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by hathchip 3y ago
Ironically "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman" is a great example of what the article talks about: compelling and repeatable stories whose basis in fact is often extremely dubious.
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by hathchip 3y ago
This is an article about progress being made towards, in some circumstances, being able to get around this problem. The implication is that in general, using standard techniques and technology, you can't do so, or it is very difficult,
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by hathchip 3y ago
Can't see ISIS adopting this truck any time soon.
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by hathchip 3y ago
France built this hydro because it could not have moved from fossil fuels to 95% nuclear. You can't realistically bring nuclear up and down in line with a daily demand curve. Hydro provides the peaking. Pumped hydro is better for this,
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by hathchip 3y ago
In terms of energy produced, you are correct. In terms of installed capacity the ratio is closer to what I said.
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by hathchip 3y ago
This is a caricature of the anti-nuclear position. Renewables also offer the potential of a society where energy is not limited, why aren't communists also opposed to those?
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by hathchip 3y ago
Shocking that this article is originally from the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/young-cl... and they either didn't find out or didn't care to mention that as wel
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by hathchip 3y ago
France also built out tons of hydro at the same time as developing nukes. Installed capacity of 1 part hydro and 2-3 parts nuclear is a viable energy source at any scale, nuclear on its own is not. The problem is that building both hydro an
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by hathchip 3y ago
You might think it is 'coincidental' but it's actually a well stated and understood part of France's energy security policy.
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by hathchip 3y ago
Nuclear power plants on submarines successfully meet energy needs for customers who are the least price sensitive in the world.
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by hathchip 3y ago
> and doesn't require associated (not yet existing) massive storage. That's not quite true. Nuclear generation is more flexible than wind and solar but much less flexible than thermal fuels, particularly gas. Although you can c
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by hathchip 3y ago
I play M:TG with my 10 year old son and have done for a couple of years. I know of another family with boys roughly the same age who also play.
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by hathchip 3y ago
As the sibling comment explains, the system with the 35-bag has a nonrandom way of adding pieces to the bag when one is removed. But even without that, the size of a bag does make a big difference to what sequences can appear. Suppose you h
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by hathchip 3y ago
Taleb explains this in his eponymous book.
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by hathchip 3y ago
To be absolutely precise, the claim, as evinced by the diet of Twinkies, that he was depressed, was still an absolutely outrageous, abusive and mendacious justification for the premeditated homophobic murders that he committed in cold blood
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by hathchip 3y ago
Because courts and bail bondsmen have lots of scope for chasing, catching and detaining people that aren't available to banks.
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by hathchip 3y ago
It doesn't have to be a literal conspiracy. Why do you reject the possibility that people and organizations are reacting to very real and concrete financial incentives which clearly exist?
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by hathchip 3y ago
Most of this is because the makers of the phone you chose to buy have decided that if you use the Kindle or Amazon app to buy books, they should get 30% of the price of the book.
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by hathchip 3y ago
It's hard to believe you're not simply trying to satirise the people jvns complained about, who repeatedly pretend to believe that an obvious choice of words to make a sexual joke was not chosen for that reason.
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by hathchip 3y ago
You said 'by a different etymology'. It's not a different etymology if they knew and were referring to the other meaning.
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by hathchip 3y ago
This sounds awesome. How does it work exactly? Does the use pluck the strings while the machine turns the knobs?
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by hathchip 3y ago
The Star Wars universe is fictional. Do you honestly believe that the author from our universe who came up with this name was not aware of the (Earth universe) meaning of the word 'jizz'?
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by hathchip 3y ago
Julia Evans has written some of the best articles and zines about UNIX/networking and about how to learn technical topics in general. The people she blocked are not arguing in good faith, they are vexatious commenters who have no inter
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by hathchip 3y ago
You seem very in denial about a lot of this. Obviously 'weird preferences' do not really explain these issues (I note you completely ignored the case of heavy metals in drinking water, hard to explain as a 'consumer preferenc
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by hathchip 3y ago
That's the most successful game of all time, hardly a typical case.
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by hathchip 3y ago
I think you need to explain why in the United States chocolate is shitty and meat is toxic, as well as why Germany doesn't have regions with poisonous drinking water, nor health clinics where you can simply declare yourself in need of
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by hathchip 3y ago
You obviously don't know what you are talking about on any level whatsoever.
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by hathchip 3y ago
> Many libraries in the US come from the hypercapitalist era of robber barons. They predate the word "capitalism". They predate the idea that there could even exist something other than capitalism. It is very, very easy to chec
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by hathchip 3y ago
You understand that the negative consequences of changing propellants described in the top-level comment did not occur in other societies, right?
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by hathchip 3y ago
S3 is not a compute resource.

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