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by elihu 4y ago
Something I've noticed: when DVD players came out, they quickly dropped in price so after a few years you could buy one for $40 or so. Blu-ray players were the same, initially expensive, but after awhile they were fairly cheap. UHD Bl
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by elihu 4y ago
For big container ships, that's a good question. I think it comes down to: low quality diesel fuel is cheap enough, and the regulatory hurdles would (presumably) be immense. (Something else worth noting is that about half of all ocean
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by elihu 4y ago
I used to ride the Wheatland ferry as a shortcut into Salem sometimes growing up. I don't remember if the version I rode was electric, but apparently the most recent version has been de-electrified: > "This most recent ferry d
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by elihu 4y ago
On large scales, it's more like you have a hundred big tractors and if one of them breaks down the whole operation keeps going because there are 99 big tractors left. The question then becomes: how much maintenance do you have to do p
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by elihu 4y ago
They could leave, but I think unionizing is a better solution if they can pull it off, and it would set a better precedent for programmers affected by similar things in other companies.
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> He describes it at one point as an “unadorned natural style”, but one that was arrived at in characteristically unorthodox fashion: having failed dismally on his first attempt to write what would become Hear the Wind Sing, he began aga
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by elihu 4y ago
As a random tangent, looking at that wikipedia page sent me wandering across this example of english text as boustrophedon, and it made me wonder if it might actually be less visially/mentally taxing to read a book typeset that way, si
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by elihu 4y ago
> This is a good idea, except that it assumes _reputation_ has some directional value upon which everyone agrees. Reputation is inherently subjective. I think any technological solution that treats reputation as an objective value that&
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by elihu 4y ago
> Even if you were right you'd make my point, we use them less but have more of them, since ~50% of a car's environment impact is done before it even leaves the factory, you end up with a net negative I'm pretty sure that&
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by elihu 4y ago
Induction motors tend to be quite a bit less efficient than permanent magnet motors though. Another option is to use permanent magnet motors that just don't use rare earth magnets. The Netgain Hyper9 (fairly commonly used in EV conver
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by elihu 4y ago
I find playing an acoustic piano more fun and satisfying in various hard-to-define ways, but digital pianos are fine too. It's a matter of preference and convenience more than anything else. My digital piano actually gets played more
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by elihu 4y ago
Maybe some of ASML's EUV lithography machines would be contenders?
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by elihu 4y ago
When I was there in 2000 it definitely had a smell, but it wasn't terrible. Some years later I got around to reading Les Miserables, and it goes off at one point on a long digression about the construction and history of the Paris sewe
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by elihu 4y ago
> "In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record going back to 1947, according to data from the Bureau of L
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by elihu 4y ago
3. a Protoss building which costs 100 minerals and supplies 8 psi and allows you to warp in other buildings. Protoss executors are frequently reminded to construct more of these, though in my experience the effort might be better spent rem
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by elihu 4y ago
Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/937/ (In this case it seems like the app worked.)
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The brands compete on the kinds of cars they want to sell. When it comes to less profitable kinds of vehicles, that's where lobbying and regulatory capture comes in to kill competition. Thus we have the chicken tax, much stricter fue
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by elihu 4y ago
> Russia has long held that Ukraine is simply "southern Russia". That isn't for Russia to decide. Quoting from the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlos M. Cipolla: "Let me resort once again to a banal example. To
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by elihu 4y ago
> Russia must be defeated not appeased, and Russian mafia leaders must be brought to trial for breaking international law. Anything other than that outcome will lead to instability for generations. I think Russia is slowly losing the Ukr
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by elihu 4y ago
From a technical standpoint that makes a lot of sense. I think the main obstacle there is that Tesla doesn't (as far as I know) actually make LFP batteries. The ones they use in their cars come from CATL. Tesla could just buy batter
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by elihu 4y ago
> The Harfoots (presumed ancestors of the Hobbits of the Shire, Buckland, and Bree) are completely made up. But I rather like them and I think their story is so far pretty logical. The Harfoots aren't just made-up, actually. They&#
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by elihu 4y ago
The Harfoots are mentioned in the prologue of the Lord of the Rings, "concerning hobbits". Honestly, I think they're probably the best example in the show of the writers extrapolating off of what's in the books to create
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by elihu 4y ago
Presumably it could be useful in that context. I don't know what the alternative is; probably direct radio links to other planes and/or ground stations. It might be a problem for SpaceX if their satellite network were to be deeme
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by elihu 4y ago
> But would they recognize 12 tones scales? It's possible that they might, but if they have any kind of musical discernment they might find it objectionable unless they're as lazy as we are. 12-tone equal temperament works more
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by elihu 4y ago
Music is an interesting one. There's a lot of subjectivity in the understanding of music, but there are some very basic principles that seem near-universal in human cultures at least. Octave equivalence, the consonance of small-numbe
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by elihu 4y ago
I think alien truth about alien truth would be epistemology. The number of protons in helium might be an alien truth but it isn't really epistemology, it's just a fact. Whereas the scientific method itself would be a system of e
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Reputation and peer pressure are pretty effective at compelling people to act justly (according to the local consensus definition) even in the absence of a formal legal system. If reputation and peer pressure scaled to group sizes bigger th
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Also, there have been a lot of historical disagreements over who or what exactly is a "person", some of which continue to this day.
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I don't think the definition falls apart just because you might owe more than one person the same thing. For instance, in climate justice we might say that we owe something to all of the people who are young now or haven't been bo
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by elihu 4y ago
Those things aren't equivalent. Useful nuclear fusion (i.e. more electrical power out than in) has not been demonstrated yet, and probably relies on techniques and technologies that haven't been invented yet. On the other hand, w

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