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by defrost 2mo ago
Reducing fossil fuel usage, extracting CO2 from atmosphere, improving and expanding stored energy options (battery chemistry, geological hydrogen storage, thermal mass, etc). All decent goals for good engineers. On the data and interface si
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> Are they also big fossil fuel ? They derive 39% of total Dutch energy use from oil, 36% from natural gas, and 7% from coal. That's, what, 82% of Dutch energy usage from fossil fuel sources. ~ https://www.iea.org/co
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Hard to believe or tainted with the stench of socialist communist welfare grifters as I read it. From my PoV it reduces stress on society, increases a sense of well being, results in lesser serious crime and anti social behaviour, etc. and
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by defrost 2mo ago
You only have to look at Trump; third generation immigrant. His grandfather made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse during the Gold Rush years, his father compounded that with an actual real estate
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> But if you're too poor for that, at least you get something in six to twelve months instead of nothing or bankruptcy. Depends on the country, Australia triages so that routine, mundane, non life threatening procedures might take s
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> Asserting fossil fuels are crap is a coarse short hand for saying they have negative externalities which are horrendous and that only really become unquestionable as the boiling frog dies. This is not an ideological stance, more a the
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by defrost 2mo ago
Could be your sphere of reading and / or age - it's common enough in (say) the British Ripping Yarns genre of boys own colonial adventures. So UK, Canadian, Australian boys who were ten years old in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s woul
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by defrost 2mo ago
Simul gradiuntur fractae spes ? * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428589 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mip30YF1iuo
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Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language(r136a1.dev)
80 points by defrost 2mo ago|16 comments
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by defrost 2mo ago
> Stopping progress in AI would make people’s lives immeasurably worse They'd be, like, living in conditions of last decade, deprived of personalised targeted AI-slop? The horror. Is that immeasurably because it's a change to
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by defrost 2mo ago
How about you have a look at the course photo and list a few of the resources wasted?
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by defrost 2mo ago
> The problem is they still throw their needles all over the ground. Yeah, well, that's your culture and a direct end result of how people are treated and made to feel part of or outside of it. In Australia there are diabetics and d
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by defrost 2mo ago
Roebourne Golf Course easily uses less water than any data centre. https://www.golfpass.com/travel-advisor/courses/20303-roebou... ( 2nd photo shows one of the 18 tee offs )
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I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime'(theregister.com)
2 points by defrost 2mo ago|1 comments
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Task Manager: OG https://tmog.org/
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by defrost 2mo ago
Can you expand on what relevance this has to the pragmatic thermal process based point raised in the comment above yours? The aluminium smelters I've had contact with have all avoided any shutdowns (back up generators, etc) because any
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by defrost 2mo ago
By "current fad" (and waning) metric, sure. Still a good 42 million or so short of, say, a Toyota Corolla.
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by defrost 2mo ago
I believe (perhaps incorrectly) that the GP was asking should population just keep increasing .. many people have been looking to slow population growth for some time and would see it finally starting to slow and perhaps peak and then f
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by defrost 2mo ago
Shades of I. Y. Yunioshi's Asian roundup.
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The caveats here are that * 53,000 workers over the past 15 years. * "high radiation dose" is the minimum exposure legally considered to put workers "at risk". * Of the 53,000 "at risk" workers a total of 17 ca
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by defrost 2mo ago
Sadly blinkered US centric PoV on full. The US couldn't be talked down from its Desert War follies, Gulf War (1990) was a 42-country coalition which runs counter to "Their own children are unwilling to do so, but little Jimmy fro
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'Knees over toes' exercises can help strengthen your knees. Experts explain(theconversation.com)
5 points by defrost 2mo ago|0 comments
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by defrost 2mo ago
Alternatively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBH_Group
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by defrost 2mo ago
> Conversely, there are a lot of very productive 5000+ acre farms comprised of many older properties combined together ... I can't speak to US farm practices but note that 5,000 acres is 2,023 hectares and a bit less than half the a
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by defrost 2mo ago
> The problem is the economics of that process can't compete with oil from the ground. Even factoring in emissions? Given oil from the ground is adding long buried CO2 to and steadily increasing atmospheric insulation whereas fuel-f
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by defrost 2mo ago
Biofuel as a side venture that makes a bit of profit / saves on a bit of fuel outlay has always been a thing in Australia also. Currently, off the top of recent memory: * Australia is exploring using canola to produce sustainable aviat
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by defrost 2mo ago
> I want solid pageturner pulp! :) In good news for some, Chuck Tingle isn't the only name in dinosaur-themed romance novels: https://nerdist.com/article/pulp-romance-novels-meets-paleon...
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by defrost 2mo ago
Why bother asking a question you already have your preferred straw man answer to? For many humans "watch your arguments" carries the same tone as "pay attention to those boxes you're standing on". A reasonable assum
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There's always flogging LNG from coastal floating platforms at (IIRC) global third place by volume (after Australia's Gorgon and Karratha basins): * https://www.gem.wiki/Ksi_Lisims_FLNG_Terminal * https:/&#x
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by defrost 2mo ago
This is a low bar to praise though, literally anybody can show DJT in a bad light just by rolling raw footage. How about singling out Fox News and Newsmax for their efforts in always showing DJT in a good light, day in, day out, no matter W

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