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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
I know that we should be funding that stuff but unfortunately trying to go through tradtional grant-based funding routes is going to be much too slow; what you need to do is start private companies on your own and rapidly grow their value a
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Look at it this way. A large swath of people believe it is a problem and most of them are willing to put time and money in counteracting it. We have leaders like Elon Musk already creating a great response. We can't winnow out of it al
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
We need that global effort to happen yesterday. It's going to be much easier to get the carbon out of the atmosphere by leveraging the already-existing carbon cycle through accelerated silicate weathering than it will be to artificiall
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
The atmospheric carbon situation is not good, and we (as a species) need to come up with actionable geo-engineering solutions. Here is one. Rainwater hits mountains and dissolves silicate minerals into cations that flow into rivers and then
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
You could pour your life force into avoiding the apocalypse, you know? That's what I mean - Help us get out of the mess we've made.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
I'm just deeply bothered by the amount of tech talent we have that works on, frankly, dumb things. We face real, tangible problems and existential risks in the next 1 - 5 decades that will not just "solve themselves". So here
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Is working 40 hours a week for an employer worth it Yes so long as that employer is really changing the face of technology or changing the economic forcing functions that drive the activities of humanity No if it's twitter or t
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
I suppose everyone has existential crisis at different points in their lives. When I was younger I became obsessed with global warming and the danger it presented. Sometimes I forget not everyone has had that crisis; hopefully you found the
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
You make a good point, but dispersing and absorbing knowledge is usually a high-value activity.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
That sounds like an absolutely horrible way to spend five years. I cannot imagine being you, living in the time of technological empowerment, immediately before the time of atmospheric-carbon induced catastrophe, and having no goal or direc
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
That depends on the license.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about. A carbon tax is impossible to get through government when enormously well-funded oil special interest groups exist. A sports car is sexy and fun and people want it, and it funds the developme
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
While that may be true for most people, I think that knowing everything about horse rules & conventions would give a car designer an upper hand _if_ that car designer was also the type of person to easily let go of his own presuppositio
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Ah, don't get to twisted about it. The world is much less "sick" than it ever has been. We are dealing with the world of business, and that world is won by people who will do anything to win.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
The reality is that USA has terrible trains. Our transportation technology is horribly behind in everything but cars. You can tear down this guy as much as you want, but the truth is that our trains are decades behind China and Japan. This
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
You're getting downvoted but you're basically correct. Notice how human civilization is dictated by a four-generation cycle like Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring. We're in the Summer/Fall transition and we will soon be en
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Hi, I was wondering if you have any concrete data for this? I don't think it's true but I'll believe it if I can see some studies or data on it.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
This is complete bogus because it frames 'rampant consumerism' in the frame of '20th century rampant consumerism' without giving thought to consuming sustainable products. It is possible to produce every single product t
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
That is insane. Take a USA tax funded public entity and spend the budget of it's most ambitious project in Israel or India. What are you talking about? And we already send money to Russia for Soyuz to get to ISS via ULA.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Humans can drive perfectly fine with just two cameras and mirrors, I'm sure it's possible with Tesla's standard 8 cameras and neural net software.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
1) Net neutrality concerns whether or not it is legal for an ISP to provide more bandwidth and faster service to some websites while providing less bandwidth and speed to other websites. Net neutrality is about who gets fast service and who
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
We're in a social tailspin because no one is willing to step up and make solutions for our enormous problems. Elon Musk is coming up with solutions, and if you exist in the sphere around him, the social tailspin is much, much less, bec
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Are you passionate enough to work for low pay or free? I would like to build some web apps to display information about pollution and climate change. If we made it good enough, it would be a great tool for everyone around the world to visua
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Joel, why do you live your life in a way that does not appease your true desires and concerns? You know that your current job and path is off course. Why are you sticking with it?
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Elon Musk leads America more than Donald Trump does, trust me. Don't get discouraged because Donny has become President. They hardly do anything interesting.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
Hi, I noticed the initial load time is quite poor... Maybe I had a bad connection but you might want to do some testing on initial load times for your site.
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
They were forthcoming in both Sunday and Monday's webcasts of the failed launch. In both cases, it was a data anomoly 10s from launch
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
There might be a study that supports working shorter hours but the truth is that if keep a mental image in your brain for longer, it will be easier to recall that mental image later. This is how Calculus was invented, keeping the image of t
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
To answer your first question, a strong yes. You are a worse engineer for not losing your family over it. That's a hard pill to swallow for everyone but it's also true; the engineer that lives in his work will be better than you
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by crush-n-spread 9y ago
1. It is a fundamental human trait to not expend energy when it is not required, and that includes engineering effort. 2. Engineering effort is not required for Ford to continue to be able to pay their engineers a living wage, as they could

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