country(bangkokpost.com)
5 points by chr1 8y ago|0 comments
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by chr1 8y ago
> batteries have a long way to go to even come close to power density and weight of kerosene or gasoline aviation engines. It is possible to use hydrogen or kerosene based fuel cells instead of batteries http://figures-of-spee
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by chr1 8y ago
Interesting suggestion, I have tried to learn piano as a child, but only for a few months so didn't learn anything beyond several simple melodies.
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by chr1 8y ago
I wonder why people disagree with this, do people think that a popup is better than a settings page where user can see what data was gathered and how it was used, or my point about accepting cookies being a browser feature, seemed to some a
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by chr1 8y ago
When you see a popup about cookies on a site, what do you do? Read the agreement, close the site, or just click "Allow"? Absolute majority of people simply click "Allow". But even for the people who want to read the agre

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