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by elihu 4y ago
100 million pounds divided by 4.6 million fishing vessels is about 22 pounds per year. I think you confused tons with pounds.
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by elihu 4y ago
Yeah, speculation attacks are a big problem. It seems like maybe if you're running a specific compiler you might be able to avoid speculation attacks by not emitting dangerous sequences of instructions, but I don't know what the
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by elihu 4y ago
Think about web browsers. We're not really that worried about people running malicious web browsers. It's potentially a problem, but as long as people know not to run software that some random spammer sends them in an email then
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by elihu 4y ago
I agree. I think of address space context switching overhead as the performance price we pay for not being able to run all our programs in a single address space, which we could safely do if we knew all the programs were emitted by a trust
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by elihu 4y ago
> "Valid"? As opposed to "invalid music"? I think it's fair to say that sometimes people attempt to make music and aren't successful. That doesn't mean music that gets played on the radio that some per
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by elihu 4y ago
"Feminism" can mean a lot of different things to different people. Perhaps young people tend to associate feminism with identity politics, which even a lot of progressive people aren't interested in even if they agree with t
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by elihu 4y ago
It can happen if you're going up a long hill or towing something. Probably no car company wants their car to be known as "the car that can't make it up a hill without the radiator boiling over" even if it doesn't a
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by elihu 4y ago
I very much agree we should be electrifying our major roads. There's a couple ways to do this though with pros and cons. Overhead lines are cheapest, but they'd need to be high enough that they'd be impractical for passenger
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by elihu 4y ago
You just need electric trucks with one pair of drive wheels powered by electric motors. Maybe more if you want more traction, but an 18-wheeler doesn't need 9 drive wheels. It might have 8, if the tractor has two drive axles with dua
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by elihu 4y ago
Because historically diesel has been cheap and the externalities have been ignored. It's also a major infrastructure project, and getting it installed widely enough to be useful on, say, the interstate highway system in the U.S. would
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by elihu 4y ago
To be fair, most vehicle types have similar problems but they're a result of heat rather than battery exhaustion. In a pure battery EV you can run into thermal limits: drawing too much power for too long overheats the motor and batter
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by elihu 4y ago
Supposedly they were originally encased in limestone blocks shaped to give a smooth outside surface, but those blocks have been hauled off over the years to make other things. So, a pile of rocks is only stable over long time periods in th
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by elihu 4y ago
Right, selling it all looks bad and CEOs are often required to hold some minimum number of shares.
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by elihu 4y ago
My own theory is that executive compensation serves a purpose that generally isn't said out loud. Usually compensation comes mostly in the form of stock, and the real reason for the large amounts is to reassure investors that if the e
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by elihu 4y ago
For a track it could be something like a long metal plate embedded in the road that you drive over with a parallel long metal plate suspended above the track; one side is positively charged and the other side is negative. Since all the cars
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by elihu 4y ago
That is true, but they also have several orders of magnitude higher power density. Maybe the battery technology to make this work just doesn't exist -- I'm imagining something that can absorb enough energy in, say, ten seconds or
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by elihu 4y ago
I think a good way to do EV racing would be to use batteries with relatively small capacities, but very high power density. (Maybe supercaps?) There'd be a section of the track where the car can recharge without stopping by making ph
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by elihu 4y ago
I was going to guess that they used something like industrial-scale mosquito dunks. You put them in water and they release a live bacteria (bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israeliensis) that specifically attacks mosquito larvae and is har
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by elihu 4y ago
My parents got a 486 from Gateway 2000, but the first PC I bought and owned personally was a Micron. Full tower case, Pentium 2-233, 6.4GB hard drive, S3 Virge DX video, USB (that being kind of a new thing at the time), 24x CD-ROM, I think
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by elihu 4y ago
There's rail access to Port Edward (just a couple miles from Prince Rupert) currently, going by what you can see in Google Maps. Looks like it follows a pretty flat route, though it winds around to follow the shorelines / rivers.
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by elihu 4y ago
> Why do you think it's satirical? I'm not the person you were replying to, but I think it's satirical because it's kind of funny, it's written in a style of exaggerated confidence, it's worded in an unneces
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by elihu 4y ago
That would be ignoring the 2nd law: "The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person." The stupid person (according to Cipolla's definition) is a threat to the Aryan r
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by elihu 4y ago
That's an interesting point. This was written before climate change was a major concern, and maybe in the mean time it's become harder to engage in "intelligent behavior" (i.e. actions which benefit ourselves and others
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by elihu 4y ago
> By this definition, if you select for attainment of any kind that would be sabotaged by the harm, you had better start seeing less stupidity. That's kind of the point: you might expect that, and maybe it's true to some extent
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by elihu 4y ago
The article defines stupidity in a very precise way: for the purposes of this essay, it's someone who causes harm to other people without any benefit or causing harm to themselves. It has nothing to do with cognitive ability, knowledg
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by elihu 4y ago
I think I get what you're saying. The wheels would stick out more on turns. I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be. I could see it potentially being a threat to bicyclists if you're passing one on a corner. Also,
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by elihu 4y ago
I suppose an easy way to do it is to have a little drive wheel sticking out about where the license plate is, and as the front wheels turn inward, one of them makes contact with the drive wheel (like the capstan or pinch roller in a reel-t
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by elihu 4y ago
I don't think those are drive wheels in front, it looks like they just spin freely. In back you can see a regular axle with a differential, so it's apparently rear-wheel drive. I'm not sure how they get the car to rotate, th
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by elihu 4y ago
I wonder how it's propelled? Those don't look like drive wheels in front, and one wouldn't think that engaging the rear wheels would cause it to rotate, since the applied force seems like it would be exactly perpendicular to
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by elihu 4y ago
I assume there's a really high fixed cost involved in creating a cable installation that's insulated and continuously chilled to liquid nitrogen temperatures, but maybe there's a break even point if the amount of current you&

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