don_esteban

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by don_esteban 1y ago
The problem is when the rules are made to sustain and exacerbate the social divide, not to make the life better for everybody. No need to go far, just look at the result of lobbying in the USA. Btw, while there are many famines caused by de
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by don_esteban 1y ago
I think the bottleneck for this is still the cost of the physical hw of the robot, and its maintenance. You need a fairly robust one that needs little maintenance, with a multitude of good sensors and precise actuators to be even remotely u
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by don_esteban 1y ago
But it is not "The US is still among the very best places in the world" And the incidence of 'being in legal trouble in USA' vs 'being disappeared in BAD COUNTRY XXX' is quite different, for almost all bad coun
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by don_esteban 1y ago
1) maybe it was different in 50's, 60's, when I was around, plenty of profs at the university were non-communists in 1989. The communists as a percentage of working population was always low (<11%?), so what you suggest could n
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by don_esteban 1y ago
We (the west) are the force of good, spreading democracy and freedom around the world. And our socio-economic system is the best there can be, don't even think about changing anything about it (questioning this is a total taboo).
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by don_esteban 1y ago
Heh, what country are you from? What time period are you talking about? Is it your lived experience or the second-hand memory? I lived in Bulgaria & Czechoslovakia in 70's and 80's, and my memories are quite different than you
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by don_esteban 2y ago
So, where is the better Bill of browsers that Mozilla is preventing me learning about?
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by don_esteban 2y ago
Ehm, you should be fair and not fudge the numbers in your favor. :-) Start both with the same (current) % for renewables and (1) have some realistic ramp-up of renewables to reach 98%, and (2) keep the renewables more modestly rising in the
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by don_esteban 2y ago
No, even 'good' advertisement is mostly zero-sum game bad for the consumer. However, Overton window has shifted so much that people just accept them (at best as a free entertainment) without questioning. Example with airlines: air
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by don_esteban 2y ago
Lithium is not super precious, but its price is still a non-trivial multiply of aluminium's price. Your graphs show it. They also show that there has not been a substantial reduction in its price over the years. This means there is mar
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by don_esteban 2y ago
I would challenge this view: a) every price point - definitely not the low end b) in very large numbers - definitely not 6 digit numbers we see in Ukraine c) Ukraine IS the most hostile EW environment, and various US weapon systems do not f
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by don_esteban 2y ago
60% (20%->80%) of 85kw battery = 51kW in 10min = 305kW charging power. An electric charging station with 8 charging booths (=~ gas pump) on a highway: 2.5MW. A bit of work to prepare the grid...
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by don_esteban 2y ago
There are different types of radiation and body's response to them are different. Elevated levels of simple gamma rays (and maybe also protons) are reasonably tolerated - the body has mechanisms to recover from that. However, a steady
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by don_esteban 2y ago
Does it need to? How large does it needs to be? Can it be treated as 'essential infrastructure'?
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by don_esteban 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Mount_Nyiragongo_eruption Lava flows came very close to Goma airport
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by don_esteban 3y ago
This. Breaking from 30km/h wears brakes much less than from full landing speed. A policy of just using thrust reversers more generously would save quite a bit of brake life.
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by don_esteban 3y ago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Aeroflot-from-worlds... Some regional Russian carriers were pretty bad, but Aeroflot was not.
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by don_esteban 4y ago
The market (german industrialists in case of Hitler, military-industrial complex in case of USA, East India Company in case of GB if you want to go deeper in history) has its quite significant share. Ignoring that is being willfully ideolo
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by don_esteban 4y ago
I don't see how your argument refutes living clouds. Hurricanes, after all, are self-organized heat engines, a proto-life that is hampered on Earth by very marginal conditions and that pesky dry land. On gas giants, the conditions are
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by don_esteban 4y ago
Sweden actually is one of the favourite destinations for immigrants. Perhaps high skilled ones would prefer a country with better climate ... :-)
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by don_esteban 5y ago
You never leave your property and live a happy life in solitude there until you die of boredom or starvation. Everybody is happy to not have to interact with you anymore. Now stop bringing up absurd examples. Just living in a state exposes
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by don_esteban 5y ago
you will become pariah until you leave or change your mind?