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by gnode 7y ago
I think something missing from this, is that people wouldn't just stop doing things. People will still want to travel, and have air conditioning, so large incentives will exist to develop technologies that make this possible without th
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by gnode 7y ago
> what solution is there for heating and cooling? Heat pumps, powered by sustainable electricity. (nuclear; renewables)
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by gnode 7y ago
> Probably with post-processing, this translates to a part per 2 minutes Is this not something which can happen in parallel on a production line?
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by gnode 7y ago
> In order to make the molds, you must also buy a CNC machine. Manually controlled machines also exist.
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by gnode 7y ago
Given the inadequacies of automated translation, it would make more sense if the model was: browse websites written originally in foreign languages, and automatically translate to English (or another known language) for hints. This is also
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by gnode 7y ago
A factor of 1.5 doesn't strike me as being enough to suggest the problem will go away (the satellites become too small a part of images to matter). Additionally, the satellites are not two-dimensional, so there is no orientation in whi
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by gnode 7y ago
Why would this be significant? The separation altitude in the launch was around 450km, according to the numbers in the livestream. The orbital shell being targeted is 550km. This doesn't constitute a large difference in visibility.
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by gnode 7y ago
Is there a need for so many new people? I don't see why the current pool of conscious agents can not live longer and reduce the frequency of ultimate personal tragedy. Few people are trying to make the case for shortening life in the i
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by gnode 7y ago
I took this to mean: we can't legally guarantee your privacy for anything not on your own device; nobody can. Their claim seems to be that private data is kept on the device (from https://www.apple.com/privacy/ ),
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by gnode 7y ago
> the government owning 70% of the housing in the city. I'd argue that this is actually state capitalism, rather than socialism.
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by gnode 7y ago
For better or worse, taxpayers give a shit about taxpayers, so it's important to recognise when arguments made in their name, and against people who are suffering, are actually a false economy.
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by gnode 7y ago
I'd add to this, that your eligibility for housing benefits is not coupled to your eligibility for housing. You could be in the situation of losing your benefit eligibility because you got a new private income, and refuse to pay your r
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by gnode 7y ago
On the surface this kind of solution is easy to dismiss as an expensive socialist extreme; a cost to the taxpayer that there is no political appetite for in other countries. Yet counter-intuitively this is likely a saving for the taxpayer,
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by gnode 7y ago
I think the word "solution" is being used offhandedly here, to mean a mitigating response. They claim that homelessness is dropping in Finland (contrary to other EU countries), but don't go so far as to say nobody is homeless
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by gnode 7y ago
I wonder whether any mechanical watches could cope with this technique (and maintain any semblance of accuracy).
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by gnode 7y ago
I think ideally, you want something which is non-conductive, incompressible, and solid but soft. A solid material will not flow and potentially leak through the seal. A soft material will not fracture, and transmit stress to the components
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by gnode 7y ago
I'm not sure it's correct to say Soylent constitutes a lack of variety of nutrients. Soylent and similar products contain a balance of macronutrients (carbohydrate, lipids, amino acids), vitamins and minerals. Eating a ketogenic (
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by gnode 7y ago
I wonder whether much of the difference in severity of autism symptoms, rather than being differences in the underlying condition are explained by differences in comfort. Symptoms used to differentiate sever cases such as irritability, inat
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by gnode 7y ago
Different bacteria thrive on different nutrients, so changing your nutrient intake will affect their populations. I wouldn't expect a week of fast food to be significant compared to going on a ketogenic diet (starving all carbohydrate
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by gnode 7y ago
The most robust way to deliver new bacteria to your gut is with a gastro-resistant capsule (so it bypasses your stomach acid). Food will introduce it too; fermented foods contain more. Introducing the bacteria is only part of the problem th
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by gnode 7y ago
I think something which should be considered, is that gut bacterial abnormality is very plausibly a consequence of autism, rather than a cause. Selective eating and food refusal occurs in about three quarters of children with ASD, and has b
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by gnode 7y ago
> Someone has to pay for all this stuff. What stuff? Clickbait news and freemium games? I don't think anybody has to, or even should support their existence. I think the viability of their business models only undermines premium con
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by gnode 7y ago
> Without lots of oil, we wouldn't have hit the industrial age I don't think this is true. The industrial age was, to begin with, powered by solid fuel; charcoal and coke. The abundance of coal accelerated the industrial revolu
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't disagree that global warming won't also affect catastrophic events. But it's my opinion that the most severe effects will be the changes in climate (temperatures, sea level, desertification, etc).
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by gnode 7y ago
In my mind the two are closely related. There is a political school of thought that people's value is to each other, and that people's needs can be fulfilled by commerce. Automation frustrates this concept by removing our needs to
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by gnode 7y ago
I think it's important to avoid treating the history of nuclear power as expectation for its future use. Nuclear power has evolved, much like fossil fuel power has evolved. When we consider future use of fossil fuels, we do not think o
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by gnode 7y ago
Natural gas exhaust still has some particulates, carcinogens, and radioactive components, but is generally much cleaner than coal. Because it's in the gas / liquefied phase, the most harmful components of raw natural gas (sulphur
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by gnode 7y ago
> With global warming, this risk of an unusual or unplanned/unlikely event for that geographic region increases. This isn't true. Global warming, as the name suggests, affects the entire world, as its mechanism is via long term
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by gnode 7y ago
> not capable of handling the responsibilities that come with nuclear power. What responsibilities? If those are: not killing / harming people, and not destroying ecosystems, then nuclear appears to be favourable compared to other s
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by gnode 7y ago
> I thought canaries were legal because they were generalized. The theoretical legal basis is typically that the government can't compel you to speak against your wishes, or at least can't compel you to lie. That said, this is

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