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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I think the claim is that earlier founders did colonize the world before the final group left and also colonized the world. Land bridges disappeared as the last ice age came to a close, making later attempts more difficult
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Oh, I don’t know, how about reducing the search space/accelerating the search speed for potential room temperature superconductors? Or how about the same for viable battery chemistries?
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
My point is that the situation you describe is clearly in a reverse trend when you look at the data. I could make further points that new faiths have become more entrenched, such as nationalism and political partisanship to name just two.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The faulty premise I see here is that squishy bodies will even be relevant as we climb the scale. Exo-suits are already a thing that can make us stronger in spite of muscle atrophy. And further up the scale, in-silico intelligence will rep
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Parent specifically said “with zero expenditure of time”, which seems to imply the latter question
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> According to global Win-Gallup International studies, 13% of respondents were "convinced atheists" in 2012, 11% were "convinced atheists" in 2015, and in 2017, 9% were "convinced atheists". However, other
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I suppose if we stop people from stimming, maybe we have less drummers? Less risk taking CEOs? It’s really hard to know. But if there’s some trait that causes some people misery but they offer this ‘utility’ for greater society, can we real
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Though even in your quote, it’s clearly working in a more nuanced way than suppressing introversion. Being better able to understand others’ emotional state, and reduced anxiety, seem to be obvious improvements
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Last I checked they were always on par for household energy storage units, leave aside grid scale. If this is their starting price before economies of scale really kick in, then I can’t see what the next couple of years bring. Esp. as new g
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
‘The people’. Whatever scale that is. Democracy as imperfect and inefficient it is, is our best vehicle for the collective consciousness (of humanity) to decide at the scale of a polity. A family can decide amongst themselves what’s best fo
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I’m pointing out the argument’s absurdity. Saying that things don’t last forever to justify destroying something you don’t value, can easily be redirected to something you do value
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Well aware of LFP. The device I’m using now was charged by it. The problem is that grid storage needs tremendous scale, and for that lithium battery chemistries are constrained by lithium extraction. Sodium is already abundantly available
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You’re probably right
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Can’t tell if the downvoters think I’m the nihilist, or they are the nihilists.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You could be right, if there’s innovation in storage tech. I currently have my eyes on sodium ion, which doesn’t have the resource issues of lithium ion, and is already dirt cheap. Hasn’t got great gravimetric density, but perfect for grid
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The linked article by Hannah Ritchie states the case for this. There's also this article about an Australian experiment to shut off and turn back on a coal plant within 5 hours: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
+1 Would be good if it just tiled the images, and then wrapped around after the screen is filled
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
China's coal plants are running at steadily reduced capacity (while their renewables capacity is growing exponentially). > In the first decade of the 2000s, plants were running around 70% of the time. They’re now running around 50%.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Or having a small shovel in the car. A sharp enough fold-up shovel becomes necessary kit when dealing with compacted dry soil. > I think it should be taught in schools. If a solution involves 'If everyone would just X', it
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Baseload power comes at the expense of renewable power, the latter of which is much cheaper, much faster, and less riskier to deploy than nuclear. Peaking gas plants are much quicker to build than nuclear and should tide us over until grid
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
China’s growing coal capacity could be seen as a mix of welfare and bureaucratic waste. Each prefecture is incentivized to build its own redundancy, and in a flagging economy, government spending is up to keep the economy going. The resulti
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Utility monsters are definitely overrepresented here. But it’s just a consequence of intellectual discussion that all ideas are entertained, no matter how perverse. But that shouldn’t be absent any reflection of how these ideas would affect
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Species come and go. Should we be concerned about the existential threat to species such as homo sapiens? Why should we limit ourselves in the present day to protect our biosphere? Everything is inescapably transient after all? Nihilism is
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
If people would just do it ‘the right way’ I wouldn’t see this happening. Another ‘right way’ is to use a portable bidet, or a spray bottle. Not for everyone
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
They still would because the holes typically are very shallow, and half filled with toilet paper. The next significant rainfall that comes around, there's soiled paper all strewn about the mud.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The article actually presents strategies for shipping , not changing the hearts and minds of management, or making great products. Shipping implies neither of those things. > If you ship something users hate and makes no money, but you
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Rats have low training and maintenance costs, flexibly work with multiple handlers, have a long lifespan, and a sophisticated sense of smell. Their small size also offers unique capabilities for the screening of shipping containers, su
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
In the same paragraph: > Vons started leasing one plot in 2019 when K-Mart went under, “holding the space hostage.” It now leases the other as well.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
No, I’m explaining the need for critical thinking, not that all stories of voter fraud/manipulation are immediately bunk. The default of credulity is much more troublesome as it allows for misinformation to be promulgated and be given
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Provably digitally altered fake videos of voter fraud were made and disseminated by Russia during the US 2020 election. Non-partisan institutions put a lot of energy in trying to debunk these operations which basically suit America's

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